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Across the Cut: When Krass Clement came to Bristol

by Rudi Thoemmes I had been warned that getting Krass Clement to Photobook Bristol would be difficult. It was. It took dozens of emails over several months of delicate negotiations and plotting w...

Errata Editions - A Little Appreciation

With our recent acquisition of an original copy of Keld Helmer-Petersen's 122 Colour Photographs from 1948, this piece which Rudi wrote back in January is all the more pertinent. Rare and historica...

John Myers 'Blogella' Series - The Bed, 1976

The bed looks like a tomb. Why photograph a bed? There's nothing happening. The Bed, 1976 is the final image in John Myer's upcoming title, Looking at the Overlooked. Each copy of the book wil...

Guest Blog: Ian Jeffrey - Middle England Revisited

On the eve of Photo London, Ian Jeffrey has very kindly given us permission to publish in full this wonderful piece he wrote about John's work for the occasion of his exhibition at Ikon in Birmingh...

John Myers 'Blogella' Series - Giraffe, 1973

The photograph 'giraffe' was taken at Dudley Zoo in March 1973. It was cold in the giraffe house and whilst the radiators, set high on the wall of the enclosure, may have offered some warmth at bod...

John Myers 'Blogella' Series - Slow Photography

Two children at Debbie’s birthday party, 1973 I took my photographs in silence... I never worked with anyone else in the room - no distractions. The process wasn't about talking - or putti...

John Myers 'Blogella' Series - Mr and Mrs Seabourne, 1973

When I saw the hand; I knew that was the photograph. I took this photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Seabourne at their house in Stourbridge in 1973. I met them when I gave a talk at the local photographi...

Giraffes and Scarecrows

As with most things RRB do, it started with Peter Mitchell. Our first photobook, back in 2015, was Peter’s “Some Thing means Everything to Somebody” (it was meant to be our only book, but that’s a...

An Interview with Martin Amis

Martin Amis is best known as the force behind the UK's biggest photobook retailer, photobookstore.co.uk, but he's also a photographer. RRB is publishing his first book, The Gamblers, in April. We s...

Guest Blog: Pete James on John Myers

John Myers - The Portraits Between 1972 and 1979, John Myers humped a 5 x 4 Gandolfi plate camera around the terra incognita that was Stourbridge, the suburban Midlands town which became his home a...