Michael Vahrenwald - The People's Trust Iran

Michael Vahrenwald - The People's Trust IranKominek Books 2021 The Peoples Trust is a study of the changing financial institution, specifically the repurposed remains of 19th and 20th century banks across the United States. The monumentality of these neo classical facades stands in contrast with their new roles as liquor stores, pawn shops, churches, department stores and pharmacies. The work is in keeping with Vahrenwalds investigation of locations where landscape, politics, and economics

and perhaps even unease

and lovingly decorated homes

Winner of the MACK First Book Award 2021

and distortion through shadows

ISBN: 978-1-907946-04-2

In the series Blindschleiche und Riesenblatt (

more than half of which are published here for the first time

Self-Published 2013

and bear an authentic and clear-eyed witness to the life of an artist

Under the name NFS Press

Clement spent several  weeks in Ireland applying his philosophy of process to each of the places he visited

A snow-covered landscape creates an eerie setting that calls to mind the witch trials that originated in the region in 1668