Twelve Australian Photo Artists

Twelve Australian Photo Artists presents Australia's most important practitioners of photography, photo media and photographic arts including the late Rosemary Laing and Destiny Deacon. (2024).

This hardcover, high quality book explores the work of each artist through an in-depth interview and essay for each, where they discussed the selection and presentation of images to provide first-hand and inspiring accounts of their practice.

It includes:

• Pat Brassington's work on dream and memory fragments
• Brenda Croft's investigation of the Indigenous Australian experience
• Destiny Deacon’s satire on racist stereotypes
• Simryn Gill's experiences of history and geography through making and circulating photographs
• Bill Henson’s ambiguous zone of adolescent desire in works of imagination and sensibility
• Rosemary Laing’s iconic large-scale scenes that dramatise human interaction with the natural world
• Tracey Moffatt’s fusion of violence and humour in images full of artifice that ultimately present real and important subjects
• Debra Phillips evokes the past reverberating in the present
• Jacky Redgate investigates vision, space and memory
• Julie Rrap’s iconic, energetic and playful work of strange incongruities and unexpected twists and turns
• David Stephenson's search for a photographic sublime and Anne Zahalka’s exploration of the line between the natural and the artificial

This book is written by Blair French and Daniel Palmer with editing by Ray Tindale and Peggy Mares.