The Thousands

Many readers will be more than familiar with Conor and his work. He’s a lovely fellow, a photographer from Perth who lived in Vancouver and Melbourne for a while and now resides in a place called Shag Cottage in Sydney. He’s had a few memorable exhibitions in the cities he’s lived, and to accompany each one, he produces a little book.

Conor’s work is distinctive in its carefully edited, focused calm. This box set of the books he’s released over the past eight years reflects this – all nice and white and distilled, with Conor’s beady eyes overseeing everything down to the positioning of the staples.**Completists will be attracted to a new, limited edition printing of 2003′s Oh No, I Think I’m Falling, and a booklet of installation images with accompanying essay by Robert Cook, curator at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, which sounds very serious and official, but in fact contains sentences such as ‘You know what I mean.’ and ‘He’s got a beard.’