Hands. Thresholds.
The colour of English light.
Where the photo essays document a single visit, the thematic essays draw across many - across subjects, regions, and seasons - to think through a question or motif. They are the pieces that travel: from this archive into Granta, Aeon, the LRB, the FT Weekend. The form descends from John Berger and Jean Mohr’s Another Way of Telling - the meaning of a photograph as something that emerges between the photograph, the words around it, and the photographs next to it.
In production
Hands
On what hands tell us about a life of work
A thematic photo essay drawing across Paul Kemp, Lida and Roxanne Kindersley, Vincent and Hallam Kindersley, Emily, Stephen and Michael Dennett. The frames are each from their respective subject visits; the meditation is what hands tell us about a working life - the calluses, the holds, the gestures that survive the person. ~2,000 words, 20-25 frames, in the Berger and Sebald register.
Expected: May 2026
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