A5, 44 page book published by Hunter and James. Designed by Wayne Daly. John MacLeans fourth book of photographs, Neighbourhood is available 31.7.09. Sixty-nine photographs taken in MacLean s immediate locality of Tooting Bec, south-west London, between March 1 2008 and May 24th 2009. The resulting book is part diary, part archive, part lament on the passage of time, part psychogeography and part playful push-and-pull of photographic conventions. Whilst making his Combines in the 1950 s, Robert Rauschenberg established a methodology: If I couldn't find material to do an artwork walking around the block once, I wouldn't do it. While most photographers look to new places to generate new work, why not, John reasoned, do the opposite and photograph the place that was most over-familiar and least far flung? Making photographs within a five minute walk of his house, what emerged over a period of 15 months were the new approaches that surface when a photographer, forced into a corner, has to