Metropole, London Arts Board
10 March – 10 April 2015.

Metropole uses architecture as metaphor to explore the spatial and social transformation of the city of London, and the sensation of feeling lost in a city one once regarded as home. Read more about it here.

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Martin Parr’s Money
(2014)

In photography circles having Martin Parr buy one of your books is considered something of a coup, a sign that you have ‘made it’ as a photographer. When this happened to me I decided that rather than spending his money I would make the banknotes into a limited edition book. Bound in a gold cover with gold thread, the resulting volume is pokes fun at the capriciousness of photo land.

Self-published 2014. Edition of five with sequentially increasing price, and one artists proof.

 

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The Camera Obscured

Using home made cameras to critique the prevention of photography by security personnel in the City of London and to question the intersections between photography and non-mechanical representation.

Self-published 2012. Soft cover, perfect bound. 114 pages black and white.

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The Memory of History

Examining the concept of history and the re-emergence of difficult narratives of the past in the context of the Euro crisis. More information.

Self-published 2012. Consists of fifty-six  8×5″ inkjet prints along with 12 separate chapters of text, each a short essay dealing with a a different aspect of history, memory and time. Texts and images are designed to be intermixed to create new narratives with each viewing. All contained in a handmade box bound in grey Hessian and designed to look like a book. Limited edition of 27, each one named and corresponding to one of the 27 EU states.

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The Memory of History

Examining the concept of history and the re-emergence of difficult narratives of the past in the context of the European sovereign debt crisis.

Self-published 2012, updated second edition self-published 2014. Hard cover with dust jacket. 120 pages colour on matt paper.

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War Primer 3

An appropriating of an appropriation of Bertolt Brecht’s pacifist classic Kriegsfibel (War Primer). War Primer 3 questions the inequitable economics that span the globe and extend even into the heart of the art world. More information.

Book dummy 2015. Hard cover with embossed spine and screen printed cover.

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Alpha-Beta

A visual dictionary, styled like a child’s alphabet picture book, and designed to explore the meaning and value of photography in a time of it’s unprecedented abundance. More information.

Self-published 2014. Hard cover with dust jacket. 270 pages colour on matt paper.

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Metropole

A composite of dozens of walks through the city of London, exploring it’s changing architecture as metaphor for the economic malaise afflicting the city.

Self-published 2015. Soft cover, 32 pages black and white on matt paper.

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