Coming up for Air + B Sides (Bundle)

Coming up for Air is the result of Stephen Gills long-term photographic body of work made in Japan between 2008 & 2009.

B Sides is a companion book to Coming up to Air

Coming up for Air
Published by Nobody 2010
Handpainted just jacket by Stephen Gill
Cloth bound hardback
98 colour reproductions
106 pages inc 1 gate-fold
Hand painted dust jacket
33cm x 25cm (portrait)

B Sides
Published by Nobody 2010
Cloth bound hardback book
Etchings on cover and endpapers by Stephen Gill
35 colour reproductions
72 pages
33cm x 25cm (portrait)
Printed endpaper etchings by Stephen Gill

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.