Photography, society and social change

Image & Reality is a publisher specialising in British social documentary photography and photojournalism photobooks.

With a background of over 40 years of publishing experience, including key works by John Bulmer, Tish Murtha, Jim Mortram, Patrick Ward, Nick Hedges and many others, I & R aim to publish affordable photobooks that further understanding of how society and social change are recorded and represented by the photographic image.


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