completed in 2007, mystery photo was the outcome of a collaboration with ninety nottingham county libraries, in which library users were asked to submit their own photographs that they deemed ‘mysterious, indistinct or baffling’.

100 images were then categorised using ‘dewey decimal’.

"i am finding that librarians classify information according to a 'primary characteristic': in their assessment the most important aspect of that information. a highly subjective assessment."

-precis of mystery photo.098

with a certain amount humour, the book can be seen as a way of tackling both the apparent rigidity of a system, and finding a place for images that are otherwise unprovenanced and unplaceable within any knowledge system.