In Archaeology in Reverse Stephen Gill wanders along the banks of East London’s Lea river, recording (with a camera that cost him 50p from the market) the traces of something that has yet to be built – the site of the 2012 Olympics. In an accompanying essay Iain Sinclair writes ‘The old grungy Arcadia of the marshes has been breeched by irresistible forces who want to explain it away, dig out its unexploded bombs, clean up its turgid waters, expel its squatters and survivalists. So Gill operates at the optimum moment, when nothing is fixed, mapped, defined . . . Essentially, Gill is interested in the suspended time before the work starts, before the shape of the emerging speculation becomes obvious.’

Nobody | Hardback 114 pp. |ISBN: 9780954940553