Hijacked Vol. 1
Language: English
Release: April 2008
Price: AU $100
Format: 26 x 20 cm
Binding: 288 pages, full colour, hardcover
ISBN: 978-988-99591-3-5
Hijacked brings together, for the first time, an uncompromising movement
of international cultural exchange. Presenting the most diverse and
provocative new photography from Australia and America, the book erases
traditional boundaries between artists, professionals and emerging talent
in order to point towards the future of contemporary photography.
Shunning repetitive and predictable structures, Hijacked's aesthetic is directed
by the mindset and energy of young and emerging practitioners. Embracing the
prevailing wanderlust, their work exhibits a fascination with international
subcultures, fragmented trends, alternate life styles and urban landscapes.
Explorations of suburban pleasures are placed on par with 'high' artistic
experimentation.
While assembling the visions of its contributors, Hijacked delves into the
practical and conceptual issues of the world of contemporary photography.
Interviews provide a social comment on the socio-scape of Australia and America,
and highlights talking points from discussions with artists on communication,
social awareness, capitalism and the impact of commerce on identity and artistic
practice.
Relentless in its ambition, much like the photographers, writers and contemporaries
it publishes, Hijacked, the photography book, is a survey and hybrid of real time
photography and life in real time.
Australian photographers
Greta Anderson , Duncan Barnes, Karron Bridges, Sean Cordeiro and Claire Healy,
Michael Gray, David Griggs, Caitlin Harrison, Nathalie Latham, Mark McPherson,
James Mellon, Graham Miller, Martin Mischkulnig,Fiona Morris, Tony Nathan, Jack Pam,
Emily Portmann, Brad Rimmer, Janelle Ryan, Flavia Schuster, Juha Tolonen, Joshua Webb,
Toni Wilkinson and Gareth Willis
American photographers
Timothy Archibald, Angela Boatwright, Alana Celii, Nick Chatfield-Taylor, Brian Cross,
Todd Fisher, Jonathan Gitelson, Dean Karr, Lisa Kereszi, Jason lazarus, Suzy Poling,
Robin Schwartz, Tod Seelie, Sarah Small, Amy Stein, Jennifer Juniper Stratford,
Bill Sullivan, Shen Wei, Grant Willing and Ed Zipco