Collected Works

The Perth Centre for Photography is pleased to present Collected Works, by the Asia Pacific Photobook Archive (APPA) opening at 6 pm, Friday, 8 July 2022.

The APPA is a response to the European and American focus of most international discourses around photography and photobooks. The APPA is committed to promoting the production and dissemination of photobooks in the region. With over one thousand submissions, we focused this selection on interesting stories and clever dissemination of ideas that promote materiality of the photobook.

The Asia-Pacific Photobook Archive (APPA) is a not-for-profit open-access physical archive of self-published and independent photobooks. The APPA is a response to the boom in photographic self-publishing globally and was established to provide a ‘real’ way to see photobooks that would otherwise only be viewable online. The Archive has a dedicated space in Melbourne, Australia and is open to the public – importantly, the Archive is also a travelling library, meaning the book you submit travels the world, being shown at various event/festivals/exhibitions. We have exhibited thousands of books at festivals all over the world since 2013 in Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, India, Taiwan, Indonesia, Philippines, New Zealand, Australia, Germany, UK, Ireland, USA

We are hoping to increase our Australian content, we are specifically looking for Western Australian perspectives and First Nation voices. Submit your book and have it become part of photographic history, seen around the world, saved for posterity.

The Asia Pacific Photobook Archive is coordinated by Daniel Boetker-Smith and Isabella Capezio. The Archive was established in 2013 by Daniel Boetker-Smith.

Daniel is the Academic Director of Photography Studies College (Melbourne). He is also a regular contributor to a number of Australian and international photographic publications – Voices of Photography, Source, Vault, British Journal of Photography, Photoeye, Paper Journal, and more.

Isabella is a Melbourne-based photographer and lecturer at RMIT University. They were the co-founder and director of Ruffian Gallery – home to socially aware photographers in Melbourne’s West. They were involved with street art collective #Dysturb as their Australian education liaison.