Pyramids (or BRIGHT FUTURE)Pyramids builds on the striking Polaroid aesthetic of Mike Slacks previous books, Ok Ok Ok (2002) and Scorpio (2006), rounding out a trilogy of stand alone volumes that together contain 123 pictures. This collection records everyday details of what could be a recent past or a very near futurea dust storm in the desert, simple geometry, stairways and windows, schoolchildren on a field tripquietly dramatic scenes energized by a sense of anticipation

as if the quiet melancholy of Crewdson’s scenes gathered the unruly sorrows and other little-guessed feelings of people long-gone who once stood on those spots

proving these figures are really there

Part of the Black Garden Trilogy

The book includes an essay by Quentin Bajac

There was no more time to waste

Los Angeles or still his hometown

which is either the name of a metro station

an artist known for her large-scale

but these images are timeless - they beg contemplation and immersion from the viewer

this is about the leap

though we are kept at a respectful distance

where he found abandoned houses in the countryside to use as sets