Please note: The above layout is for the web only. See the trailer below for the layout of the printed book.

“What a poem this is, what poems can be written about this book of pictures some day by some young new writer high by candlelight bending over them describing every gray mysterious detail, the gray film that caught the actual pink juice of human kind. “
- From the  introduction by Elisabeth Tonnard.

Less Américains is a remake of Robert Frank’s classic photobook, The Americans. Eighty-three new images have been created by digitally erasing most of the visual content from Frank’s photographs, leaving only solitary details from the originals. The sequencing remains faithful to Frank’s 2008 Steidl edition of the book whilst the design of the covers and title pages are influenced by the first Delpire edition printed in France in 1958.

Publish Date: January 12, 2012 | Dimensions: 8×10 inches (20×25 cm) | 178 pgs | Order here

Cost: £80 + shipping

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Défilé

Enterrement

La Nouvelle-Orléans

Paravent

Ascenseur

Exploring the margins of our urban and rural European environment as experienced by what appear to be women soliciting sex, all captured by Google Street View cameras. Locations were sourced from online communities where men share information on the whereabouts of sex workers.

The Street View project heralds a new age of street-level cartography that offers a vast, regularly updated archive waiting to be mined by documentarians seeking to make sense of our contemporary condition. Significantly, it combines three key features of our age: The dominance of the car and the road, the availability of the internet and its search engines, and the ubiquity of cameras and surveillance technologies.

Publish Date: January 20, 2012 | Dimensions: 8×10 inches (20×25 cm) | Colour, 120 pgs | Order here.

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Carretera de Fortuna, Murcia, Spain

Camino de San Antonio, Castellon de la Plana, Spain

Carretera de Rubi, Terrassa, Spain

Camí del Caminàs, Nules, Spain

Via del Ponte Pisano, Rome, Italy

Twelve 506 page volumes printed-on-demand, representing a scale model of our solar system from the Sun to Pluto. 5.5″ x 8.5″ volumes, perfect bound, white interior paper (50# weight), black and white interior ink, white exterior paper (100# weight).

An index sheet can be downloaded from here.

The set is an open edition with each set printed for each buyer. Order Astronomical here.

£120 + shipping.

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The width of each page represents one million kilometres

The Sun, pages 1-2, Volume 1

Earth, page 155, Volume 1

Jupiter, page 283, Volume 2

Exploring the margins of our urban and rural European environment as experienced by what appear to be women soliciting sex, all captured by Google Street View cameras. Locations were sourced from online communities where men share information on the whereabouts of sex workers.

The Street View project heralds a new age of street-level cartography that offers a vast, regularly updated archive waiting to be mined by documentarians seeking to make sense of our contemporary condition. Significantly, it combines three key features of our age: The dominance of the car and the road, the availability of the internet and its search engines, and the ubiquity of cameras and surveillance technologies.

Included in From Here On at Les Rencontres d’Arles 2011.

Publish Date: April 22, 2011 | Dimensions: 8×10 inches (20×25 cm) | Colour, 120 pgs | Order here.

Looped DVD projection, 6:48 mins.

Fifteen official portraits of US politicians altered using an online makeover site.

Publish Date: September 13, 2011 | Dimensions: 6×9 inches (15×23 cm) | Colour, 34 pgs | Order here

(FL20)

(NJ7)

(NC1)

(NC2)

(CA27)

(MA1)

September 11, 2011. Music Room, Frick Collection, New York

An exhibition of modern atrocity produced by installing degraded JPEGs representing the Age of Terror (2001-2011) into museums and galleries included in the Google Art Project.

WTC on fire. Room 32, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

WTC on fire. Room 32, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid (detail)

Tribute in lights. Room 36, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Hijackers, Terrorists and Al Qaeda Leaders. Room 5a, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Hijackers, Terrorists and Al Qaeda Leaders. Room 5a, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (detail)

Shock and Awe. Italian Odyssey Room, Tate Britain, London

Shock and Awe. Italian Odyssey Room, Tate Britain, London (detail)

Abu Ghraib Prison. West Gallery, Frick Collection, New York

Abu Ghraib Prison. North Corridor, Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian, Washington DC

Rendition flight. Room 12, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib. Room 9, National Gallery, London

Al Qaeda Flags. Lobby, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

The President and deceased US soldiers. Room 197, The State Hermitage Museum, Moscow

Predator Drone. Room 12a, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Nafura oil & gas facility (29°14’24″N, 21°33’28″E)

As in Afghanistan and in Iraq before it, control over Libyan resources is vital to quenching the West’s thirst for oil and to preserving its economic power. With oil consumption also fuelling the rapid industrial growth of Brazil, India and China, the stakes for controlling production and distribution of this finite resource have never been higher.

As Africa’s largest exporter, Libya’s state-owned National Oil Corporation licenses areas of its vast desert and Mediterranean territory to foreign oil companies for exploration and drilling purposes. Using satellite imagery available to all, we can envision the focus of political and military strategists on the seductive yet cryptic appearance of the oil fields themselves.

Haram oil field (28°50’0″N, 18°50’35″E)

Al Kotlah oil field (28°36’10″N, 18°54’46″E)

Masrab oil field (28°28’32″N, 21°49’27″E)

Zelten oil field (28°55’9″N, 19°46’34″E)

Abu Alwan oil field (28°33’46″N, 18°43’8″E)

Sarir oil field (27°39’10″N, 22°29’52″E)

Amal oil field (29°10’54″N, 21°26’5″E)

Sabah oil field (28°13’31″N, 18° 7’1″E)

Attahaddi oil field (29°34’55″N, 19°38’2″E)

Jebel oil field (28°37’55″N, 19°53’11″E)

Gazeil oil field (29°53’33″N, 10°26’54″E)

Kalanshiyu oil field (28° 9’53″N, 21°14’10″E)

Al Kuf oil field (28°23’0″N, 18°43’49″E)

F-NC 100 oil field (31°38’0″N, 10°39’31″E)

Abu Attiffel oil field (28°49’49″N, 22° 7’2″E)

Emgayet oil field (29°31’43″N, 12°57’38″E)

Aswad oil field (28°34’51″N, 17°19’51″E)

Cosmodrome is a poetic exploration of humanity’s first steps in space set against the rise of an empire as it evolves from rural agricultural to industrial to technological might.

Produced in collaboration with David Oates and commissioned in 2011 by Gagarin50 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s inaugural spaceflight and his visit to Manchester in 1961.

When Google introduced its free satellite imagery service to the world in 2005, views of our planet only previously accessible to astronauts and surveyors were suddenly available to anyone with an internet connection. Yet the vistas revealed by this technology were not universally embraced.

Governments concerned about the sudden visibility of political, economic and military locations exerted considerable influence on suppliers of this imagery to censor sites deemed vital to national security. This form of censorship continues today and techniques vary from country to country with preferred methods generally including use of cloning, blurring, pixelization, and whitening out sites of interest.

Surprisingly, one of the most vociferous of all governments to enforce this form of censorship were the Dutch, hiding hundreds of significant sites including royal palaces, fuel depots and army barracks throughout their relatively small country. The Dutch method of censorship is notable for its stylistic intervention compared to other countries; imposing bold, multi-coloured polygons over sites rather than the subtler and more standard techniques employed in other countries. The result is a landscape occasionally punctuated by sharp aesthetic contrasts between secret sites and the rural and urban environments surrounding them.

In this series, these interventions are presented alongside physical alterations made to the Dutch landscape through a vast land reclamation project that began in the 16th Century and is ongoing. A third of the Netherlands lies below sea level and the dunes, dykes, pumps, and drainage networks engineered over hundreds of years have dramatically shaped the country’s landscape, providing it with huge swathes of arable land that would otherwise be submerged.

Seen from the distant gaze of Earth’s orbiting satellites, the result is a landscape unlike any other; one in which polygons recently imposed on the landscape to protect the country from an imagined human menace bear more than a passing resemblance to a physical landscape designed to combat a very real and constant natural threat.

Included in From Here On at Les Rencontres d’Arles 2011.

Publish Date: April 10, 2011| Dimensions: 8×10 inches (20×25 cm) | Colour, 106 pgs | Order here

Images for Circulation:

Leeuwarden Air Force Base Antennas

NATO Storage Annex, Coevorden

Frederikkazerne, The Hague

NATO pipeline station, Stokkum

Noordwijk aan Zee

St Haagsche Schoolvereeniging, The Hague

Willem Lodewijk van Nassau Kazerne

Mauritskazerne, Ede

National Park Lauwersmeer