ALICE CONNEW is a photographer whose work transpires from a seemingly unconscious stream of intangible visual connections which occur throughout quotidian life. These links often show themselves at a later—and usually unexpected—time.

She believes the photobook is an art form.

Alice lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

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KATIE KERR is a designer who is interested in exploring alternative structures of design practice. Her research-led practice revolves around the multidisciplinary production of experimental paperback books.

In opposition to the ‘print is dead’ argument, she believes that books take on an important role in the post-digital context—the physical object creates methods of distribution that disrupts the digital echo-chamber, where analytics are lessening our chances of discovering something unexpected.

Katie lives and works in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand.

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Still Looking Good // a collaborative performance, film and now photobook between siblings, @aliceconnew (photographer) and @oliver.connew (dancer, choreographer). Available on our website gloria-books.com >> link in bio. . Still Looking Good is a catalogue for the enabling infrastructures—physical, ethical, economic, biological—of human “Progress, Growth & Development”; a decades-old ideology. During the launch of the Orion Spacecraft, a video of which can be found on YouTube, the commentator can be heard to repeat over and over, “still looking good”. It is a statement that introduces uncertainty and appears hoping rather than confirming. A question is asked: Still Looking Good?

Pink pages and a silk-screened, green cover ... Still Looking Good is available now on our website (link in bio).

Thank you everyone who joined us for the launch of Still Looking Good by @aliceconnew and @oliver.connew. The exhibition runs until October 12, Mon-Fri 12-6pm, Sat 1-5pm. Swing by, have a coffee, buy some art. Books are available on our website gloria-books.com, for limited edition prints contact Alice via her website aliceconnew.com. . Photos by the @fotoklubkollektiv team.

BOOK LAUNCH >> tomorrow night we celebrate the launch of Still Looking Good, the final iteration of a three-part collaboration between @oliver.connew and @aliceconnew. . JOIN US >> Saturday Sept 28 @fotoklubkollektiv, Silbersteinstraße 133, 12501 Berlin, 7—11pm. All welcome! . For those who cannot make the launch, Still Looking Good is available now our website: gloria-books.com #GLORIAbooks

Friends With Books done and dusted! Thank you to everyone who stopped to chat, to those who bought books, swapped books, those who walked past with great tshirts, to our neighbours and of course to the amazing @friendswithbooks team for fab fair! . Next up our Still Looking Good book launch @fotoklubkollektiv, 28 Sept 7-11pm! See you there x

On the table at @friendswithbooks: ‘folded eggs’ by @bruceconnew. #FriendsWithBooks #FWB19 . ‘folded eggs’ was published 2018 by @vapourmomentabooks, the pocket-sized publishing arm of Catherine Griffiths and Bruce Connew. . It emerged after a journey from my home in New Zealand to grandchildren in Santiago. It was an inadvertent project from images made without clear purpose in a country whose recent history I understood. My own country’s history became implicated. . ‘folded eggs’ is an artist book, a modest meditation on history and memory, with 53 colour images made in Chile, from Valparaíso to Santiago, and a concise essay across Allende and Pinochet to New Zealand’s colonial wars. . The artist book is a simple, tactile, soft-back artist book, printed offset on beautiful German paper with a wrap-around, Risograph-printed, Kraft-paper cover. A concise essay runs as a single line, below the images and centred in the book, so the essay neither begins at the start nor finishes at the end — the visual and textual reading is at once “filmic and poetic”.

On our table @friendswithbooks: forty three by @aliceconnew. . Forty Three was made during a freezing day in the middle of Berlin’s worst winter in forty-three years. This particular day of work—January 2013—developed into a project about the displacement and loneliness endured when one moves to a new country. . €14, bum not included ... swipe to see 👉🏽👉🏽🍑

We have now officially sold out of the first edition of Dirt! Lucky for you we have a stack of the gorgeous second edition with its lush green cover on our table @friendswithbooks! #friendswithbooks #FWB19 . Dirt is an experimental cookbook that digs into the relationship between food and words. Twelve earthy recipes from chef Gemma Walsh are accompanied by a collection of stories, poems and conversations from some of New Zealand’s contemporary writers. . Contributors include Courtney Sina Meredith, Lana Lopesi, Rosabel Tan, Dominic Huey, Vanessa Crofskey, Natasha Matila-Smith, Owen Connors, Liam Jacobson, Amy Weng, Reem Musa, Gabi Lardies and Sam Walsh.