Category: Book
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There’s something quietly soul settling about Simak’s work, a quality that pulls me back to those solitary hours in my Aberdeen flat, sat at my computer, trying to make sense of my own visual chaos. His conceptual approach, one that’s rooted in the ordinary yet elevated by light’s transformative presence, feels uncannily aligned with my…
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The first time I ever felt the visceral, raw energy of a music scene, it was not in some cavernous arena but in the cramped, sticky spaces of a rock club in December, Aberdeen 1993, a few weeks before my 16th birthday in February 1994. I was barely a teenager, but in the sweaty, pulsating…
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As a lad growing up in Aberdeen, the landscape was always a character in my story, a backdrop of grey granite that both cradled and challenged. The North Sea, relentless in its push and pull, and the wild, ancient cairns on the outskirts of the city were my first teachers in impermanence. I find myself…
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Stephanie Pommez’s the Enchanted Ones, published by Kehrer Verlag, is a book about the profound meditation on the Ribeirinho community in the Amazon, resonates with the raw, quiet strength I see in so many families as they navigate their unique worlds with a mix of pride and challenge. The resilience documented in this work is…
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As a 40 something dad running this site and working full time, I find that a good photobook can often resonate in a way I didn’t expect, cutting through the daily chaos of my life and speaking to a deeper truth. Joseph-Philippe Bevillard’s Mincéirs, published by Skeleton Key Press, is one of those books. With…
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As a parent of three children, each with their own unique challenges, my daughter navigating university, my middle son with Tourette’s syndrome and severe autism, and my youngest with ADHD and autism, Kirsten Lewis’s Unsupervised resonates deeply with me. The book’s raw, unfiltered depiction of family life mirrors the chaotic, beautiful mess of my own…
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As a cybersecurity expert who has spent twenty years decoding the digital world, a photographer capturing life’s fleeting moments, and a former comic book creator weaving stories through words and art, I have always been fascinated by the interplay of technology and creativity. This is perhaps, why Andreas Müller-Pohle’s Niépce Recoded speaks directly to my…
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The photographs in Nikolay Bakharev’s Cheryomushki, published by Stanley/Barker, arrived on my desk at a time when I was finding myself lingering in moments of quiet contemplation, often reflecting on the journey from my own rebellious youth to the settled comfort of family life. Bakharev’s work, capturing unguarded moments of people in Soviet Siberia in…
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Dana Stirling’s Why Am I Sad, published by Kehrer Verlag, arrived on my desk at a time when I was grappling with my own photographic explorations into the unspoken corners of human emotion. Her work, a deeply personal exploration of depression and identity through a meticulous lens, hit me with a profound resonance, not because…
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“Ensnaring the Moment”, the title itself hums with a resonance that speaks to the very heart of what draws me to both poetry and photography. I imagine it delves deep into that intangible space where a single frame or a perfectly chosen word can crystallise an entire universe, much like how a scent can instantly…