Achak’s dreamlike landscapes and mysterious portraits bring together human and spiritual worlds.In All the Colors I Am Inside, Deb Achak reflects on our relationship with the soft, quiet voice of our intuition and the beauty of who we are under the surface. Achak explores how our inner voice leads us on the most surprising and glorious adventures, but to hear it, we must quiet our brains and savor the present moment. Bringing together human and spiritual worlds, she uses landscapes that are rich and mysterious, the way our dreams and meditations might feel, and portraits in which the subject is consumed by nature, swept up by it. Achak seeks to represent the pictorial quality of intuition using imagery that walks the line between rare and familiar. Ultimately, the work invites us to think less, feel more. Deb Achak is an American artist. All the Colors I Am Inside marks the artist’s debut monograph.
Deb Achak is an American photographer based in Seattle, Washington. She spent 15 years working at the intersection of health and mental health and earned a Master's degree in Social Work at the University of Washington. She left that practice to launch her photography career, employing a visual medium to continue her exploration of the interior lives of herself and others.
Achak’s photographs have been featured in more than 40 international exhibitions. She was awarded a Critical Mass Top 200 finalist in 2021, and a recipient of the Julia Margaret Cameron Award in 2023. All the Colors I Am Inside is her debut monograph.
Pascale Willi is a book designer and graphic artist. Born and raised in the Swiss Alps, she received her BA in Visual Communication from the Zurich University of the Arts in Zurich, Switzerland. Since moving to New York in 1994, and she has collaborated with many inspiring artists, museums, non-profit organizations and corporations internationally. She has has designed monographs for Marina Abramovic, Kiki Smith, Cindy Sherman, Thomas Demand, and Douglas Gordon amongst others.
Alison Morley is the Chair Emerita, Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism Program, at the International Center of Photography in New York. She currently works as a photo book consultant, curator, writer, mentor, and educator for photographers around the world and at institutions including ICP and VII Academy. She has been a photo editor at such magazines and newspapers as The New York Times, Esquire, and Life. She has won numerous awards globally for her work in photography.
