Blind Corners: Essays on Photography

‘Blind Corners is a book I believe every photographer should own. Not just the pros. Not just the high end amateurs. But everybody who has ever raised a camera or a cell phone with the hope to create an image should at some point have this book, put it in their day bag and carry it with them.’

‘A wonderful read for anyone who has ever picked up a camera or looked closely at a photograph and wondered about its back story. It’s also beautifully presented in this small hardback by Notting Hill Editions. A perfect gift for the photographer in your life.’

‘This selection of essays explores and elevates the art of looking in thoughtful and thought-provoking prose.’

‘A fascinating exploration of ideas about the craft.’

‘Compelling reading . . . The essays give us pause to consider what it is about photography that humans find so endlessly fascinating.’

‘A wide-ranging and informative book. And it's animated by Collins' evident expertise and love for what he does.’

‘Collins concentrates on some of his favourite pictures, but the essays in Blind Corners are not simple appreciations. The book is part meditation, part polemic . . . In large part, he succeeds in reinvesting photography with some of its original magic. The photographs in the book help. These are interspersed through the text and printed on matte paper, so that the grain is sometimes visible through the image. It’s a nice effect, reminding you of the physicality of the picture . . . Blind Corners is a quiet, somewhat eccentric success.’

‘Collins favours the photograph that has something to say, that doesn’t shout but leaves us, as viewers, to detect the sound behind the silence. . . . he is very good on the magic part of the equation, on what happens when we set off on a quest — an ultimately hopeless quest — to know and understand the world a singular image represents.’