BEETLES / VIRGINS

BEETLES / VIRGINS

ARIEL MARTI REYES AND ANATOLY LUCA REYES ISBN: 978-0-9924302-3-8 In 2014, 13-year-old Ariel and 14-year-old Anatoly Reyes travelled to Mexico for an extended holiday with their mother, Melbourne photographer Tania Jovanovic. In exchange for a prolonged break from schoolwork, they each agreed to spend time on a personal photographic project. ‘Beetles/Virgins’ (2 separate books under one cover), brings together their individual assignments focussing on two ubiquitous features of the Mexican landscape – the Volkswagen Beetle and the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe. La Virgen De Guadalupe, the giver of…. → More details


ORIGINAL YELLOW

ORIGINAL YELLOW

KEVIN CHIN ISBN: 978-0-9924302-1-4 What does it take to feel you belong? Kevin Chin, a Chinese-Malaysian migrant, recounts his experience moving from his adopted hometown of Melbourne to Tokyo, and his attempts to fit in. Half diaristic and half photographic, ‘Original Yellow’ provides a humorous insight into cultural belonging, and ultimately questions how we find our place in the world. Published by M.33, 2015 eBook 63 pages Free Download: https://itunes.apple.com/au/book/original-yellow/id973659898?mt=1 System Requirements: To view this book, you must have an iPad with iBooks 3 or later and iOS 5.1 or…. → More details


STREET PORN

STREET PORN

YANNI FLORENCE ISBN: 978-0-9924302-8-3 In this large format book of 26 photographs, Yanni Florence identifies and documents the iterations of a specific and highly charged genre of t-shirts.  The photographs position fashion as a public and political statement made by the wearer either consciously or otherwise. They are significant photographs in that they capture a change in public acceptance, or is it obliviousness? Published by M.33, Melbourne, 2014 Limited edition of 50 numbered and signed 44 pages 26 colour photographs 350 x 270mm Photographs and book design by Yanni Florence SORRY NOW OUT OF PRINT  


ANIMAL LIFE

ANIMAL LIFE

YANNI FLORENCE ISBN: 978-0-9924302-0-7 ANIMAL LIFE consists of forty-six photographs by Yanni Florence, which in the city light and streets capture the animal figure and print in fashion and the bodies that inhabit it. An essay by Archeologist Greg Deftereos accompanies the images in this hardcover book with animal print end papers. “All this pertains to the perception that appearance reflects upon the wearer, their state of mind, their perception of self and how they are choosing to present themselves to others. Clothes are like sentences in a language and…. → More details


SOUTHLAND

SOUTHLAND

YANNI FLORENCE ISBN: 978-0-9924302-6-9 These photographs were taken by Yanni Florence not on assignment but as an aside while a participant in the weekly shopping trip to the SOUTHLAND shopping centre. A brightly lit and colourful place seen in dark, full bleed black and white photographs.  Printed on a photocopier on thin glossy paper that references retail junk mail and contrastingly bound in hardback with the cover printed on textured cloth. The photographs depict advertising spruiking ‘infinite happiness’, ‘good life’, and ‘style guides’. But they show alienation, loneliness and anxiety….. → More details


LESS THAN LOVERS

LESS THAN LOVERS

DREW PETTIFER ISBN: 978-0-9924302-4-5 “The camera desires what I desire, it captures these subjects and possesses them. It records these moments for me, and I in turn share them with my audience (with the subjects’ consent).” Drew Pettifer, 2014 Following hot on the heels of his playfully provocative 2011 publication I keep mine hidden, Drew Pettifer presents a more languid, more moody and delicate collection of images in his latest book from M.33. Once again taking its name from a song title; this one from the Japanese band, Hoahio’s Less…. → More details


SOMEWHERE IN JAFFA

SOMEWHERE IN JAFFA

NATHAN MILLER ISBN: 978-0-9871670-9-5  In his latest body of work SOMEWHERE IN JAFFA, Israeli born Australian photographer Nathan Miller captures with great sensitivity the visually captivating environs and atmosphere of the Israeli city of Jaffa, along with the rhythms of daily life there from the perspective of its diverse population. He presents us with a nuanced portrait of a part of the world of which we have very little real understanding. Most significantly, Nathan challenges pre-conceptions and clichéd assumptions regarding the life of Arabs and Jews within Israel. This body…. → More details


AS LONG AS IT LASTS

AS LONG AS IT LASTS

JULIE SHIELS ISBN: 978-0-9871670-8-8 AS LONG AS IT LASTS is a collection of photographs that record Julie Shiels ephemeral text interventions on urban waste. Over the last nine years, Shiels has transformed hundreds of abandoned objects on local streets with stencils of quotations and truisms sourced from the public domain. She says of the project: “I wanted to rework the detritus to reveal the tensions that occur as a suburb becomes both more desirable and simultaneously more homogeneous. Over time the intention became less about the social and more concerned…. → More details


DON'T JUST TELL THEM, SHOW THEM

DON’T JUST TELL THEM, SHOW THEM

Jesse Marlow ISBN: 978-0-9871670-6-4 ‘Don’t Just Tell Them, Show Them’ is a collection of photographs taken by Jesse Marlow across Australia and a number of other countries between 2005 and 2012. With a highly developed eye for colour, pattern and subtle humour, Jesse Marlow captures the extraordinary within the ordinary. Each image in the book is a perfect compositional gem full of delight. These images showcase Marlow’s ability to find wonder amidst the banality of everyday life. Published by M.33, Melbourne, 2014 112 pages 240 x 330 mm Edited by…. → More details


ALL PRIZE WINNERS PARADED

ALL PRIZE WINNERS PARADED

JO GRANT ISBN: 978-0-9871670-5-7 Jo Grant’s ALL PRIZE WINNERS PARADED is a collection of elegant and delicate images made between 1997 and 2004 at agricultural shows in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. “The triumph of Jo Grant’s photographs lies in her renderings of the little details of ordinary moments at the annual Show into images that attest to the community spirit in country Australia. Her work draws upon history and memory, and takes us into the future, through its evocation and celebration of the spirit of the Show —…. → More details


WHEN NATURE FORGETS

WHEN NATURE FORGETS

PETER MILNE ISBN: 978-0-9871670-4-0 Peter Milne’s WHEN NATURE FORGETS is a sardonic photographic documentation of historical diorama displays which focuses on dummies, mannequins and dolls in a range of locations across Australia, ranging from small local history displays to major state-run institutions. Milne’s investigation of these sites where history is recreated for our edification and entertainment yields humorously absurd yet often touching and emotionally disturbing results. “In Milne’s photographs, the dummies are seen in all their frozen artificiality, in their materiality as commercial furnishings, but they simultaneously come to life…. → More details


IN THE SHADOW OF THE CAPITOL

IN THE SHADOW OF THE CAPITOL

Photographs by Carl Mydans for the U.S. Resettlement Administration, September 1935 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress) Edited and with text by Tom Clark ISBN: 978-0-9873387-0-9 “That ominous roominghouse-stairway interior, when I found it, became the signal that keyed this image search (for America, was it?).  Having discovered that shot, and reflecting then upon the dark inner-sanctum descent it suggested, I went through the original Mydans “Lots” (the image groups — over a thousand images have survived in these scattered sets of “Lots”, preserved in the…. → More details


OTHER STORIES

OTHER STORIES

Jane Burton ISBN: 978-0-9871670-2-6 Jane Burton’s Other Stories is a collection of photographs that are intended to be experienced as a series of loose associations rather than determined narratives. Structured with five chapters like a fairy-tale collection, each series is toned in a different colour – reminiscent of old photographic processes and hand-colouring techniques. The atmosphere common to all the stories is cinematic and dreamlike. Saturated with colour (peach-sepia, red, viridian green, lavender, and blue), each has its own emotional pitch and temperature; the ‘story’ is non-linear, non-literal, falling instead…. → More details


COMPASS POINT

COMPASS POINT

Darren Sylvester ISBN: 978-0-9871670-1-9 Darren Sylvester, known for his stylised constructed tableaux images redolent of pop culture takes a very different approach in his book Compass Point. In the 1970s and 80s Compass Point Studio, located on the coast of Nassau in the Bahamas, was recognised as one of the great music facilities in the world producing music with a particular sound – that of luxury, decadence and sophistication. Artists such as Grace Jones, Roxy Music, Robert Palmer and Talking Heads all made seminal albums here. Prompted by rumours that…. → More details


PROSCENIUM

PROSCENIUM

Simon Terrill ISBN: 978-0-9871670-0-2 Simon Terrill’s Proscenium is a photographic presentation of staging and performance. A proscenium, the edge of the theatrical stage, has here been initially defined through the lens of the camera and later via the edge of the print. The title functions to hold together the crowds, streetscapes and landscapes that present themselves within the pages of this book. The cameo interlude of a series of portraits featuring the British performance artist and painter Bruce McLean represents the sole inclusion of a choreographed scene. All of the…. → More details


3 BOOKS SERIES

3 BOOKS SERIES

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.        


I keep mine hidden

I keep mine hidden

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


BLUSH: PHOTOGRAPHS 1988 - 2010

BLUSH: PHOTOGRAPHS 1988 – 2010

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


BEAUTIFUL LIES: NOTES TOWARDS A HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA

BEAUTIFUL LIES: NOTES TOWARDS A HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA

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


PARÁDEISOS

PARÁDEISOS

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