First edition of Mango Season by Jenia Fridlyand (2026)
First impression
Large format hardback in new condition
112 pages, 54 images
Hardcover with a tipped-in silver gelatin print
24.5 x 28.7 cm
English
Co-published with The Agency, Hudson Valley
About
Jenia Fridlyand grew up in the Soviet Union in the years just prior to perestroika. Visiting Cuba in the second decade of the twenty-first century, then, felt like an uncanny homecoming. While both tangible and familiar, the grim fabric of the communist quotidian kept unravelling for Fridlyand under the bright, tropical sun. With a large-format camera and a photographic practice rooted in the American tradition, Fridlyand traveled throughout the island during several extended trips. She intuitively trained her lens on moments and scenes with the potential of holding both the known and the novelfrom a pair of donkeys silhouetted against hilltops, a customer at a barber shop and a pair of rocking chairs seen through an open door, to drops of sweat on a mans curved back and sweet fruit hanging ripe on a tree.
