Award Editions

 

Each year, the Award finalists and winners have received Momento Pro print credit prizes, that have enabled some to publish new works including the 16 books below. Links to buy these award-winning publications are also provided, so you can grow your photo book collection.

 

 

 

A Story
by Cherine Fahd

A Story plays with the intimate and voyeuristic look of social media within the pages of a photobook.

The artist made an Instagram story every night for a year. The stories were made up of images taken on her phone and screen grabs from pictures found on the internet. Search terms such as ‘wet bodies’, ‘big eyes’ or ‘woman sweeping’ provided a starting point for directing the day’s story. The pictures are suggestive, showing bits and pieces of the body; bodies pushing together, touching, eyes looking, hands holding, grabbing, tongues kissing, and necks. There are words and numbers too. Some from books and the screen, others tattooed on the artist’s body.

A Story will appeal to those who like to look in a slowed-down zoomed-in way to details, words and things. It will also interest those who don’t always want to know what the story means and how it ends.

Published: 2021, M.33
Edition: 50
Size: 210W x 150H mm
Pages: 94
Binding: Custom softover
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Zion
by Chloe Ferres

This book is an exploration in grief. A photo album when no photographs exists. A document of a life not lived. 

Contemporary society is uncomfortable with grief—we don’t know how to talk about it, and we expect it to end in a reasonable time frame. However, “some things cannot be fixed, they can only be carried,” writes grief advocate Megan Devine.

This is the discovery of light in the deepest darkness, the power of images and music when there are no words. Perhaps photography offers a tangible trace of the real, but it’s also just fleeting light in in this fleeting life.

“How rare and beautiful is it to even exist.” — Sleeping at Last

Published: 2020
Edition: 25
Size: 148W x 210H mm
Pages: 24
Binding: Saddle Stitched Booklet
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Ectopic Plants
by Chloe Ferres

This is a collection of ectopic—out of place—plants. Once you start looking, it’s easy to find them, thriving in cracks and crevices, in quiet landscapes or bustling cities. Some of my favourites can be seen along unkempt rail lines, where an abundance of inaccessible space gives life to unorthodox green communities—waterfalls of plants spill out of suburban gardens, mounds of waste provide a stage for colourful floral displays, leaves like ghosts emerge through walls, an array of vegetation takes over, and linear barriers begin to melt away…

Approximately 1% of pregnancies are ectopic—out of place. Ectopic pregnancy is a leading cause of maternal death in early pregnancy. The maternal mortality rate is around ten times higher in the developing world. Nothing can be done to save ectopic babies.

Life—fragile and abundant—blooms in unexpected places.

Published: 2020
Edition: 25
Size: 148W x 210H mm
Pages: 25
Binding: Saddle Stitched Booklet
RRP ex delivery: AUD$20
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The Tensile Strength of a Heartstring (Pocket Edition)
by Hannah Rose Arnold

This book is a pocket size version of the Arnold's first edition hardcover that was a finalist in the Australia and New Zealand Photobook Award 2018 series. It explores New Zealand's physical and social landscapes, with a gentle hopefulness. There is a sense of longing, a forgotten time and place - something beautiful and distant and just out of reach.

Published: 2020
Edition: 25
Size: 148W x 148H mm
Pages: 104
Cover: Softcover
Binding: Perfect bound
RRP ex delivery: NZ$45.00
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A Sun Dance In Sandringham
by Solomon Mortimer & PhotoForum NZ

An exploration of the suburb that Mortimer was born and lived in for 20 years. The 43 photographs were captured between 2011 and 2012 on his regular afternoon skateboard through the neighbourhood. The book was co-published with PhotoForum NZ and is designated as PhotoForum publication #90.

Published: 2019
Edition: 200
Size: 148W x 210H mm
Pages: 92
Cover: Softcover
Binding: Perfect bound
Finishes: Custom emboss in blue on black card cover
RRP ex delivery: NZ$40.00
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Banana Spider Bite
by Jordan Madge and Bad News Books

Banana Spider Bite visually documents Madge's voluntary migration to a foreign country - a move inspired by a romantic gesture. It explores his eventual understanding of a new place, and a personal relationship that grew while there. The images are purposely nondescript, and reflect the experiences that influenced the lovers time together. Banana Spider Bite is published by Bad News Books and will be released on 14 February at Perimeter Books, Melbourne.

Published: 2019
Edition: 50
Size: 200W x 240H mm
Pages: 76
Cover: Embossed softcover with flaps
Binding: Perfect bound
RRP inc ANZ delivery: AU$65.00
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Descendants
by Clare Steele

Descendants is inspired by the connections between Spain and Ireland, through the tales of Milesians, the sons of Míl Espáine, and migration across the water. This series attempts to understand the soul’s yearning to see, feel and touch the world around us while also longing to keep the recognisable near and never let go of home.

Published: 2019
Edition: 25
Size: 148W x 210H mm
Pages: 40
Cover: Softcover
Binding: Saddle-stitched booklet
RRP ex delivery: P.O.A.
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I Want This Life And Another
by Robyn Daly

Shot in Europe throughout 2016-2017, I Want This Life and Another threads together her fleeting and often unrequited encounters with others. The everyday becomes interesting, as ritualistic behaviour sheds its meaning in the eyes of an outsider.

Published: 2019
Edition: 60
Size: 210W x 250H mm
Pages: 14
Cover: Softcover wrap
Binding: Concertina
Details: handcut and bound by Robyn
RRP ex delivery: AU$60.00
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Note To Self
by Evangeline Davis and Bad News Books

Note to Self is an extended edition to Davis’s previous publication, Touchy. It is a collection of intimate photographs taken over a period of three years. The book explores expressions of self — exposing vulnerabilities and post-pubescent perspectives of femininity that transcend the struggle and shame of conformist ideals of beauty into a celebration of diversity.

Published: 2019
Edition: 26
Size: 190W x 240H mm
Pages: 168
Cover: Softcover
Binding: Section sewn perfect bound
RRP ex delivery: NZ$65.00
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Pelči Manor
by Sarah Walker and Perimeter Editions

Shot over three days in the attic of Pelči Manor – a grand,19th-century, art nouveau structure in the small Latvian town of Kuldīga – the second book by young Australian photographer Sarah Walker offers an ominous, curious and claustrophobic vantage on this historically loaded building. The site where Latvia ceded independence to Nazi occupation during World War II, today the building is used as a school for disabled children.

Published: 2019
Edition: 250
Size: 200W x 305H mm
Pages: 36
Cover: Softcover
Binding: Unbound with elastic cord
RRP ex delivery: AU$35.00
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Slow Dance
by James Bugg

Bugg was the winner of the People's Choice Award in Australia in 2017 for his dummy book, The Pines. His second book, Slow Dance, was self published in 2019 and emphasises the performative nature of place by navigating the awkward and at times unfamiliar stage on which reality takes place.

Published: 2019
Edition: 200
Size: 148W x 210H mm
Pages: 60
Cover: Softcover
Binding: Perfect bound
RRP ex delivery: AU$20.00
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Universal: Three Stories (set of three books)
Road To A Motel, Old Glory Fade Out and The Abandoning
by Howard Greive

Published: 2019
Edition: 2
Size: 150W x 210H mm, 1.9m to 2.1m long
Pages: 10
Cover: Linen hardcover with custom emboss
Binding: Swiss bound concertina with Cotton Rag end pages
Finishes: Inkjet printed and packaged as set of 3 in embossed slipcase
RRP ex delivery: P.O.A.
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Smoke Bubbles 1-58
by Steve Carr & Perimeter Editions

Smoke Bubbles 1–58 presents a series of images Carr captured in 2010. Page after page is filled with soap bubbles laden with cigarette smoke shimmering against an inky-black backdrop, creating richly aesthetic moments from murky plumes and a squelch of suds. Published by Perimeter Editions.

Published: 2019
Edition: 310
Size: 190W x 280H mm
Pages: 64
Cover: Softcover
Binding: Folded and unbound
RRP ex delivery: AU$35.00
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Here & Now (Edition 2)
by Shelley Jacobson

Published: 2018
Edition: One
Size: 148W x 210H mm
Pages: 28
Cover: Hardcover
Binding: Section sewn
RRP ex delivery: P.O.A.
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Locks, Chains And Engine Blocks
by Stephen Dupont

A photographic record of Dupont's trip to Angola in 1993, which he described as being like taking an express elevator to hell. Between visits to the frontlines of the civil war, he explores a mental asylum in Luanda capturing "the dark corridors of madness; the damage that war inflicts on the human psyche."

Published: 2016
Edition: 15
Size: 160W x 212H mm
Pages: 256
Cover: Aluminium plate front and back with custom emboss
Binding: Section sewn
Finishes: Inkjet printing on Cotton Rag 220
RRP ex delivery: US$4,000
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We Cut Heads
by Stephen Dupont

A compilation of documentary photographs of hair cutters and barbershops from around the world, taken over almost three decades. Look closely!

Published: 2016
Edition: 5
Size: 215W x 215H mm
Pages: 141
Cover: Printed hardcover
Binding: Section Sewn
Finishes: Printed end sheets
Details: Inkjet printed on Japanese washi paper made from mulberry fibre
RRP ex delivery: US$3,500
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The Hedgehog And The Foxes
by Ingvar Kenne

The Hedgehog And The Foxes documents 48 hours in the life of the world's most recognisable porn star, Ron Jeremy, as he visits a series of staged parties. The book aims to tell the story through form as well as imagery, so the reader is requires to unwrap several protective layers before arriving at a disappointing, small and limp softcover book. So despite the gloss and fun on the outside, what's inside is somewhat empty.

Published: 2014
Edition: 250
Size: 148W x 210H mm
Pages: 104
Cover: Softcover
Binding: Section sewn with exposed spine
Finishes: Packaged in 297W x 420H mm presentation box with an embossed linen cover and custom plastic wrap
RRP ex delivery: AU$135.00
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Postcards From Home (2nd edition )
by Sam Harris

Postcards from Home is part domestic sketchbook and part visual journal, shot by Harris as he and his family settled into a new life in Australia in the forests of south Western Australia. It depicts the beauty of the family's surroundings as well as the ups and downs of their daily routine. Harris' wife and two daughters are the protagonists.

Published: 2011
Edition: 50
Size: 148W x 210H mm
Pages: 67
Cover: Hand stamped linen hardcover
Binding: Side Sewn
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