Dench Does Dallas
by Peter Dench, The Bluecoat Press, £55, hardcover, 176 pages, ISBN 978-1-90845-729-5
PETER Dench is no stranger to the oddities of everyday human life. Look back through his images and you'll soon see yourself confronted by the borderline absurdity of our ordinary lives. More than anything, Dench is able to draw out the humour, and that's the key to his new volume Dench Does Dallas . Dench usually focuses his attention on the UK, but here he's turned his lens to the USA's Dallas, Texas, and he's quite clearly in his element. The garish, overwhelming and at times heavily politicised city provides ample fodder for his images. The book acts as a visual travelogue of the photographer's journey and often you feel like you're next to him,…