{"product_id":"9781917651172-i-will-keep-you-in-good-company","title":"I Will Keep You in Good Company","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAssembling pages and fragments from Liz Johnson Artur’s personal workbooks, this volume presents an intimate account of London’s queer and rave scenes in the 1990s and the process of one of its essential artists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI Will Keep You in Good Company\u003c\/i\u003e brings together pages and fragments from over twenty of Ghanaian-Russian artist Liz Johnson Artur’s personal workbooks – handmade volumes she has kept since the early 1990s. Part diary, part experimental playground, these books are where she shaped her photographic language through layering, cutting, annotating, and assembling: a space for processing not only images, but life itself. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach page is a tactile surface, combining photographic prints on canvas, tracing paper, faxes, and photo stock with screen-prints, handwriting, and clipped texts. The result is a sensorial, intimate archive of moments lived and witnessed – of friends, family, strangers, lovers – held with care and attention. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘I like to be right next to it, in the middle of it, to take it home’, Johnson Artur writes. ‘To keep them close is a way of giving importance and appreciation.’ These workbooks are acts of presence – visual thinking made physical – and the foundation for her celebrated Black Balloon Archive, a project that honours communities across the African diaspora. \u003ci\u003eI Will Keep You in Good Company\u003c\/i\u003e is a candid, generous record of a photographer learning not only how to look, but how to stay close. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56199826768246,"sku":"9781917651172","price":56.82,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_36058487_957a29fa-0acd-4fd0-88f7-2f6b566b70a7.jpg?v=1757602546","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781917651172-i-will-keep-you-in-good-company","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}