28-year-old photographer David Sherry has published his first book, It's Time (Damiani), about the risks of being young and expressing yourself with photography. It's got a candy-colored forest on the cover, and an eccentric, ecstatic photograph on every other page.

Read the full article on Art in America, and see Sherry's latest, unpublished  photographs from a trip to Utah. (LEFT: WAKE ME UP ON OH PHENOMENA, 2009)