I'm loving the idea of this limited edition boxed set of prints by friend-of-aCurator Brian David Stevens, for only £100 (that's about $170 on today's crappy exchange rate. But still a billy bargain!) 

"In the summer of 2004 photographer Stevens rose early to capture the towering speaker rigs and sound systems of the Notting Hill Carnival before the crowds arrived." Read on...

"The sound systems, these towering monuments to volume that stay in place for three days, are portrayed starkly and simply in Stevens' photos, a far cry from the colourful, loud and crowded images that normally depict the carnival. Stevens says he wanted to shift the emphasis to the source of the music that was drawing people there in the first place, and yet was drowned out in the visual noise. "Normally you never see these streets empty, they're absolutely packed with people," he says. "I got down there very early as they were setting up and shot the huge, monolithic speakers just in the middle of the street, where they look fantastically beautiful - I think every street corner should have one on them."

(Independent publisher) Tartaruga has produced a limited boxed set of screenprints, featuring six photographs from the series screenprinted as A2 monochrome prints on to high quality archival paper.

The six prints are produced in a limited run of just 30, and come housed inside a custom printed box. 

A limited photo book / zine of the series is soon to be available from Café Royal Books, and an exhibition of the series (screenprinted by Tartaruga) is on show at The Social in London until 30 Sept 2014.