Opening the archives

Welcome and thank you for visiting Held Up To Light.

It feels like a small but kinda significant moment for me to write these first words and open the pages of a project that I’ve been quietly building for some time.

Over the past 25 years, I’ve been amassing a personal archive of photographically illustrated books. Old educational manuals, vintage travel catalogues, out-of-print encyclopaedias and various publications discarded by libraries or discovered in vintage markets across cities and years.

The archive has grown into hundreds of books and thousands of images through countless hours spent sifting, browsing, and selecting.

When an image truly resonates, I mark it, extract the page carefully and archive it.

I look forward to sharing some of these discoveries with you, the viewer.

Held Up To Light is now live.