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Occupants is listed as #13 on the Los Angeles Times hardcover nonfiction bestsellers list for the week of November 13, 2011. This is Occupants debut week on the list.
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Occupants is listed as #13 on the Los Angeles Times hardcover nonfiction bestsellers list for the week of November 13, 2011. This is Occupants debut week on the list.
See all the titles that made the list on projects.latimes.com/bestsellers
MTVHive featured an interview with Henry Rollins about his new book, Occupants, and how his photographic journey around the world's more desperate places affected him. Rollins interview excerpt: “A lot of it to me is what globalization looks like,” he assesses. “McDonalds in Thailand, the way it stands out like an eyesore … it’s insulting to me, and I see a lot of that in the world. You see where all the bad clothes end up, the cell phones that didn’t work very well, they all get sold off over there. When you go to Southeast Asia, Central Asia, you kind of see how the Western world washes up on its shores. If you look at the photos in the book you can see it. That’s what the book hopefully addresses in part.”
Read the full feature on read.mtvhive.com.
"Occupants is collection of disconcertingly concrete images paired with impressionistic passages of writing in which Rollins adopts the voices of his photograph’s subjects or provides an emotional description of their circumstances. This works very well when Rollins does what he’s always done so well and embraces the hard-edged honesty of punk...In the book’s best passages, Rollins’ empathy allows him genuine and frightening insight. In weaker sections, Rollins—who makes it clear in the introduction that he's comfortable playing the dilettante—seems overwhelmed by sympathy and impotent rage at the status quo, a familiar position for a socially conscious rocker."
Read the full review on www.huffingtonpost.com.
"Rollins collected years of pictures he took while traveling in places as far-fetched as Cambodia, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, and Iraq. It's an impressive collection built entirely out of Rollins's desire to expose readers to corners of the world they may otherwise never see."
Read the full feature on Wired.com.