Tropical Reading

Tropical Reading: Photobook and Self–Publishing illustrates the photography practitioners and artist collectives from each city 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. Colour covers supplied randomly.