Chris Burkham and Steve Pyke have collaborated on various journalistic assignments since the 1980s – these have taken them from The Face to the Sunday Times, from the PLO’s Yasser Arafat in Tunis to Aubelin Jolicoeur in Port-au-Prince, Haiti (the basis for the character Petit Pierre in Graham Greene’s ‘The Comedians’).

 More recently they have been collaborating on ‘One Shot’, an experiment where Pyke would send an unannounced and random shot from his photographic archive to Burkham, who would then respond to it with a work of short fiction.

Over time, it became apparent that the images Pyke sent to London from his studio In New Orleans were, in the main, from his early years as a photographer – and provided an opportunity to examine how his work had evolved, from when he was a Leicester punk with a Pentax in the 1970s to a staff photographer at The New Yorker in the 1990s.

Burkham’s short stories focus solely on the images, and provide his fictional reaction to them; they move from the dark kitchens of an anonymous city, through a love affair between two thieves in London and Rome, to one young man’s journey navigating central London of the early Eighties …

Stories: CHRIS BURKHAM

Photography: STEVE PYKE

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BINDING: Softcover

ISBN: XXX-X-XXXXXXX-X-X

RRP: £30 TBC

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