Curating Photobooks in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong: A Roundtable

Wubin Zhuang , Hà Ðào, Kalen Wing Ki Lee, Jeffrey J.C. Lim, Kurniadi Widodo

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Abstract

In recent years, there has been various initiatives to curate and historicize the photobooks in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong (HK) through the intervention of exhibition-making. The roundtable in this chapter brings together four photo practitioners from Yogyakarta, Kuala Lumpur, HK and Hanoi who, in the past decade, have each curated (or co-curated) exhibitions of photobooks and photo publications. In an inter-referencing manner, the roundtable charts the different ways in which the culture of photobooks has become embedded across the region. It surfaces some of the issues that confronted the practitioners in curating photobooks, including the challenges of making publications available and accessible, the place of periodicals and zines in the current photobook craze, and the limits of canon-making in the praxis of photography across the region.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Routledge Companion to Global Photographies
EditorsLucy Soutter, Duncan Wooldridge
PublisherRoutledge
Pages394-404
Number of pages11
Edition1st
ISBN (Electronic)9781040114506, 9781003368328
ISBN (Print)9781032436616, 9781032436623
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 30 Aug 2024

Publication series

NameRoutledge Art History and Visual Studies Companions

Scopus Subject Areas

  • General Arts and Humanities
  • General Social Sciences

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