Title: Conflict Resolution
Photographer: Louis Porter
Date of Publication: 2012
Place of publication: Fitzroy, VIC, Australia
Language: English
Dimensions of book: 270x200mm
Edition size: 1000
Number of pages: 144
Number of images: 121
Type of printing: Offset
Printer: Asia Pacific Offset
Publisher: Twenty Shelves in association with the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission
Publication designer: Pierre Hourquet
ISBN: 978-0-646-58818-6
Retail price: AUS $59
Summary:
Australian photographer Louis Porter takes us on an exploration of forgettable urban spaces which visibly reflect the memory of an event, often interpreted as acts of violence. Categories range from the rather humorous “crap paint jobs” to carelessly scrawled harbingers of extremist undertones, “suburban swastikas”, and the narrative possibilities of “signs of a struggle”. Porter applies wry cynicism with “emergency assembly points”, where signage indicates mundane locations to gather in case of calamity. He also scrutinises various discarded objects, from paper aeroplanes to correspondence and dismembered teddies. Includes a text by Porter analysing these disruptions.
