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14 Nov 2018

INTERVIEW: Warren Kirk (Photographer) on his new book “Suburbia – The Familiar and Forgotten”

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INTERVIEW: Warren Kirk (Photographer) on his new book “Suburbia – The Familiar and Forgotten”

David and Sue talk to Warren Kirk who has been a documentary photographer for the last thirty years. He’s the photographer behind the acclaimed Westography and he lives and works in the west. His new book “Suburbia – The Familiar and Forgotten” which has been described as “a nostalgia-soaked coffee table book” and “a time capsule” of suburbia in Australia. So, if you love the photographic history of Australia as much as we do you’ll certainly want this book which is brimming with photos of living in the Australian suburbs. You can purchase it through most online platforms and at most good bookstores.

The book is described on the publisher’s website as:

“Warren Kirk’s photos will strike a chord with anyone who’s grown up in the Australian suburbs in the past 50 years. Somehow both achingly familiar and unimaginably strange, these luminous images continue his 30-year project of documenting a way of life that is slowly disappearing, along with the people who lived it.

Taken with loving attention and considerable skill, and with the utmost respect for the people and places that appear in them, Kirk’s photos of shops and houses, of gardens and lounge-rooms, of people surrounded by the things they love, are beautifully evocative and powerfully nostalgic.”