Frank Rodick’s work featured in the exhibition Echoes of Yesterday at Millepiani Exhibition Space in Rome. Spring 2025.

In PhotoBook Journal contributing editor and professor of photography at DePaul University Steve Harp reviews The Moons of Saturn book by Frank Rodick and Nancy Brokaw.

Like the moons of Saturn, as viewers of the disintegrating, impenetrable images Rodick presents us, we are endlessly drawn in to a place of seeing but not knowing, hovering on the surface of the impenetrable.  Who are these people rescued from oblivion, preserved only to yet remain inaccessible in the photographic void? Rodick gives us a kind of aposiopesis, an inability (or unwillingness) to proceed further, leaving out what is most important and quite likely unknowable.  At the center then we are confronted with what is not there, absent yet somehow still remaining.  The mystery at the center of photography.

A cupful of whispers, Frank Rodick’s quarterly (sometimes less) newsletter for November 2024 is available here. Featuring Tee A. Corrine (image above), Anselm Kiefer, and the relationship between Trumpism and photography.

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Frank Rodick is now on Instagram, where he’ll share information about his work and process that you won’t find elsewhere. Follow him here.

Fall 2023: Thanks to the generosity of legendary curator Anne Tucker, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston added untitled self, no. 23 (above), from the series untitled selves, to its permanent collection.

2023: WM Hunt has generously donated the triptych 3 a.m. (engram) [detail above] from Frank Rodick’s Arena series to the New Mexico Museum of Art for their permanent collection.

2023: The Raclin Murphy Museum of Art acquired Frank Rodick’s in her hand, a cupful of whispers [above], from the series Arena, thanks to the generosity of famed collector WM Hunt.

Published in 2023, The Moons of Saturn, a book with text by writer Nancy Brokaw and based on Frank Rodick’s images from the series by the same title. A dialogue in word and image, from two longtime collaborators. Available for purchase from the photo-eye Bookstore and the Phooks.

July 2023: Don Snyder—noted artist, curator, former chair of Toronto Metropolitan University’s School of Image Arts—interviews Frank Rodick, focusing on three series: Frances, Joseph, and untitled selves.