The Thousands

Excerpt is a new photo mag that’s a bit of an exquisite corpse. While it doesn’t bear the mark of UHU gluesticks or Stanley knives and its makers are possibly as far off as you can get from moustachiod Surrealists, Excerpt is a clever cut-and-paste job of photo essays and responses, writing and art whimsy.

Amy Marjoram and Kate Robertson have done away with printing in favour of the humble PDF. As co-editors, the ladies have put together a pixel publication that is light on text but soaked with images, favouring chatter between artists and images over the traditional print art mag format of beginning/middle/end and footnote frenzies.

A cover photo by US-based artist Lucas Blalock is the starting point for ‘Excerpt Exhibition’, a series of works by 10 artists who were invited to respond to Blalock’s cyan-tinted ghost/blanket. Sanja Pahoki’s interview is a playful series of snaps in response to one-liner questions (a triangle of afternoon light on a wood-beamed white wall is a poetic answer to ‘where do you work?’) and Dr Daniel Palmer’s international peeping tom series ‘Public Displays of Affection’ shows couples in varying degrees of horizontal in public spaces in Europe and Australia.