{"product_id":"liz-johnson-artur-i-will-keep-you-in-good-company-signed","title":"Liz Johnson Artur: I Will Keep You in Good Company (signed)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI Will Keep You in Good Company \u003c\/em\u003ebrings together pages and fragments from over twenty of Ghanaian-Russian artist Liz Johnson Artur’s personal workbooks – handmade volumes she has kept since the early 1990s. Part diary, part experimental playground, these books are where she shaped her photographic language through layering, cutting, annotating, and assembling: a space for processing not only images, but life itself. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eEach page is a tactile surface, combining photographic prints on canvas, tracing paper, faxes, and photo stock with screen-prints, handwriting, and clipped texts. The result is a sensorial, intimate archive of moments lived and witnessed – of friends, family, strangers, lovers – held with care and attention. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e‘I like to be right next to it, in the middle of it, to take it home’, Johnson Artur writes. ‘To keep them close is a way of giving importance and appreciation.’ These workbooks are acts of presence – visual thinking made physical – and the foundation for her celebrated Black Balloon Archive, a project that honours communities across the African diaspora. \u003cem\u003eI Will Keep You in Good Company \u003c\/em\u003eis a candid, generous record of a photographer learning not only how to look, but how to stay close. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by Mack\u003cbr\u003e2025\u003cbr\u003eUK\u003cbr\u003eHardcover\u003cbr\u003e24.5 x 30 cm\u003cbr\u003e192 pages\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MACK Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50555730722873,"sku":"210000003847","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0782\/0872\/9145\/files\/iwillkeepyou-cover.webp?v=1790280168","url":"https:\/\/shop.icp.org\/products\/liz-johnson-artur-i-will-keep-you-in-good-company-signed","provider":"International Center of Photography","version":"1.0","type":"link"}