Best photo books of the year

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I first met Maya Meissner in 2019, during portfolio reviews at the Filter Photo Festival in Chicago. It ended up being anything but a typical meeting. Meissner had a story for me and was planning on creating a book telling this story in every photography medium imaginable, like a visual diary. A very personal and ominous visual diary.

Meissner told a dark tale about her and her family narrowly escaping a serial killer in the late 1990s—The Yosemite Killer. I was captivated. I could not wait for this true-crime scrapbook to come to life. This year, she released it—a stunning and intimate collection she named The Cedar Lodge.

The best part about this book? It’s just photographs, then a wee insert at the very end with all the words you need to know to understand Meissner’s historic incident. The photography and design is so eerie, anyone would know that this isn’t your normal collection of photographs—it’s definitely a documentary of something personal and sinister.

In 1999, the Cedar Lodge’s handyman, Cary Stayner, killed a woman and two children at the motel near Yosemite National Park (authorities later found another female victim). Months prior to this horrific crime, Maya and her parents and sister were guests at the Cedar Lodge where, in the middle of the night, a ma

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