Find yourself 10 minutes, get sitting comfortably, click on the Vimeo link to In the Shadow of the Pyramids and then the icon to make it full screen, sit back and enjoy.
I’ve written before about Laura El-Tantaway and her book and web site In the Shadow of the Pyramids, and I think advised you all to buy a copy of the book while the edition of 500 was still available.
Published at around £50, copies are now selling second-hand for £300, though I think will soon be more. But you can still get a copy of her ‘Postscript‘, with images from the same project produced to coincide with the exhibition of her work as one of those shortlisted for the Photographers Gallery Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2016. It’s a rather shorter work, a 32 page double-sided fold-out postcard book featuring 15 images in an edition of 750 signed and numbered copies and a video on the link shows it off. Currently it is still available at £15. I don’t think it will appreciate in value at the same rate, but is still worth considering.
Tickets appear to be still available for Laura El-Tantawy in Conversation with Max Houghton at the Photographers Gallery on May 25th, but I’d book soon if you want to be sure of a place.