Dreamer gathers work from Street Errands, a project KangHee Kim has pursued since 2016. The photographs begin in ordinary circumstance: errands run in New York, places reached on trips within the United States. From those everyday files Kim builds collages, layering and altering her own images until streets, skies and interiors open into spaces that could not exist. The results are not documents of a city so much as proposals for one. Their logic is closer to daydream than to reportage, and the book asks the reader to follow that logic across 74 images, printed at a generous 310 by 230 mm in a 168-page hardcover.

The subject beneath the surface play is constraint. Kim holds DACA status and cannot leave the United States without risking her ability to return; she has not been back to South Korea in more than ten years. Travel, in the ordinary photographic sense of going elsewhere, is closed to her. Street Errands answers that closure by treating the material at hand — photographs made on routine ground — as sufficient raw material for elsewhere. Where another photographer might make the restriction itself the subject, Kim makes the escape visible instead.

That decision gives the work its particular tone. It is not documentary, and it is not pure fantasy; it is a constructed image world that never quite lets you forget the street it came from. The collage is careful rather than spectacular, and the sequencing in Dreamer lets the book move between the plausible and the impossible without announcing the shift. The effect accumulates across the sequence rather than resting on any single spread.

For collectors of contemporary photographic books, Dreamer is worth attention as a considered presentation of an ongoing body of work by a distinctive image-maker, published by Setanta Books. It is a coherent statement of the Street Errands project in book form, and one that rewards a slow reading.