OUT OF PLACE BOOKS
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We make beautifully designed and affordable photobooks about places
Out of Place is a platform developed to promote photography as a way of exploring and learning about places. We focus on publishing photobooks and we are committed to developing community and educational programs.
We are interested in exploring ideas about place; how we understand and experience our environments and how we define them. Photography lends itself to such a task because in one way or another you have to experience the thing you want to photograph, you have to be there. This is a key concept behind documentary style photography and is one of the reasons why we sometimes believe in photographs.
This, coupled with the cameras knack for seemingly objective reproduction of even the most incidental details, can give photographs a certain amount of authenticity. We want to use photography as a way of learning about our environments and we see these elements of the photographic process as essential to achieving that. The camera offers an opportunity to explore and develop a physical dialogue with a place and the photographs can serve as record of that experience. We are not just interested in objective studies of places, we are interested in providing a platform for individual explorations and interpretations of place.
We believe that the best way to communicate these ideas about place is through the photobook. The physical qualities of the book help refine and communicate ideas but the book is also something permanent. Unlike exhibitions in galleries and museums it can be kept, shared, exist in many places at once and be rediscovered in years to come.
Hanley Carparks by Daniel Lyttleton
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by Daniel Lyttleton
190mm x 270mm
64 pages / Perfect Bound
130gsm Silk
175gsm Factory Yellow Colorplan Cover
£15.00
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PRE-ORDER
“There is a significant amount of anecdotal evidence, opinion and speculation over the relationship between car parking provision and town centre prosperity” - The British Parking AssociationTicket machines sprout from every orifice of the town like weeds in a neglected garden once fit for purpose. Relentless appropriation of public land that is privatised and profited from for people who live elsewhere. The occasional splash of yellow amongst the greyness of everything else. I marvel at the calamity of it all. The complete commodification of time and space. £2.50 for 12 hours of what?
06 02 23 04:17 by Nahwand Jaff
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200 x 263mm / 60pp Perfect bound stapled sections + 12pp Booklet
Swiss-bound / Claret colorplan cover with pocket
2x Digital Xerox sections / Munken Pure Rough 120gsm
1x Risograph section / White ink on Black Wibalin 120gsm
140x 210mm stapled booklet / 120gsm Eco Kraft Buff.
Includes images, a text by Mashuq Kurt and a detailed index by the photographer
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The photos in this book were made between February 16th and 27th, 2023, across a journey from Kayseri to Adana, Adiyaman (Semsûr), Gaziantep (Dîlok/Eyntab), and Hatay
'As we crossed the valleys by 4x4 into the affected areas, we were in disbelief of the changing landscape. Often arriving at night, we were met with cities in a state of emergency, barren buildings and streets almost completely devoid of any light. Our time was filled with locating supplies from neighbouring areas due to the emptied markets as displaced residents waited for the state’s intervention. The despair and anger could be felt by survivors, volunteers and local political parties as we moved between cities.'
Under all of this, there are rivers and swamps by Chris Neophytou
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172mm x 250mm / Staple binding
44 pages / Uncoated 120gsm
Colorplan Dark Gray 270gsm Cover
Out of Place Books 2023
OOP30 / Edition of 100
£10.00
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Queensland is a state situated in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous of the Australian states. Queensland is the world's sixth-largest sub-national entity; it is larger than all but 15 countries.
Due to its size, Queensland's geographical features and climates are diverse, including tropical rainforests, rivers, coral reefs, mountain ranges and sandy beaches in its tropical and sub-tropical coastal regions, as well as deserts and savanna in the semi-arid and desert climatic regions of its interior.
Queensland was one of the largest regions of pre-colonial Aboriginal population in Australia. Aboriginal settlement in Queensland is thought to predate 50,000 BC and incorporated more than 90 different language groups.
The series of photographs was made on a first visit to Australia. Travelling through Queensland, from the ocean, through city and hinterland. 'It’s all an illusion' he said 'Under all of this there are rivers and swamps'
Education
We believe the best way to learn about a place is to explore it. In a technology driven world that is becoming increasingly virtual we think that direct experience with the environment around you is important. Photography has long been a way of documenting the world and learning about it and we see the camera as a tool to help explore your environment, to help you look at it more closely. One thing that makes photography unique is that you have to confront reality when making the picture, you have to be there.At out of place we aim to facilitate individuals and groups to explore, interact, and learn about their environment with photography. It is an opportunity for people to share their own observations about their own environment and raise awareness for issues important to them. Along the way participants develop practical skills in creative photography and new ways of seeing.We believe the photobook has many strengths. Unlike exhibitions, they are physical objects that can be held and can be rediscovered in years to come. Books can act like a dialogue from one place to another, a way of passing on ideas far and wide, but also they are a democratic form of art where there is not just one original and many people can have a copy.As part of our commitment to education, we provide talks and lectures on photography and photobooks. The photobook is an incredibly important and active part of creative photography. In our talks we look at the photobook from a historical point of view, offering a slightly different approach to traditional histories of photography, but also we look at their cultural impact and how they fit into present-day uses of photography including social media and digital platforms for photography.Stay in touch
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