BABYLONFrom the collection of James Birch With an introduction by George Melly These weird and wonderful postcards show babies as never seen before. Babies hatch from eggs, bubble from cauldrons, are fished from rivers, emerge in the cabbage patch, sit atop clouds, and ride in zeppelins. They play instruments, drive automobiles, fly in balloons, harvest the fields; an anarchistic world of baby heaven. James Birch first came across the postcards when he was a

but numerous small factories and manufacturing businesses remain in good health

– Thomas Moore

and collective traumas that

a tribute to a group of young transsexuals with whom he became friends and whose lives he shared over many months

Originally published in 1983 by Jonathan Cape

African Catwalk (Kehrer 2016)

Women subjects are less threatened by a woman

but limits its perspective to a single room

conveying a rich sense of place and atmosphere

and reconciling belief/religion

in the 1990s it became an experiment in urban regeneration

the ‘natural’ from the cultured