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  1. Falling Leaves (Paul Phung) Paul Phung Softback Softback, Z-fold, 88pp 2024
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    Working closely with choreographers and performers, photographer Paul Phung presents a series of five acts grappling with the unspoken language of the body.

    With no discernible beginning or end to the publication, the reader unwittingly joins a dance, manoeuvring through a sequence of life-size clippings; weightless figures wrestle through internal dialogues. Falling Leaves obscures the distinctions between photographer and choreographer, reader and performer. Each act is underscored by writer Maisie Skidmore, whose stanzas weave between pages.

    The book is enveloped in a protective print with the hands of the performers: Connor Scott, Courtney Deyn, Edd Arnold, Harry Ondrak-Wright, Joey Barton, Max Cookward, Oscar Jinghu Li Q, Owen Ridley-DeMonick and Will Thompson.

  2. They are Coming (Alice Rosati) Alice Rosati Softback Softback + dust-jacket, 122pp 2023
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    From anxiety-pitched fever dreams, to late night Reddit reading, conspiratorial fed fear and existential angst. They Are Coming collates the material produced over the course of a decade from both first and second-hand sources by Alice Rosati. The collected screenshots of ‘anxiety triggers’ introduce a reoccurring slime-like substance while doppelgängers layer and build momentum towards ominous cinematic landscapes, geological studies, meteor craters and observatories. Situated between fiction and speculation, internal and external dialogues narrate the reader towards extraterrestrial abduction.

    The publication is printed twice: first in full colour CMYK plus a blue shade of metallic. The sheets were passed back through the printing press once more for a second layer of metallic—overprinting the book with slime and Rosati’s doppelgängers.