Aotearoa Photobook Award 2022 finalists
Award judges, Athol McCredie, Claire Mabey and Neil Pardington choose these 10 books as finalists of Aotearoa Photobook Awards.
The three equal winners, and those highly commended, will be announced on March 4th.
The finalists will be displayed at the Photobook/NZ festival in August 2022, and at the Australian Photobook of the Year Awards.
mother lode
Photographer: Ann Shelton
Publisher: Bad News Books
Designer: Duncan Munro
Digital drawings: Ann Shelton and Duncan Munro
Text: Pip Adam and Ann Shelton
mother lode looks at alternative means of agricultural production through an investigation of the practices of Wairarapa Eco Farm, an example of community supported agriculture. Images of the wild, unstructured, abundance of the farm are quite different from the usual ordering of garden aesthetics. These photographs are juxtaposed with digital drawings which point to the unseen aspects of the depicted flora.
