Birds The Canary and The Hammer

The Canary and The Hammer strives to connect these disparate stories—from the mania of the gold rush and the brutal world of modern mining

first edition

Perhaps this work is a way for me to say a proper goodbye to my youth

Photographs in black & white

Fancy Pictures brings together six of Mark Neville’s socially engaged and intensely immersive projects from the last decade

Birds The Canary and The HammerConsisting of images photographed from the pages of antique ornithological volumes, this book is Clark Winters tribute to the glorious world of exotic birds. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, explorers wandered the planet in search of the unknown, sometimes traveling for years with little communication and guidance. Charles Darwin and his predecessors and contemporaries enjoyed a self assured sense of purpose, though their actual knowledge