Stopover
Bruce Connew
Photographs, introduction and text by Bruce Connew /
Short story by Brij V. Lal / Design and typography / Catherine Griffiths
Published by / University of Hawaii Press / July 2007 / ISBN 978 0 8348
3198 1 / world rights except New Zealand /
Victoria University Press / July 2007 / ISBN 978 0 86473 557 7 / New
Zealand /
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Hardcover / Cloth case-bound
with silver foil stamping / 188 pages / 69 duotones / 9 colour images / 185
x 135mm / English
/ Printed by EBS, Verona, Italy
Stopover is a 77-image series exhibited first at Pataka Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand, in 2007, then at Tauranga Art Gallery, Tauranga, New Zealand in 2008.
“Connew’s work combines haunting images with a text that is poetic, elegant, and moving in its clarity. There is a power and persuasion to his work that even the most scholarly and responsible analyses cannot match.” –David Hanlon, University of Hawai’i
“The social commentary embedded in these visual images and in the text, which provides fitting local and historical context for the photographs, would be of great interest to those working in South Asian and Indian diaspora studies, Pacific studies, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, visual anthropology, political science, and development sociology.” –Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Cornell University
Indians first arrived in Fiji as indentured labourers in 1879. Since the first Rabuka coup d’etat in 1987, and three subsequent Fiji coups, Indian-Fijians have been emigrating from the country in earnest. Stopover is a haunting suite of photographs by New Zealand artist Bruce Connew from the tiny Indian-Fijian sugar cane settlement of Vatiyaka, taken during seven visits between June 2000 and November 2003, placing an extended family inside the story of migration. Connew’s narrative captions and a story by Brij V. Lal take the reader to the heart of an embattled life.
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Nominated in the 2008 D&AD Awards under Entire Books category Jury: Irma Boom (Jury Foreman), Phil Baines, Nick Bell, Gareth Howat, Piotr Karczewski, Chip Kidd, Amanda Renshaw Phaidon Press Included in Eye magazine under Books Received Awarded a silver at New Zealand’s BEST Design Awards in 2007
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