Title: Green With Envy
Photographers: Layla Rudneva-Mackay
Date of publication: 2012
Place of publication: Auckland, New Zealand
Language: English
Dimensions of book: 305 x 240 x 12mm
Edition: 1000
Number of pages: 124
Number of images: 48
Cover, Type of binding: Softcover with dust-jacket
Type of printing: offset
Type of paper:
Printer: Everbest Printing Company, China
Publisher: Clouds + Starkwhite
Publication designer: Warren Olds
Publication editor: Gwynneth Porter
Texts by Layla Rudneva-Mackay, Jon Bywater, Sean O’Reilly, Selene Forester and Gwynneth Porter
ISBN: 978-0-9876593-2-3
Retail price: $59.95 NZ
Category: Photo book
Summary of Project:
This volume brings together a body of photographic work produced by Layla Rudneva-Mackay from 2002-2009. This work emerged from the ruins of a sculptural practice, and exists in parallel with graphic work, painting and writing. Her practice as a whole is characterised by poetic slips and language holes and visual emersion. This photographic work characteristically involves forms and figures and situations set up against interior and exterior backdrops. Their gestures and activities are not specified, and they are sometimes obscured or altered by fabric and paint. There are also pictures of architecture taken at night, which further contribute to the way in which her work makes space for unknowing, and in doing so, for risk.