Training in the photobook discipline is an important component of contemporary photography education. However the books created by students for assessment rarely get an opportunity to cross over into the public space. To help connect these photobooks to a wider audience we have once again invited institutions around Australia and New Zealand to nominate…
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2021 SELECTED ANTIPODEAN PHOTOBOOKS
Compiled by DOUG Spowart & VICTORIA Cooper This list is the third year in which we asked representatives of the Australian and New Zealand photobook discipline to nominate photobooks that were published in 2021. We have continued to use the term ‘Selected’ as this compilation does not attempt to present a definitive selection of the…
2021 SELECTED ANZ STUDENT PHOTOBOOKS
We consider that training in the photobook discipline is an important component of contemporary photography education. Once again we have invited institutions around Australia and New Zealand to nominate a student photobook for this list to showcase the work created during the 2021 academic year. We are excited that seven photographic courses responded and…
QUEENSLAND PHOTOBOOKS & THEIR MAKERS
Queensland Photobook makers have generally worked in isolation. To promote, share and support their work they have participated in activities and events over the last 6 years coordinated by the Brisbane Photobook Club (as part of a world wide group of photobook collectives), World Photobook Day and the Australian and New Zealand Photobook Awards. Now,…
BEST ANTIPODEAN PHOTOBOOKS 2020
LAUNCHED AT THE MELBOURNE ART BOOK FAIR 27 MARCH 2021 . Compiled by DOUG Spowart & VICTORIA Cooper This list represents a selection of books published in Australia and New Zealand in the year of the Pandemic 2020. Though many aspects of the publishing world were significantly disrupted causing several books to be held…
SELECTED ANZ STUDENT PHOTOBOOKS of 2020
LAUNCHED AT THE MELBOURNE ART BOOK FAIR – MARCH 27 This year we invited over 20 institutions around Australia and New Zealand to nominate a student photobook for this list. We are excited that eight photographic courses responded and that we have an opportunity to showcase these photobooks in this Antipodean Photobook Blog post….
BEST ANTIPODEAN PHOTOBOOKS 2019
At the end of each year photobook commentators and critics from across the globe gather to present the BEST BOOKS of that year. Their information resource is the books that they have encountered over the preceding 12 months. For the reasons of geography these lists are generally representative of the American, European and more recently…
Photobooks in Australia + New Zealand 