I Love You, I’m Leaving.

Out of Print.

PLEASE NOTE: Signed copies are signed on the back of tipped-in photograph in front of book.

“I Love You, I’m Leaving is my meditation on familial bonds, longing, and memory. The series borrows from personal experience and the visual language of the everyday in order to create a fictional account that mirrors my reality. Made during a time of personal domestic unease, I photographed as my parents separated, and my family moved to a new city.” — Matt Eich

“Created during a time of personal domestic unease, I made this work when my parents separated after 33 years of marriage and my wife, children and I had moved to a new city. This series borrows from personal experience and the visual language of the everyday in order to create a fictional account that mirrors my reality. Photographs are reductions, distillations, half-truths, and complete fabrications. They can only describe the surface of things, while I am interested in the intangible: memory and emotional resonance. I photograph with the knowledge that our place in this world is tenuous, comprised of little more than memory and story. Memory is fragile; the moments are fleeting and have to be wrestled into a permanent state. If we are at risk of forgetting too much of our world and ourselves, photography is the antidote.” — Matt Eich