The Sound of Dirt and Beauty — Jesse Glazzard — SPBH Editions — 2026

A decade of friendship, desire and transition becomes an archive made from inside the community. Glazzard’s first book follows friends, lovers and collaborators across Britain, combining intimate portraits with bedrooms, gatherings, diary fragments and everyday encounters. Rooted in working-class experience and underground queer culture, the photographs resist turning identity into spectacle. Glazzard’s own transition runs quietly through the sequence, alongside changing relationships and chosen families. Conceived with the directness of his self-published zines, it records vulnerability, experimentation and solidarity as lived experience rather than fixed categories.

Technical Sheet
Title: The Sound of Dirt and Beauty
Artist / Author: Jesse Glazzard
Date: August 2026
Edition: First edition
Medium / Materials: Paperback, stapled and screen-printed publication
Dimensions: 21 × 29.7 cm
Pages: 168
Language: English
Publisher / Editor: SPBH Editions
ISBN: 978-1-917651-72-1
Condition: New