Empire: A Journey to the Remote Edges of the British Empire - Couverture rigide

Tonks, Jon

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1907893490 ISBN 13 : 9781907893490

Editeur : Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2014

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Jon Tonks spent up to a month at a time in each territory, travelling 60,000 miles around the Atlantic via military outposts, low-lit airstrips and a long voyage aboard the last working Royal Mail Ship. Some 400 rolls of film, 24 flights and 32 days at sea later, the resulting work creates an insight into these distant places that resonate with a sense of Britishness which is remarkably recognisable yet inescapably strange. Tonks has photographed the people, the landscapes and the traces of the past embedded within each territory and through short texts, which combine history and anecdote, he tells the story of these remote and remarkable islands. His motivation is neither political or nostalgic, the images arising primarily from his curiosity about the lives of these distant lands that remain very firmly British.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Born in the West Midlands in 1981, Jon Tonks studied product design before becoming a staff photographer on a local newspaper. He moved to London to take a master's degree in Photojournalism & Documentary Photography at London College of Communication, and it was during his studies that he undertook a trip to Ascension Island which was to launch the 'Empire' project. Winner of an AOP award, Tonks has been published widely in the UK national press and his work is in a number of private collections. 'Empire' is his first book.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Dewi Lewis Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1907893490
• ISBN 13: 9781907893490
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 188