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A new book - Travelogue 1
Like many photographers my commercial practice has taken a big hit since last March but I’m happy to say the new 3rd edition of ‘The Last Stand’ has kept me afloat in these difficult times and I have been working hard on two new books for you.
I have spent the last 6 weeks working on something different for you, the first of a series of small format Travelogue books. ‘Travelogue 1’ contains 31 of the photographs I have made whilst travelling throughout Eastern Europe and some of the former Soviet republics between 2015 and 2020.
This book is a small breath, between self-publishing (and now reprinting) the 3rd edition of The Last Stand and the production of the work I have been making for the last 6 years, ‘A wounded landscape - bearing witness to the Holocaust’.
It is also the first book that I have designed myself, with design consultation from Rob Shaw, whom designed the 3rd edition of The Last Stand, so I’ve thrown myself headfirst into InDesign. I’ve loved the experience and might well repeat it in future smaller books like this.
This book is now available to order from £16 through the Book and print sales link above and is the second book from two&two press, set up earlier this year by myself and my wife, Anna.
Available in standard and signed copies, as well as a special edition with a signed 10x8 inch print from the book.
56 pages / 148 x 210mm
31 photographs
Winter & Co. case bound hardcover & endpapers
Sewn binding
Published by two&two press.
ISBN: 978-1-8380236-1-4
A short story (taken from the book)
The territory of the Autonomous territorial unit Transnistria, Friday April 13th, 2018
I crossed over the bridge, through the checkpoint and into the territory.
Alongside my fixer in his car, camera in its old faded Domke black bag at my feet.
Of course they asked.
We told them, showed them.
They gave strict instructions.
Where we could not go.
What we could not photograph.
What we could not do.
How long we could not stay for.
My contact at the embassy in Moldova had said whatever you do don’t get into trouble there. We can’t help you. No one can.
Three hours later I was drunk, but not in trouble. Yet.
Sat in a lean-to with Sergey, sharing soup, pie, cake and wine.
Lots of wine.
Homemade wine.
We had asked him for directions in the small village and instead he was the story I was looking for.
His grandfather’s story.
The village’s story.
A story repeated in village after village, to family after family during the war.
Still feeling a bit drunk my fixer drove us to the next town.
After Andy’s Pizza I worked more.
She passed in front of me in her pink slippers, looking at me, at my camera.
Five minutes later the police were waiting.
A drive around the corner. Stone corridor. Open metal door. A prisoner. Passed out.
In the Police Inspector’s office.
Questions in Russian.
What, why? Who are you? What, Why?
My small black box of prints.
They told the story of what, why.
Go, we were told.
Leave, I was told.
Now.
Back over the bridge.
Past the checkpoint. That bend in the road.
‘A wounded landscape - bearing witness to the Holocaust’
My 6 year project is almost now complete with the book currently in design with Wayne Ford (I am also working with an illustrator, cartographers, copy editor and language advisor) and it is due for publication next April. It is going to be a big book in terms of page numbers but this is what the 22 stories of survivors and victims need. A number of the people in the book have passed away over these last 2 years. I feel these losses keenly, which has increased the urgency to complete and release the book.
The Last Stand 3rd edition reprint
And finally, there are less than 100 copies left of the 1000 printed of the 3rd edition of The Last Stand. I am really excited by the response to this new edition and a reprint of a further 1000 copies is already under way and available to order here.
Thank you for reading this far and the continued support of my work that you show me. Without you as my audience the work means nothing and would not be possible to make, especially in these strange times we are living through.
Best wishes,
Marc
About me
I am a photographer now based in Bath, UK.
I work on long term documentary projects, telling stories of memory and history in the landscape.
You can find all my projects and books from the menu links above.
Support my work
You can help support my continued practice through buying books and prints and please feel free to share this far and wide and I look forward to speaking with you all again in early February, with some very exciting news about my 6 year project.
