Noise and Other Singular Things is a visual and poetic conversation between photographer Steven Visneau and artist/poet Benji Peck. Born from a shared obsession with the raw and the overlooked, this book is a meditation on what happens when you stop trying to make sense of things-and start paying attention instead.
Visneau's photographs are immediate, unfiltered, and alive with tension. They catch the blur between beauty and distortion, offering fragments of a world that's both intimate and untamed. Peck responds through original poetry, drawing, and typographic composition--shaping the visual noise into something quietly human.
There's no fixed narrative, no clean arc—just a dialogue between image and response, between what's seen and what's felt. It's a book about noticing what gets missed. About the crack between certainty and contradiction. About the subtle, sacred weight of the ordinary.
Nothing is sacred. Everything counts.
NOISE & OTHER SINGULAR THINGS
There’s no fixed narrative or argument to make. Just a shared belief that there’s something human in the blur—in the crack between certainty and contradiction. Or maybe it’s our invitation to get lost in the noise that we’ve both spent far too much time listening to.
Artist Bio
Benji Peck is an artist and writer based in Nashville, Tennessee. Working primarily in oil, his paintings explore tension and balance through bold gesture, layered color, and material presence. His debut book, Noise & Other Singular Things (2025), created with photographer Steven Visneau, extends that same inquiry—part poem, part artifact, part collaboration.
Across mediums, Peck’s work examines how opposing forces coexist—clarity and confusion, control and surrender—and how meaning emerges in the space between them. He is also the founder and Creative Director of Peck Design Associates (PDA™), a visual identity studio working with clients locally and abroad for more than two decades.
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Noise and Other Singular Things is a collaborative art book by photographer Steven Visneau and artist/poet Benji Peck. Through photography, poetry, and design, it explores the tension between beauty and distortion, chaos and clarity. A meditation on what’s often overlooked—the quiet, human noise of everyday life.
ISBN: 979-8-218-74962-0