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Suburbia: The Familiar and Forgotten

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The sentiment that flows through these images is a balm to the knowledge that time is passing and things will change — William McInnes.

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.

160 pages, 26 x 30 cm, hardback, Scribe Publications.

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Customer Reviews (4.8 / 5 · 5 reviews)

Henry K. ★★★★★

Paging through Warren Kirk's photos felt like taking a quiet walk through my own childhood haunts. The way he captures that bittersweet feeling of fading places is spot-on, and the quality of the print really makes the details pop. Bought this after a recent move and it's already a favorite to flip

Grace ★★★★★

The way Kirk captures forgotten corners of suburbia makes you stop and stare at each page—the worn details feel almost familiar. It's a quiet, thoughtful collection that perfectly matches McInnes's sentiment about time passing.

Lucy B. ★★★★★

I’ve gone through the book twice now, and William McInnes’s words really echo how I feel about my own neighborhood. The photos of forgotten shopfronts and old cars are incredibly nostalgic.