Tropical Reading: Photobook and Self-Publishing 2nd Edition
Fotobook DUMMIES Day
Text by Fotobook DUMMIES Day
Designed by Kuan-Ting Chen
Published by Limestone Books, 2024
Second edition, printed in a limited edition of 400 copies
Softcover, 344 pages, 5.5 × 7.9 inches
ISBN: 978-9-08-336163-5
Tropical Reading: Photobook and Self-Publishing illustrate 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 organizations – to make a kind of alternative Yellow Pages for the Southeast Asian art scene.
