SPOOR

108pp., colour illus., hardback, d.w., London, 2019.

"During several visits to South Africa (2014-2018) I drove along minor roads through the country's nine provinces. My aim was to follow rural rail routes between towns and settlements as closely as possible. From the 550 or so places where I stopped to make pictures, 88 daylight images are presented here in ten series." Roger Palmer

Roger Palmer was born in Portsmouth and has worked as an artist and teacher since the 1970s. He is Emeritus Professor at the Univerity of Leeds where he was Chair of Fine Art from 2005-2012. He lives in Glasgow. In 1987 he was awarded the Bill Brandt Prize for "Precious Metals", his first project in South Africa. His books include Circulation, Jetty and Phosphorescence.