Gregory Halpern: Let the Sun Beheaded Be (Limited-Edition Box Set)

In Let the Sun Beheaded Be, Gregory Halpern focuses on the Caribbean archipelago of Guadeloupe, an overseas region of France with a complicated and violent colonial past. The work resonates with Halpern’s characteristic attention to the ways the details of a landscape and the people who inhabit it often reveal the undercurrents of local histories and experiences. Let the Sun Beheaded Be offers a visually striking depiction of place—as it has been worked on by the forces of nature, people, and events—as well as a thoughtful engagement with the complexities of photographing in foreign lands as an interloper.

This collectible set includes a signed, limited-edition printing of Let the Sun Beheaded Be with a special silver-foil-stamped cover encased in a clamshell box. It is accompanied by a signed and numbered 8-by-10-inch digital c-print. This box set is limited to an edition of seventy and has been produced with the goal of supporting two nonprofit organizations; the artist’s proceeds will be donated in their entirety, shared equally between Locust Street Art in Buffalo, New York, and the Pan American Health Organization.

Let the Sun Beheaded Be was produced as part of Immersion, a program of the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, in partnership with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Each limited-edition print is hand-packed with great care and ships from New York within 3–5 days.