During my one-year stay in San Diego, California in the mid-1980s, I attempted to map out the landscape of the city. In particular, I would pick out features unfamiliar to a British landscape but integral to an American one. Some of these photographs would become typologies – collections of similar things. This approach to making photographs as typologies was influenced by the Californian artist Ed Ruscha who had produced photobooks on gasoline stations, swimming pools, parking lots and apartments. I was conscious of the subjects photographed by Ruscha and so I sought alternatives that would add to his existing taxonomy.

This CRB publication is composed of mailboxes that I observed along East County roadsides. The mailboxes are sited a considerable distance from the residences to which they belong and so stand alone in the landscape.

Published by Café Royal Books.  
Edited by Craig Atkinson.  
First Published 2019.  
Edition of 150.