Thomas Zanon-Larcher & Jules Wright

In the summer of 2009, photographer Thomas Zanon-Larcher and theatre director Jules Wright co-curated an exhibition of work by French fashion photographer, Guy Bourdin, ‘Unseen: Guy Bourdin’, at the Wapping Project, London. Many of Bourdin’s images included his teenage muse, Nicolle Meyer. Now 50, Nicolle travelled from Mexico to open the show and Zanon-Larcher and Wright seized the opportunity to photograph her as ‘the mother’ in the short story Madame V.

Published 2010
Designed by Browns
135 x 170mm
Hardback
32 pages
32 images
Hand numbered edition of 150
ISBN 9780956532428

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Thomas Zanon-Larcher & Jules Wright

In the summer of 2008 Thomas Zanon-Larcher (Photographer) and Jules Wright (Director) set out to make a work which captured the ‘English Season’. It’s a time of year when the English aristocracy and upper middle-class traditionally (since The Restoration in the17th Century) go out to play at horse racing, polo, cricket, car racing, picknicking and dining – as frequently as possible on strawberries and champagne. This spectacular summer historically heralded the autumn with a return to London and presentation of debutantes to the Queen, a tradition abandoned in the fifties. For the purposes of this take on Englishness, the co-authors constructed a relationship between a young married couple, Alice who suffers from bi-polar disorder and Alex, a successful lawyer. We watch them struggle to survive within the public world imposed by their class.

Turning The Season was staged as an installation at the Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, 21 November 2008 – 28 February 2009 and is the third book of a series. All work was shot on location, in public.

Contributors

Deborah Levy
Erica Wagner
Romesh Gunesekera
Toby Litt

Published 2014
Designed by Browns
135 x 170mm
Hardback
80 pages
76 images
1 red gel
40 page booklet
Hand numbered edition of 150
ISBN 9780956532497

£20

Inspired by Henrik Ibsen’s The Lady from the Sea, the photographer Thomas Zanon-Larcher and theatre director Jules Wright continue their series of narratives realised in performance, film and photography, with actors placed in environments external to the conventional set or stage. Taking as their lead the notion that both the play’s protagonist Ellida and her lover originate from the far north, Zanon- Larcher and Wright set out beyond the Arctic Circle, to IS- Fjord Radio – the last departure point for the great solitary polar explorers. With such an approach, the director, photographer and actors establish the authenticity of solitude emphasised within the essence of Ibsen’s characters and the kind of driven isolation that perpetuates the classical Norwegian constitution.

The book details Zanon-Larcher’s photographic methodology and Wright’s creative approach, as well as the sheer presence of the landscape itself. Beautifully shot on 6:12 colour and 5:4 black and white film, the panoramic images grapple with the beauty and fragility of the Arctic, telling more than simply the story of Ellida. These, together with in-depth discussions with Wright and reproductions of Zanon-Larcher’s sketchbooks, act to deepen our understanding of a unique and compelling approach to a theatrical masterwork.

Published 2013
280 x 190mm
11.0 x 9.0 in
Hardback
208 pages
195 b/w and colour images
ISBN13: 9781907317636

£20