The second of the book projects I worked on with the wonderful Dr Jonathan Miller. He had long harboured an ambition to publish his own remarkable photographs, which were essentially snapshots he'd taken of "ordinary things". Over many years he had gathered his modest snaps into some five or six enormous scrapbooks with these photos lightly pasted in. Once I had persuaded him that it would be possible to do, these huge books were sent off to the Far East to have the images diligently scanned and a 'proper' book was the result.

For myself I was determined that his carefully constructed images should not be cropped in any way, as I deemed it crucial to the image that it was Jonathan's eye that had created the crop and no one else's. He was also determined to keep the look as plain and simple as possible so it was a delight to use the beautiful Monotype Grotesque.

It was a wonderful project to do but sadly the marketing department of Mitchell Beazley had no idea what the book was about so it died a slow death in the bookshops.

Years later I was told by a designer friend that a photographer friend of his had declared this book the best-designed book on photography he'd ever seen! Praise indeed!

Client: Mitchell Beazley