Melanie and The Miners’ Strike

Melanie and The Miners’ Strike

The new IDEA book is MELANIE & THE MINERS’ STRIKE and this going to be the easiest press release we have ever written! The project came to IDEA by way of Melanie’s daughter Victoria who walked into the office with a box full of pictures of her mother’s old photo snaps. Victoria has edited the book and explains it all perfectly in her introduction. 

We kept the title from the first exchange of emails. MELANIE & THE MINERS’ STRIKE. Of course the book has everything and nothing to do with the miners’ strike. No more than Victoria so perfectly expresses it. The pictures speak for themselves. The pictures speak for Melanie and the people in them. This was not a time of camera phones and Melanie and her friends were not at university or art school, they were born in Leeds and left school and worked in Leeds. These pictures were taken with no motive, but just simply Melanie and her mates on their average weekends. We are fortunate that Melanie took these photographs and that Victoria found them and recognised something special in them.

And then Victoria sat down with Melanie and her friends Jane, Rebecca and Annette (all appear in the book). Snippets from their conversations about the images are added as captions to some but not all pages... they are wonderful.

• Softcover with tip-on print + debossed foil title
• 16 x 24cm
• 128 pages
• Edition of 500

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IDEA is a London based bookstore and publisher. IDEA will publish MELANIE & THE MINERS’ STRIKE for Photo London in May in an edition of 500 copies. The book will launch at Dover Street Market on May 15th as part of the store’s Photo London week.