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we make photobooks about places out of place is a platform developed to promote photography as a way of exploring and learning about places.

We focus on publishing photobooks and we are committed to developing community and educational programs. We are interested in exploring ideas about place; how we understand and experience our environments and how we define them. Photography lends itself to such a task because in one way or another you have to experience the thing you want to photograph, you have to be there. This is a key concept

behind documentary style photography and is one of the reasons why we sometimes believe in photographs. This, coupled with the cameras knack for seemingly objective reproduction of even the most incidental details, can give photographs a certain amount of authenticity. We want to use photography as a way of learning about our environments and we see these elements of the photographic process as essential to achieving that. The camera offers an opportunity to explore and develop a physical dialogue with a place and the photographs can serve as record of that experience. We are not just interested in objective studies of places, we are interested in providing a platform for individual explorations and interpretations of place. We believe that the best way to communicate these ideas about a place is through the photobook. The construction of the book helps refine and communicate ideas but it is also something permanent. Unlike exhibitions in galleries and museums it can be kept, shared exist in many places at once and be rediscovered in years to come.

03/04/2026

The Place at the End of the Rapids
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The Place at the End of the Rapids was made during my first visit to my wife’s family in Canada since Covid.

The project follows the Ontonabee River and the chain of lakes that lead into the Kawartha region of Central Ontario. Its title is drawn from an Ojibway name for this landscape.

While making the work, I was reading Backwoods of Canada, a nineteenth-century account of the region. This text became a quiet companion to the work, shaping its structure and allowing my own movement through the landscape to unfold in dialogue with an earlier way of seeing.

The photographs are presented as a book by Out of Place, sequenced as a slow journey along the river and lakes. Alongside the images are extracts from my notebooks and reimagined fragments responding to Backwoods of Canada, written by the poet Harry Man .

01/15/2026

01/14/2026

To celebrate 10 years of Out of Place Books we have put together a very special book. Our first 10 books brought together in a single volume. Over 300 pages of an uninterrupted sequence of images from OOP01 to OOP10. The book includes work from Grant Archer, Bryony Graham, Daniel Lyttleton and Chris Neophytou

The book will be published in a very limited edition of 10

01/05/2026

Out of place books is 10 years old next month. We’ll be celebrating with some new books and a bit of a dive into the archive. Can’t thank everyone enough for supporting, art is meaningless without community.
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12/11/2025

UNDER ALL OF THIS THERE ARE RIVERS AND SWAMPS

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172mm x 250mm / Staple binding / 44 pages / Uncoated 120gsm / Colorplan Dark Gray 270gsm Cover / £10

The series of photographs was made on a first visit to Australia. Travelling through Queensland, from the ocean, through city and hinterland. ‘Its all an illusion’ he said ‘Under all of this there are rivers and swamps’

12/10/2025

While preparing some books for I discovered two brand new copies of ERD (2017) by & one of the first Out of Place Books to break through

I’ve put them up on the shop. Only 2x copies so@be quick

Details
210 × 297 millimeters
32 pages/120gsm uncoated
Saddle stitched (Stapled)
Sticker cover
Digital Printing
Published 2017

12/05/2025

A Million Decaying Tree Stumps

by Grant Archer
Details
First Edition
165 x 285mm / 40pp / 120gsm Uncoated / Pamphlet stitch (Silver Thread)
170gsm Uncoated Cover
Violet Dust-Jacket (imitation Leather)
With Holographic Foil -printed by
OOP36 2025
Only £15 from online shop

12/01/2025

For those who missed earlier in October, / and launched a unique collaboration, an artists edition of Always Forward. Very grateful to Andy for his hard work and optimism. This is something we are very proud of.

This is 1 of 4 very limited pieces.

ALWAYS FORWARD by Chris Neophytou
Artist edition of 4
Portland Stone Jesmonite case with tipped in print and perspex inner slip
Internal tray made from duplexed
GFSmith Bright Red 1400gsm with Matrix and Granular emboss, Factory Yellow inlay.
Wooden spine with laser cut title

Always Forward
200mm x 270mm
100 pages / Perfect Bound
115gsm Recycled Uncoated
GF Smith Bright Red 270gsm cover
Text by Camilla Smith
Second Edition

Epilogue
140mm x 210mm
36 pages / Pamphlet Stitch
115gsm Recycled
PaperBack Cobalt 190gsm cover

11/24/2025

A Million Decaying Tree Stumps

by Grant Archer
Details
First Edition
165 x 285mm / 40pp / 120gsm Uncoated / pamphlet stitch (silver thread)
170gsm Uncoated Cover
Violet Dust-Jacket (imitation Leather)
With Holographic Foil
OOP36 2025
£15 available online

11/14/2025

10/23/2025

A Million Decaying Tree Stumps

by Grant Archer
Details
First Edition
165 x 285mm / 40pp / 120gsm Uncoated / saddle stitched (stapled)
170gsm Uncoated Cover
Violet Dust-Jacket (imitation Leather)
With Holographic Foil
OOP36 2025
Copies available at

10/22/2025

They all happened here
By Andy Pilsbury & Chris Neophytou

JSB4 / 40pp
120gsm Munken + 135gsm Vermillion
Japanese stab bound
25 copies

We’ve spent the past year returning to the small market town where we grew up, wandering its streets, parks, and waterways, wading through a haze of nostalgia. The serenity of the warm light prodding at uncomfortable memory. I have not done many things that I am ashamed of, but they all happened here.

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