Bigger, Bolder, Ginger-er
An American book dream becomes a reality
When I put the call out for my Gingers of America project you responded. So many people responded, in fact, that I failed to reply personally to everyone, but I did consider every person’s submission. Each message and dot on the map reminded me that the effort was worth it to create this book.
Today, you can pre-order a first-edition copy that will be mailed to your home as soon as it is released in the fall of 2026. I hope the book will magnify the golden light of this great nation.
If all gingers in America moved to the same place, there’d be a city of roughly 14 million redheads. Imagine how bright Ginger Town would look from space. But there is no geographic hot-spot for gingers in the United States that I am aware of. Rather, they are sprinkled like gold dust across the whole country, each a glittering glimpse of intersecting life histories that span the planet.
Today, I am delighted to finally announce the publication of a new photobook of these golden people – even bigger and, I think, better than the original. Created over the past two years, and starting with the question of what unites the States today, Gingers of America looks beyond the media headlines of division to celebrate the common life through a diverse cast of awesome humans.
Almost everyone featured in the book is ginger, but it is not really about hair. Gingers of America is structured around themes raised time and again in the conversations I had with portrait sitters about origins, land, migration, power, dreams, and unity.
The portraits reveal national and global connections, reminding us of our shared stories and the genetic histories written in every cell of our bodies.
We, the people, are all made of the same substance—and sometimes it shows.
About the book
The cloth-bound hardback book is proudly printed and bound in the USA. It is 248 pages long, with landscape photographs, short essays and 78 portraits, whittled down from thousands of ginger applicants.
