The Holding is a sequence preoccupied with the pleasures of walking and of reading, of experiencing the city as a book or a song. Allan McDonald engages with an archive of more than fifty years to curate narratives around social history and place. It is his third title under this imprint, following Between the Silence and the Flame in 2016 and Carbon Empire in 2017, which won the New Zealand Photobook of the Year Award.