From designer Ben Weaver:
Sugar Paper Theories explores the investigation of the supposed murder of two missing persons in Iceland in the 1970s and the conviction of 6 people based solely on their confessions. Jack Latham’s photographs are combined with material from the original police investigation files, a copy of the case files obtained by a conspiracy theorist and excerpts from a diary kept by one of the accused. This source material is reproduced using a variety of printing methods, paper types and sizes, and is sequenced to create a nightmarish, disorientating experience of the investigation. A written account of the case by Professor Gisli Gudjónsson CBE, a forensic psychologist whose expert testimony and theory of memory distrust syndrome are central to an ongoing inquiry, is integrated into the sequence.
The book uses the typeface Landnáma throughout.
Sugar Paper Theories was first published by Here Press in 2016. A second edition followed in 2019. Text by Gisli Gudjónsson with a foreword by Erla Bolladottir and photographs by Jack Latham. The book comes with a perfect bound card cover with cloth spine. It measures 31×23 cm and has 180 pages.
