Portsmouth

Here is a list of local (art)book sellers in the Washington Baltimore area that the artist will contact for promotion. Atomic Books http://www.atomicbooks.com/ Kramer Books http://kramers.com/bookstore Politics and Prose http://www.politics-prose.com/ Upshur Street Books http://upshurstreetbooks.com/ The National Gallery of Art, The Gallery Shops https://shop.nga.gov/cms/customer-service/customer-service/1.html Photographer, Ken D. Ashton's website: http://www.kendashton.com/ Andrea Smith, Publicist National print and online campaign Social Media campaign Promotion through: www.daylightbooks.org • Art and Photo magazines: Aperture, Photo District News, American Photo, Popular Photography, Professional Photographer, Rangefinder, Shutterbug, The Photo Review, British Journal of Photography, Photographer’s Forum, Hot Shoe International, Photo-Eye, LensCulture, among others. • Niche: 1) Magazines that cover culture, urban planning, socio-economics, politics, such as Mother Jones, The Atlantic (City Lab), The Economist, The Week, The Nation; 2) media in Ohio region (though some may pass as it’s a sad story); 3) Green magazines such as Orion. • General interest publications (books, art, culture): The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, New York Review of Books, Brooklyn Rail, Dwell, Metropolis, Reader’s Digest, Bookforum • Trade press: Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Booklist, Choice • Top Market Newspapers: Pitch a broader piece that connects the situation in Portsmouth to what is happening in many other US cities to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Ohio papers (especially those close to Portsmouth), The Guardian (UK), The Financial Times (UK), The Sunday Times (UK), etc. • Blogs/Online: The Atlantic “City Lab” blog, Hyperallergic, Business Insider, Bloomberg, The Huffington Post, The Daily Beast, Slate, Feature Shoot, Lenscratch, aCurator, Musee magazine, We-Heart, Colossal, etc. • Broadcast: NPR programs (national and local), CNN

Portsmouth, documents the deindustrialization of the small River Town of Portsmouth, Ohio that sits on the side of Appalachia.Portsmouth: Collected Saturdays is a volume of images that show the hardship of deindustrialization, floods, and crime in Portsmouth, Ohio. Ken D. Ashton's photographs show the other side of Appalachia with its fair share of unsuccessful socio-economic undertakings. Through the acute scope of Portsmouth, Ohio, Ashton portrays the macro effect of deindustrialization on small-town America. Ashton investigates the urban landscape, finding signs of depopulation through abandoned lots, homes, and restaurants. He explores how the influence of urban landscape affects our thoughts, actions, and imagination. Ken D. Ashton's photographic work explores urban neighborhoods that experience transition as well as communities that have remained intact. For over fifteen years, Ashton has worked on Megalopolis, a photographic encyclopedia of communities from Washington, DC to Boston, MA.