JULIE SHIELS ISBN: 978-0-6482588-2-7 Empty is a collection of photographs by Melbourne artist Julie Shiels taken from her home on the 20th floor in Melbourne’s CBD. The works capture the stillness and other worldliness of these workplaces when the humans have left the room. The absence of human presence amplifies activities occurring behind the glass facades, turning the focus onto the furniture, tools, technology and personal paraphernalia that populate these spaces, and inviting a reflection on the nature of work. Empty seeks to remind us that things continue to exist…. → More details
REALLY DON’T WANNA TO GO TO THIS FUNERAL
MATTHEW WARE ISBN: 978-0-6482588-0-3 ‘Looking through this book searching for inspiration on what to write about it, I’m rendered mute. It’s not because the images aren’t saying anything to me – they’re saying plenty. And it’s not as if they don’t remind me of anything – they remind me of everything. Matt’s combination of hijacked snapchats from other people with his own very personal and observant photography sort of sums up what it is to be alive these days; in which half the time you’re looking around and trying to…. → More details
THE WINTER GARDEN
CHRISTINE MCFETRIDGE ISBN: 978-0-9945170-9-8 ‘The Winter Garden’ is an ongoing (2012–) documentary project based in Christchurch, New Zealand, following the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes. Christine McFetridge has written: ‘The work considers my psychological landscape and its connection to belonging, home and post-traumatic growth after this period of transition. I immigrated to Melbourne, Australia, from Christchurch in February 2013 and began photographing during short trips home. With distance, my sense of what ‘home’ was became informed by memory and nostalgia. In the same way Barthes sought a likeness of his mother…. → More details
FOOL’S PARADISE: THE EARLY YEARS OF THE MELBOURNE COMEDY FESTIVAL
PETER MILNE ISBN: 978-0-9945170-8-1 ‘Fool’s Paradise: The Early Years of The Melbourne Comedy Festival’ brings together an edited selection from Peter Milne’s vast archive of (mostly) candid backstage moments from the first 11 years of the Melbourne Comedy Festival (1987- 1998). The book includes essays from Greg Hocking, Sue-Ann Post, Kevin Whyte and Judith Lucy who writes: ‘…I love the look of Peter’s photographs; there is so much depth to the images, so much going on in the background like a gesture or a portentous sign. But there’s something else…. → More details