M.33

CHERINE FAHD ISBN: 978-0-9945170-7-4 This “paired volume”, beautifully designed by Elliott Bryce Foulkes, features Cherine Fahd’s photographic studies, ‘Shadowing Portraits’ (2014-2016) and ‘You Look Like a…’ (2016-2017). It includes a critical essay by Blair French – Director Curatorial and Digital, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, contributions from the ‘Shadowing’ participants, as well as Fahd’s own notations on the processes of making portraits. A ‘Portrait is a Puzzle’ is in itself an artwork; a pairing of two photographic series that invites the reader to turn the book over and around, to…. → More details

KONRAD WINKLER ISBN: 978-0-9945170-5-0 DIANA AMONG THE HUMANS is a book of photographs that explores the gap between the cheery chaos of life and the form and deeper meaning that art and myth strive to achieve. We no longer live our lives steeped in religious certainty and myth, but we still love all those stories and images from Greek and Roman times. Diana the goddess is now fully human and offers little help or consolation on the crazy treadmill of our lives. But people still go to galleries and stop…. → More details

JULIE SHIELS ISBN: 978-0-9945170-4-3 Julie Shiels’ images “are wilfully obstinate, the light too harsh in many cases, the colours too shiny and blank to offer the easy satisfactions we have come to expect from images of the everyday.  They are photographs of surfaces, of details from public spaces taken on a mobile phone, while waiting. And yet this is unmistakably not Instagram. This is not life as a brand. The rustic-charm filter has been turned way down. There are no humans in shot. The natural world is conspicuously absent. Cropped…. → More details

JANE BURTON ISBN: 978-0-9945170-2-9 Jane Burton’s latest publication with M.33, ‘It is Midnight, Dr.__’ is a small and exquisite limited edition cloth-covered book designed by Yanni Florence.  It contains 11 mounted original photographic prints accompanied by an essay from Barry Humphries. Burton’s darkly seductive and morbidly thrilling images can be read as reverie or erotic fairytale. In a garden of stone we witness a female nude assuming postures of devotion and abandonment on the earth’s floor. Like an alabaster statue come to life, a somnambulist or someone bewitched, she appears…. → More details

CHRIS BOWES ‘MONEY TALKS’ contains images of a number of banknotes, obtained by the artist while he worked as a bank teller. Individually these notes offer a glimpse into the lives of the people who wrote them. As objects they signify moments of shared experience where money exchanged hands.  Collectively they tell a story of Australian culture at a particular moment in time when paper money is fast losing its currency.   Published by Chris Bowes, Brisbane, 2014 Edition of 150, numbered and signed Photographs and design by Chris Bowes Essay by Gordon Craig 34 Pages 14…. → More details

YANNI FLORENCE ISBN: 978-0-9945170-6-7 HE IS IN THE CITY is a book of photographs of men who reminded the photographer of his father who died a few years ago and of his father’s friends who are mostly also gone. Triggered by small things such as a jacket, a raised eye brow, hair colour or posture.  HE is the men alone in the city. The CITY is the shadows and abstracted shapes that these men fade into. Published by M.33, Melbourne, 2017 Edition of 25, numbered and signed Photographs and design by…. → More details

JANINA GREEN ISBN: 978-0-9945170-3-6 ‘A Country Practice’ is a meditation upon Janina Green’s early life as a working class migrant girl growing up in an industrial town in rural Victoria. Designed by Yanni Florence and edited by Helen Frajman, this tiny yet hefty book brings together a seemingly disparate collection of images which blend into a powerfully resonant mosaic. Bucolic landscapes, intimate portraits, doctored found images, streetscapes and fragments of rural life are punctuated by recurring images of abandoned power stations, smoking chimneys and scarred and mutilated land cleared for human…. → More details