Terri Weifenbach’s Some Insects is the sixty-seventh entry in Nazraeli Press’s One Picture Book series, which the publisher notes was launched a decade earlier with a small book of her own making. This return to the format is a compact hardcover of sixteen pages holding fourteen four-color plates. The publisher calls the work whimsical and surreal; the subject is insects, but the images treat nature photography as a field for imagination rather than taxonomy.
The book’s method is announced in its structure. It contains five spreads, each pairing a full-frame image on one side with enlargements of key details on the facing page. That arrangement makes scale the central question: the small creature and its enlarged fragment are held together on a single opening, so that looking closely becomes the subject as much as the insects themselves. The sequence is short, and the book’s intimacy is inseparable from its design. Readers encounter each image twice, whole and in part, and the facing pages set up a rhythm of recognition and re-examination.
Weifenbach’s authorship of the images is the only contributor role documented for this volume, and the book’s place in the One Picture Book series is explicit in the publisher’s own account. As the sixty-seventh title in that series, and as a return by the photographer who opened it, Some Insects has a double position: it is both an individual artists’ book and part of an ongoing publishing project. The publisher’s description places it in a lineage of small, self-contained volumes while leaving the imagery to speak for itself.
The volume includes one original print, a feature of the series noted in the publisher’s listing. For collectors of Weifenbach’s work, or of the One Picture Book series as a whole, the combination of a defined visual method, a documented place in a long-running series, and the presence of an original print makes the book a coherent object of attention. Its scale, its paired spreads, and its surreal treatment of insects give it a specific character within both nature photography and artists’ books.
