SIX TEN

SIX TEN

日本語 /  Six Ten is a series of photographs taken by the author during her stay at the Cité Radieuse in Marseille, France.

 48 pg, 13.5 x 18 cm, b/w risograph, staple bound
23.5 x 34.5 cm insert, b/w risograph, folded
numbered edition of 50, 2013.

My booklet is now available to order from Booklet Press - here.

SIX TEN

Excited to show these photos of my booklet SIX TEN in the process of being printed at Booklet press.
It will be available to order from their website at the end of next week.

Kate & Andy's home, London

THE AALTO HOUSE

I've made a little book of photos taken in Alvar Aalto's House in Helsinki.
If anyone is interested in a copy, it's available here.

It's a 32 page square format soft covered book, printed on heavy archival-quality (148 GSM) uncoated matt paper.

the hare with amber eyes

This is one of those books you read as slowly as possible in the hope that it won't come to an end.
Edmund de Waal's book is a biography of things as much as of people, specifically a collection of minature Japanese sculptures - netsuke.

We're off on a much needed break away to the wilds of the Catalunya coast this weekend.

lumière

We gave F's grandfather's Lumière twin lens from the 50s, an overhaul. I like the fact that his grandfather decided on a French camera. Perhaps back then it was a popular camera to have.
After some ok results from a test roll, on va sortir avec lui quelque part.

image de la semaine

Monade, based in Marseille, is a project entitled 'Image de la Semaine'. They've recently put together a book of 200 weeks of images - exhibited by faberNovel in Paris last week.
My image is on the left - week 69.

Have a look at the other 199 - there are some beauts.

le pain quotidien

Recently I was given a book called 'Good Bread is Back' (Le Retour du Bon Pain) by Steven Laurence Kaplan. It's a history of French bread and is completely fascinating. My current bread obsession is being satisfied by our local Saturday morning organic market - Le Marché des Arceaux and by one stall in particular. Reading this book I've discovered that all French bread was originally sour bread or le pain au levain. This bread is making a comeback with the return to traditional organic practices. It's a denser bread full of taste and goodness, which keeps fresh longer than bread made from brewers yeast.

The above bread is made by a local man who sells his loaves to a long line of faithful devotees. It takes quite some stamina to get this bread as he chats to each customer with his twinkling charm. He's a man very happy in his work. Each loaf is a different size and shape and is all traditional pain au levain.

the sweet flypaper of life

Yesterday after I heard that the New York photographer Roy DeCarava had died aged 89, I hunted out my book of his photographs from his retrospective at the The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Looking through the book reminded me the way his images captured so much grace and poetry. He was trained as a painter and printmaker but became known for his photography of African-American Harlem in the 1950s.