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Andrew Phelps, NOT NIIGATA, 2009
I‘m happy to finally announce the completion of NOT NIIGATA.
The printing was, as always, a roller-coaster of stress, bliss, compromise, but all-in-all a treat due to Juergen and Petra from KEHRER who did so much of the pre-press; scans, graphic, design.
My wife only growls in my direction when I tell her it feels like giving birth, so I will avoid metaphor and just say it is a relief to have it here on the desk.
I have 2 hand-bound copies, the regular edition will be released in due time, with an official launch at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October.
Thanks to everyone who has ordered a Special Edition, you have made the fancy details possible.
There are some Special Editions left, a book and a print for 128,- Euro
The standard trade edition is a (relatively) limited edition of 888 copies.
Casebound linen, inset cover photo, 28×28 cm, 80 pages, english and japanese.
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Photographers, like birds, greedily peck away at the world, digesting the occasional pebble as well as the intended breadcrumb. While nibbling away in Niigata Japan, Andrew Phelps has gracefully assembled a poetic journey which, factual to Niigata or not, has me lingering by his side, hoping for a delay of my return flight to the real world.
here an interview on AHORN magazine