Artist/photographer Dianne Souphandavong and poet Kathryn Souphandavong combined talents on their first collaboration, In the beginning. The book includes sunset photographs abstracted in an atmospheric manner. Many spectres, figures and ghosts appear naturally in the photos. The series dwells within a particular genre of the ‘fantastic’. The images were obtained from two separate visits to… Continue reading Dianne and Kathryn Souphandavong: In the beginning
Category: art + text exchange/collaborations
Liana Joy Christensen and Marie Lochman: Unnatural History
Writer Liana Joy Christensen and photographer Marie Lochman share a passion for the natural world. They collaborated on Unnatural History: Our book is a strange homage to the exquisitely rendered natural history texts of the nineteenth century. Those seemingly realistic depictions and descriptions of flora and fauna were not neutral. They encoded a whole cultural… Continue reading Liana Joy Christensen and Marie Lochman: Unnatural History
Perdita Phillips, Thea Costantino and Simon Griffith: The Estrildid Orchestra
Perdita Phillips, Thea Costantino and Simon Griffith are currently planning to collaborate on a small tome, The Estrildid Orchestra. Thea has written a creative short story in response to Perdy’s images. Associate Professor Simon Griffith rounds out the book by writing on the scientific importance and ramifications of the complete gene sequencing the zebra finch. The… Continue reading Perdita Phillips, Thea Costantino and Simon Griffith: The Estrildid Orchestra