Sheep magazine archive 1: issues 3-9

To have the work collected by galleries is important, if for no other reason
than to fill the gaps in UK gallery photographic archives, which are fairly
slim. Of course there are other reasons. To know MoMA, Tate, V&A and
other major international galleries want the books enough to collect
them means a lot. To have many shops stocking them and to have so
many customers from the website is priceless. To meet Peter Mitchell, Ken
Grant, Martin Parr, Daido Moriyama and discuss books, their work, their
past work is amazing. I think publishing has allowed me to do a lot that
perhaps otherwise I wouldn’t have done.
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I once lost all of my own books, collected over 30 years – about 800
books, in a flood. I now have a strange relationship with books – I make
lots of them but am still fearful of buying too many. Publishing allows me to
make the books I’d like to collect; albeit a strange way of going about it!
The future. I’d like to start a PhD but need to fine-tune the question. It
might relate to some of the above. I want to continue to publish small
affordable well produced books / zines showing moments of change. I
see Café Royal Books as a kind of meeting point. I don’t just publish the
work of well known photographers but I do only publish work that I like
and often subjects or times that I couldn’t get access to myself. As long as
it’s enjoyable I’ll continue. There’s a lot of important work that needs to
be seen! In many ways I see what I do as a long term project, cataloging
the not too distant past.
Recently I’ve started a new project, ‘Notes’, which will hopefully become a
reference tool and work as contextual support for the books I publish.
SHEEP IN THE ROAD : NUMBER 6