1.23.2025

Photographs 1970 - 2024 by Juno Gemes Until Justice Comes : Fifty Years of The Movement for Indigenous Rights.

 
Until Justice Comes
PHOTOGRAPHS 1970 - 2024 by Juno Gemes
FiftyYears of The Movement for Indigenous Rights  
A landmark publication revealing the true history of Australia
 
Until Justice Comes is the summation of Juno Gemes’ career witnessing and advocating for change: a collection of photographs making visible the history of the First Nations people’s struggle for justice over the last fifty years in Australia, providing a visual history and background of The Movement leading up to the Voice referendum of late 2023. 

A powerful collection of over 220 photographs, fusing Juno Gemes’ current and continuing work with her unique living archive, based on collaboration, revealing the true history of Australia. The uncovering of an often-invisible history of resistance and the fight for self-determination has long been at the heart of Juno Gemes’ engagement with the First Nations people she has known and worked with over decades and generations.
 
These photographs include portraits of political and cultural leaders and intimate community events as well as activism played out on the streets. Continuing her collaborative approach, the book includes new writings and poems by key contributors including the Honourable Linda Burney MP, Larissa Behrendt, Djon Mundine, Fred Myers, Frances Peters-Little, John Maynard, Catherine de Lorenzo, and Ali Cobby Eckermann. Photographs covering crucial moments in history including the Redfern Revolution, the land rights campaigns, the National Apology to the Stolen Generations, the election of eleven Indigenous Members to the 47th Federal Parliament, and the preparations for the 2023 Referendum on the Voice to Parliament, form the backbone of this book. (Upswell Publishing)
 
Photographer and social justice activist Juno Gemes has spent much of her long career documenting the lives and struggles of First Nations people. Born in Budapest, Gemes moved to Australia with her family in 1949. She held her first solo exhibition, We Wait No More, in 1982; the same year she exhibited photographs in the group shows After the Tent Embassy and Apmira: Artists for Aboriginal Land Rights. In 2003 the National Portrait Gallery exhibited her portraits of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander reconciliation activists and personalities, Proof: Portraits from the Movement 1978–2003, and has since acquired many of her photographs. Gemes was one of ten photographers invited to document that National Apology in Canberra in 2008. The Macquarie University Art Gallery held a survey exhibition of her work, The Quiet Activist: Juno Gemes, in 2019

1.02.2025

Robert Frank in Dialogue : Life Dances On - Best Books 2024

Life Dances On : Robert Frank in Dialogue

"An in-depth exploration of the last six decades of work from the iconic photographer and filmmaker, with a special focus on his ceaseless experimentation and artistic collaborations"

"Having completed the selection of images for his landmark photobook The Americans (1958), Frank, ever the restless artist, embarked on a path of creative exploration that lasted six decades, until his death in 2019. Across mediums, in photography, film, video, and books, his distinctly personal work reckoned with the death of loved ones and the passage of time. In collaborations with writers, musicians, publishers, and other artists, he also reflected on his role in a community of artists and neighbors, both in New York City and Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, where he and his wife, the artist June Leaf, moved in 1970." 

"Life Dances On: Robert Frank in Dialogue, the first solo exhibition of Frank’s work at The Museum of Modern Art, presented on the occasion of Frank’s centennial, asks us to look beyond the role in which Frank is typically cast—as an observant outsider turning his lens on his adopted country—and see him as a deeply reflective artist who understood that meaning is often made out of our relationships with others." – text courtesy of MoMA

Edited by Lucy Gallun. With contributions by Kaitlin Booher and Sarah Greenough. 192 pp.; 150 illus. 
 

Bryan Schutmaat : Sons of the Living Best Books 2024

 
Walker © Bryan Schutmaat
 
Gorge © Bryan Schutmaat
 
Broken Window © Bryan Schutmaat
 
Jimmy © Bryan Schutmaat
 
Highway Lights © Bryan Schutmaat
 
 
Sons of the Living — Bryan Schutmaat (Trespasser, 2024)
 
Bryan Schutmaat's brilliant and moving photographs in his latest book, Sons of the Living, are nothing less than stunning! – EA

Sons of the Living is a photobook about the land and people along the highways of America’s deserts. Photographed over the course of a decade in the American West’s arid and sweeping terrain, this work depicts a human capacity for endurance. Schutmaat offers an updated view of the “open road” that addresses a new era of uncertainty and anxiety. Amidst a backdrop of environmental decline, economic dispossession, and societal neglect, Sons of the Living draws attention to trouble on the road ahead and searches for our hope to withstand it. Published by Trespasser, 2024.