John Peter Askew
WE II - Photographs from Russia 1996-2017
John Peter Askew’s pictures show us the poetry of the everyday. Three years in the editing, WE II is a companion volume to WE which Charlotte Cotton described as “A wonderful book... a beautiful, close, incredibly touching and vast photographic story…” While WE II is an epic portrait across generations of a single family from the easternmost point in Europe, these photographs transcend their particular circumstances. Askew pays attention to our 'best selves', asking us to imagine the possibility of a better, more playful world, and pointing towards who we might yet become. This work, stretching back over a quarter of a century, is a timely and idiosyncratic chronicle, embracing friendship, communality and kindness.
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July 2022
ISBN 978-3-7356-0851-2
17 × 24 cm
352 pages
158 colored illustrations
Hardcover
Languages: English
Editor
Alistair Robinson
Text by
Alistair Robinson, Lee Maelzer
Design by
Joanna Deans
Events
Photographers' Gallery, London, 3.11.2022, 6.30