Tropical Reading: Photobook & Self-Publishing

Tropical Reading: Photobook and Self-Publishing illustrates the photography practitioners and artist collectives from several cities 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. [publishers’ note]

Featuring SOKONG!, Minstrel Kuik, Lim Sokchanlina, Kornkrit Jianpinidnan, Dang Thanh Long, Temporary Press, Further Reading Press…