Being local is entangled with our sense of place. Yet, it is also where the nuances and complexity of daily life are found and replayed, and where rituals and relationships are formed. Instead of asking where are you from, we asked where are you a local?

Where are you a local? is an experimental, collaborative publication that I initiated through an open call and it has been produced and developed by Elizabeth Ransom, Nigel Walker, Nuria Castro, Liz King, Jack Matts, Leah Band, Noémi, Julia Neal and myself, and published under my own imprint Silvergrass Press.  From our first encounters on zoom, to the first meeting ‘in real life’ (the day of the launch), and in sharing with our audience, we have collectively explored what it means to be local, and played the potential of the photobook as a social object and encounter. Collaboration has been central to both the making and making public of this publication.

We invite you to read, unfold, curate, reassemble, contribute.

Public collections:
Cardiff Metropolitan University
bookRoom – University for the Creative Arts, Farnham.

Exhibitions:
WORDplay, Fringe Arts Bath (2022)

Published April 2022
Handmade edition of 58 books.
10 loose folded pages, plus folded cover and card insert.
Rubber band bind.
Size: 190mm x 130mm
Paper: GF Smith Naturalis

Purchase the publication here.