About this Event
Join Sarah Wilson, author of 'DIG: Notes on Field and Family', in conversation with Chris Kirk.
Included in the ticket cost is a copy of DIG + author signature & personalization along with reserved seating.
Start Time: 5:00 PM
End Time: 6:30 PM
Location: First Light Books, 4300 Speedway Unit 104 Austin, Texas 78751
Event Details: Conversation with the author followed by a signing. Seating will be reserved for those who purchase a book through our Eventbrite otherwise seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis. Food and beverages are available for purchase at our Cafe.
About the book:
Before he died, photographer Sarah Wilson’s grandfather gave her three black metal boxes filled with faded Kodachromes. The images featured geologic charts, rock formations, bone fragments and skulls, and landscapes from his annual digs in West Texas and Big Bend National Park. These were his teaching slides from when he was a professor of geology and paleontology at the University of Texas. Holding them up to the light, Wilson realized that she and her grandfather photographed some of the exact same desert landscapes, from the same vantage points, only fifty years apart. This shared connection ignited an adventure and a long-term project, featured in the pages of her first book, DIG: Notes on Field and Family.
With her current photographic series, DIG, Wilson explores her grandfather’s life’s work as a paleontologist, which ignites her own search for fossils and existential perspective in the West Texas desert.
About the author:
Sarah Wilson is an Austin-based cinematographer and photographer working for magazines such as The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Time, The Atlantic Monthly, Texas Monthly, Mother Jones, and others. She is also the co-founder of Go-Valley, an Austin-based production company.
About the moderator:
Chris Kirk is a biological anthropologist who studies primate adaptations and evolution. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin.
Thank you for supporting Sarah Wilson, Chris Kirk, and First Light Books. Your support allows us to create a dialogue that moves past the page and connects writer to reader.
We'll see you soon.
-First Light Events
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
First Light Book Shop, 4300 Speedway, Austin, United States
USD 50.00
