1982 $475
            Rhea Karam 
            2025










1982 is the year that artist Rhea Karam was born. In the same year, her family fled Lebanon and moved to the United States to escape the war in Beirut. All that remains of her family’s visual records of that year is a single photo album with 67 photographs that show what their home looked like, which family members gathered together for holidays, what fabric adorned the wall of her childhood room.

Housed within a concrete brick slipcase, 1982 is an artists’ book that contains pieces of photographs from that album, broken apart by images of walls from New York and Beirut which represent a more recent documentation of her environment. Each of the 67 books in the edition are different, and the full album can only be reconstructed by combining multiple books side by side–mirroring the experience of how one constructs their identity– assembling environmental elements, documents and memories often based on abstract notions recalled from the past.

This book has different pricing tiers—multiple books change the reader’s experience. Please email hello@smalleditions.nyc to purchase this title as a set.

Single book: $475
Set of 3: $1,250
Set of 6:  $2,150