| Warming Down Warming Down This new book again features images taken in Hackney Wick and is hopefully (maybe) the last in what was a six year obsession exploring and photographing in and around Hackney Wick with bicycle and camera. This new book features 15 hand c-type prints, letter press and a sun etched lino print, all housed in an ex Hackney Library music score book.
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| A Series of Disappointments These betting slips were discarded in and around many betting shops (71 at the time of publication) in the borough of Hackney in north-east London. The average number of betting shops in other London boroughs is 23. Each of these papers began as hope, were shaped by loss or defeat, then cast aside. These new forms perhaps now possess a state of mind, shaped by nervous tension and grief. After these images were made, little autopsies were performed on the papers to reveal the failed bets held within. If betting shops move into places previously occupied by banks or solicitors, they are classed as financial services and don't have to apply for any special permit. In such numbers, they are beginning to feel like a burden around a borough that is trying to improve itself and the lives of its residents, and to shake off its bad reputation. To exhibit this book, remove the book block from the outer cover, expand the pages and hang from nails or small hooks using the holes provided.
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| European Eyes on Japan / Vol.9 A photo book from the project "European Eyes on Japan" that started in 1999. The series made from present-day images of different prefectures and local cities in Japan under the theme of "contemporary people and the way they live", from the viewpoints of European photographers. Kagoshima prefecture was the subject of the three photographers who comprised the Volume 9 edition. Photographed in 2006 - Mar. 2007 / Stephen Gill - Kagoshima-city and Shibushi-city / Nicu Ilfoveanu - Municipalities in Kagoshima pref / Cuny Janssen - Municipalities in Kagoshima pref Three books in a slip case |
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| Hackney Flowers Stephen Gill has again used his surroundings as the inspiration for this beautiful and evocative series. Hackney Flowers has evolved from his series and book Hackney Wick. This times Gill has collected flowers, seeds, berries and objects from Hackney, East London, that were then pressed in his studio and re-photographed alongside his own photographs and found ephemera, thus building up multi-layered images extracted from the area. Some of the base photographs were also buried in Hackney Wick, allowing the subsequent decay to imprint upon the images, stressing this collaboration with place. A parallel series also runs within this finely produced volume, showing members of the public in Hackney with floral details on their person. This is a warm, poetic and visually exciting book containing images that leave an overwhelming sense of colour, emotion and rhythm extracted from a single borough of London. 65 Colour Illustrations |
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| Archaeology in Reverse ‘Stephen Gill has learnt this: to haunt the places that haunt him. His photo-accumulations demonstrate a tender vision factored out of experience; alert, watchful, not overeager, wary of that mendacious conceit, ‘closure’. There is always flow, momentum, the sense of a man passing through a place that delights him. A sense of stepping down, immediate engagement, politic exchange. Then he remounts the bicycle and away. Loving retrievals, like a letter to a friend, never possession… What I like about Stephen Gill is that he has learnt to give us only as much as we need, the bones of the bones of the bones…’ - Iain Sinclair Continuing to photograph where his award-winning book Hackney Wick left off, Stephen Gill has made Archaeology in Reverse in his cherished area in East London. Still making pictures with the camera he bought at Hackney Wick market for 50p, this time he focuses on things that do not yet exist. This magnificently produced book features traces and clues of things to come in a poetic, sometimes eerie and quiet photographic study of a place in a state of limbo prior to the rapid transformation that this area faces during the build-up to the Olympics in 2012. 104 Colour Illustrations 216mm x 216mm Edition of 3000 / Special Limited Edition of 20 - No longer available directly from this site. Please go to selected bookshops to obtain a copy. Published by Nobody £30 >> order |
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| Anonymous Origami The photographs in this book feature folded toilet paper sourced between 2004 and 2007. They were collected at hotels and B&B’s from different parts of the world including – The UK, France, Spain, Italy, Romania, Netherlands, Germany, Russia, United States, Canada and Japan. Initially I intended to state where each paper is from, but sadly they all got mixed up. With the places they were found, now unknown, the creations stand one step even further away from their anonymous creators. 52pp (Japanese fold soft back) 25 Black and White Illustrations 235 x 178mm Edition of 1000 / Limited Special Edition Published by Nobody £25 / £100 >> order |
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| Buried The photographs in this book were taken in Hackney Wick and later buried there. The amount of time the images were left underground varied depending on the amount of rainfall. The depths that the pictures were buried at also varied, as did their positioning. Sometimes they were facing each other, sometimes back to back or sometimes buried singly. When burying my first batch of photographs, a passing man spotted me and asked what I was doing. Not only did I not want to give the location away of some of my buried pictures, but It just sounded a bit weird to say that I was burying photographs so replied that I was looking for newts. As soon as I'd said that I looked down and saw a newt at my feet. Not knowing what an image would look like once it was dug up introduced an element of chance and surprise which I found appealing. This feeling of letting go and in a way collaborating with place - allowing it also to work on putting the finishing touches to a picture - felt fair. Maybe the spirit of the place can also make its mark. Stephen Gill 32pp / Hardback 35 Colour Illustrations 190 x 135mm Edition of 750 Books with bury your own c-type print and slipcase Published by Nobody £40 >> (Sold Out) |
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| Hackney Wick Hackney Wick sits in east London between the Grand Union Canal, the River Lea and the Eastway A106. I first came across the area at the end of 2002 when I was photographing the back of advertising billboards. Although I had lived in London for nine years and thought I knew East London well, Hackney Wick threw me; it completely changed my mental map of this part of London. My first visit was on a Sunday, to the market which used to take place in the old greyhound/speedway stadium. The vast market was like no other I had seen before. At first glance, apart from few pot plants, most of the items on sale looked like scrap. It was not a market for luxury goods; it seemed to exist for people who were struggling to keep afloat themselves: exhausted white goods, mountains of washing machines and fridges, copper wire and other scrap metals stripped from derelict buildings; piles of old VHS videos which had been forced out of people’s homes to make way for DVDs. That day I bought a plastic camera at the market for 50p; it had a plastic lens with no focus or exposure controls. I started making pictures with it at once. Over the next two years I visited Hackney Wick again and again. Hackney has long provided a refuge for immigrants and asylum seekers from all over the world and for me Hackney Wick especially reflects the great diversity of London. The market closed on 13th July, 2003; it had been going for seven years. According to the Trading Standards inspectors it had been swamped with stolen and counterfeit goods. The remains of the old stadium were demolished weeks after the closure as part of the preparations for London’s bid for the 2012 games. The games which will bring many good things to the area: new transport links and much needed infrastructure. But there will be losses, too. There is another side to Hackney Wick. Away from the noise and chaos nature has somehow managed to find and keep a place for itself. The canals and rivers and secret allotments (known only to their dedicated gardeners) are home to many birds and animals. These hidden paradises have a vibrancy of their own which will soon be muted by the dust that will cover them. 126pp, with 24 page special section / Hardback 116 Colour photographs 216 x 216 mm Published by Nobody £180 >> order |
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| Invisible These photographs show us a paradox: how fluorescent safety-clothing, which is intended to make workers in potentially dangerous occupations conspicuous, can make its wearers invisible. They are the latest series by a photographer with a sustained interest in the way cities work. Here he shows us the invisible people who ensure that London and its suburbs function. It is as if the metropolis is a complicated clock which no one ever sees – or rather notices - being wound up. Mark Haworth-Booth 64 pp, Hardback 30 colour Illustrations 300 x 255 mm Edition of 1000 Published by Nobody £22 >> order |
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| Field Studies Since 1996 Stephen Gill has been making serial studies of mundane British scenes and objects - including cash points, lost people, the back of advertising billboards and people traveling on the London to Southend train. His visual approach is unique, combining conceptual rigour with enormous sympathy for his human subjects, and has already been widely appreciated in Granta and the New York Times Magazine, among others. His first book confirms his status as a key young vision in contemporary photography. With an introductory essay by humorist and TV filmmaker Jon Ronson. 256pp / Hardback 137 Colour Illustrations 220 x 170 mm Published by Chris Boot £24 >> order |
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| Bright, bright day Bright, bright day by Andrey Tarkovsky. A books of Polaroids edited by Stephen Gill Hardback £30 >> order |
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