Warren Kirk photo book acquisition

Scribe is delighted to announce that we’ve acquired a new book of photographs by Warren Kirk. The photographer behind the bestselling Westography (Echo, 2016), Warren's new book is provisionally titled Suburbia: the familiar and forgotten, and it will continue his 30-year project of documenting a way of life that is slowly disappearing, along with the people who lived it. A large-format hardcover book of photos of Melbourne suburbs (north, south, east, and west), Suburbia will be filled with the beautifully evocative and nostalgic images Warren is known for. Taken with loving attention and considerable skill, and with the utmost respect for the people and places that appear in them, his photos of shops and houses, of gardens and lounge-rooms, of people surrounded by the things they love, feel somehow achingly familiar and unimaginably strange.

Scribe’s art director, Miriam Rosenbloom, and senior commissioning editor, Marika Webb-Pullman, who jointly acquired Suburbia, said: ‘At a time when international ideals of "good taste" have become all too pervasive in our Instagram-obsessed society, Warren Kirk's photographs give us a view into a far more interesting and esoteric world of personalities and personal aesthetics. We’re thrilled that Scribe will be part of creating a record of that world — a world that we’re in real danger of losing sight of.'

Suburbia is scheduled for publication in September 2018.

Click here for a gallery of Warren's work.

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Warren Kirk photo book acquisition

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