Coming up for Air

Coming up for Air is the result of a long-term photographic body of work made in Japan between 2008 & 2009 over the course of three visits to the country. Though the images were made in Japan they are not essentially about Japan and are more of a reaction to my life in London at the time. Unlike the other more descriptive photographic series I had made, this time the information in the images has been starved or almost in some cases completely denied, like muffled sounds when swimming beneath water. A fictional aquatic world as if viewed from the other side of an aquarium looking outwards. The series is more of a reaction to the modern world rather than an attempted description of it.

Photographs by Stephen Gill Words by Stephen Gil Edited and sequenced by Stephen Gill Design by Melanie Mues Published by Nobody 98 colour photographs 106 pages incl. 1 gatefold 250 x 330 mm Printed on Symbol Tatami White, 150 gsm Hand-painted dust jacket clothbound hardback Printed at Die Keure, Bruges, Belgium Edition of 4500 Published in 2010 ISBN 978-0-9556577-2-6 Published by Nobody 98 colour photographs 106 pages incl. 1 gatefold 250 x 330 mm Printed on Symbol Tatami White, 150 gsm Hand-painted dust jacket clothbound hardback Printed at Die Keure, Bruges, Belgium Published in 2010 ISBN 978-0-9556577-2-6