Photographs taken at Kettle's Yard by Kathryn Faulkner and Graham Murrell with an afterword by Ian Jeffrey

Detailed Description

While Kettle's Yard remains the house that Jim Ede created, its rooms are constantly animated by the changing light of a particular time of day or season and by the eye of each visitor.

Over the course of a full year, from shortest day to shortest day, Kathryn Faulkner and Graham Murrell took photographs inside Kettle's Yard, capturing those one-off moments and the continuing sense of human occupation.

In Graham Murrell's black and white photographs the stillness and abstract qualities of the house are played off against the fleeting incidents or accidents of light.

Kathryn Faulkner used two approaches. By exposing printing-out paper behind or sometimes beneath objects she created beautifully coloured, ghost-like images, as immaterial as memories. At the same time she took black and white photographs with a pin-hole camera, placing the camera on a table or a chest to give an object's eye-view of the room. These photographs, taken with long exposures, distil the light and atmosphere of a room over an hour or more.

'This beautiful book, filled with light from end to end. These are marvellous photos - Jim would love them, they are full of things he saw.'
Quince Graveson, Jim Ede's grand-daughter

72 pages, 220mm x 220mm
46 B&W duotone illustrations, 2 colour illustrations
essay by Ian Jeffrey

ISBN 0 907074 97 9

Supported by Kent Institute of Art and Design and The London Institute.