Where are you a local?

First Edition – SOLD OUT
Second Edition – AVAILABLE

Being local is entangled with our sense of place. Yet, it is also where the nuances and complexity of daily life are found and replayed, and where rituals and relationships are formed.

Where are you a local? is an experimental, collaborative publication, initiated through an open call, and produced and developed by Elizabeth Ransom, Nigel Walker, Nuria Castro, Liz King, Jack Matts, Leah Band, Noémi, Julia Neal and Emma Lambert. 

Instead of asking where are you from, we asked where are you a local?

Conceived with the intention to explore the potential of the photobook as a social object, collaboration has been central to both the making and making public of the publication. 

We invite you to read, unfold, curate, reassemble, contribute.

First edition published April 2022

Handmade edition of 58 books.
10 loose folded pages, plus folded cover and card insert.
Elastic band bind.
Size: 190mm x 130mm
Paper: GF Smith Naturalis

Second edition published October 2024

Handmade edition of 40 books.
10 loose folded pages, plus folded cover and card insert.
Elastic band bind.
Size: 190mm x 130mm
Paper: GF Smith Munken Design

Purchase the publication here.

Public collections:
Cardiff Metropolitan University, WALES
bookRoom – UCA, Farnham.
VADS – UCA, Farnham
Water in the Library project – MSDM
Photographic Center Northwest – Seattle WA
Special Collections, UWE, Bristol

Exhibitions:
WORDplay, Fringe Arts Bath (2022)
The Performing Photobook – FORMAT International Photo festival (2023)