Signed by the Photographer. \n\nMeaning ‘event’ or ‘incident’, Olay is a powerful chronicle of a tumultuous decade in Turkey, tirelessly documented by Emin Özmen. This first book by Özmen is a retrospective of his work to date, recounting the photographer’s homeland in a ceaseless state of turmoil, hit by dramatic events: a failed coup d’état, popular uprisings, natural disasters, political purges, and ongoing military operations. This vivid and fast-paced series of black-and- white photographs is punctuated with moments of calm in the form of meditative colour images and personal texts. Despite the omnipresent tension, a feeling of graciousness and warmth emerges from Özmen’s work, which unfolds to form a nuanced and necessary comment on the Turkish state and the sentiments of its people.\n‘We are constantly being tossed around between violence and quiet daily life. Turkey gives no respite. Never a week without a drama, never a month without a major event. Olay is a documentation of Turkey, on the brink of violence and grace. Here, nothing is simple, everything intertwines and clashes, the beautiful as well as the ugly, sadness as well as joy.’ Emin Özmen\nThe book includes an extensive timeline introduced by Piotr Zalewski, Turkey correspondent for The Economist, as well as personal texts written by Özmen, and is co-edited with Cloé Kerhoas.\n\nSwiss-bound hardcover\n17 x 21cm, 192 pages\n\nISBN 978-1-913620-73-8

Olay

"Every family is a culture unto itself, a province with its own history and borders. It is defined in part by that history, carrying its past weight and bound by a promise to do better by it in the future. Both tenses, past and present, are the family?s to carry forward."  Stuart O'Sullivan. Born in 1971 in Johannesburg, South Africa, Stuart O'Sullivan lives and works in New York City. His first book, How Beautiful This Place Can Be (Nazraeli Press, 2005) dealt with re-visiting his homeland after a decade in the United States. From the perspective of distance and time, he realized just what an 'isolated paradise' his family had occupied and he reflected on their place within the new, rapidly changing social and political climate. We are pleased to present his second monograph, A Shared History, which takes as its theme the history of his wife Dionicia's family. Her late grandfather's family were Quakers who migrated to this country in the 1700s. They were among the founding members of the state of Pennsylvania, and their history is long and detailed. His family estate, in which Dionicia?s grandmother still lives, is a fortress containing much of this history, and a ripe subject for O'Sullivan's uncanny ability to bring us all home again.   ISBN: 978-1-59005-248-8   Hardcover, 13 x 14,    64 pages, 43 four-color plates.

A Shared History

A self published book of humorous and interesting black and white images captured in the 80's mainly in and around the Eccles area of Greater Manchester. Taken on a Olympus XA camera which he kept with him all the time.   "These shots were O'Neill's way of escaping from the formality and constraint required in his press photography, where pose and fact were more important than moment and feel. He recalls a time he tried to inject a little levity into his newspaper photography receiving the reply 'Save the arty stuff for your day off!'.   So he did, and shot with his little Olympus as he went about his everyday life; around his home in Eccles, at rather less-than-glamorous locations such as Morrison supermarket, on the bus in the pubs and clubs around town.    This fascination with life many of us recognize with intrigued interest today reveals much about British society and leisure of the time. O'Neill also captured life on his travels around the world, from the heavily-guarded Christmas tree in Carrick Fergus to the oddly-jumping chap on the quayside in Kowloon .    By carefully juxtaposing the imagery in this book he continues a dialogue that displays the reoccurrence of daily themes and quirks of life we all notice but often forget to record." - Laura Noble, from the foreword    About the Photographer    Martin O'Neill grew up in Eccles, Manchester , and has been a professional photographer since 1978. He spent four years as a press photographer on local weekly newspapers before turning freelance, spending the next 18 years working for the Manchester Evening News. He now works with a wide range of other clients in the PR, corporate and magazine worlds.

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Fleur: Plant Portraits   Published by Fuel Publishing, 2005   Signed by Fleur Olby    Absolutely beautiful is the best way to describe this book of plant portraits by Fleur Olby.    A great deal of thought and attention has been given to the composition and structure of each shot. Fleur has used the natural shapes and colours of the flora and combined this with a precise depth of field and point of focus to produce a collection of very stylish photographs.    Although each species will be recognisable to horticulturists and keen gardeners alike this is in no way a horticultural reference book, but a very beautiful art photography book.    A must have book for those of you who like, beautiful photographs, still life?s and the budding horticulturalists alike.   Bound in white cloth with embossed title and a colour print on the front cover.    Publishers Note    Fleur Olby photographs plants and flowers in beautiful and intricate detail. Her photographs illustrated Monty Don's gardening pages in the Observer Magazine for seven years, developing a loyal following. This book is Fleur Olby's first photographic monograph and contains some of her most popular iconic images - as well as many previously unseen photographs.     Photographs by Fleur Olby.    Designed and edited by Murray & Sorrell.   Fuel Publishing, 2005.    112 pp., 67 color illustrations, 8ðx11ð.   ISBN 0955006104

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