Publications

The long form.

Where a study is a chapter, a publication is the book. These are complete editorial volumes, built for a single place, brand or world, and read as a sequence rather than a page.

What mkd Publications Are

mkd STUDIO publishes selected work as long-form volumes when a story earns more than a single study can hold. A publication runs to a hundred pages or more, designed as a digital reader with its own pacing, structure and typography, built specifically for the place or world it documents. Each volume is also produced as a physical book, a printed first edition.

A single photograph can describe a moment. A publication has room to describe something larger. It can hold atmosphere, sequence, rhythm and context in a way that a gallery or a feed cannot. The subject is given the space it deserves, and the reader is given something worth returning to.

The same approach can be commissioned for a hotel, a brand or a house marking a season, an opening or a moment worth keeping. The archive publications are made independently. The commissioned volumes are built to the same standard, for a specific audience, with a specific purpose.

The printed first editions by mkd STUDIO, stacked, The Spaces Between uppermost
The Spaces Between, Formula One The Spaces Between, hardcover edition
Publication 001

The Spaces Between

Formula One, Volume I

Ten chapters, one weekend, Silverstone and Qatar. Most people watch the race. This volume watches everything else: the hour before the gates open, the fence that separates witnessed from unwitnessed, the rain, the red flag, the five lights that mean everything and nothing until they go dark. A record of a Grand Prix from the spaces the cameras don’t choose.

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The Ned, Doha The Ned, Doha, hardcover edition
Publication 002

The Ned, Doha

Hotel / Volume I

Scale, held quietly. The Ned Doha occupies a building that could overwhelm, and chooses not to. This volume follows that restraint through marble corridors, members’ rooms and the spaces between arrival and rest, where luxury is measured in the absence of effort rather than its display.

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Waiting for Dusk, Doha Golf Club, Qatar Waiting for Dusk, hardcover edition
Publication 003

Waiting for Dusk

Experience / Volume I

Ten photographs made at Doha Golf Club during the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters. The sport is the reason everyone is there. This volume attends to the rest: the caddies crossing the fairway, the light of the last forty minutes, the grass holding its colour a little longer than the sky does.

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KAAWA, Manchester, Open Late Open Late, journal edition
Publication 004

Open Late

Hospitality / Volume I

A study of a café that remains open. KAAWA, Manchester, on a rainy evening in the part of the year when afternoons end early. Nine photographs, six chapters. The city goes dark. The room stays lit.

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Against the Display, RHS Chelsea Against the Display, Publication 005, mkd STUDIO
Publication 005

Against the Display

Garden / Volume I

A garden at Chelsea is never only a garden. This publication looks at two gardens that entered the show with their own atmosphere, memory and resistance intact: Sarah Price’s painterly, meadow-led sensibility and Jihae Hwang’s quieter, culturally rooted intelligence. Twenty-two photographs. Five sections. The tension between designed nature and institutional attention is the argument.

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Morocco, Tangier Morocco, Publication 006, mkd STUDIO
Publication 006

Morocco

Place / Volume I

A city at its own pace, and a palace that refuses to be anything less. Three studies across Tangier and Marrakech: the port city at street level and at dusk, its interiors and evening restaurants, and Dar El Bacha, where the ritual of coffee is placed inside something that was already beautiful before it arrived. Twenty-one photographs. Five sections.

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Porto, Douro at sunset Lisbon & Porto, Publication 007, mkd STUDIO
Publication 007

Lisbon · Porto

Place / Volume II

Two cities on the same river, at different distances from the sea. Lisbon across seven hills above the Tagus, wide enough at its mouth to be mistaken for the open ocean. Porto on the Douro, smaller and steeper, with an interior life the tourist circuit tends to miss. Nineteen photographs. Five sections.

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The Kaaba seen through a dark architectural frame, Makkah al-Mukarramah Nearness, Publication 008, mkd STUDIO
Publication 008

Nearness

Pilgrimage / Volume I

Two cities you do not visit. You are received. Makkah and Madinah, photographed at the edges of a journey the camera cannot hold: the first sight of the sanctuary from a dark window, the gold thread on the black silk, the umbrellas opening at dawn, and the objects that travel home. Forty-three photographs. Sixteen chapters.

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A club scorecard holder and glove in a back pocket, Magnolia Classic Magnolia Classic, Publication 009, mkd STUDIO
Publication 009

Magnolia Classic

Sport / Volume I

One golf day at Horsforth Golf Club, organised by SGH Events and observed from the edges. A scorecard holder that reads as a passport, a bowl of tees, gloves, headcovers, greetings, champagne and an envelope in Masters green. Sixty-nine photographs. Five chapters. Not one score is recorded, and the day loses nothing by its absence.

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The Guerlain counter in gold lettering, Kept Close Kept Close, Publication 010, mkd STUDIO
Publication 010

Kept Close

Craft / Volume I

Fragrance, studied across six cities and four years. The salon above Harrods, Guerlain in Leeds and at Katara, Fueguia in Milan, and then the bottles at home: the shelf lit like an archive, the boxes kept after the ribbon, the oud that travels to Makkah. Forty-seven photographs. Five chapters. Nothing is reviewed and nothing is ranked.

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New volumes join this collection as they are made, each built around the place, brand or world it was commissioned for. The archive of independent studies is where the ongoing work lives between volumes.