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Heavy II — LA Launch

We’re excited to announce Heavy II is finally launching internationally and we’ll be heading US way for the occasion. Thank you everyone for your patience, we took no joy in splitting the release and we can’t wait to share it with you. Please join us on Saturday the 4th of March, 7-9pm for cold beers and new paper at Family Books for the LA launch of Heavy II.

A compendium of contemporary photography focusing on the conversation; Heavy Volume II is in an exploration of image and text on the printed page. Featuring — Dana Lixenberg, Susan Lipper, Irina Rozovsky, Stephen Shames, Curran Hatleberg, Daniel Shea, Mark Peckmezian, Deanna Templeton, Yoshinori Mizutani, Joanna Piotrowska, Aglaia Konrad and Katrin Koenning, with interviews and essays from Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, Wilfred Brandt, Hideko Ono, Claire Monneraye, Ashley McNelis, Geordie Cargill, Alex Ward, Lola Pinder and Jack Harries.

When — Saturday 4th March, 7-9pm.

Where — Family Books, 436 N Fairfax Ave, LA.

Heavy Volume I and II will be available throughout the event. If you’re not near but far you can purchase the book online right here, right now.

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Heavy II is now sitting on shelves at Sydney's Beautiful Pages, get it to give, or just for keeps. 📘🎁

— Spread from our conversation with Deanna Templeton.

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A huge thank you to everyone who came out to our launch in Sydney over the weekend, you made it special and we had an absolute blast. We’re scanning over photos now and will put up a small gallery of images so you can see yourself panting in that heat.

We’re excited to announce that Heavy II is now available in Australia, online and in bookstores, with our international release date to be announced shortly. Head to the Heavy II tab on our website for stockist locations and to our online store if you’d like it in your letterbox.

Thank you for supporting independent publishing.

The Heavy Collective : )

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More inside looks before the official launch of Heavy II this weekend in Sydney.

"In 1992, I traveled to South Central Los Angeles on assignment from Vrij Nederland, a Dutch weekly magazine, for a story on the destruction and rebuilding of the area after the Rodney King riots that broke out after the LAPD officers involved in his beating were acquitted. Being physically present in South Central following the riots touched me deeply. Driving around desolate streets that resembled a war zone, smelling the air, meeting people, coming into contact with the human toll of pervasive racial injustice—all of this had a significant impact on me. The reality of any explosive situation is at once more and less dramatic, and always more nuanced and complex than what the mainstream media can convey, so being there in South Central enabled me to be confronted with people’s individual and collective experience of a long and ongoing history of violent events.”

— Dana Lixenberg. (Imperial Courts)

Heavy II launches this Saturday, 10th of December, 6pm – 9pm at the ACP Pop-Up Gallery, 118 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst NSW 2010.

For more information visit our events page here. 

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Heavy II has finally hit home shores and we couldn’t be more excited to share it with you. Please join us on Saturday the 10th of December from 6pm at the new ACP pop up space for the official ribbon cutting and be one of the first to get your mitts on a copy.

I’d like to take a quick moment to again thank everyone who was involved and supported this project, The Heavy Collective has been operating on a skeleton crew (me, myself and I) this past year, it’s been a huge undertaking and none of this would have been possible without the generous offer of time, patience and guidance from it’s contributors.

Heavy volume II features photographic contribution from Dana Lixenberg, Susan Lipper, Irina Rozovsky, Stephen Shames, Curran Hatleberg, Daniel Shea, Mark Peckmezian, Deanna Templeton, Yoshinori Mizutani, Joanna Piotrowska, Aglaia Konrad and Katrin Koenning, with interviews and essays from Stanley Wolokou-Walambwa, Wilfred Brandt, Hideko Ono, Claire Monneraye, Ashley McNelis, Geordie Cargill, Alex Ward, Lola Pinder and Jack Harries.

When — Saturday 10 December, 6pm – 8pm

Where — ACP Pop-Up Gallery, 118 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst NSW 2010

Heavy Volume I and II will be available for purchase throughout the event. Refreshers provided by the good folks at Young Henry’s.