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W I N N E R Apókryphos |
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by Cherine Fahd Published by M.33 |
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Country: Australia Designed by Elliott Bryce Foulkes Text by Daniel Mudie Cunningham Printed by 1010 ISBN: 978-0-6484899-0-0 RRP: AUD $40 BUY NOW |
Size: 190 x 240 Pages: 128 Edition of: 500 Printing: 4 x 4c Paper: Woodfree 170 gsm Format: Limp bound swiss binding with gatefolds |
Artist Description Cherine Fahd is an artist, academic and writer working in the field of photography. Fahd has exhibited extensively in major public institutions in Australia and internationally. Her work is represented in public collections including the National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, National Gallery of Victoria, Museum of Photographic Arts San Diego and the Haifa Museum of Art, Israel. In 2018 she was awarded the Asialink Creative Exchange residency to Varanasi, India and in 2019 she was selected for The National: New Australian Art and awarded a residency at The Clothing Store, both at Carriageworks. Fahd’s first book with M.33, A Portrait is a Puzzle was published in 2017. Book Apókryphos features 24 found photographs taken in 1975 of Fahd's grandfather’s funeral, captured by an unknown family friend. It is an intimate study of the ways in which grief and mourning are visualised, experienced and witnessed. Through annotations, footnotes and text, written by Fahd as artist and Mudie Cunningham as curator, the reader experiences the emotion of a moving family funeral and burial. The wraparound cover acts as a tool of concealment, reflecting the artist’s intention to reveal and also withhold information, while the close-up and full frame images zoom the reader in and out, forcing them to play hide and seek with the story behind them. Judges’ Comment A sophisticated book with an exceptional design and an original structure, clear fruit of a close collaboration with the designer. Through playful deconstruction of compelling visual elements, a complex narrative on grief and mourning arises around the exploration of 24 photos, making us look beyond the superficial to discover poignant reflections through the trivialities of everyday life. |
C O M M E N D E D Jump Into Bed With Me |
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by Paul Knight Published by Perimeter Editions |
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Country: Australia Design by: Roland Brauchli Editor: Emma Capps Colour Reproductions: Flavio Milani Printed by Pöge Druck ISBN: 978-0-9876371-5-4 RRP: AUD $35.00 BUY NOW |
Size: 183 x 137 Pages: 88 Edition of: 400 Printing: Traditional offset Format: Staple-bound folded booklet |
Artist Description Paul Knight (b. 1976) holds a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) at the Victorian College of the Arts and a Master of Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art. He has been the recipient of the prestigious Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship, studio recipient at Gertrude Contemporary, winner of the William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize at the Monash Gallery of Art, London studio residency by the Australia Council for the Arts and a New Work Grant from the Australia Council for the Arts. Knight's work has been included in NEW08 (ACCA), Primavera (MCA, Sydney) and Bloomberg New Contemporaries (UK). Knight has exhibited in Australia, UK, Europe, USA and Japan. Book Positioning his 35mm camera on any available surface and setting a timer, Knight and his partner make themselves available for the camera to see what it sees: laundry, breakfast, sex, day trips to the seaside, nights at the pub, moments of domestic calm. Knight eschews his diaristic gaze in the same way he loosens photography from notions of time or chronology. Paired with an edited transcript of the couple's text message history, jump into bed with me is both a missive to a lover and an ode to photography's intrinsic processes. The camera, when left to its own devices, can capture wonderful and beautiful things. Judges’ Comment This unassuming publication playfully invites us to peek into a relationship through a personal, raw, and compelling photographic treatment. The honest imagery inspires an empathetic response, even when we are offered the most intimate details. The foldout design slows down the narrative, coaxing us to spend more time reading. A strong first-person everyday account of a relationship. |
C O M M E N D E D Tem Bigato Nessa Goiaba |
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by Cecilia Sordi Campos Self Published |
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Country: Australia Printed by E-Plot Print Solutions RRP: Price on request |
Size: 210 x 297 Pages: 96 Edition of 3 Printing: Digital offset Paper: Curious Metallic Format: Perfect bound softcover |
Artist Description Book
The creation of Tem Bigato Nessa Goiaba was a transformative process for Campos as she sought to understand and move on from an emotionally abusive relationship. The photo book explores the multiple layers of her identity by drawing on magical realism and the anthropophagic manifesto. There is no censorship, as she shares the disorders, choices and metamorphoses that have allowed her to move through a significant emotional transition. Judges’ Comment This is a sumptuous, irreverent and aesthetically ingenious book that raises the right amount of questions while it entertains. It reads as a personal journey, but we don't quite know where it will end. The refined editing and a brave use of tightly framed close-ups constantly present us with rich imagery page after page, to great effect. |
S T U D E N T W I N N E R The Bridge |
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by Matteo Dal Vera & Michael Weatherill Self Published From University of Technology, Sydney |
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Country: Australia Printed by Momento Pro RRP: Price on request |
Size: 210 x 250 Pages: 112 Edition of 3 Printing: Digital Offset Format: Set of three section sewn, embossed cloth bound hardcovers |
Artist Description Book
The Bridge was a year long project for two graduate photographers exploring how collaborative practice influences progress, ideas and sensibilities in a photographic work. The three volume series is their lyrical response to a body of water, and the ebb and flow of life that surrounds it. The visual narrative offers open-ended observations of the people that come and go to the bridge, and investigates recurring sentiments of retreat and detachment. The book format allowed them to experiment with new ways to present their photographs and sequences in a single work. Judges’ Comment A serious and beautifully executed collaboration from two students who return to one stretch of river over the course of a year. Balanced and deft, tender and powerful, the three volumes drive home the collision between man and nature, and demonstrate deep consideration of all facets of photobook making. The Bridge is a forceful and poetic photographic debut. |
F I N A L I S T Banana Spider Bite |
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by Jordan Madge Published by Bad News Books |
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Country: Australia / New Zealand Printed by Momento Pro Design: Bad News Books ISBN: 978-0-4734876-6-9 RRP: AUD $55 BUY NOW |
Size: 195 x 240 Pages: 72 Edition of 20 Printing: Digital Offset Paper: Uncoated Eco 100 Format: Perfect bound softcover |
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F I N A L I S T Imaanshaha |
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by Saynab Muse Published by PhotoForum Inc |
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Country: New Zealand Printed by: Print Guy ISSN: 0111-0411 RRP: Price on request BUY NOW |
Size: 203 x 254 Pages: 62 Edition of 1 Printing: Digital CMYK Paper: Mohawk Superfine i-Tone Smooth 118gsm Format: Perfect bound softcover |
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F I N A L I S T Mongrelism |
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by Jono Rotman Published by Here Press (London) and Images Vevey (Switzerland) |
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Country: New Zealand Printed by MAS Matbaa, Istanbul Design with Ben Weaver Edited with Ben Weaver Created with the Mighty Mongrel Mob Nation of Aotearoa New Zealand ISBN: 978–0–9935853–8–8 RRP: NZD $95 BUY NOW |
Size: 205 x 260 Pages: 380 Edition of 1500 Printing: Offset lithoprint Paper: Coated and uncoated paper Format: Cloth bound, embossed hardcover with gatefolds and tipped in fold-outs |
Artist Description Book
The Mongrel Mob of Aotearoa New Zealand is notorious for extreme violence, and they have long been regarded as the nation’s monsters. Mongrelism depicts portraits of past and present gang members, graphic icons of their subculture, historical photos of their activities, and transcripts of conversations between the photographer and subjects. The resulting publication takes the form of a gang handbook, and offers unique insight into their impenetrable fraternity. The edit, order and sequencing of images is the result of close consultation with members, and reflects their geographic, familial and hierarchical relationships. The publication reproduces handwritten notes in the albums by each of the four collaborators who had been diagnosed with HIV, alongside revealing 1988 commentary from museum-goers. Also included is an essay by David Herkt and a conversation between the artist and Ron Brownson. Judges’ Comment Despite its controversial subject, this book is a brilliantly executed publication that is the result of serious collaboration between photographer and subject. The images are powerful, the design cleverly combines classicism and constant surprise with violence and intimacy, and the production is impeccable. Mongrelism is a rebellious and brave approach to extremely demanding terrain. |
F I N A L I S T Still Looking Good |
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by Alice Connew with Oliver Connew Published by Gloria Books |
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Country: New Zealand Printed by KOPA Text: Oliver Connew ISBN: 978-3-00-062856-6 RRP: NZD $40 BUY NOW |
Size: 104 x 155 Pages: 88 Edition of 300 Printing: Offset printed pages with silk-screen printed cover Paper: 130 GSM Scandia 2000 White Format: Section sewn raw board hardcover with debossed photo and exposed spine |
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F I N A L I S T Tabriz to Shiraz |
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by Sarah Pannell Published by Perimeter Editions & Hillvale |
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Country: Australia Printed by: Unicum Design by: Daly & Lyon Editors: Dan Rule & Justine Ellis Translations: Aleriza Khaksaran ISBN: 978-0-9876371-4-7 RRP: $49.00 BUY NOW |
Size: 270 x 215 Pages: 64 Edition of 600 Printing: LEUV Offset Paper: Magno Volume 115 GSM Format: Printed hardcover case with single signature |
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A W A R D D E T A I L S
Friday 6 March at the opening of the Photobook/NZ Festival, at Te Papa, Wellington
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