Sandie Don & Mark Gowing <br>We were only inches away – LIMITED EDITION
An artists’ book examining our relationship to the camera and each other Sandie Don and Mark Gowing’s We were only inches away is a collection of images crafted from found photographs and family archives, each carefully cropped and arranged to create ambiguous and abstract compositions of people together, hugging, kissing, dancing, shaking hands and simply enjoying each other’s company. Printed as spreads that are interrupted and connected via the binding process, hands, elbows, shoulders, legs, knees and hips come together as unlikely pairs, forming a compendium of body language and gestures. Casual photographic snaps become an unintended documentation of physical contact and spontaneous connection. The collision of these moments, taken across time, reveal the beauty of human relationships. Dense and immersive, We were only inches away is about humanity and closeness, but also about our relationship to the camera. The use of found photographs taken before the invention of digital pho