Coming up for Air

Coming up for Air
2008-2009
Photographs by Stephen Gill
Words by Stephen Gil
Edited and sequenced by Stephen Gill
Design by Melanie Mues
Published by Nobody
98 colour photographs
106 pages incl. 1 gatefold
250 x 330 mm
Printed on Symbol Tatami White, 150 gsm
Hand-painted dust jacket clothbound hardback
Printed at Die Keure, Bruges, Belgium
Edition of 4500 Published in 2010
ISBN 978-0-9556577-2-6
Published by Nobody
98 colour photographs
106 pages incl. 1 gatefold
250 x 330 mm
Printed on Symbol Tatami White, 150 gsm
Hand-painted dust jacket clothbound hardback
Printed at Die Keure, Bruges, Belgium
Edition of 4500
Published in 2010
ISBN 978-0-9556577-2-6

Coming up for Air is the result of a long-term photographic body of work made in Japan between 2008 & 2009 over the course of three visits to the country. Though the images were made in Japan they are not essentially about Japan and are more of a reaction to my life in London at the time.  Unlike the other more descriptive photographic series I had made, this time the information in the images has been starved or almost in some cases completely denied, like muffled sounds when swimming beneath water. A fictional aquatic world as if viewed from the other side of an aquarium looking outwards. The series is more of a reaction to the modern world rather than an attempted description of it.