The meme of lost things featuring shopping trolleys, the lone glove, a doll face-down in some damp, the occasional shoe hooked into some overhead cables or tree, all have become part of the landscape of modern documentary photography. Are we a careless society? Do these things have little meaning for us as posessions? Why are there so damn many of them lying around, discarded?
Reporting a lost hat to a train guard in Thornaby caused unsettled astonishment. Hat was retrieved two weeks later at Middlesbrough railway station, but it seemed like a very old fashioned thing to be doing, looking for a lost hat: a preoccupation from another time long ago and far away. Today we’re expected to just let these things go on their way.
Sarah Cole has just published a book, Lost (G)loves and Smitten Mittens, using Blurb, the publisher used for the short run of commissioned memorial books created early in the year. And Sara’s book now has a Facebook Group.
We’re still seeking a publisher who does a small flip-type book for the Strandhill pictures, something like 4 or 5 inches square. Please let us know if you see anything remotely like that. Last year’s review of self-publishers is here.
In the meantime, Dave Wild has a new book, and about to put the price up allegedly, so be quick! There are two new hefty-ish publications in the pipeline due here that will both be ready by the end of May via My Publisher. And now please enjoy this:
Via the overstuffed email inbox: apologies to everyone still awaiting a reply.
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I enjoyed that video – very nicely done :)
I’m not seriously going to put the price up by the way – it’ll stay at the lowest price you can set on Blurb. That book was really aimed at a small audience of friends and contacts who seemed to like some of the stuff I had the most fun doing. I never really intended it to be a money making venture. I was surprised how many people actually wanted a copy of it though – really surprised.
It was a fun experience putting it together and I’ll definitely do it again in future – very differently though – I don’t know how yet – but it would have to be completely different from this one.
Cheers for the mention as well!
Maybe we could swop one? I’m serious about the credit card palaver. You might like one of the new ones, but they’re big, and I’m going with Blurb again for a few more 7×7s. An interesting and useful experience.
Swapping one is a great idea.
If you send me an email with where you’d like it sent (and if you prefer hard or softback) – I’ll sort that out.
Good luck with the big square one :)
Ace, thank you. :)