Photobook/NZ 2020 International Guests

Cristina de Middel
International Guest 

Spanish photographer Cristina de Middel is a prolific and innovative photobook author. After ten years as a photojournalist, Cristina re-invented her practice, producing The Afronauts (2012), which explored the Zambian space program of the 1960s. Cristina’s work has received numerous editorial and arts awards, including PhotoFolio Arles 2012 and the Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography in New York.

Matthew Casteel
International Guest

American born, Matthew Casteel (M L Casteel) is an award-winning photographer and educator whose work focuses on the perils and triumphs of the human condition. Casteel’s first book, ‘American Interiors’, was published by Dewi Lewis Publishing in 2018 and was shortlisted for the Paris Photo- Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards: First Photobook Prize. His work has been featured in TIME Magazine, The Washington Post, CNN, and the Guardian, amongst other publications.

Perimeter
International Guest

Perimeter is a bookstore (Perimeter Books), distribution house (Perimeter Distribution), award-winning publisher (Perimeter Editions) and platform for various photography, art and design publishing endeavours in Melbourne, Australia. Founded by Justine Ellis and Dan Rule in 2011, Perimeter curates an active program of exhibitions, talks, launches and workshops; co-presents Art Book Fairs and runs two biennial book-related prizes.

Daniel Boetker-Smith
International Guest

Daniel Boetker-Smith is an educator, writer, curator, publisher, and photographer based in Melbourne, and Director of the Asia-Pacific Photobook Archive. He is a regular contributor to the British Journal of Photography, Voices of Photography, Vault, Photoeye, Paper Journal, Heavy, Source, GUP magazine, European Photography, and other Australian and international publications.

Jono Rotman
International Guest

Rotman (born 1974, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand) is an artist working between Aotearoa New Zealand and the USA. He lives in San Francisco. Rotman’s work has been exhibited in the USA, Australia and New Zealand and is represented in collections in the USA and Australasia. He is the recipient of the Prix Du Livre Images Vevey (2018) and The Marti Friedlander Photographic Award (2013).