Self-published in November 2024, Campus Drift is a collection of 35mm film photographs made on the University of Warwick’s campus in the Canley area of Coventry in the West Midlands between 2019 – 2024.

The book is pocket-sized, A6, 28 pages full-colour.
Printed on 115gsm recycled paper with 250gsm cover.
Staple-bound.
November 2024: First limited edition print run of 15, signed and numbered.
4 copies left (Jan ’25)
£6.50 – email me adelemreed@yahoo.co.uk to purchase

Read below an extract from the introduction:

I first took up temp work on campus in 2012 whilst studying at Coventry University, later returning in 2019 to take on more regular work and then landing a permanent part-time position in 2022. I was stunned at first by the beauty of planting and biodiversity framing the neat passageways, lakes and vistas. I’d never really seen so many flowers thriving into autumn and winter – the echinaceas and Japanese anemones.

In more recent years the sheer abundance of wildflower meadows and spring bulb displays have been breathtaking. It’s a place, if you are lucky enough to have the time, to lurk and dwell and look amid the contrasted pressures and demands of academic advancement.

I see, or find, something new most lunchtimes when I walk. I often walk continuously for an hour, sometimes loitering a while by the engineered streams or uncanny architecture of student accommodation, making pictures or spotting insects. I got thinking a lot about the word campus, how it holds us together in a kind of cradle, but I also thought about the uniformity, the sense of belonging but under highly structured terms. There is a sense of calm to this arrangement and an ongoing opportunity to look more closely for the moments of idiosyncrasy.