It’s a Sign!

An exhibition and publication about the found, defaced, debased, hilarious and incomprehensible floods of signage in our lives.

I’ve been photographing signs and their places all my working life- now I’m making space for them as a subject in their own right. Some of the great photographers- Walker Evans, Joel Sternfeld, Lisa Barnard- have used the pleasures and strangeness of signs as a way to see who we are and how we live.

For this to happen, I’m asking for your help to fund exhibition quality printing and a catalogue. This project has been selected for a Creative Scotland Matchfunder award- so every pledge will be financially matched from Creative Scotland’s Lottery Funding Scheme. the Crowdfunder will run from Friday 17th July until Friday the 14th August.

 The publication will feature writings by writer and broadcaster Ken Hollings. 

Ken and I have worked together before- most memorably when we shot a conversational sequence for my film ‘Yellowcake” on the capped core of the DIDO nuclear reactor in UKAEA Harwell…

The catalogue will be designed by renowned book artist Killian Dunne.
Killian has an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, has worked as a Printmaker, Illustrator and designer in Vancouver, Dublin and Berlin. He’s exhibited internationally from Quito to Chicago to Berlin.

The third element is exhibition printing by acclaimed printer Lachlan Young. Anyone who has sourced high quality print photo printing in Scotland knows that Lachlan’s work and consistency is outstanding.

This project is for anyone who loves photography and the strangeness of the everyday, and what happens when people answer back!