"Photographs and Poems"
Rafael de Swarte
'Photographs and Poems' is the first book to be published by author Rafael de Swarte and the first title under his own imprint 'Rafael de Swarte Books'. ISBN 978-0-9569772-0-5
Website for other images including street photography + portraits:
The book features more than forty colour photographs and newly-penned poems.
Each poem can be read individually but also with interesting visual and thematic connections to the accompanying photograph: Poems are printed on the left, photographs are on the right-hand facing page.
Each poem can be read individually but also with interesting visual and thematic connections to the accompanying photograph: Poems are printed on the left, photographs are on the right-hand facing page.
A list of titles for the poems, with page numbers, can be found in the afterword.
The photographs are of natural forms and haven't been manipulated on a computer.
The second book "Thine and Mine'" published in 2012 might also be available from the bookshops listed below but both books have been produced in limited numbers.
Website for other images including street photography + portraits:
www.rafaeldeswarte.com
Beckenham Bookshop GB Tel: 020 8650 9744
Kirkdale Bookshop Sydenham GB Tel: 020 8778 4701
Poem title: 'old glory'. Pages 4 - 5 'Photographs and Poems'
Poem title: 'the all-seeing eye'. Pages 54 - 55 'Photographs and Poems'
