The Plain (2020)
Hardcover, 96 pages, 43 colour plates. Published by Dewi Lewis Publishing, October 2020. ISBN: 978-1-911306-70-2
Essay by Matthew Flintham, artist and academic.
Edited by Melanie Friend and Dr. Pippa Oldfield (photo-historian, curator and Head of Programme at Impressions Gallery).
Design by Dean Pavitt.
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The Home Front (2013)
Foreword by Hilary Roberts, Head Curator of Photography at the Imperial War Museum in Britain and essay by curator Pippa Oldfield, Head of Programme at Impressions Gallery. Hardcover, 96 pages, 40 colour plates. Published by Dewi Lewis Publishing (in association with Impressions Gallery).
ISBN: 978-1-907893-41-4
The Home Front book was nominated ('long list') for the Deutsche Börse Photographic Prize 2015.
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Border Country (2007)
72 pp, 19 colour images, 75 minute audio CD (the complete exhibition soundtrack). Essays by Mark Durden, Alex Hall and Melanie Friend.
Published by Belfast Exposed Photography and The
Winchester Gallery.
ISBN-13: 978-0-9524217-9-5
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No Place Like Home: Echoes from Kosovo (2001)
160 pp, 66 colour photographs plus extensive interviews
Published by Midnight Editions, USA
ISBN: 1-800-780-2279
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Homes & Gardens: Documenting the Invisible (1996)
60 pp, 16 images; texts by David Bate, Arta Dedaj, Melanie Friend.
Published by Camerawork, London in association with F-Stop Media Station, Bath, to coincide with the exhibition of the same name.
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Berlin Wall 1985 –1990, Melanie Friend (Café Royal Books, published October 2024)
A selection of images from the Berlin Wall in 1985, during the Cold War, contrast with the joyful celebrations at the Wall on New Year’s Eve 1989 (seven weeks after the fall of the Wall).
Softcover, 36 pages, 20 black and white images. ISSN: 2752-5619
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China 1986, Melanie Friend (Café Royal Books, published October 2024)
A selection of images from Friend’s 1986 travels as a photojournalist in China, during a time of social and economic change. Published by Café Royal Books in October 2024; featured in the Observer New Review (& Guardian online) on 6 October 2024.
Softcover, 36 pages, 21 black and white photographs. ISSN: 2752-5619
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Group Publications
The System of Systems (2017)
Bringing together artists, activists and academics to interrogate the technologies and legal mechanisms involved in seeking asylum.
Created by Maria McLintock
Gallery 44 catalogue (2010)
Catalogue accompanying solo show at Gallery 44, Toronto, autumn 2010. Includes critical essay on Border Country by Canadian academic and artist, Katy McCormick.
Cost 5$ (Canadian) plus shipping.
Available from Gallery 44, Toronto. See here.
Europe (2008)
European Central Bank Annual Photography Award 2008 catalogue.
For download of catalogue with ten shortlisted works, including Border Country, see here.
Home Cultures (2007)
Berg, Volume Four Issue One March 2007. Front cover and republication of images from Homes and Gardens: Documenting
the Invisible, together with essay by Melanie Friend.
ISSN 1740-6315. ISBN 978 1 84520 6123
Available from Berg.
Claustrophobia (1998)
Published to accompany the exhibition Claustrophobia at Ikon Galllery, 6 June till 2 August 1998. © The Ikon Gallery.
ISBN 0 907594 58 1
Price: £11.95, available from Cornerhouse, Manchester