Jerome Lorieau - From England With Love (Signed)

Signed 1st edition
Format: 188x245mm, Hardback

Coptic stitch binding for perfect flat opening and full enjoyment of the photos.

46 photos for 96 pages printed in four-colour offset on 135g SYMBOL TATAMI White paper

Hardback cover on Sirio Color paper 140g Fedrigoni including a 10x15cm tipped in image.

Condition: New

In 2011, my move to Bristol allowed me to explore a country that I only knew through places I had visited on various occasions. By settling in England, I was able to experience the country on a daily basis. Without any particular aim, I began capturing it through photography. After several months, while editing my work, I realised that I had the beginnings of a photographic project right in front of me.

Usually my projects start with observations, intuition, and feelings. While editing my photos, I had the impression that England is a country with significant social contrasts. I observed enclosed places within communities which conveyed a culture, social codes and behaviours specific to a particular social category. Based on this observation, I selected places and environments to photograph according to their social and cultural categories.

A writer once remarked, with a touch of affectionate mockery, that the English could be a fascinating subject for an ethnologist. He was probably right. Their eccentricities, humour, morals, uprightness, and propensity for excess provide wonderful material for an engaging novel. In my own way, by creating this photographic portrait of England, I aim to capture part of this narrative in images.

From England with Love is not a photojournalistic project but a documentary one inspired by the aesthetics and culture of street photography. From this perspective, I aimed to set aside my goal and project to free my mind and allow my eyes to capture candid moments.

These photographs can be seen as postcards, snapshots with no judgment, on the back of which could be written the timeless phrase "From England With Love."

This book has a foreword by Stephen Leslie, film director, screenwriter and photographer from London.