Published by Composit Press

For a generation of parents raising children today, climate change is no longer a distant threat–it's a kitchen table issue. Urgent questions shadow the wonder, struggle, and complexity of everyday life: What will the world our children inherit look like? Will it even be habitable? In Within the Bittersweet, photographer Allison Grant explores the emotional weight of raising her daughters in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, against the backdrop of climate crisis and local industrial pollution. Drawing on a long tradition of socially conscious photographers who make political work laden with the personal, her images negotiate pressing new concerns as our planet undergoes rapid and irreversible change.

Published by Big Jump Press

Acts of Translation: Allison Grant is the first in a series of collaborative books from Big Jump Press devoted to translation and communication. Text for this project was gathered, edited, and recombined by Sarah Bryant from a series of recorded interviews with Allison Grant conducted in 2021 and 2022. The images are tracings of photographs taken by Grant at Hurricane Creek in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in 2019. "Isa at the Swimming Hole" was selected from 21 frames, eight of which are represented as traced drawings in the book. "Isa at the Swimming Hole" is part of Grant’s series Within the Bittersweet, a dark pastoral examination of her experiences raising her children amid concerns about the impacts of the climate crisis and environmental contamination.