Publisher's Synopsis
With hands from all corners of society, from builders to world class musicians, artists to grave-diggers, this is an insightful and moving book of striking photographs. Here is a series of stories about people, told with both images and words - stories of very different lives from a wide range of backgrounds.
The sitters often talk about what their hands mean to them. For some they are just tools, blunt instruments that enable them to achieve a desired result. For others, their relationship with their hands goes beyond the mere physical, to a more esoteric connection - in many cases the hands re a conduit through which intentions, and indeed feeling, can be passed from the mind to their task, be it labour, art, sport, music or craft.
