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Product Image Tropical Reading: Photobook and Self-Publishing

Tropical Reading: Photobook and Self-Publishing

Tropical Reading: Photobook and Self-Publishing illustrates the photography practitioners and artist collectives from each city in Southeast Asia, examining why they chose to get into self-publishing. It explores how independent art bookstores came to be the social parlours of the self-publishing crowd. Furthermore, observes how the outsider artists, archives and arts initiatives of Southeast Asia came to shape the face of photography and self-publishing in their respective cities. The index is a compilation of our project field research, condensing the profiles of all the interviewees – from people to bookstores to organisations – to make a kind of alternative Yellow Pages for the Southeast Asian art scene.

Originally published in Taiwan in 2022, Tropical Reading saw its reissue in the Netherlands in 2024. The second edition includes four additional online interviews from 2022, featuring artists and publishers from Bandung, Kuala Lumpur, Phnom Penh, and Singapore, along with an introductory forward by Photobooks& author Matt Johnston.

Colour covers supplied randomly.
Softcover, 344 pages, ills colour & bw, 14 x 20 cm, English

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