The Night Diana Died/I Remember A Time (Princess), Roelof Bakker

A box set containing two hand-made A5 artist’s books, each addressing an event connected to Princess Diana, published 31 August 2022, the 25th anniversary of her death, using expired Polaroid GridFilm to create a series of portraits of Princess Diana from appropriated photographs. Polaroid GridFilm was a format used by emergency services to record accident or crime sites. Other pages in the book show the outline of the GridFilm grid only, these empty squares communicate ideas about absence but also of opportunity. 

Both books remember Diana as a positive role model, gay activist, humanitarian and subverter of the tabloid press.

Edition of 5, £50, UK postage included. Certificate of authenticity.

Black cardboard box with foil blocked text to exterior. Two A5 hand-bound books: The Night Diana Died, 24pp; I Remember A Time (Princess), 16pp. Tracing paper, parche marque, cupcycled paper, gay pride rainbow paper, linen thread. A5 insert, 1pp, tracing paper. Foil blocking by Fraser Carr Mills. Spotify playlist ‘Diana’s Disco’. Edition of 5, 2 artist‘s proofs

Published 31 August 2022. Edition of 5.