Shadow Editions publishes experimental books that provoke a rethinking of art, society and contemporary culture. Founded by artist and writer Michael Lindsey Davison, Shadow Editions engages the art book format as a vehicle for social and cultural critique.
Some Cell Sites, 2019
Edward Ruscha updated to the present day.
Winner - ‘Best Book’ at CCP Salon, 2019
Shortlisted for the Cornish Family Prize for Art and Design Publishing, 2020
Featured Publications
Contagion
The series aims to represent our current online/offline existence. In some images, subjects appear to be trapped between the physical and digital worlds, while in others commuters appear to be fading away into the ‘digital ether’. Ultimately, Contagion documents how technology influences our habits and consciousness.
PLANTBOY
Plantboy examines notions of beauty, nature and the archive. Readers are encouraged to become explorers of the book by cutting apart the French folds. Structuring Plantboy in this way creates a type of visual polyphony; but it also becomes an experience beyond the visual where every dimension produces meaning.
Return of the Repressed
Published in only an edition of 20 using fine Japanese papers, Davison combined photographs taken in Japan with digital photograms of seed pods, flowers and leaves. Using this process, there is a blurring of scale as small objects are juxtaposed next to human figures, buildings and landscapes.
