The fourth title in Setanta Books’ ongoing collaboration with Open Doors Gallery, this 2020 softcover presents the work of British photographer Hollie Fernando. At forty-eight pages and roughly pocket-sized, it is conceived as a focused encounter rather than a survey. Fernando, based in Brighton, came to photography through commercial work and has kept a practice that moves between commissioned portraits and personal projects. That dual habit—shooting musicians and actors with the same ease she brings to siblings and friends—gives the pictures their unusual evenness of tone. The book’s subject is less a set of sitters than a sustained atmosphere: a world held together by color.

Fernando works on analogue film and prints most of her images in the darkroom, using color references to guide the process before digitizing the prints with a second layer of color drawn from earlier work. The result is a deliberately constructed visual identity, one in which palette, lighting, and symbolic detail echo the logic of classical painting. Her stated aim is consistency of color above all—a fantasy world maintained across portraits that might otherwise belong to different genres or contexts. In book form, that consistency becomes a sequence, and the tight trim size encourages the viewer to read the images as adjacent frames rather than isolated pictures.

The book appears alongside earlier volumes by Luka Khabelashvili, Margaret Durow, and Michael McCluskey, positioning Fernando within a generational series dedicated to emerging photographers. For collectors, its interest lies in that context as much as in the individual plates: a numbered, gallery-linked publication that documents a photographer’s method at a specific moment, with the wraparound card cover and modest dimensions treated as part of the intended object. The edition is small, and the series structure gives the volume a coherence that standalone monographs often lack.