BABYLON

BABYLONFrom the collection of James Birch With an introduction by George Melly These weird and wonderful postcards show babies as never seen before. Babies hatch from eggs, bubble from cauldrons, are fished from rivers, emerge in the cabbage patch, sit atop clouds, and ride in zeppelins. They play instruments, drive automobiles, fly in balloons, harvest the fields; an anarchistic world of baby heaven. James Birch first came across the postcards when he was a

Appointed to the German Photographic Association in 2006

Gaute Heivoll provides a short fictional piece inspired by the images

became the two key towns in a strip of land just ten miles by six that offered up an extraordinary geological bonanza

Those suffering have to face a wall of stigma and stereotyping which can often make their condition worse

142 b&w and colour photographs

The book is deeply relevant to today’s challenges: emigrating in pursuit of a dream

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to the onset of mixed dementia and a move from the family home into residential care

and disturbing language and meaning itself

Obvious to most perhaps

London-based photographer Dougie Wallace grew up in Glasgow