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Jane Burton: Other Stories Darren Sylvester: Compass Point Simon Terrill: Proscenium All three books together highlight the versatility of the book form as a means of presenting contemporary photography. Published by M.33, Melbourne, 2012 72 pages each 270 x 210 mm Series editor: Helen Frajman Series designer: Darren Sylvester All three books available as a set: $120.00 (+gst within Australia) 30% discount for all orders shipped to addresses outside of Australia. Enter this coupon code at checkout: WORLD Discount will be calculated in final price.        

DREW PETTIFER ISBN: 978-0-9871670-3-3 Taking its title from a 1987 Smith’s song, Drew Pettifer’s I keep mine hidden is a book of intimate photographs of the artist’s friends and lovers taken over the past two years. These previously unseen images form something of a diary cum queer family album as the willing subjects make themselves available for the camera’s gaze. The camera lingers – in bedrooms, bathrooms and often-watery external environments – over the naked and semi-naked bodies of young men as they are caught in moments of self-admiration and introspection….. → More details

JANINA GREEN ISBN: 978-0-9579553-8-7 Blush brings together strands of Janina Green’s practice from 1988 to the present. The obsessions and themes underpinning her work meander together in a dreamlike stream of consciousness to form a whole which is simultaneously delicate, intimate, sensual and faintly disconcerting. Green’s lyrical hand coloured portraits of young adults and images from the natural world sit beside her constructed photographs of domestic dysfunction and constructed narrative images dealing with childhood, motherhood, female friendship and fantasy. Running throughout are small punctuations of tiny moments of fragile beauty….. → More details

PETER MILNE ISBN: 978-0-9775790-7-5 In Beautiful Lies Peter Milne creates allegorical, visual narratives out of the strangely rich and conflicted history of a young nation still struggling to understand itself. The individual projects employ a wide range of visual languages, formal elements and subject matters but they all share a central concern with the possibilities for reinterpretation of historical narrative through visual allegory. The key theme in the work is the human dynamics involved in the pursuit of power, particularly the tension between utopian idealism and the corrupting disillusionment that…. → More details

CHRISTOPHER KÖLLER ISBN: 978-0-9579553-9-4 Christopher Köller’s photographs of gardens in Parádeisos don’t strive for the ‘ideal’ view, but for a view that is different, unexpectedly beautiful or jarring. The blurred edges of plants and buildings bleed into one another and generate a sense of restless movement, a feeling that we can’t quite focus on any one point – as though we were moving though the landscape of a dream. Produced between 1997 and 2009, the scope of Parádeisos is vast, taking us from Zen gardens in Kyoto to a roadside…. → More details