Brighter Later

As an island race we have always looked out; to find food from the sea, to find opportunityto trade, to find adventure, and to find ourselves. Brighter Lateris a journey around the coastal counties of Britain. It is a portrait of the island, looking out rather than in. As novelist Melissa Harrison writes in her essay included in the book: "Brian David Stevens' simple seascapes require a slowing-down, a recalibrating ofour usual demand for information, drama and resolution. More than just requiring it,in fact, they induce it: each pair of images leads us quietly out of our everyday worldand stands us on a British beach somewhere, shielding our eyes against all thatreflected light, that surfeit of sky. " Brighter Laterfeatures 68pp of full colour photographs, together with text from Brian David Stevens and Melissa Harrison, with design and layout by Wayne Ford.