Publisher's Synopsis
'To put it simply, this book is fun. It's also funny, deep, at times disturbing, at other times profoundly hopeful. But every image gets remade in ways that hold a bit of genius' Lens Culture
'Funny, tragic and often bizarre, Stephen Leslie's photos in his book Sparks are an unique ode to street photography' Guardian
A family is
brought close to ruin by a pet python; an Icelandic advertising agency has a
problem with a campaign involving a dead seagull; a chiropodist desperately
wants to stop examining people's feet and dreams of becoming a pirate...
Stephen Leslie
has always tried to capture images that hint at wider, hidden narratives -
suggestive moments rather than decisive ones - and Sparks is a book that imagines the weird and wonderful stories
behind his original street photographs.
It is a
love-letter to photography, pairing eighty beautiful colour images - shot on
film - with these stories, as well as the author's recollections of twenty
years spent looking through the lens.
