Home Stead book launch party
Friday, May 29
7-9pm
Q-Underground, Q.arma Building
1224 Quincy St NE, Minneapolis
(basement)
I'm thrilled to announce the publication of Home Stead, a photobook culminating five years of my photography and research. I welcome you to celebrate with me at the book release party on Friday, May 29. Books will be available for purchase at the event or order online here.
Home Stead is a photographic study of contemporary expressions of colonialism in Midwestern landscapes. Beginning from my familial history and homestead, I examines ways American exceptionalism and manifest destiny remain embedded in Midwestern cultural narratives. Raised in a fifth-generation German-Irish immigrant farming family in southwestern Minnesota—on the traditional lands of the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ and Yankton Nations—I work within the layered histories of homesteading, land seizure, and U.S. expansionism. Using photography, research, and archival exploration, this project investigates historical and ongoing systems of dispossession.
This book by Sarah Sampedro includes original photography spanning five years, historic documents from the late 19th Century, material from Sampedro's family archive, hand-made reproductions of historic artifacts, and essays by Tia-Simone Gardner and Dr. Kate Beane.
92 pgs
10"x12"
Full color
Foil stamped, cloth-bound hardcover
Smyth-sewn binding
Designed by Sarah Sampedro and Justin Allen of Make-Do Books, printed by Conveyor Studio, New Jersey.
Sarah Sampedro is a fiscal year 2025 recipient of a Creative Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.