The Photographer's Grimoire is the world's first practical manual for photography as an occult practice.

Inside the book is a working framework built from 26 years of experiences by an award-winning documentary photographer.

It will help you to take seriously the uncanny, unexplainable moments and strange synchronicities that are already showing up in your photographs, so you can work with them deliberately instead of dismissing them.

Have you ever photographed something you couldn't explain? 

A ludicrous coincidence? 

Something uncanny? 

You are not alone. 

This isn't a memoir about one photographer's trippy adventures. It's a toolkit for having your own.

For Who Does This Book Serve?

The Photographer's Grimoire is for photographers who want to try and use magic to not only change their perception of reality, but ultimately themselves. To achieve the great works.

It’s for anyone who has taken a photograph that raised a question they couldn't answer. It takes that experience seriously, gives it a language, and hands you a set of tools, rituals, tasks, and a framework for reading your own results. 

If you are a street photographer, documentary photographer or photojournalist this book is for you. I hope it changes the way our work is perceived forever. 

Award Winning Photographer

Edward Thompson is a British documentary photographer whose work has featured in National Geographic Magazine, The Sunday Times Magazine and The Guardian. 

His photographs have been exhibited at The Saatchi Gallery, Somerset House and at international photo-festivals in the U.K, France, Finland, Norway, and Spain. 

He has published five photography books since 2011. These are in the collections of The National Art Library, The Bishopsgate Institute, The Museum of London, The Amon Carter Museum of American Art, and The Devil’s Museum, Lithuania.

He's won a Sony World Photo Award, A Fuji Film Distinction Award, and The Special Prize at The Magnum Photo / Ideastap Award. 

Drawing on Chaos Magic, Zen philosophy, Celtic Shamanism, Gnosticism, and photographic theory, Thompson builds a practical framework for understanding photography as occult practice.

Grounded in his own empirical experience as a working photographer and cunning man. The result is unlike any existing photography book or occult text: part field manual, part philosophical investigation. 

BOOK SPECS

• 203mm x 150mm

• 166 pages

• 40,000 words

• Over 50 photographs

• Hardback cover

• Debossed gold foil cover text

• Offset printed by KOPA

• Designed by Tiffany Jones / Overlapse Publishing