New publication from Sigma Foundation:
"Trevor Key"

Kanagawa, Japan - Sigma Foundation (Location: Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa, Chairperson: Kazuto Yamaki) is pleased to announce the publication of its third book, "Trevor Key". The book is scheduled for release around August, with further details regarding the date and pricing to be announced in due course.

Cover:
Cherub, 2026
Trevor Key and Peter Saville
Original photograph © Trevor Key 1988
Image from New Order 'Technique' 1989
Courtesy of New Order

"Trevor Key"

Published July 2026 by Sigma Foundation
Edition of 1500
Photographs by Trevor Key
Essay by Charlotte Cotton
Interview with Peter Saville and Charlotte Cotton
Edited and sequenced by Björn Kusoffsky
Design by Stockholm Design Lab
Executive Producer Stockholm Design Lab
With thanks to Peter Saville
Pages: 244
Printing: Hakko Bijutsu
ISBN: 978-4-911681-02-2
Size: 213 x 285 x 24.5mm

Trevor Key's collaborative and experimental photographic practice spanned over twenty years (1972-1995). This book is the first to honor his processes and prescience and is an enduring visual love letter to the future of image-making.Trevor Key is a timely reminder of the proto-digital, practical photographic magic that Key's photographs embody.

Over the course of Key's creative journey, he chose like-mindedly exacting conceptual thinkers, including art directors Jamie Reid, David James and Peter Saville with whom he would imagine, visually problem solve, and take creative risks.

Within the visual heart of this book is Key and Saville's experimental collaboration that ventured beyond the confines of commissioned album covers into a personal quest that Saville and Key shared to rethink image-making and have a truly independent and speculative creative flow. In the book's conversation between Key's collaborator and celebrated art director Peter Saville and writer and curator Charlotte Cotton, Saville gives a detailed and deeply personal account of the context, practices and radical shifts in visual culture that he and Key created together.

In the mid. 1980s, Key flipped analogue darkroom conventions and made vibrant and abstract images that are as contemporary today as they were in 1987, and an enduring marker of the freedoms that human-scaled and collaborative processes hold and a route map for creating the visuals of our time.

About Sigma Foundation

Founded by Sigma president Kazuto Yamaki in 2025, the Sigma Foundation serves as a dedicated way for Sigma to support and promote contemporary photography. In its first year, the foundation published books with world-renowned photographers Sølve Sundsbø and Julia Hetta. Trevor Key is the third book, made in celebration of a rich photographic heritage with great cultural significance.

Sigma is a Japanese manufacturer of photographic lenses and cameras. Guided by the philosophy, "The Art of engineering, Engineering for Art," the company strives to create uncompromising optical technology for artists, creatives, and professionals across all visual media.

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