from 1997 to 2007 Paddy Summerfield photographed his parents

during my trek last year

where ‘Mars’ is one of the books

behind the stereotype is a town of bootstrappers struggling to get by against a background of crushing poverty almost reminiscent of the Depression

Signed by Guido Guidi to a dedicated slip glued into the inside back cover

Sweet Life Ward long from 1997 to 2007 PaddyFirst Errata edition (2012) This is a facsimile copy of the original book Medium format hardback in new condition About In 1960, armed with two magazine commissions and a stipend from Netherlands television, Ed van der Elsken (19251990) and his wife Gerda set off on a fourteen month journey around the world, from West Africa, the Malay Peninsula, the Philippines, Hong Kong and Japan to the United States and Mexico.