Inis Meáin 1973-2023Chris Rodmell presents Inis Mein 1973 2023. Photographing 50 years apart, the book chronicles the culture and way of life on the island and how it has changed in half a century. The second largest of the Aran Islands, Inis Mein is situated across the mouth of Galway Bay on the West coast of Ireland. When Chris Rodmell arrived in 1973 the island was eagerly anticipating the arrival of electricity, the population of just over 300 people taken up with

on the other hand

By the early twentieth century it had moved into schools

Each print is signed and dated to the verso

Cowboys and Jokers is the opening chapter of Jon Nicholson's long term project on the UK's banger racing scene

The book is presented as a small format Hardcover with dustjacket

If everybody is super-sequins

This intent results in pictures that transcend the purely documentary and enter a space where the influence of mythological

the he was the recipient of a Lucie Award for Achievement in Documentary

but which in the book gradually acquires an unreal and fluid meaning

shot at the now demolished Chelsea Reach disco pub in New Brighton in the early 1980s

and the urbanisation of village life

In the 1960s and 1970s