Pig Iron Works<\/a> is a collaborative publishing venture that aims to use photography as a tool for connection and community, creating space for human-driven work to exist outside digital channels of distribution. Essentially, their goal is to offer an escape from the online world. As Travers shared with us:<\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s heart breaking to work in print and be apart of darkroom culture, then to see the work sat only on instagram. Days go into making images. I often think the darkroom becomes a church and its followers who like making faces in the dark join in silence and converse over colour casts. I\u2019m sure everyone knows this feeling when they see something in the real world vs on their phone curled up in a ball with eyes burning\u2014its just more meaningful and we really wanted to push the group publication aspect of this in hopes we can at the very least talk more about making things collectively and bringing work back into the physical world.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\nTheir first publication with designers SM Studio<\/a>, \u201cHandover\u201d is a visual conversation between photography communities in London and Manchester. The book brings together 27 photographers to showcase the kind of work that might otherwise not be seen. Split into three chapters\u2014\u2018Even Seeing a Rainbow in the City is Rare\u2019, \u2018Lust and Laundry\u2019, and \u2018The Fable\u2019\u2014which contributors were asked to respond to, the result is a passing of personal perspective and interpretation between people and place.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n