Anna et Salomé by Adrià Cañameras

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64 pages, 210 x 255mm
Softcover, section sewn
First edition of 500
Printed in Iceland
Published by Lawson's Books
Cover painting by Michael Docherty

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Released today by emerging Scottish publisher Lawson's Books, Anna et Salomé is a new body of work from Barcelona-based photographer Adrià Cañameras. Having previously issued Par Hasard, a 24-page monotone offset zine as part of Fibra's Sr. Dalton series, this title offered him the opportunity to explore a singular theme in more detail. Section sewn in a first edition of 500, with a cover produced in acrylic paint by seasoned artist Michael Docherty, the book's central focus is the Mediterranean. Developed from a personal project which allowed Cañameras to reflect on the environment he grew up around, the images were captured in various locations along the Costa Brava in Spain and on the French island of Corsica. Shot between June 2012 and March 2013 and described by the publisher as "part survey, part celebration and part meditation," Anna et Salomé functions on abstract and geological levels alike, representing an incredibly mature body of work that belies the photographer's years.

—Available from Lawson's Books
—Adrià Cañameras

Roger Ackling at Ingleby Gallery

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—01. Installation view.
—02. Voewood, sunlight on wood.

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I was introduced to both this exhibition and artist by friend of Inventory Christophe Docherty, who is one half of the excellent Lawson Books imprint out of Edinburgh. The work of Roger Ackling is both striking and simplistic, and for the last 35 years the artist has produced all of his work using the same method: focussing sunlight through a handheld magnifying glass to burn and mark discarded pieces of wood and scraps of card. As the gallery website puts it best: "The resulting works have a weight and strength and sombre stillness which belies their often small scale and everyday origins. They have the power to transform the environment that they inhabit: making quiet interventions that subtly alter the space around them. Ackling’s work urges a renewed awareness of the small, the silent, the marginal, the overlooked."

—Roger Ackling at Ingleby Gallery
—Lawson's Books

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