A morning, a walk, a workshop.
The photo essay is the primary editorial form of the archive. A single visit, written and photographed as one document - photographs and prose woven together as a single piece of thinking, not photographs above prose. The form descends from W. Eugene Smith’s Country Doctor, John Berger and Jean Mohr’s A Fortunate Man, and W. G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn. Each piece below stays in that lineage.
A Morning at Cardozo Kindersley
A workshop, a pencil, the inheritance of a 20th-century English craft
Four hours at the Cardozo Kindersley Workshop in Cambridge with Lida, Roxanne, Vincent and Hallam, and the letterer Emily.
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A Walk Through Long Melford with Julie and Melonie
Four hours through the village with the historian and the rememberer
A walking essay through a Suffolk wool village in the Sebald register, with the two LMHAS members who carry its public and lived record.
A Morning at Dennett Boat Builders
A working morning at Laleham, three generations visibly forming
A working morning at Dennett Boat Builders in Chertsey with Stephen and his 83-year-old father Michael. A yard that trains the apprentices no one else will take.