details

2024
220 × 270mm, 36 pages
Self-published
Designed by Sam Blunden
£19
@westcountrymodern

artist

West Country Modern is the imprint of photographer and image maker, Jethro Marshall. Documenting the landscape of South West England, Jethro takes an anti-bucolic, pro-rural approach celebrating the mundane, utilitarian and municipal beauty of countryside environments and the man-made interventions within it.

The work often takes the form of typologies, with specific subjects captured in series and often rendered as limited-edition books.

publication

The book is a typology of mobile homes, situated in semi-permanent vantage points along South West England’s Jurassic Coast. Shot out of season, the homes are free of human life and its associated paraphernalia, revealing these colloquial pre-fabricated modernist forms. They are equal parts regimented Soviet, free-living American and British kitsch.

The book comes with a giclée print packaged within an attached envelope, which in turn conceals an introductory essay by architect and critic Sam Jacob. The black and white photographs are intended without judgement or irony. They are an enthusiast’s collection, part of a larger visual documentation of the region’s countryside, capturing the real character hiding under the invisibility cloak of the everyday.