Site Specific: Photography Exhibitions from Around the World
Matt Dunne and Callum Beaney
Tall Poppy Press
English
Softcover with dust jacket that folds out into poster
172 pages
190 x 260 mm
2023
ISBN 9780645274639
Site Specific is a book that explores the ways photography can be exhibited. Casting a wide net, with 58 exhibitions featured, a range of exhibiting processes and styles are covered. Co-authored by Matt Dunne and Callum Beaney, the book highlights methods as diverse as using post-it-notes as a medium to collage to traditional framing. Photographers featured include Trent Parke, Dayanita Singh, Ying Ang, Heikki Kaski, Brett Davis, Rebecca Najdowski/Vivian Cooper Smith, Elle Pérez and many, many more.
This book is a reference book for artists looking to exhibit, it’s an anthology for those wanting to explore exhibiting practice, a visual encyclopedia, image heavy and text light it is a record of some of the most wonderful photography exhibitions that probably didn’t make it to your home town.
(source: https://www.thelibraryproject.ie/collections/photobooks/products/site-specific?_pos=1&_sid=b4d0a2521&_ss=r)
About the Authors
As an artist, Matt Dunne‘s work addresses the environmental destruction of Australia, often unpicking colonial legacies that remain in the present. He uses photography as a starting point to build publications and installations, combining research, archival photographs, sound recordings and site-specific use of space. He has a wide range of exhibiting experience, has published several books of his work and has had projects featured in the Washington Post, the Guardian, Fisheye Magazine, Photo Collective and The Heavy Collective. Since 2018, Matt has written extensively about photography and photographers. He co-founded This on That, was the editor of Tending to the Garden, is a contributing author to C4 Journal and has written pieces for Australian Geographic, Photo Collective, Photo Access and many artists. In 2021, he founded Tall Poppy Press – a publishing imprint committed to showcasing emerging Australian photography. Through Tall Poppy Press, Matt also teaches a range of workshops and collaborates with artists.
mattdunnephoto.com
(source: https://www.mattdunnephoto.com/)
Callum Beaney is a programmer and writer hailing from the East of England. He writes about photography as co-founding editor of the online platform C4 Journal. Previously, he worked in cultural heritage, digitising manuscripts and maps at Cambridge University Library. At present he is making language-related apps, and working on embedded RFID software.
callumbeaney.github.io
(source: https://callumbeaney.github.io/pages/about/about.html)
About the Publisher
Tall Poppy Press is a Melbourne-based publisher of photography books, workshops and merch. It is run by Matt Dunne and Morganna Magee. At Tall Poppy, they believe in emerging artists, financially fair models of publishing and making books somewhere between a coffee table tome and a zine.
tallpoppypress.xyz
(source: https://www.tallpoppypress.xyz/)
