First edition of I Will Keep You in Good Company by Liz Johnson Artur (2025)

First impression 

Large format hardback in near fine condition 

Some reading wear to boards and extremities of page block

No markings to interior

Binding firm 

24.5 x 30 cm, 192 pages

About

I Will Keep You in Good Company brings together pages and fragments from over twenty of Ghanaian-Russian artist Liz Johnson Artur’s personal workbooks – handmade volumes she has kept since the early 1990s. Part diary, part experimental playground, these books are where she shaped her photographic language through layering, cutting, annotating, and assembling: a space for processing not only images, but life itself. 

Each page is a tactile surface, combining photographic prints on canvas, tracing paper, faxes, and photo stock with screen-prints, handwriting, and clipped texts. The result is a sensorial, intimate archive of moments lived and witnessed – of friends, family, strangers, lovers – held with care and attention.