John Spinks - The New Village

1st edition published by Bemojake, 2017
Format: Hardback, 300x240mm
Pages: 88
Condition: Very Good

For over 15 years, John Spinks has been photographing the small mining village in North Warwickshire where he spent his childhood. He left the village aged 18 to pursue the study of photography, and in 2000, began the process of engaging with his past through his work. Spinks' large format colour photographs are both sober and beautiful, suggesting the possibility of an uncanny hidden narrative in both the landscape and its inhabitants. The photographs are a melancholic meditation on the themes of belonging and identity, the images somehow familiar yet oddly unsettling.