Area of Refuge: Capturing Change — Issue 01 (2024–2025)

$20.00

A limited-edition broadsheet publication documenting the inaugural Area of Refuge community photo tour. Produced in Jersey City with support from the Jersey City Arts & Culture Trust Fund, this first issue brings together photographs, interviews, essays, and neighborhood reflections from residents, workshop participants, and local artists.

Printed in full color on uncoated stock, Capturing Change offers an intimate visual and narrative portrait of Bergen-Lafayette and Greenville—two neighborhoods at the intersection of preservation and transformation.

A limited-edition broadsheet publication documenting the inaugural Area of Refuge community photo tour. Produced in Jersey City with support from the Jersey City Arts & Culture Trust Fund, this first issue brings together photographs, interviews, essays, and neighborhood reflections from residents, workshop participants, and local artists.

Printed in full color on uncoated stock, Capturing Change offers an intimate visual and narrative portrait of Bergen-Lafayette and Greenville—two neighborhoods at the intersection of preservation and transformation.

About the Publication
Area of Refuge: Capturing Change — Issue 01 functions as both visual record and cultural artifact. The publication presents a collective portrait of place through community documentary photography, portraiture, and architectural studies. Its content is drawn from a series of on-site workshops led by artists, historians, and organizers working directly with local residents.

Features

  • Photographic essays by workshop participants and Jersey City residents

  • Interviews with community elders and neighborhood advocates

  • Personal reflections on memory, identity, and belonging

  • A removable poster designed by Jasmin Peña, interpreting the themes of refuge, resistance, and Black domesticity through quilt-inspired geometry

Design & Production

  • Broadsheet format

  • Dimensions (folded): 19 ½" L × 14" W

  • Poster (removable centerfold): 27 ½" L × 19 ½" W

  • Offset printed on uncoated stock

  • Ships folded in archival sleeve

Page Count: 24 pages (including removable centerfold poster)

Edition Limited run
First printing, 2025

Proceeds All proceeds directly support the continuation of Area of Refuge’s community arts education programming and future publications.