36 “The captivating tableaus exude a sense of tension, melancholy, and a quiet unease. Each image from Japan Diaries exists as if it were a still taken from a noir Japanese film, each solitary figure yearning for something unknown.” Glenn O’Brien wrote of the Formento’s series Japan Diaries. In winter of 2018, BJ and Richeille returned to Japan but this time focused on channeling the artists Hokusai and Hiroshige and asked the question of what Mt. Fuji means to them. "We consider Japan our spirit place and are always yearning to come back and go deeper in our exploration of the culture and the landscape. This new work moved us out of the city of Tokyo and into the countryside. We wanted to live under the ever changing appearance of Mt. Fuji and experience its burning energy. Creating an ambiguous narrative with our women as they played out an imagined life under the strength of the mountain and beyond the edge of the frame". Embossed linen hardback with tipped in image 88 pages Book size 12 x 12 inches Publication date October 2019 ISBN-13: 978-1-7332741-0-4

FIRST EDITION SOLD OUT HYSTERIA Images dealing with beauty and upheaval, brutality and optimism. Post World War II, a time when it seemed as if America was at the height of its power and also on the verge of spinning out of control. Issues in a world we still know and contend with today. Embossed linen hardback with tipped in image 88 pages Book size 12 x 12 inches Publication date October 2019 ISBN-13: 978-1-7332741-1-1 Image Size: 8x10 inches Paper Size: 12x12 inches

CIRCUMSTANCE CIRCUMSTANCE 2008-2010 These stirring, unapologetic photographs bring forward the legacy of change, economic depression and transience which has haunted America’s history. Places and characters in today’s settings as if searching for their own meaning a new definition of place, which still tips its hat in homage to the grit and dirt in which today’s America springs. Photographers BJ and Richeille Formento met 14 years ago, while working on a common assignment, and have been partners in both life and work ever since. Together they travel around the world, creating highly inspirational visual series that treat the human persona as prime matter that can be re-shaped through the most unconventional of scenarios. These are usually set in a surreal environment that is saturated in an abundance of contrasting references involving everything from culture and sex to high-fashion and technology. In contrast to their work, the reason that pushed the photography duo in the direction they followed was anything but surreal. It all started with the recession in 2008 and the subsequent collapse of the American Dream. Simply getting by in New York wasn’t enough for the Formentos and soon life found them traveling across the US in a 27-foot 1969 Airstream, in an attempt to capture this newly-found reality through photographing women they would meet along the way. The result of this eight-month trip was "Circumstance" the duo’s first conceptual series and big breakthrough. Embossed linen hardback with tipped in image 88 pages Book size 12 x 12 inches Publication date October 2019 ISBN-13: 978-1-7332741-2-8 Retail $49.95

Our latest book published by www.tableauxeditions.com A collection 77 beautiful nudes from the past 10 years presented in a hardbound linen 12x12" book printed on heavy paper. The limited edition collector series comes with a tipped in image signed by both artist $69

JAPAN DIARIES Formento and Formento come out of a hybrid lineage of art and fashion. You might call them Third Picture Generation Artists. Their work conjures the sensibilities of an art film and extends it through lengthy series. Although their work is not explicit fashion, they tend to observe high fashion standards in casting, hair and makeup, which invariably injects a frisson of glamour into the scenario. Their locations and their light are first rate, giving a genuine cinematic sensibility to the photographs with big screen values, but Formento & Formento are a duo that travels light and manages to achieve soundstage quality without Hollywood budgets. In their Japan Diaries they arrived as outsiders bringing with them rich impressions accumulated from Japanese art and cinema, but possessing keen fresh eyes hungry for the exotic aesthetic contrarieties of this ancient yet ultra modern culture. In their work there is no resolution, only an allure that inspires longing for something strange and unknown. Everywhere there are hints of what might link these images, but the movie only happens in your head and it can be different every time. Real life happens in motion like cinema. Dreams, bounded only by the imagination, begin in stills. They are professional travelers, bringing expertise imagination and almost alien gift for absorbing and rendering the spirit of a time and place.William S Burroughs, who loved to collaborate and who created “the cut up method” with painter Brion Gysin, said that when two minds work together they create a third mind.Here we see that two eyes can create a third eye, and everyone knows that the third eye can see through time and space, showing us the things otherwise invisible. ~Glenn O'Brien Embossed linen hardback with tipped in image 90 pages Book size 12 x 12 inches $59 book $79 Signed book $299 Artist Edition signed 8X12 inch archival pigment print

SPIES, LIES & SABOTEURS SPIES, LIES AND SABOTEURS 2018-2020 Photographs that delve into the tension between reality and myth, and the fabricated and authentic, Formento & Formento allows for a spattering of ambiguity that has uncertain intention and unexpected consequences. An homage to the unsung heroines of WW2. These women were especially prevalent in the Special Operations Executive, a cobbled-together network of spies and amateurs that wrought havoc on German occupied Europe. Scores of female operatives trained to handle guns and explosives, memorize complex codes, organize munitions and supplies drops, endure harsh interrogation. They were military women, journalists, cooks, actresses and ordinary people caught up in extraordinary times. Their stories demonstrate that they were women of extraordinary courage and inventiveness who helped save the world. Embossed linen hardback with tipped in image 90 pages Book size 12 x 12 inches $59 book $79 Signed book $299 Signed book with signed 8x12 inch print

Sold out worldwide We have a few artists proofs available. During 2009, while the United States was suffering from the subprimes crisis, the American photographers made the choice to embark on a creative journey across the country aboard their Silver Airstream. On a tiny budget, the couple visited 35 states to photograph 130 women over a five-month period. Inspired by the iconic fashion and film of the 1950s, the images are staged in a sophisticated way, telling tales with women not dissimilar to Hitchcock’s heroines. The images captured during this saga are now part of a limited edition of 2000 signed and numbered SUMO books. Artist proof comes with signed print 8x12" print.