Document and Location announce new member Lee Elkins

We are delighted to announce the addition of a new member to the Document and Location research group.

Lee Elkins is the founder and Creative Director of The Lost Light Recordings. Established in 2018, Lost Light Recordings is an independent publisher that works with photographers to realise projects through the medium of the photobook. The critically acclaimed books Elkins has created under the imprint since 2018 – including Cian Oba-Smith’s Andover & Six Acres, Sadie Catt’s Woodstock and the forthcoming Harrowdown Hill by John Spinks – explore landscape as a politicised territory and its effect on people and place.

Passionate about creating expressions of photographers’ work that reflect the integrity of their practice, Elkins collaborates creatively with both established photographic artists and new talent to create distinctive photobooks. Elkins manages the whole process of creating a book with intense detail: the editing and sequencing of photographs with the artist, the graphic design and materiality, personally overseeing the printing, and finally hand-binding the books. This attention to detail calls on Elkins previous experience as a master bookbinder in the printing industry and his conviction that the photobook can, in the right hands, become a complex intellectual dialogue between photographer and reader.

Lee Elkins was recently appointed as Senior Lecturer in Photography at the University of the West of England. We are thrilled to welcome Elkins as a new member of Document and Location and look forward to working with him to expand Document and Location’s public output through initiating the group’s first original photobooks.

Learn more about Elkins’ wider work through The Lost Light Recordings via his member page.