Photographer Stephen McCoy — Housing Estates 1979

Stephen began this project in Ainsdale Southport in 1979 whilst working as a photographic technician at Southport College of Art. Like many of Cafe Royal’s documentary zines, they capture an important cultural moment in the development of post-war Britain.

32 pages
14cm x 20cm
b/w digital

Café Royal Books publishes limited edition Photobooks coveted by fans and collected by major institutions. The Zines focus on British documentary photography. Café Royal is run and founded by Craig Atkinson.

Craig explains ‘My aim is to create a focussed and complete archive of British documentary photography. I publish roughly 70 titles each year with a small edition ‘archive box’ every 100th title. These archive boxes are aimed at major collections, libraries and museums — helping to increase the visibility of the work and making the books publicly accessible for as long as possible. Collectors are wide and varied but include, MoMA NY, Harvard University, Oxford University, Cambridge University, The British Library, The Hyman Collection, Martin Parr Foundation, TATE, V&A / National Art Library’.