Entrepõt
Entrepõt
A series of 8 photobooks is currently in production, with each volume representing an entrepôt (trading post) within the transatlantic merchant network of Charles Robin & Co. The series draws on an extensive body of archival research, photography and other material gathered during field-study trips to former colonial outposts and historically significant maritime locations between 2017 and 2025. These include Jersey, Canada, Portugal, Spain, Italy, England, the Baltic region, Brazil, Belize, Honduras and the Caribbean islands of Dominica, Martinique, Barbados, Grenada and St Lucia.
Currently not available to buy
Planned publication date: 2028
Entrepôt is a maritime photographic research project exploring the history and legacies of Jersey’s cod fishery in Canada and its associated merchant networks across the West Indies, South America, the Mediterranean and the Baltic during the 18th and 19th centuries. Centred on cod-merchant Charles Robin, who founded Jersey’s most successful commercial enterprise on the Gaspé coast in 1766, the project examines colonial and family histories to reveal how wealth generated through the North Atlantic fisheries and maritime trade helped lay the foundations of Jersey’s future prosperity.
Production:
—Author/ photographs: Martin Toft
—Book concept: Martin Toft,
Ania Nałecka-Milach
—Book design: Ania Nałecka-Milach
—Editing and sequencing: Martin Toft
—Text: Martin Toft
—Hardcover, swiss-binding, silkscreen
—Dimensions: 315mm (h) x 240mm (w)
—Pages: 96-116 per book
—Images: 70-80 photographs per book
—Printing and binding: Narayana Press (DK)
—Print run: 1000 copies