April 8, 2012

Nice review of The Waiting Room over on the phot(o)lia blog.

http://photolia.tumblr.com/post/20511639880/the-waiting-room-bill-crandall

Belarus, a post-Soviet country “squeezed between Europe and Russia”. The most common association is probably Chernobyl and current political regime referred to as “the last dictatorship in Europe”. No surprise that those few photographers who get to that part of Europe focus on one of those issues. Bill Crandall did something very different. He came to Belarus to document everyday life and he spent one decade visiting the country: observing, learning, reflecting. [S]ome images are just surreal, others are very intimate, many are captivating but all of them create beautiful and intriguing narratives […].

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February 12, 2012

Thanks to Larissa Leclair for adding The Waiting Room to the Indie Photobook Library.

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January 15, 2012

My book The Waiting Room - Photographs from Belarus is now available in a first edition of 500. The introduction, in English and Russian, is by Belarusian author Victor Martinovich. The book is a ten-year body of work finally achieving final form.

Check here for more info about the book and to order. I can mail orders anywhere in the US or the world. There’s a downloadable e-book version as well, with either an English or Russian introduction. It should work well on pretty much any computer or device. The e-book is free for the month of January as a promotion.

Softcover
E-book (English intro)
E-book (Russian intro)

If you’re in DC, I’ll be having a launch party soon, so stay tuned!

Whenever I travel I am so dependent on other people, without whom I couldn’t get anything done. Huge thanks to everyone who helped me so much over the years!

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November 4, 2011
I’ll be giving a presentation and talk tomorrow (Sat) at 11am, kicking off FotoWeekDC’s lecture series in the former Borders space downtown. I’ll show work from The Waiting Room, my 10-year project in Belarus looking at this little-known country on the edge of Europe. The book should be out shortly (I’d hoped to have it by tomorrow but it was not to be). In the meantime, anyone who attends will get a free copy of the e-book version. The place is massive and is decked out with cool photography, worth a look anyway. Hope you can join me! Here’s the FB event page.

I’ll be giving a presentation and talk tomorrow (Sat) at 11am, kicking off FotoWeekDC’s lecture series in the former Borders space downtown. I’ll show work from The Waiting Room, my 10-year project in Belarus looking at this little-known country on the edge of Europe. The book should be out shortly (I’d hoped to have it by tomorrow but it was not to be). In the meantime, anyone who attends will get a free copy of the e-book version.

The place is massive and is decked out with cool photography, worth a look anyway. Hope you can join me! Here’s the FB event page.

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