During 1983 to 1984 Chris Killip lived in a caravan on the seacoal camp, and documented the life, work and the struggle to survive on the beach, using his unflinching style of objective documentation.
This major bookwork features the most comprehensive collection of Doherty’s recent colour photographs available in print to date. It is accompanied by texts by the artist. Published on the occasion of a Doherty exhibit at Matts Gallery, London.
‘This photographic body of work is based in a small region in Southern France. I was drawn there initially by the story of Bugarach, the ‘magic’ mountain. Bugarach was somehow connected to a Mayan prophecy which indicated that the world as we know it, would end on December 21st, 2012. The prophecy claimed that this date would mark the beginning of a new era for humanity, a new and sublime future.
