news JULY 21st.
I’ve made something small, but personal.
A hand-bound photo book — 33 street photographs taken in and around London.
Mostly black and white. Some in colour. All real, all unposed.
Each picture is a moment stolen from the everyday, raw and honest like the streets they came from.
Street photography isn’t just art — it’s a living document. It tells us who we are, how we move, how we exist together in the here and now.
These moments — once gone — are gone forever.
CAPITAL MOMENTUM
As someone who takes a lot of photographs I have that decision to make about which ones I print or even display. I don’t have lots of space to frame and hang photographs all over my house so that’s where the handmade book comes in.
The book is just a way for me to appreciate my own photographs. The idea is to make just one book for myself each time I have a collection of images I’m happy with. Maybe and hopefully displaying them on this site and instagram will help to inspire other photographers to make prints and or books themselves. If you need more inspiration then please check out the work of Paul Treacy, he started this all off for me when I saw his technique for making these books.
I have had a few people say they would like to buy one which is not something I was expecting, so that’s something I’ll have to think about.
I’m making these books as a way to view my own work, something that’s easy to pick up and flick through, I do make prints but I can’t hang every one on my walls as I don’t have the space, so these little books are the next best thing for me.
Everyone should be making prints of their work, why? because it’s the best way to view your photography, it’s a way to see your own work how it should be, a physical print. For me a picture is not photography until it’s physically in the real world as a print. Digital has sadly killed off the print for many people, in general most people just look at photos on their phones. Myself personally I love going to a gallery to look at prints, when I see a photograph in a book or hanging on a wall that’s what really inspires me to be out there with my camera and coming home with pictures that I want to see as a print or in one of these books.
