PHOTO Australia will be showcasing a display of artist books at the prestigious V&A Museum in London from late May to November 2024. Presented in their new Photography Centre, the display will celebrate a new wave of women photographers who are reaching new audiences through publishing. The exhibition will demonstrate the breadth of artistic practice in Australia, encompassing queer perspectives, reflections on parenthood, and experiences of migration from important and emerging women photographers.

 

This will be the first national presentation of artist books at the V&A, and represents a rare chance to share the quality and diversity of work being produced in Australia with an international audience.

 

If you’re in London, the publications can be viewed later this month and will remain on display through November 2024. Stay tuned for public program announcements of events with Australian photographers at the V&A later this year.

 

This display was made possible by the generous support of Bowness Family Foundation.

 

The featured photobooks are:

 

• Abigail Varney, Rough & Cut, 2022
  Trespasser Books (Texas)

 

• Anu Kumar, Ghar, 2022
  Perimeter Editions (Melbourne)

 

• Atong Atem, Surat, 2022
  PHOTO Editions: PHOTO Australia and Perimeter Editions (Melbourne).

 

• Honey Long and Prue Stent, Drinking from the Eye, 2023
  PHOTO Editions: PHOTO Australia and Perimeter Editions (Melbourne).

 

• Ilsa Wynne-Hoelscher Kidd in collaboration with Nuñez Rojas, NUÑEZ, 2024
  Self-published

 

• Isabella Capezio, Feeling Loss, 2023
  Self-published

 

• Janina Green, Reproduction, 2024
  M.33 (Melbourne)

 

• Lisa Sorgini, Behind Glass, 2021
  Libraryman (Paris)

 

• Liss Fenwick, Humpty Doom, 2023
  Bad News Books (Te Whanganui-a-Tara)

 

• Mia Mala McDonald, Once in a Lullaby, 2022
  M.33 (Melbourne)

 

• Naomi Hobson, Adolescent Wonderland, 2024
  Self-published

 

• Rebecca Najdowski, Ambient Pressure, 2023
  Tall Poppy Press (Melbourne)

 

• Sarah Walker, The Well, 2024
  Perimeter Editions (Melbourne)

 

• Wendy Catling, Nightshade, 2022
  M.33 (Melbourne)

 

• Ying Ang, The Quickening, 2021
  Self-published

 

• Zoë Croggon, How to Cut an Orange, 2024
  Perimeter Editions (Melbourne)

 

Read more about the display on the official V&A Blog.