Smiler, (1st Edition), Signed Mark Cawson | Neal Brown.

Super rare edition.

Photographs by Mark Cawson AKA Smiler
Text by Neal Brown
Edition of 100
Art Direction by Gareth McConnell
Graphic Design by Kieron Livingston
52 pages of photographs
20 pages of text
Band wrap and hand stamped by the artist
ISBN: 978-0-9575573-9-0
Signed by the artist
ULTRA RARE
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Originally published by Sorika on the occasion of the exhibition Smiler: Photographs of London by Mark Cawson, 12 Oct – 29 Nov 2015, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. Curated by Gareth McConnell and Matt Williams.

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CAMERA SQUAT ART SMILER

Go Smiler’s. Kings Cross. Tenement squats. Full scenic Oliver Twist look. Smiler and camera. I stay my girlfriend’s squat. Sex.

Smiler photographs staff at an early London McDonalds, High Street Kensington.

Seamus Luttman-Johnson dead. Mark Greaves dead. Sean Cooke dead. Mark Golding dead. Little Kevin dead. Soph Berens dead. Dan-I and I help carry Chris Cowen’s coffin. I go to funeral of Dan-I. Dan-I’s and my old friend Jake le Mesurier dead. Jake’s mother is Hattie Jacques. Sunday lunch roast with Jake, Hattie Jacques and drugs.

Age thirteen/fourteen I take LSD, Kensington Market, LSD lost soul horror.