Jay B. Sauceda
We’re sitting down with Jay B. Sauceda this week to talk about A Mile Above Texas (University of Texas Press, October 3, 2018), his book of aerial photographs that document the entire perimeter of the state. Sauceda flew 3,822 miles, over five days in in a single-engine Cessna.
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Jay B. Sauceda
Jay B. Sauceda is a photographer, entrepreneur and author.
His second book, A Mile Above Texas was released in October 2018 by University of Texas Press. The project began when he decided to fly a single-engine Cessna 3,822 miles around the perimeter of Texas to document the state in aerial photographs. The photographs were first published in a photo essay in Texas Monthly. An interactive exhibit on the project at the Bullock Texas State History Museum entitled Texas From Above, is slated to open in late January.
Jay B’s 2016 book is entitled, Y’all: The Definitive Guide to Being a Texan.
As a photographer, Jay B has worked with clients such as WIRED and Texas Monthly. He is a founding member of multidisciplinary studio PUBLIC SCHOOL. In 2013 he founded Texas Humor, which showcases Jay B’s love for Texas and transfers it to merchandise that enables others to do the same. His company, Sauceda Industries, handles the logistics side of e-commerce for his own products as well as other brands.
Originally from La Porte, Texas, Jay B received his BA from The University of Texas. He lives in South Austin with his wife, a 3 year old daughter, a son on the way.
For more information, please see JaySauceda.com.
You can keep up with him on Twitter at @jaybsauceda and @TexasHumor. You’ll find him on Instagram @jaybsauceda.
A Mile Above Texas by Jay B. Sauceda (University of Texas Press, October 3, 2018) — Reviews
“Jay B. Sauceda is creating a new kind of literature for the state, a visual literature that is as significant and powerful as John Graves’s Goodbye to a River, Robert Caro’s The Path to Power, Edna Ferber’s Giant, or T. R. Fehrenbach’s Lone Star. His compositions accomplish what all great work does—offering a new way of seeing things so familiar that we have stopped seeing them.”—Rick Bass in Texas Monthly
About A Mile Above Texas
On the ground, Texas is a vast patchwork of natural and human landscapes—wide open spaces contrasting with sprawling cities; the watery worlds of rivers, lakes, and coastlines giving way to the arid vistas of plains and deserts. From the air, though, Texas takes on a wholeness that unites the landscapes that people manufacture with the land that nature still sculpts. This is the Texas that Jay B. Sauceda portrays in A Mile above Texas, a book of stunning aerial hotographs that document the entire perimeter of the state. Sauceda flew 3,822 miles, over five days in 2015, in a single-engine Cessna. He shot more than 44,000 photos from the plane, via handheld cameras and GoPros attached to the wings. This book presents the very best of those photographs in sections that cover each leg of the trip: Victoria to Marshall, Marshall to Dalhart, Dalhart to El Paso, El Paso to Marfa, and Marfa to Mustang Beach. With fresh views of Texas’s beaches and rivers, woodlands and deserts, cities and farms, A Mile Above Texas offers an encompassing view of the state that perhaps only flyers and migratory birds have enjoyed before now. –University of Texas Press
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