GUP about - Tony Ray-Jones "American Colour 1962-1965"

Photo © Tony Ray-Jones

American Colour 1962-1965 by Tony Ray-Jones draws from the vast archive of one of the keenest observers of British society and culture, presenting a selection of his early experiments with colour photography. Coming to the States on a scholarship in the early ‘60s with the background of a graphic designer, Ray-Jones threw himself into the street life of New York and witnessed the excitement and sense of departure that was stirring the nation at the time. Developing his own viewpoints, both artistic and personal, he also dove into the newly emerging medium of colour film. This book shows a selection of these ‘isolated sketches’ in colour, as Ray-Jones referred to them, and sheds a new light on a photographer whose later black-and-white work exerted an enormous influence on British documentary photography.

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GUP about a book - Rafal Milach "Black Sea"

Rafal Milach photographs the concrete heaven of the southern Ukrainian coastline in his book Black Sea Concrete. 

The visual journey of Rafal Milach’s self-published book Black Sea of Concrete begins with the cover: a front to back, full-bleed photograph of a painted mural of the Black Sea. Although the wall art portrays the warmth of the sea and sky, there’s rust bleeding through the cracks in the concrete canvas. The enclosed series of photographs shows the southern Ukrainian coastline, an area frequented by vacationers from around the Soviet Union, and yet, Milach chooses not to present the beautiful seaside view marketed as the Crimean dream.

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