Shortlisted for the First Photo Book category, Lucie Photo Book Prize 2026.
For this special book artist Simone Rosenbauer traveled across every state and territory in Australia to document the country’s small and unique museums.
Over the course of four years she visited a disparate range of institutions from the Alice Springs Telegraph Station to the Apple and Heritage Museum, the Australian Country Music Hall of Fame to the Newcastle Gaol, the Carnaby Collection of Beetles and Butterflies to the Australian Age of Dinosaurs. Rosenbauer took nearly 3000 photographs and conducted extensive interviews with museum custodians to delve into Australia’s cultural memory.
Price: $60.00
Pages: 128
Publisher: Global Book Sales
Imprint: GOST Books
Publication Date:
May 6, 2025
Trim Size: 7.68 X 9.76 in
ISBN: 9781915423825
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
PHOTOGRAPHY / Photoessays & Documentaries, PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Historical, PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional, TRAVEL / Australia & Oceania
German/Australian artist Simone Rosenbauer studied photography at the University of Applied Sciences in Dortmund, Germany, and at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Her work has been exhibited at the Aperture Gallery (NYC), Expo Chicago, Paris Photo, Laurence Miller
Gallery (NYC), AIPAD (NYC), Musée d’Elysée (Switzerland), Les Rencontre d’Arles (France),
Flash Forward Festival (Canada), Art Miami (USA) and PhotoSpring Festival Beijing (China).
Rosenbauer’s work is held in various public and private collections. She is represented by Laurence
Miller Gallery in New York, M Contemporary in Sydney, Sanderson Contemporary in Auckland and DTR Modern in Boston. She lives and works on the lands of Awabakal and Worimi in Awabakal country in Australia.
