The twenty-fourth installment of Setanta Books’ bi-monthly series, “024 – Alex Kittoe” (2025) brings the Kansas City–based photographer’s first solo publication. The series itself is a sustained project: a consecutive sequence of small books introducing emerging photographers, each given the same compact format—here a 48-page softcover, 21 by 16 cm, with a card wraparound cover. For Kittoe, the commission follows a growing body of travel-based work made across continents and cultures, and in this volume he draws on that movement.

Kittoe’s subject is atmospheric rather than documentary. His images linger on quiet, cinematic moments—mountain stillness, the choreography of a crowded street—where light and color carry the emotional weight. The photographs favor the space between solitude and connection, and they are less about destination than about presence: a window at a certain hour, a shadow across a floor. His stated interest in documenting a life lived with curiosity gives the sequence a reflective, often wistful tone, but the work resists mere nostalgia. The editing here is crucial; across 48 pages, the pacing establishes tensions between intimacy and distance, motion and rest, that a single image could not sustain.

The book’s significance lies partly in its context: as part of a series that has consistently provided a first platform for photographers, it positions Kittoe within a broader emerging generation. The modest scale and wraparound cover are not limitations but a deliberate design that invites repeated, unhurried looking. For collectors, the appeal is not speculative but aesthetic and structural: an early, coherent statement by a photographer whose interests are clearly defined, in a format that has become a reliable index of new work. This is a volume to read as a sequence, not a portfolio—a small book that asks for attention.