Books

The ScareCrows of London, unlike their Rustic Kith and Kin, are typically found in more apprehensive spaces than Fields and Farms. In the Great Conurbation the unrelenting and cynical pressures of Development, Gentrification and Commercialisation ever encroach and threaten our Historical Commons. It is in the Enclaves of Resistance, the Allotments and the Community Gardens, that we find this Transfigural Being. The Human-but-not-too-Human ScareCrow occupies a Space between Agricultural Function and Magical Thinking finding new meaning under FolkLore with a healthy dollop of The Uncanny.

‘Max Reeves’ photographs have documented our work at Crossbones Graveyard, London’s iconic psychogeographical landmark, over the past twenty years, charting its transformation from a derelict industrial site into a public Garden of Remembrance dedicated to sex workers and outcasts.’” – John Constable

“Through his photographs, Max superbly captures the diversity, inspired [mis]behaviour, dynamic energy and, more importantly, context of performances. With the recent and increasing interest in our country’s folklore, dance and seasonal events, this publication represents a timely and welcome addition to existing documents and observations. Candid and more eccentric moments - which could have otherwise gone unnoticed - sit sensitively alongside others that truly celebrate the dramatic nature of these widespread events.” – Doc Rowe

A collection of mostly landscape photographs taken immediately prior to, and during the COVID pandemic, looking at a land that is steeped in myth and anxiety through a side filter of folk horror and psychogeography with a touch of hauntology.

“Mapa is a poignant meditation on time, madness and creativity told as a photographic travelogue, overland and through time, across France and via the lives and locations of three artists, Vincent Van-Gogh, Antonin Artaud and Jean-Michel Atlan.” – Frances Morris

Being a Photographic Meditation under Quarantine of ‘Marlowe’s Museum of Interesting Things’ in our Home in Spitalfields, London, during the Covid 19 Pandemic of 2020.

A circumnavigation of the Shard Tower in London at the height of the Corona Pandemic.

Max Reeves revisits Tangier in the footsteps of Bowles, Burroughs and Gysin

100 photographs of Clapton Community Football Club by Max Reeves

Travels with Chas and Dazed

Poetry by David Erdos and photographs by Max Reeves

Photographs of the forest of the Bethlem Royal Hospital.