Summer News 2024

With summer in full swing, we are pleased to bring you our Summer Newsletter, filled with reflections, highlights, and exciting announcements. We've got two pre-orders for you, a new addition to our Self Publisher Spotlight, two exhibitions and a brand new print to keep you entertained through the long summer days.

New Titles

We have two key bodies of work available for you to pre-order now; the revised and remastered edition of Jem Southam's iconic the Red River and a new book of never-before-seen images in Michael Ormerod's American Photographs.

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The Red River

Bolenowe Moor from the Red River by Jem Southam

RRB Photobooks is proud to present this revised edition of Jem Southam's iconic 1989 publication the Red River. The book contains 50 remastered images and revised texts, with a new afterword by Southam.

A hardcover Special Edition of 250 copies is also available, containing a signed and limited 10x8" pigment print of Fortescue Shaft, The Great Flat Lode, Brea, printed by Jem Southam. Each print is signed and numbered in a limited edition of 250.

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American Photographs

From American Photographs by Michael Ormerod

Previously unseen black & white photographs taken in the United States by Michael Ormerod (1947-1991) will form this new book. Ormerod was a British photographer whose life was tragically cut short in August 1991 following a road accident on his last field trip to the US. For the past decade the photographer’s daughter, Ali Ormerod, has worked alongside photographers Geoff Weston and Alan Thoburn to search through his archives of unprinted negatives to revisit the work and bring it to a new audience.

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Exhibitions

We've been lucky enough to publish not one, but two titles to accompany exhibitions at some of the country's leading art spaces; Peter Mitchell's Nothing Lasts Forever and Elaine Constantine's I'm Com'un Home in the Morn'un

I'm Com'un Home in the Morn'un

From I'm Com'un Home in the Morn'un by Elaine Constantine

Constantine’s photographs are testament to the raw energy conjured by these [Northern Soul] records, with the dancers in each frame caught in mid-motion as they jump across the floor. Occasionally, the flash of the camera renders them weightless, as they strike seemingly impossible poses. Flying bodies lie horizontally to the ground, feet stick up in the air, and legs tilt almost all the way back. The atmosphere is one of pure hedonism, with the subjects swirling and sweating away their worries, surrounded by like-minded music lovers..

- Daniel Milroy Maher for Creative Review

I'm Com'un Home in the Morn'un is exhibited at the Martin Parr Foundation, Bristol until 22nd September 2024.

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Join us for a screening of Constantine's feature film Northern Soul at the Royal Photographic Society, Bristol on 3rd September 2024, 6.30pm.

Tickets available here

Can't make the exhibition? Grab your very own copy of I'm Com'un Home today

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Nothing Lasts Forever

The Kitson House Telephone, from Nothing Lasts Forever by Peter Mitchell

We've been absolutely blown away by the response to Peter Mitchell's Nothing Lasts Forever, so many of you have reached out with personal stories related to Peter's pictures and with thoughtful reflections on the exhibition.

'To look at Mitchell’s shots of Leeds’s long-vanished landmarks – as more than 100,000 followers of an Instagram account set up by his publisher have done – is to experience a form of time travel. Though not typically picturesque, Mitchell’s work captures the beauty of the mundane, be it housing estates, red-brick terraced streets or scarecrows. He documents the everyday life of Leeds and its people with an authenticity that underpins his deep affinity to the city.'

- Kadish Morris for The Telegraph

Nothing Lasts Forever is exhibited at Leeds Art Gallery until 6th October 2024.

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Can't make the exhibition? Take home your copy of the Nothing Lasts Forever book, covering all of Mitchell's major projects

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New Print

Our latest in the RRB Editions print series is inspired by the success of Peter Mitchell's Nothing Lasts Forever, featuring one of the last images in his Ghost Train series.

Mitchell's images of Gavan and his Ghost Train are bound with meaning, from memories of youthful fun to the fleeting nature of man and his creations, with the enduring relationship between subject and photographer linking the images through the decades.

This late image of the series shows the Ghost Train long past its former glory, its bright colours dimmed and ghoulish face rusted. Still its caretaker, Gavan, smiles at the camera.

Francis Gavan, Ghost Train Ride, Pottery Fields, Leeds, Spring 2006 -12x12" Pigment Print

Signed and Limited Edition of 100

£125

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Self Publisher Spotlight

We've added a new title to our Self Publisher Spotlight; Georgina Preston's Pursuit! explores the world of legal trail hunting with her distinct fashion-informed aesthetic.

From Pursuit! by Georgina Preston

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