MATTHEW ROLSTON’S Vanitas: The Palermo Portraits is a handsomely bound limited-edition monograph – presented as a deluxe volume within a protective clamshell case – offered by fine art photography publisher Nazraeli Press.

The publication includes texts from the artist in addition to an introductory essay by American author, photography critic and journalist Philip Gefter and a foreword excerpted from cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker’s seminal 1973 work The Denial of Death.