Based in Slaithwaite, West Yorkshire.
Following on from our first open call publication, Reconstruct, we invite you to submit photographic works (new or existing) as a creative response to the prompt Dismantle.
Successful submissions will be included in a black &
white Risograph group publication.
Submission Details:
Submit up to 4 images in the following format:
Greyscale, 300 dpi, sized at 420mm on the longest side.
Send submissions via web transfer or email to hello@surfaceeditions.com
Deadline to submit: 26th July, 2026.
Thom Bridge & Taisuke Koyama
Details
68 Pages
205 x 290mm
Softcover with Acetate
Spiral Bound
December, 2024
Sold out
- The City & The City is a photographic exchange between artists Thom Bridge (SE/UK) and Taisuke Koyama (JP), based in the UK and Tokyo respectively. Their collaboration explores the visual textures of their three home cities, focusing on urban surfaces shaped by reconstruction, demolition, and renewal. Using fast, lo-fi printing, inverted city images are transferred onto colour paper, revealing the city as an irreversible, imagined space shaped by desire and planning.
Rather than specific locations, the work highlights recurring scenes—construction sites, neglected areas, and in-between spaces—common to modern urban life. The title references China Miéville’s 2009 novel, where overlapping cities coexist unseen by their inhabitants, with a mythical third city said to lie in the space between.
This project is part of Chapter Five, a curatorial program connecting artists and organisations through experimental exhibition models and collaborative dialogue, both online and offline.