Daylight Books publishes `Phantom Power` by Barbara Diener
(Artdaily.org)

The sudden loss of her father when she was 25 was a pivotal moment in Barbara Diener`s life. She never had the opportunity to say goodbye or to tell him how much he meant to her. In the 10 years since his death, she has carried his memory with her, and his absence infuses her reality. The loss of her father, and her desire to reconnect with him, is the underlying theme in Diener`s new monograph, Phantom Power. Diener was raised in a small town in Germany without any sense of formal religion or spirituality. While she describes herself as not having a religious bone in her body, she recognizes there is still a great deal we don`t know about human consciousness and what happens to us once our bodies expire. In Phantom Power, she explores and interprets the possibilities through her photography using various techniques such as suggestive