Foreword by Bob StanleyEssay by Jo-Ann FurnissDesigned at M/M (Paris) What are these books? The greatest hits? Not really. A double album? Sort of. A retrospective? Certainly, but not a definitive one. These books were nearly entitled The New Elizabethans as the last picture was taken just after Queen Elizabeth-s death in 2022 while all of the people in the pictures or the locations that appear are British. Yet that title seemed a little too narrowand far too royal. So, it-s HOME and AWAY. HOME and AWAY is an idea of where somebody is from, where they travel to, and where, if they are the photographer Alasdair McLellan, they find themselves now after taking pictures for 35 years. These books fall somewhere between those two worlds,as does Alasdair McLellan himself. Alasdair started his life as a photographer aged thirteen, in 1987. His pictures today have changed little; his way of looking at the world is almost exactly the same. The first picture he ever took looks like it could have
