Eyeshot Books
Misreadings
Photographer
Jack Simon
Edited by
Marco Savarese, Editor-in-Chief
Published
Eyeshot, 2025
Format
Hardcover, 22 × 24 cm
Pages
128
Price
Sold out
“Misreadings” is a journey into the surreal heart of the everyday, where nothing is staged, yet everything feels strangely intentional. In this new collaboration with Eyeshot, Jack Simon presents a collection of street and abstract images that transform ordinary moments into scenes filled with tension, ambiguity, and narrative potential. Through Simon’s lens, sidewalks become stages, strangers become characters, and spontaneous fragments of life take on the weight of forgotten film stills. “Misreadings” explores the spaces where something is about to happen, or has just occurred, leaving behind visual clues that invite the viewer to imagine what lies beyond the frame. These moments can be read or misread, challenging our assumptions and opening the door to unexpected interpretations. This book celebrates his singular ability to see the extraordinary in the ordinary, offering a visual experience that is as playful as it is profound.
Who made it
The peoplePhotographer
Jack Simon
Jack Simon has worked as a psychiatrist for the past forty years. Twenty years ago, he became fascinated by the possibilities of photography, and now rarely goes anywhere without a camera. He finds joy in the hunt for moments of mystery, surprise, and humor in everyday life.
The book
Edition detailsEdition
FormatHardcover, 22 × 24 cm
Pages128
EditionLimited edition
SignedDigitally
Publishing
Edited byMarco Savarese
IntroductionLucrezia Bonarota
PublishedEyeshot, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Printed inItaly
ISBN979-12-80238-56-6
Made to last
MaterialsWe choose every material for what it gives the photographs, and for what it leaves behind. Every page, cover, and endpaper is paper made in Italy by Fedrigoni, founded in Verona in 1888: it gives us the print quality we want and the environmental guarantees we will not do without, and we pay more for both.
Papers
Interior and coverSymbol Tatami, matt coated. 30% more body than ordinary coated stock and 97% opacity: the blacks stay deep, and no image shows through from the page behind.
EndpapersSirio Color Black, 140 g/m². Dyed through the pulp with lightfast pigments, so it stays black for decades.
Standards
FSC® MixBoth papers: fibre from responsibly managed forests and controlled sources.
No elemental chlorineBoth papers: pulp bleached without elemental chlorine (ECF).
Acid freeBoth papers, Long Life certified: the pages will not yellow or turn brittle.
RecyclableBoth papers: every paper in the book can be recycled at the end of its life.
PapermakerFedrigoni, rated Platinum by EcoVadis (top 1% of its industry) and on the CDP A List for climate, 2025.
How we make it
DesignEdited, sequenced, and designed in our studio, page by page, together with the photographer.
PrintPaper, print, and binding in Italy, a short distance apart, with people we have worked with for years.
EditionWe print what is ordered, in a limited edition: no warehouse of unsold copies.
ShippingFrom Italy, one parcel per order, straight to its reader. An order never ships in pieces.
PackagingA recyclable mono-material envelope (Made for Recycling, Interzero), resealable to be used again, closed with acid-free paper stickers.
