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RnB Edits
by Josh Baines

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46 pages 
13 x 19 cm 
Single colour risograph with four colour illustrations
Edition of 150 
Perfect bound 
2013
With his debut short story collection, Josh Baines paints a portrait of an American dream in turmoil. Nominally based on the imagined private lives of publicly known personas, he uses Swimming pools, Chris brown's dick, the search for the perfect sandwich, bowling balls, memory, loss, isolation, Katy Perry and bottles of Evian to explore what it means to surrender any sense of self to the overarching machinations of popular culture in the twenty first century.

About

Undercurrents in international publishing, est. 2011 (London, UK)

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Distributed in the UK by New Dimension
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Website by Dan Powell

All splash page images by Holly Rae Jones


Press

The Face - Bronze Age: 10 Years of Riotous Independent Publishing [March 2021]

AnOther Mag - Party Like It's 1999: Eerie. Forgotten Photos From an End of the World Rave [July 2021]

It's Nice That - Acts of Natural Magik presents Pokémon landscape photography in the post-Giovanni era [November 2019]

C4 Journal - Sasha Kurmaz - Poisonous Berries [February 2022]



Stockists

Antenne Books (London, UK)
Dashwood Books (New York, USA)
Desert Island (New York, USA)
Donlon Books (London, UK)
Draw Down Books (Guilford, USA)
Floating World Comics (Portland, USA)
Good Press (Glasgow, UK)
Gosh! Comics (London, UK)
Gnash Comics (Ashburton, UK)
ICA (London, UK)
McNally Jackson (New York, USA)
Orbital Comics (London, UK)
Other Books (Los Angeles, USA)
Printed Matter (New York, USA)
Quimby's (Chicago, USA)
Rye Wax (London, UK)
Tenderbooks (London, UK)
Ti Pi Tin (London, UK)
Village (Leeds, UK)
Needles and Pens (San Francisco, USA)

Featured Publications

Cloud Gazing - by Holly Rae Jones - £20
In her debut photo book, "Cloud Gazing', Holly Rae Jones leads us through a dreamy and hedonistic world scattered with clues of the decadence of the past. Vending machines dispensing only bouquets of flowers, karaoke booths with ancient patterned wallpaper, sun-bleached Hollywood shop window displays. These images - at times bordering on kitsch - are fascinated with tired consumerism and have a sad but celebratory quality to them. Nothing is straightforward in the world that Jones crafts; she asks the viewer whether the clouds they are gazing at are a picture of clouds or a picture of a picture of clouds. 
The photographs in this book are augmented with graphics from Hope Roalfe.
Poisonous Berries - by Sasha Kurmaz - £6
In Poisonous Berries, Sasha Kurmaz explores notions of individualization and sexuality caught between the ideological spectres of his native Ukraine. Cut and paste collage of Orthodox iconography is echoed by Soviet-era ruins and juxtaposed with provocative photography; all printed onto 60gsm Offenbach bible paper.

Read a review by C4 Journal here

20% of all online sales will be donated to Ukrainian support charities.