Toronto, 2026— Agreement Books presents Memory Fog, an ongoing photographic project and public archive by Canadian photographer Dimitri Karakostas. Known for photographs that find strange coincidences, accidental poetry, humour, belief, and unease in the everyday landscape, Karakostas has spent much of his career photographing while travelling. Memory Fog brings this material together without resolving it into a single narrative. Roadside signs, religious messages, neglected buildings, institutional spaces, landscapes, and chance encounters recur across photographs made years and thousands of kilometres apart.

Books have long been central to Karakostas’s practice. A former photo editor at VICE and Family Business Books, he has been involved in publishing more than 200 artist books over the past twenty years. His own publishing practice emphasizes accessibility and democratic distribution: editions are produced inexpensively, and even special editions are made cheaply or given away whenever possible. Books and zines are mailed, traded, donated, and left behind along his road trips, allowing the work to circulate outside traditional art and publishing channels.

Memory Fog extends this approach to the archive itself. Karakostas is developing a physical archive in New Brunswick that will bring together photographs, publications, scans, negatives, and related material from the project. In 2030, at the conclusion of Know Brunswick, the archive will be opened for public access and its photographic material released into the public domain. Rather than treating the archive simply as a record of completed work, Memory Fog considers circulation, reproduction, reuse, and rediscovery as part of the continuing life of a photograph.

The new Memory Fog website serves as an evolving index to the project, bringing together photographs, publications, exhibitions, essays, and an ongoing journal of images and notes from the road.

Memory Fog is available at memoryfog.com.

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Dimitri Karakostas is a Canadian photographer, artist, and publisher whose work has been exhibited and published internationally for more than fifteen years. His photographs have appeared in Rolling Stone, Vogue, Dazed, The Fader, Thrasher, and Complex, among others. His books and photographs have been presented internationally through exhibitions, institutions, and art-book fairs, and his publishing work encompasses dozens of his own photobooks alongside more than 200 artist publications produced during his career as an editor and publisher. Karakostas is a recipient of the TVO/Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival Prize, with additional support from artsnb, the Canada Council for the Arts, and Scion Artist Sessions. He lives and works in New Brunswick, Canada.

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