The Last Stand photobook

Northbank 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 from 2010, Marc traveled 23,000 miles to 143 locations to document some of the physical remnants of the second world war on the coastlines of the UK and northern Europe, focusing on military defence structures that remain and their place in the shifting landscape that surrounds them. This 124-page 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. So Marc had no problem dragging us up to the printers – Team in Leeds – in the torrential rain, at a ridiculously early time in the morning, to pass on press.