Breathless in Glowing Air: Pomegranate Press at 10

by OS Staff
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Pomegranate Press is marking its tenth anniversary with Breathless in Glowing Air, a sprawling exhibition that traces a decade of the imprint’s restless pursuit of contemporary photography.

Rather than imposing a single theme, the show leans into the chaos of the everyday — those in-between moments that slip by unnoticed but somehow define us. A lover’s fleeting gesture, a cloud of dust rising from the roadside, or the strange holiness of a strip mall glowing under a rainbow: each image insists that the most fragile details of life can hold eternal weight.

The exhibition pulls together work from 62 photographers shaping the new guard of the medium, among them Pia Paulina Guilmoth, Juan Brenner, Adam Powell, and Jerry Hsu. Each piece feels like an unfinished story, brimming with what Pomegranate’s founder Jesse Feinman calls the boundless suggestion of possibility.”

For Feinman, who began the press as a 20-year-old in Florida, Pomegranate has always been less about polish than about honesty. What started as a DIY zine project among friends has grown into a global indie publisher, now operating from New York and producing limited-edition books, ephemera, and merch. Yet its core remains rooted in punk accessibility, sincerity, and curiosity.

I’ve never stopped trying,” Feinman reflects. “All Pomegranate has ever been is an extension of the heart — a love letter that keeps mutating, evolving, and hopefully becoming more open and less cynical along the way.

Currently on view at 1014 Gallery in London until September 19Breathless in Glowing Air doubles as both a retrospective and a manifesto for the future of image-making.

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