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Book 1 explains why empty, familiar places feel so strange. Book 2 shows you how to find and photograph them yourself, legally, with a phone.
Book 1
Why Empty Malls, Hotel Corridors and Pools at Night Feel So Strange
Explains the feeling. Why a place built for a crowd feels so strange without one, where the idea came from, and how one photograph became the Backrooms.
Hardcover and paperback coming in November.
120 pages, 6 x 9 in. More than forty real photographs, black and white in print, color in the ebook. Source notes for every chapter.
Book 2
How to Find and Shoot Empty Malls, Hotel Corridors, Pools and Other Uncanny Places
Shows you how to capture it. A full-color field guide for phone photographers: when to go, how to get permission, how to compose a room with no obvious subject, and how to edit without losing the mood.
Paperback coming in November.
100 pages, 6 x 9 in, printed in full color. Worked examples, side-by-side edits, exercises and a field checklist.
Buying one, or a gift? Liminal Spaces for anyone who has seen these pictures online and wondered why they land; Liminal Spaces Photography for someone who wants to make them.
Where to buy. Both books are on Kindle now. The paperbacks, and the hardcover of Liminal Spaces, are coming soon through Amazon. Libraries and bookshops can order by ISBN: Liminal Spaces paperback 978-1-923893-72-6, hardcover 978-1-923893-73-3; Liminal Spaces Photography paperback 978-1-923893-75-7.