PHOTOGRAPHS BY MAX CREASY, PETER MILNE, MATTHEW SLEETH and DANIELLE THOMPSON In July 2001, when “The Bank” was being filmed in Melbourne, its producers invited 4 photographic artists to hang around the set and engage with the making of the movie. The Bank Book is the wonderful outcome of that process. “Despite its fictional character, film invariably relies on a total “realism of space”. The Bank is no different. It replaces the real world with its own universe of affects. The photographs contained in this book invite us to explore…. → More details
Roaring Days
PHOTOGRAPHS BY MATTHEW SLEETH In this his first book of photographs Sleeth continues to pursue the themes that have long preoccupied him – comradeship, masculinity, romance and alienation. Similarly he continues his intoxication with the expressive qualities of light and shadow. However Roaring Days suggests a departure for Sleeth from the more traditional photo essay form into a more fluid, more loosely structured poetic narrative. Central to Roaring Days are the popular earlier series ‘Cox and Rizzetti Foundry’, ‘Boys’ and ‘Silvers Circus’, but woven around these core works are seemingly…. → More details
Cuba Que Bola
TANIA JOVANOVIC “How could I not succumb to those cinematic streets, the peeling paint, those ghostly limousines, that music which wove its way into every frame, the old fashioned atmosphere redolent of grace, of variety, of a time before mass consumption, and above all those relaxed and vivacious people of every shape and hue? Each image seemed to share in a song of community, of zest, of life lived….This collection of photographs does not aim to present a comprehensive or definitive view of Cuba. It is one person’s encounter with…. → More details