WHY I WROTE IT
THE NEED IT FILLS — FOR ALL OF US
We want to make a difference. Most of us don't know how.
Journey confronts the crisis nobody names — the numbing distance between comfort and suffering, between the people who watch and the people who actually live it. Life rushes by, images blur, and compassion fades into fatigue.
I made this book against that. Against the erosion of empathy and the loneliness of lost purpose. To help us see again, feel again, and remember what still matters.
A LOOK INSIDE
NINETY-NINE COUNTRIES, ONE BOOK
Refugee camps and mountain villages. Devastation and unexpected grace. These photographs lead us out and back on a journey to the beauty and the hope that refuse to die.
PRAISE
"This book is beautiful. Like something you'd find in a Smithsonian bookstore, except with a big caveat — it has soul. You feel the dignity, depth, and beauty of each person on the page."
BRANDON WASSERBURGER
THE OBJECT
MADE TO BE HELD, NOT SCROLLED
PAGES
184
SIZE
11.5 X 10.125 in
PAPER
Fine Art Matte
PRICE
$60
Hold the book. Spend time with it. It was made to be an object — something you return to on your own journey, hand to someone else, and find again on a shelf years from now. Signed copies are available.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sean Sheridan has spent twenty-four years photographing people on the hardest days of their lives, across ninety-nine countries. His work has appeared on CNN and in SMITHSONIAN, USA Today and Fast Company, and on the main stage at TED. In 2014 he was among the Ebola Fighters named TIME magazine's Person of the Year. He lives in Colorado Springs with his wife, Linette, and their four children. Journey is his third book.
