The Old Ways 
Robert Macfarlane

“It is an exploration of the ghosts and voices that haunt ancient paths, of the tales that tracks keep and tell... Above all, this is a book about people and place: about walking as reconnoitre inwards, and the subtle ways in which we are shaped by the landscapes through which we move.”

Madeira Resident
Pedro Nóbrega 

“What we needed was an economy based on our heritage and traditions. What we got was concrete.”

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I hoped by traversing the island of my parents’ birth using the old paths I would be better able to understand the people they were. Feeling the land that formed them underfoot, step by step. In the process I hoped to get a better handle on my own heritage. What I found was a land itself in a desperate battle for its own identity.


handbound artist’s book
laser-print on Zerkal paper, commercially printed vintage postcards and blind-embossed Somerset etching paper
100 pages
13cm x 20cm
2024

professionally handbound, hardback artist’s book
inkjet-prints on fine art archival paper
32 5x4 analogue photographs
60 pages
25cm x 20cm
2014