Deafheaven by Ebru Yıldız
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Special Edition cover variation featuring silver ink on black paper + silver thread + the What Remains bookplate printed with silver ink on black paper + signed and numbered by the photographer.
Deafheaven
Ebru Yıldız
ISBN: 979-8-9994891-1-1
8x10"
Softcover
Pamphlet stitched with black thread
104 pages, 90 photographs
Edited, sequenced, and designed by Ebru Yıldız
Essay by Brandon Stosuy
Printed and hand-bound by Torn in NYC
1st Edition
50 Special Edition copies with cover variation featuring silver ink on black paper + silver thread + the What Remains bookplate printed with silver ink on black paper + signed and numbered by the photographer.
September 2024. Hollywood, California. In the grips of a punishing heat wave the experimental metal band Deafheaven hunkered down in EastWest Studios to record what would become their 2025 universally acclaimed album Lonely People With Power. Photographer Ebru Yildiz spent time with the band in Los Angeles documenting the recording process and their two nights in May 2025 at the NYC venues Irving Plaza and Warsaw during their US tour.
What Remains is pleased to announce the release of the resulting collection of photographs - Deafheaven. Across a series of 90 black and white images spanning traditional portraiture and documentary, Yıldız employs her instantly recognizable photographic style for a peak behind the curtain from creation to performance. Additionally, the book features an in-depth essay by Brandon Stosuy, author and co-founder & editor-in-chief of The Creative Independent.
For the production of Deafheaven we partnered with Torn to print and hand-bind the three separate booklets that compose the book into an accordion style cover with pamphlet stitching. Booklet one is composed of the essay by Brandon Stosuy, booklet two is composed of photos from the recording session, and booklet three features photos surrounding the NYC concerts with fold-out pages. Given the hand-bound assembly of the book, there may be slight variations in binding and folding.
The book is offered in two variants: a standard edition and a special edition cover variation limited to 50 copies and featuring silver ink on black paper + silver thread + the What Remains bookplate printed with silver ink on black paper + signed and numbered by the photographer.
Deafheaven continues Yıldız’s Phosphene zine series in which she presents a long-form photographic essay with each issue. Self-published by Yıldız since 2018, What Remains is thrilled to continue this series in an elevated format.
About Deafheaven
Originally formed as a duo in 2010, Deafheaven are an experimental black metal band from San Francisco, California. Initially made up of George Clarke (vocals) and Kerry McCoy (guitars), the band has a sound that blends black metal with elements of shoegaze, adding a layer of warmth to the genre's typically icy sound while expanding the emotional range outside of the typical themes of death, despair, and hopelessness.
About Ebru Yıldız
A New York-based portrait photographer originally from Turkey, Ebru Yıldız has built a successful career spanning over 15 years. She is known for her distinctive portrait style, which reveals the vulnerability and emotional depth of her subjects. Yıldız views each photoshoot as a collaborative effort and has gained particular recognition within the music industry, working with many notable and culturally significant artists.
About Brandon Stosuy
Brandon Stosuy is the cofounder and editor in chief of The Creative Independent. He previously worked as director of Editorial Operations at the music publication, Pitchfork. Brandon curates the annual Basilica SoundScape festival in Hudson, New York with Melissa auf Der Maur and has been a music curator at MoMA PS1 in New York City and the Broad museum in Los Angeles. For the past 15 years, he and the visual artist Matthew Barney have collaborated on a series of live events, objects, and print publications related to the Long Island City performance space, REMAINS. His anthology, Up is Up, But So Is Down: New York’s Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992 was published by NYU Press in 2006, and was a 2006 Village Voice book of the year. Brandon is the author of three books on creativity, Make Time for Creativity, Stay Inspired, How to Fail Successfully (all published by Abrams) and two children’s books, Music Is... and We Are Music (both published by Simon & Schuster). His anthology, Sad Happens: A Celebration Of Tears, was published in 2026, also by Simon & Schuster. He is currently at work on The Creative Independent: A Guide to Making Things, which will be published by North Point/FSG in 2028. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two sons.