I like photo books and this weekend has been the Bristol Photobook Festival. Hosted between the Martin Parr Foundation and the Royal Photographic Society, both located at Paintworks.
Paintworks once made paint. Now it’s a gentrified quarter for creatives (dotted with the requisite security cameras).
Bordered by parks that would have been no-go areas when I was a student.
Graffiti no longer seems so threatening.
Upstream factories are replaced by flats and offices.
Downstream, the mudflats of the Avon feels like miles (and not meters) from the city.
The highlight of the festival was a talk by the family, the designer, the curator and the writer talking about Chris Killip’s must buy book and must see exhibition.
If you are in London, do try and go.
If you are in an independent book shop, do buy the book. It’s full of photos by one of the best photographers ever and designed by the very talented Pony Ltd.
I'd not heard of the Photographer's Gallery before, but it looks like the kind of place I would love to visit. Thank you! I also need to return to the great city of Bristol soon, the place where many of my ancestors lived. Thank you!