Not the usual bog-standard blog post | June 2022

June news, events and inspiration from the RRB Photobooks community!

Guest post: Besides Press

Georgina MacMillan interviews Chris Hoare on his making of Keywork during the UK lockdowns of 2020 This week RRB Photobooks are collaborating with our friends at Besides Press and sharing each oth...

Not the usual bog-standard blog post

A brief update on some of the news and events from us and the RRB community. 

Anecdote and Hindsight | John Myers - The Guide

‘The Guide’ is the first publication that allows space for his own writing. The prose woven throughout the book provides a curious mix of anecdote and hindsight. Rather than tell the viewer what th...

John Myers's Early Sunday Morning

With just three weeks to go until the publication of Peter Mitchell's Early Sunday Morning, we asked the book's editor John Myers to tell us about his process working on the book.  John Myers and ...

5 Years of Publishing and how Rudi met Peter

Like many things in the photo world, it was all Martin Parr’s fault. I had been a publisher in a previous life, specialising in philosophy and the history of ideas with an emphasis on neglected and...

Tate acquires the entire Space Mission by Peter Mitchell

Mrs McArthy & her daughter, London, 1975 - Peter Mitchell (detail)   We are pleased  to announce that Tate Modern recently acquired the complete set of 65 images which make-up Peter Mitchell’s...

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...