THE “ON READING: PHOTOBOOKS” PROJECT As part of the Brisbane Photobook Club’s celebrations for World Photobook Day (WPBD) in 2015 Doug Spowart and Victoria Cooper coordinated an exhibition at Maud Gallery (now the Queensland Centre for Photography) in Brisbane that featured 67 Australian, New Zealand and some international photographer’s self-portraits imaged while reading…
Category: Antipodean photobooks
AUSTRALIAN PHOTOBOOKS @ The State Library of Victoria
During 2020 THE WORLD OF THE BOOK exhibition at the State Library of Victoria presented a brief history of photobooks including some striking Australian examples. Principal librarian Des Cowley presented an online accessible video discussing the history of the photobook and some of the Australian books. Due to the Pandemic the SLV was unfortunately…
ANTIPODEAN BOOKS I LUSTED AFTER in 2020
IN EARLY DECEMBER Australian photobook collector and maker Bill Purvis and AMERICAN SUBURB X managing editor Brad Feuerhelm initiated what turned out to be two lengthy online thread discussions on the FlakPhoto Books Facebook page about the end of year ‘BEST PHOTOBOOK’ lists. Topics included: the value or otherwise of lists, who makes the lists…
ARTISTS BOOKS+AUSTRALIA: Comment for CODEX Journal
The artists’ book and the photobook share many aspects of practice, histories and makers. While this post relates specifically to the artists’ book it may be of interest to photobook people as well – take a look at the other tribe … . Early in 2019 Vicky and I received an email from Monica Oppen…
The photobook event that the virus took away
. On the weekend of May 2-3 2020 there was a weekend of major photobook activities planned for the PHOTO 2020 International Photo Festival in Melbourne. A significant component of the event: A seminal selection of 52 Australian and New Zealand Photobooks* from the State Library of Victoria’s collection was to be made available for…
2019 ANZ Photobook Awards Links & Images
SEE DETAILS & IMAGES OF THE BOOKS: “Click” HERE
PHOTOBOOK NEW ZEALAND 2020 (post under construction)
Correspondents attending PBNZ 2020 will be posting stories back for this site – Stay Tuned..!
2018 PHOTOBOOK NEW ZEALAND – Archive Review
In 2018 I came back to Wellington for the second PHOTOBOOK NZ. Following on from the success of the 2016 event, which essentially featured Antipodean voices, the international contribution was expanded to include photography and photobook exponents from the USA, France, Germany and Japan. In this second PBNZ the aims of event were certainly being…
2016 PHOTOBOOK NEW ZEALAND – Archive Review
In 2016 I attended the first PHOTOBOOK NZ in Wellington. The event brought together the New Zealand photobook community and other members from Australia. For two and a half days in March photobooks were discussed, many were bought and stories were shared about the state of the discipline in the Antipodes and where it fitted…
2019 ANZ PHOTOBOOK FINALISTS ANNOUNCED
February 20, 2020 The finalists for the 2019 Australian & New Zealand Photobook Award have just been announced: Apókryphos by Cherine Fahd, published by M.33 Banana Spider Bite by Jordan Madge, published by Bad News Books Imaanshaha self published by Saynab Muse Jump Into Bed With Me by Paul Knight, published by Perimeter Editions Mongrelism…
