This blog is being made as part of on going academic research post an accredited education programme- MA Photography with Falmouth University
Fast Food is an extension to Brents Inbetween Places project exploring how land and geography is increasingly used as the anchor point of political and social discourse intended to exclude others from what is ‘ours’. Ironically much has become homogenised, one place looking very much as another, global corporations create a mono culture, fast food
A personal favourite, a tiny but very lovely little book of images from the early days career of Alec Soth. One Mississippi, part of the Nazraeli Press One Picture Book series. 16 pages hardback cover book, full colour images with original C type print included, signed on verso. The book is only 8.4 × 12 cm! and there
“I suspect no landscape, vernacular or otherwise, can be comprehended unless we perceive it as an organization of space; unless we ask ourselves who owns or uses the spaces, how they were created and how they change. J.B. Jackson Ive used this quote a few times throughout the course, not because I think it looks
Absolutely thrilled to be selected for the Royal Birmingham Society Of Artists Graduate programme! This really is a great honour and an important step on my journey as an artist, separating my commercial and personal practice has always been a struggle internally for me, being recognised as an artsist in my own right, not just
This time I am looking at photobooks that dont follow the usual format of two hard covers and bound internal pages, well not entirely at any rate. The first is from Hoxton Mini Press and one of their early productions from their collectors series ‘I’ve Lived in East London for 86 ½ Years‘ by Martin
Progress has been made on the public showing of some of the images as mentioned earlier, displayed near or at the places the images partly depict. Working with a combination of free poster company Dash Two and local contacts selected images will be posted on location in the USA starting March 2021 Covid allowing. So
Harris & Erel Art, a high end digital gallery have approached me with a view to selling The Inbetween Places book and as prints. Although they have not featured photography previously this look like an interesting opportunity. Anthony Harris (ex Getty/Cultura/Imagesource) has been charged with creating a roster of photographers to grow their sales into
I am absolutely thrilled with the final design of The Inbetween Places Book. Handmade by Cathy Robert, slipcased and folio bound containing 32 original archival prints. The first edition is limited to 5 signed and numbered copies. It is published by The Burcot Press and its ISBN number 978-0-993445-1-4. The page size is based on
So book production has started in earnest. The final image selection made, a total of 32 final executions plus two index pages. As the intention is to produce a bound folio of actual prints they need to be archival. So I am using Hahnemuhle Photorag Duo for the main pages, its coated on both sides
Looking at various options for the book cover I have settled on a slightly crazy faux reptile skin, I like it because at first glance it appears to be quite formal and academic, reminiscent of an old dusty encylopedia but closer inspection reveals the reptile effect which then throws it into a completely different sphere,