Description
Café Royal Books is an independent publishing house founded by Craig Atkinson in 2005. Based in Ainsdale, a village on the northwest coast of England, it is a family-run endeavor involving Craig, his wife Joanne, and their children, Oscar and Hugo.
Café Royal specializes in documentary photography, focusing on post-war Britain and Ireland. Since 2012, the press has maintained an impressive output, publishing a new title almost every week, resulting in over 750 publications to date. Each book typically centers on a single body of work by a photographer, contributing to a larger series that documents various aspects of cultural and social change.
Amelia Troubridge, born in London in 1974, is a British photographer renowned for her compelling portraiture and documentary work. In 1996, Troubridge gained recognition by winning the Ian Parry Award for her social documentary project “Dublin’s Urban Cowboys.” Trounbridge begins her intro to Motorhead UK 1997: “In 1997 I went on a five-day tour with Motorhead, for Esquire Magazine, alongside the staff writer Bill Dunn. We were covering the Overnight Sensations tour…”. Also from her intro: “My favorite image is Lemmy writing backstage. It captures him in his own world, in contrast to the hard living, life on the road Lemmy.”
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