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Viewshed is available for pre-order and will ship in Spring 2026
Printed in Italy
8” x 11”
44 pages
Sewn soft cover book with drop spine
Text by David La Spina
Design by Emily Sheffer
Published by Dust Collective
Spring 2026
ISBN 979-8-9893350-9-1
David La Spina, born 1981, Cincinnati, is a Brooklyn and Germantown-based artist whose practice explores local historiography, examining how the built environment carries the imprint of past generations into the present. His work is informed by a sustained interest in the cultural transition to modernism and a deep engagement with photographic archives.
For over two decades, as the Director of Esto, he has stewarded the work of architectural photographer Ezra Stoller, shaping his understanding of preservation, visibility, and historical narrative from a visual archive. La Spina studied photography at Rochester Institute of Technology and earned his MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2009. In 2014, after contributing as a photographer, he became a staff photo editor for The New York Times Magazine. In 2015, he co-founded ROMAN NVMERALS, an artist-centered photography imprint and print studio, with Michael Vahrenwald. His other recent work includes 14 Doubles/Fantasy Baseball, an evolving multi-medium exploration of America’s Pastime and Emeralders, an ongoing serialized photographic novel set in Walt Whitman’s Antebellum Brooklyn.
Viewshed is available for pre-order and will ship in Spring 2026
Printed in Italy
8” x 11”
44 pages
Sewn soft cover book with drop spine
Text by David La Spina
Design by Emily Sheffer
Published by Dust Collective
Spring 2026
ISBN 979-8-9893350-9-1
David La Spina, born 1981, Cincinnati, is a Brooklyn and Germantown-based artist whose practice explores local historiography, examining how the built environment carries the imprint of past generations into the present. His work is informed by a sustained interest in the cultural transition to modernism and a deep engagement with photographic archives.
For over two decades, as the Director of Esto, he has stewarded the work of architectural photographer Ezra Stoller, shaping his understanding of preservation, visibility, and historical narrative from a visual archive. La Spina studied photography at Rochester Institute of Technology and earned his MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2009. In 2014, after contributing as a photographer, he became a staff photo editor for The New York Times Magazine. In 2015, he co-founded ROMAN NVMERALS, an artist-centered photography imprint and print studio, with Michael Vahrenwald. His other recent work includes 14 Doubles/Fantasy Baseball, an evolving multi-medium exploration of America’s Pastime and Emeralders, an ongoing serialized photographic novel set in Walt Whitman’s Antebellum Brooklyn.