Stephen Gill – ‘Night Procession’

Stephen Gill’s Night Procession was on a whole bunch of Best Of and Photobook of the Year lists in 2017, and it’s no wonder, really. If you’re unaware, Gill set some motion activated cameras up in the forest near his home in Sweden, added some infrared flashes to them, and photographed the birds, deer, wild hogs, and other things that run the forest at night, free from human interference. Once prints from the photos were made, he treated them with pigments made from the plants near where the camera stood, resulting in a mostly green tint throughout.

It’s not something I would normally pick up, to be honest. I read some about it when it came out, and it was recommended left, right, and center, but I looked and thought, “naw… let me save the money, this time…”

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Lewis Bush – ‘Shadows of the State’

Insofar as it’s “A photobook about numbers stations, covert transmissions between intelligence agencies and their undercover operatives,” Lewis Bush‘s Shadows of the State is one of the more interesting photobooks in my collection. It’s a one-stop shop for information on all the current and former numbers stations—radio transmissions thought to be used by spies and counterintelligence agencies—around the world: a short history of the station and description of its typical broadcasts; google earth screen grabs of the likely/known broadcasting locations; links and barcodes that point to online recordings of the broadcasts; and even spectrograms Bush made from some bits of transmission from them.

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