Nick Bannehr (@nickbannehr)

A special moment with a special man. Muz 💛

REAL FOOTBALL by Nick Bannehr 8x10 inch 68 page Singer sewn, softcover with dust-jacket poster Edition of 100 Self Published - London, UK www.nickbannehr.com Special thanks to Katie and the town of Chiddingstone for welcoming me into their community and for sharing the spirit of this game. Thank you Marco @studio.salina for your expert design work with the fold out poster and all the assets. Thanks to @harold__bennett for the beautiful logo illustration that sits on the cover of the book. Thanks to my dear friend and best in the business, Piotr @i_make_books for all your generous time talking book design and passionately loving the art of bookmaking as much as you do! And thanks to all of my London crew who offered valuable feedback throughout the publishing process! FILMED - JOHNO OLDHAM @johnooldham EDITED - SAM BRATBY @thegreatbratsby

Sometimes you’ve got to drive ’til the bars fade, ’Til the bitumen peels back its skin and the trees close ranks around you— a cathedral of ferns and whispering gums where the air thickens like sleep and the light starts to slant in that holy way. There’s a place down here they call the Never Never. Not named by chance. It’s where time drops its guts and gives up the ghost. Where the river runs glassy and green and the rocks underfoot feel like the bones of old gods. We camped there, me and the kid, pitched the blue dome like it was some last outpost and cooked whatever we had under the gaze of moss and lichen older than language. The rope swings hang like relics— knotted with kid dreams and creek silt, and if you shut your eyes just right you’ll hear the whoop of ghosts mid-arc, mid-summer. There’s something in this water that washes more than sweat. You dive in and it peels the world off your shoulders like bark off a dead tree. Out here, in the Never Never, you remember things that the city made you forget— how to listen, how to sit still, how to be small and be fine with it. And when the sun spears through the canopy and kisses the surface just so, you get it— why people vanish into this place and don’t send word. Because some escapes aren’t escapes at all. They’re homecomings in disguise.

From chasing a ball through muddy fields in Chiddingstone, to sequencing and printing a book in London, and now a shelf at BTWNLNS pop-up at the Sydney Contemporary Art Fair. The path of my latest photobook Real Football has not been what I would have imagined. September 11-14th @sydneycontemporary @carriageworks @btwn.lns It also just received an Honourable Mention at the International Photography Awards (little sweetener) a small reminder that even independently published stories are worth pursuing. For me, this book has always been about endurance, community, and the need to escape. To have it sitting in Australia’s biggest art fair feels like a full-circle moment. Long live print ! ❤️📚

A visit to Landini Associates for Monocle’s The Entrepreneurs Issue 9. 
Behind every enduring brand is a deceptively simple idea - sometimes sparked by two bottles of champagne. Mark Landini’s studio in Surry Hills has helped shape brands like McDonald’s, T2, Jurlique, and Aldi — all guided by one clear test: could you recognise the brand the moment the blindfold comes off? Story by @carliratcliff
Thanks to my pal @mramilnes for the commission

Back into the wild 🏕️

Flowhive, shot for Monocle. The Entrepreneurs issue 9. Earlier this year, I stopped through Byron Bay for Monocle’s Entrepreneurs Issue to photograph the infamous Flow Hive – the beekeeping start-up that’s changed how honey is harvested around the world. Cedar and Stuart Anderson, the father-and-son team behind Flow Hive, took me through their workshop, the hives, and the rolling hinterland they call home. It’s one of those assignments that reminds you big ideas often start in small sheds. Thanks @mramilnes for the commission and to the @flowhive team for having me! #byronbay #beekeeping #flowhive #entrepreneursissue #monoclemagazine #australianmade #documentaryphotography #editorialphotography

Shot by the sea, somewhere in the UK.

Where do you go to escape? 
I made this picture in the winter of 2020, not long after fire tore through the land and left it raw and smoking. The trees stood black and hollowed, but underneath, something gentle was stirring. Green shoots pressing up through the ash. I was drawn to the way the trees, even in their burnt state, reached out and held the landscape in this frame. It’s from 40 Hours of Darkness, a series made on large format film, walking firegrounds across the South East, listening to the silence and what came after. I was looking at the resilience of the land, but also the grief, and if beauty could exist within both. Now the world feels heavier. Hotter. Meaner. I still return to the bush and the ocean when I need to breathe.
To feel small again. And freer. I’ve just added this work to the print store on my new website. I hope you can find a moment of escape within it like me. Made on Yuin County.

Under electric sky’s ⚡️

Two views from a big few days hiking.

The daily escape. Outtakes from You’ll Never Run Alone. Shot for Peak Magazine, London.