I was delighted to work with Bath-based photographer Marc Wilson on the third edition of his photobook, The Last Stand.

Marc’s work reflects the histories and stories of military conflict and the memories held in the landscape itself. Over four years, Marc documented some of the physical remnants of the second world war on the coastlines of the UK and northern Europe, focusing on remaining military defence structures and their place in the landscape that surrounds them.

This casebound book contains over 90 photographs, all shot in a subdued, diffused light, usually at a ridiculously early time in the morning, whatever the weather.

The cover just holds the title, set large and debossed into a tactile, concrete-grey paper, making an oblique reference to the fact that many of these structures are no longer visible, either subsumed or submerged by the shifting sands and waters or by more human intervention.

There is a functional brutalism (for once, intended) to the typographic layout, matching the uncompromising and monolithic nature of the structures captured in The Last Stand. The straightforwardness of the typeface used sits well with the unadorned, obdurate monuments in Marc’s photographs.

For more information head to Marc Wilson