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Bruce Connew is a photographer.

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A catalogue of core projects.

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Vapour Momenta Books, the pocket-sized publishing arm of Bruce Connew and Catherine Griffiths.

Writings

A medley of musings, briefs, reviews, essays and other texts, films and podcasts.
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briefs

  • ‘folded eggs’
  • ‘folded eggs’
  • ‘folded eggs’
  • ‘folded eggs’
  • ‘folded eggs’
  • ‘folded eggs’
  • ‘folded eggs’
  • ‘Body of Work’ and ‘I Saw You’ at {Suite}
  • ‘Poetics of Music’
  • ‘Body of Work’ / ‘I Saw You’ exhibition
  • ‘Body of Work’ / ‘I Saw You’ exhibition
  • ‘folded eggs’
  • Allen Curnow
  • Titi Tihu
  • ‘folded eggs’
  • I Saw You @le_bal, Paris
  • ‘folded eggs’
  • Voted from afar
  • Underground coal miners
  • pont et port de garde d’Epizy
  • Billy Idol
  • Robert Frank, a revision??
  • Suburbs
  • Suburbs
  • Suburbs
  • Suburbs
  • Suburbs
  • Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
  • Suburbs
  • Censored
  • Melbourne Art Book Fair
  • LA Art Book Fair
  • ‘I SAW YOU’ in Mark Ghuneim’s ‘Surveillance Index’
  • Maui Dalvanius Prime
  • Another ‘Body of Work’ launch
  • ‘Body of Work’ launches in New Zealand
  • ‘Body of Work’ stolen
  • ‘Body of Work’ makes Josef Chladek’s 2015 BEST list
  • ‘Body of Work’ @chladek tweet
  • ‘Body of Work’ in stock here!
  • ‘Body of Work’s predecessor
  • ‘Body of Work’ launches in Paris
  • The book no one would publish ...
  • Website design bronze pin award
  • Alice Connew / Bruce Connew interview each other
  • ‘ON’, Eamonn Doyle
  • ‘Sequester’, Awoiska van der Molen
  • A note of support, c1984
  • National Gallery of Australia collects three series
  • The north wall of our house
  • The Seurat effect on ‘Stopover’ and ‘I Saw You’
  • A small step in a day’s chores

texts

  • The Waters of Life, September 1998
  • ‘I Drive You Crazy, to the Moon’, Dr Barbara Garrie, March 2011
  • A conversation with Mary-Jane Duffy, March 2009
  • ‘Stopover’ book introduction, Bruce Connew, August 2007
  • ‘Muttonbirds—part of a story’, Greg O’Brien, November 2005
  • ‘Muttonbirds—part of a story’, Dean Tiemi Te Au, 2004
  • ‘Censored’, GRANTA, Bruce Connew, 2009
  • ‘Press Escape to Cancel’, Bruce Connew, 2000
  • On the way to an ambush, Peter Turner, April 1999
  • ‘On the way to an ambush’, Bruce Connew, April 1999
  • EDIT #45, Michael Fitzgerald, 2008
  • ‘Pictures They Want to Make’, Chris Corson-Scott, Edward Hanfling, May 2014
  • ‘Beyond the Pale’, Bruce Connew, 20 August 1988
  • ‘South Africa’, Winnie Mandela, 1987
  • ‘South Africa’, Vernon Wright, 1987
  • Soweto, NZ Woman’s Weekly, 5 May 1986
  • ‘Suburbs’, Bruce Connew, November 1995
  • The Waiting War, Vernon Wright, January 1985

reviews

  • ‘Body of Work’ review, Art Monthly Australasia
  • ‘Body of Work’ review, American Suburb X
  • How to start talking about this book?
  • ‘Body of Work’ and others, eye magazine blog
  • ‘Body of Work’ review, photo-eye Book of the Week
  • ‘I Must Behave’ in ‘Photo HiStories’, Deidra Sullivan, July 2009
  • ‘I Must Behave’, Marcel Tromp, Landfall 219, Autumn 2010
  • ‘Stopover’, Dr Asha Chand, June 2008

publications

  • The body politic, ART NEWS NZ, Summer 2015
  • ‘Muttonbirds—part of a story’, TIME, 21 November 2005
  • Street wise, ART NEWS NZ, Winter 2003
  • ‘Stopover’, TIME, 24 September 2007

podcasts

  • Kim Hill, Radio New Zealand, 13 June 2009

films

  • ‘BRUCE CONNEW I SAW YOU . . .’ July 2007