1st edition, 50 copies: November 2016
ISBN: 978-1-36-686820-6
Price: $40 CDN/US including shipping
54 pages
Photo book: Photos on glossy paper, two poems
Glossy paper, hard cover
Status: In Print
During the fall of 2015, I
acquired a macro lens for my Olympus EM10 camera, and became enamoured with the
vividness and detail of the minutia I could capture. An obvious subject was the
autumn leaves, and soon a project evolved: to photograph changing and fallen
leaves on my front lawn, and only on my front lawn, that season. Although mine
is a typical front yard in Montreal's Mile End neighbourhood — a patch of grass, hedge and flowerbed of about sixty
square feet — it proved a surprisingly rich subject. Certain twigs, leaves, and grape bunches caught my eye. I began to
relate to them as to human characters, documenting their changes through
hundreds of photos. Other leaves — maple, aspen, and who knows what — blew in from outside, and although I couldn't resist the
temptation to position a few, for the most part they were photographed as they
had fallen. The whole exercise became a meditation on mortality, randomness and
seasonal renewal.
— Brian Campbell, Montreal, October
2016
Sample photos:
a single rose
in a field of green —
the first red leaf
