Five Books interview
Five books which influenced the making of Missing Buildings. Read the full interview and book list here.
Jim Stephenson Reviews Missing Buildings for Dezeen Magazine
Read Jim Stephenson's piece in full here.
Seán Sheehan reviews Missing Buildings for Irish Left Review
Read Seán Sheehan's full review here.
Mark Power selects Missing Buildings for Photobooks of 2015 list
"A simple idea beautifully realised. The pictures are faultless in execution, the design is elegant and appropriate, and David Chandler’s essay is eloquent and thought-provoking. For a first book this is a triumph. Now for the difficult second album…!"
Mark Power
See the full list here.
Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa interviews Thom and Beth Atkinson for Paper Journal
Read Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa's full Paper Journal interview with
Thom and Beth Atkinson here.
Missing Buildings on The Guardian Best Photobooks of 2015
Missing Buildings makes it onto Sean O'Hagan's best photobooks of 2015 list. Read about the full list here.
Ollie Gapper Reviews Missing Buildings for Photobookstore
Read Ollie Gapper's full review here.
Missing Buildings selected for the Creative Review Photography Annual 2015
See the full Creative Review Photography Annual selection here.
Wired Feature Missing Buildings
See the full Wired feature and interview here.
Paris Photo Book Signing
Thom and Beth will be signing copies of Missing Buildings on the Einer Books table at Polycopies, Saturday 14th from 3pm. Come along to say hello.
Slides from Thom and Beth's Photobook Bristol Talk
A selection of slides taken from Thom and Beth's recent Photobook Bristol talk.
Sound, Word and Landscape: Beyond the Visual
Thom and Beth talk at the Photobook Bristol event, Sound, Word and
Landscape: Beyond the Visual, 7th November
D J Norwood Reviews Missing Buildings
…An overall sense of loss pervades the work of brother and sister Beth and Thom Atkinson in their new book, Missing Buildings which, as the name suggests, is a typological study of the bombed-out spaces left in London from the second world war.
This impression is reinforced by the lonely streets, the unpeopled pavements and flat, empty skies. It’s as if the air raid sirens never stopped. As if the living have sought shelter below ground alongside the dead and other archaeological remains. An eerie calm
pervades throughout…
Read D J Norwood's full review here.
David Moore Reviews Missing Buildings for Photomonitor
The photographs in Missing Buildings, revealing temporally distant traces of London, are situated poignantly on an axis of photographic history and physical geography. They are the most appropriate response to the subject matter there could be, in their modernity, purpose and melancholy...
...Missing Buildings becomes a remarkable invitation to look again through a glass plate, for only through photography can we share this view, and what Thom and Beth Atkinson have found belongs to us all.
Read David Moore's full Photomonitor review here.
Sean O'Hagan Reviews Missing Buildings for The Guardian
Thom and Beth Atkinson’s images are neither romantic nor photojournalistic, but altogether more sombre, especially in their absence of people. Cumulatively, they suggest not just the inexorable passing of time, but the odd sense that these gaps in the cityscape are frozen in time… These shots are a resolutely low-key, and an ineffably sad, counterpoint to official memorials… Their shots reveal London as a spectral memorial, frozen in time.
Read Sean O'Hagan's full review here.
Thom and Beth Atkinson in Dazed October List
Thom and Beth are included in the Dazed top photographers list for October 2015.
See the full list here.
Fotografia Magazine Interviews Thom and Beth Atkinson
Read the full Fotografia Magazine interview here.
Lewis Bush Reviews Missing Buildings for Disphotic
Read Lewis Bush's fascinating review in full here.
These missing buildings are the memento mori of the city. They are a reminder to us all that while order is illusory, life is short, and our own time will come, the city does not readily forget it’s own.