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YANNI FLORENCE ISBN: 978-0-6482588-6-5   ‘Geometries of segregation are also bodies in the world. The trees as tall below as above strain for the centre’ Justin Clemens, from the poem Trees and Fences   ‘Musingly looking at these photographs of trees and fences caused me to recall the following well-known statement from Jean-Jacques Rousseau: “The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars…. → More details

MIA MALA MCDONALD ISBN: 978-0-6484899-6-2 ‘Once in a Lullaby’ is Mia Mala McDonald’s long-awaited book of photographic portraits and interwoven stories of Australian LGBTQIA+ families.  The contributions shared by participants are reflections on the politics of family, the complex processes of having children, family, loss, love, and what it is to be human. The book is as much about what it means to be an Australian as it is about sexuality. The project was born of a frustration felt by Mia during the 2017 Australian marriage plebiscite. She was deeply…. → More details

MEREDITH TURNBULL ISBN:  978-0-9924302-9-0 ‘Objects’ by Meredith Turnbull, is a survey publication of 14 years of photographs of Meredith’s constructed tableaux. Since the mid 1990s Meredith Turnbull has been making and photographing objects and began exhibiting these artworks publicly in 2005. Her photographs of the objects that she has constructed, and the environments she creates for these objects, offer a unique investigation into her ongoing interests in mis-en-scene for object-things, tableaux, still life, and the relationship between sculpture, images and the body. ‘Objects’ explores Meredith’s unique combined approach to sculpture, photography,…. → More details

DAVID WADELTON ISBN: 978-0-6482588-3-4 From 2010 -2016 David Wadelton drove all around Melbourne photographing and accumulating suburban typologies. He used the virtually obsolete medium of black and white film to capture fading institutions such as milk bars and newsagents. In the course of these travels, his attention sometimes strayed from his primary focus to unforeseen views. Gradually, and without any plan, a collection began to form. With tongue-in-cheek, he named it Greater Melbourne, after the street directory that was in every car before the advent of GPS devices. David Wadelton:…. → More details

WENDY CATLING    ISBN: 978-0-6482588-5-8 ‘Nightshade’ is a restrained and poetic exploration of a particularly difficult and confronting subject – domestic violence and coercive control. Wendy Catling examines her mother’s experiences during her 20-year relationship with Catling’s father. The publication which traverses the many addresses lived at by the artist and her parents and uses a mixture of archival and contemporary imagery interspersed with brief snatches of memories related by Catling’s mother, has been sensitively designed by Kim Mumm Hansen to form a darkly moving and compelling personal narrative with universal…. → More details

PETER MALONEY ISBN: 978-0-6484899-8-6 ‘Fugitive Text’ draws together photographic diptychs and triptychs made since the mid-1990s in response to the artist’s experience of love, desire and loss through the HIV/AIDS pandemic. It incorporates photographs taken in-camera as well as images drawn from a variety of sources, including vintage photographs found in flea markets and images re-photographed from pornography and popular culture. The images draw on Peter Maloney’s experience of the HIV/AIDS pandemic (as an HIV-positive person who lost much of their social group during the 1980s and early 1990s) and…. → More details

GRACE WOOD                                                                                                ISBN:  978-0-6482588-4-1 ‘The hand of an armless statue’ features 55 newly created artworks and continues Grace Wood’s compulsive practice of mining the internet for images, recontextualising them and giving them new meaning. Wood throws images and words into search engines and…. → More details

JULIE SHIELS ISBN: 978-0-6482588-9-6 Critiques of power and politics have been the subject of painting across historical epochs and cultures. The parodies in the Grandmasters series build on this rich tradition to invite us to reflect on the behaviours of those who hold high office. The first volume in the series, ‘The Grandmasters #Sh*tf*ckery’, was born out of anger and despair during Covid. But even as the pandemic eased, the excuses and avoidances of the Morrison government on women, refugees and climate continued to shock. ‘The Grandmasters II #Last_days’ captures…. → More details

ROD McNICOL ISBN:  978-0-6484899-7-9 ‘A Portrait’ is the first comprehensive publication of Rod McNicol’s distinctive portraits, ranging from those of his peers in his first exhibition in 1978, through to his now iconic ‘time’ series and his acclaimed portraits of the ever – changing denizens of his neighbourhood or his ‘village’ as he terms it. Each image is rooted in a time and place but shares a rigorous approach and a disciplined formality reminiscent of the mug shot. But in contrast to the sterility of the mug shot, each of…. → More details

CHERINE FAHD ISBN: 978-0-6484899-9-3 ‘A Story’ plays with the intimate and voyeuristic looking of social media within the pages of a photobook. The artist made an Instagram story every night for a year. The stories were made up of images she had taken on her phone and screen grabs from pictures found on the internet. Search terms such as ‘wet bodies’, ‘big eyes’ or ‘woman sweeping’ provided a starting point for directing the day’s story. The pictures are suggestive, showing bits and pieces of the body; bodies pushing together, touching,…. → More details

JULIE SHIELS This limited-edition series of 8 postcards addresses the Morrison Government’s benighted attitude towards the climate crisis. It includes 2 favourites from Julie Shiels’ book ‘The Grandmasters #Sh*tF*ckery’ and 6 new ones made subsequently. The behaviours of the powerful are thrown into sharp relief by injecting satire and humour into these deadly serious issues.     Julie Shiels The Grandmasters #Climate, 2021 8 postcards in bespoke envelope Dimensions: each postcard: 14.8 x 10.6 cm Edition of 300 Postcard set in envelope only: $12 plus gst in Australia Postcard set…. → More details

JULIE SHIELS ISBN: 978-0-6482588-8-9 Born out of the anger and frustration induced by the Australian Government’s responses to the monumental crises of the last two years, this ’quick response’ publication presents a comic yet profoundly serious investigation into the wiles, evasions, obfuscations and monumental failings of our political masters. Shiels says: ‘This book is for people who can’t stay away from politics even though it effects their mental health. At a time when the actions or inactions of the Morrison government are shaping our future, it’s hard not to want cry, implode…. → More details

DAVID WADELTON ISBN: 978-0-6484899-5-5 Small Business is a companion volume to David Wadelton’s Suburban Baroque – with the focus this time on work rather than domestic spaces. It looks at the small but enduring family-run businesses that are sadly fading away. Natalie King writes in her essay accompanying the photographs: ‘In Wadelton’s tautly composed photographs, he records interiors and an accumulation of clutter and collections. He resists styling and chic angles of home décor typically found in glossy magazines in favour of slightly shoddy, overlooked and abundant interiors with astonishing…. → More details

DAVID ROSETZKY ISBN: 978-0-6484899-4-8 This exquisite limited-edition book, designed by Anna Zagala/Sweet Polka brings together 45 photographs by artist David Rosetzky accompanied by an essay from Dr Shaune Lakin, Senior Curator of Photography at the National Gallery of Australia, and a Q & A between David Rosetzky and fellow artist Hoda Afshar. Rosetzky’s use of the double-exposure results in a single, combined image that is created through a process of chance – and the random placement of pictorial elements within the frame. This process enables the artist a fluid and…. → More details

PETER MILNE ISBN: 978-0-6484899-3-1 A companion volume to ‘A Day in the Life of Rowland S Howard’,  ‘Juvenilia’ brings together a further 70 plus astonishingly fresh photographs of friends and family taken by Milne when he was a very young man. Warm, intimate, surprising and already displaying the great compositional skills, originality and humour for which Milne is known, these images offer an unprecedented peep into mid 1970s to mid 1980s Melbourne and a milieu of people who would go on to play pivotal roles in Melbourne’s burgeoning cultural scene….. → More details

DREW PETTIFER ISBN: 978-0-6484899-2-4   ‘I Melt With You’ is the fourth instalment in Drew Pettifer’s ongoing publishing project of monographic works. In this iteration, Melbourne curator Pippa Milne has selected the photographs and written an accompanying essay which teases out the status of these images and has noted: ‘.. These are not documentary photographs. They do not show what happens to be going on anyway. They are not incidental, rather the situation is negotiated and discussed — if not orchestrated and directed — then consciously considered by Pettifer and his sitters, the vast majority of whom are…. → More details

DAVID WADELTON ISBN 978-0-6484899-1-7 ‘Suburban Baroque’ brings together a selection of David Wadelton’s photographs of the vanishing mid-century suburban interiors of the formerly working-class northern areas that were the destination of choice for many post-war immigrants from Europe. The once-ubiquitous terrazzo, balustrades, marble columns and lions and other manifestations of pride and nostalgia for their homelands have become increasingly rare as the years pass, generations change, and gentrification takes place. The rooms are redolent of a different era and imbued with pathos, as most were the pride and joy of…. → More details

YANNI FLORENCE ISBN 978-0-6482588-1-0 ‘Different subjects appear in different windows, waves of light pass through each window uniquely and only once per instant of time. Different impressions in light pass through or reflect off the surface of each windows. There are different expressions on people’s faces, different gestures or reactions to the fact that they are being photographed, if they are in fact aware that they are being photographed, and different aspects of their awareness. Some subjects appear to be consciously turning away from the camera, others appear completely unaware…. → More details

CHERINE FAHD ISBN: 978-0-6484899-0-0 Apókryphos is a deeply moving study of the ways in which grief and mourning are visualised, experienced and witnessed. Using image and text Fahd reproduces 24 photographs taken in 1975 of her grandfather’s funeral and burial. Through annotations, footnotes and redacted text she forensically yet intimately guides the reader through the mysteries of the event captured, offering a literary response to the photographs and to the unknown status of the photographer. Apókryphos continues Fahd’s interest in the book as artwork. This new publication is a unique…. → More details

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