You can buy my books! For my books published by Bloomsbury Press, please see their site:
Art and the Historical Film: Between Realism and the Sublime
My other books are published by small presses or by me; they are a testament to my unwavering passion for writing. These literary gems have been carefully crafted to captivate the minds of readers like you. But here’s the catch – most of them are published in limited editions of just ten copies. Once they are gone, they are gone forever, like shooting stars disappearing into the night sky. However, fear not! Here I can offer you three of my best works, three enduring works of art, infused with my fervor and creativity, and they are available to be cherished by discerning book lovers like yourself .
Tarkovsky’s River – the first print run from Parallel Project sold out, but I have republished it on Blurb and you can order it here
Tarkovsky’s River is a journey on a real river, to a real place. But it’s also a journey through light and time, mediated by my ability or inability to capture images, or to make sense of the images that have been captured. It is a meditation on history, and on Tarkovsky’s sense of history seen through his films. It is a meditation on memory and what it means to remember, where memories come from and what they become.
History is always in the present. It exists in the present while it depicts the past, through a collection of memories, real memories conveyed directly yet filtered through human experience; recorded memories, edited and redacted; and particular fragmented memories echoed in speech or sounds, or found in physical traces of buildings, artefacts, marks on the landscape.
Tarkovsky offers us versions of history in his films, he shows us the Second World War and medieval Russia. He knows very well what these times mean. He has been taught in school, read books, listened to conversations. He even recalls the War, albeit from the perspective of childhood. His Andrey Rublev is as much about exploring the memory of religion in an atheist world; Ivan’s Childhood and Mirror explore memories of war, made after the official story of heroism has been written and imprinted.
Tarkovsky’s River was shot at a particular period in history, the post Soviet period of the early 2000s. It bears within it the traces of that era, and my own relationship to that specific time. The sense of stasis, of things falling down and being left there, the relative unimportance of the rural world to the new order, are all present in the photographs. My own wonder at, and unfamiliarity with, the traces of the Soviet past, and the consciousness of the hardship that this beautiful land imposes, are all here.
Twixt – the first print run from Nant Studios Press sold out, but I have republished it on Blurb and you can order it here
Collected critical writings culled from a range of published journals and magazines, together with black and white photography. Published by Nant Studios, Nant; Pantybwlch. Newcastle Emlyn, Carmarthenshire Wales
Anatomies of Space is my first photobook and the only one that is still available. This is a book of photographic series characterized by their examination of space. You can order it here.
THE ART TRAVELLER 
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