Book Launch: John Peter Askew: WE II

06:30pm - 08:00pm, Thu 03 Nov 2022

John Peter Askew is launching his latest publication WE II, published by Kerber Verlag, in the TPG Cafe.

boy head from WEII

Book Launch: John Peter Askew: WE II

6:30pm, Thu 03 Nov 2022

John Peter Askew is launching his latest publication WE II, published by Kerber Verlag, in the TPG Cafe.

This event is part of our Past Programme

WE II is a companion volume to WE, and the second part of  John Peter Askew’s quarter-century-long project to capture the intimate lives of a single family in Perm, Russia, which Charlotte Cotton described as “A wonderful book... a beautiful, close, incredibly touching and vast photographic story…It warms the heart as an incredible reminder of the enduring role of photography as the chronicler of lived experience.. ” While the books are an idiosyncratic portrait, stretching back over a quarter of a century of a single family from the easternmost point in Europe, the photographs transcend their particular circumstances. Askew pays attention to our 'best selves', asking us to imagine the possibility of a better, more playful world and pointing towards who we might yet become.