Old negs

I was going through some old negatives today and found these images of Larry Towell and David Alan Harvey, taken at the Magnum AGM in 2003. David Alan Harvey is using a Leica digital something-or-other belonging to my friend Ania Dabrowska.

Bookiwooks

A couple of faves . . .

I bought Tunnels by Andre Principe in 2005 after seeing his exhibition at the Centro Português de Fotografia in Porto. Back then I was in the early stages of editing what was to become my first photobook, Visions 1-26, and Tunnels became a significant influence.

I've been a big fan of Trent Parke ever since my internship at Magnum but only recently discovered this rare artists' book containing a (very) small selection of his Minutes to Midnight work. I've always been disappointed that Trent never saw fit to publish the entire project but apparently it had something to do with the high degree of exposure the work received through touring exhibitions. However, Stills Gallery told me recently that Steidl plan to publish three Trent Parke titles - one of which will be Minutes to Midnight. Images from the Minutes to Midnight road trip can be found here and there's a short film about it all here.

Soldbuch dummy

Here are a few images of my 'Soldbuch' dummy. The book documents the period of time in 2008/2009 when I located my Grandfather's war grave and then attempted to walk 600 miles from central France to northern Germany - the journey home he had not been able to make himself. The end pages are prints of flowers - collected near Lyon - that I crushed onto blotting paper.

Better late than never . . .

OK, I've finally started a blog and what better way to start than with an image of bleak Winter? This is a double-page fold-out from my current work in progress: Soldbuch.