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All images and text © Alice Connew 2025

Joyriders review, Art Spiel

January 01, 2025

“Connew’s tightly curated, almost audibly dynamic images are full of vigorousness and vitality, muscle and gusto, attitude and charm.”

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Source: https://artspiel.org/looking-back-topping-off-2024-books/#more-21566 Tags: joyriders, review

Interview: RNZ Nights with Maggie Tweedie

December 17, 2024

New Zealand photographer Alice Connew joins Maggie Tweedie from her home in Bristol.

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Source: https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/nights/audio/2018968834/world-s-rebel-women-motorcyclists-celebrated-in-new-photography-book Tags: interview, joyriders

New book! Introducing Joyriders.

November 01, 2024

Joyriders is the culmination of my four year investigation of the women motorcycle riders of Petrolettes.

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Tags: gloriabooks, photobook, joyriders

Workshop at BOOM Satsuma

February 01, 2024

I was lucky enough to be invited to do a 1 day bookmaking workshop with the photography and media students at Boom Satsuma.

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Tags: gloriabooks, speaking event, photobook

Publishing as Critical Practice: The Story of GLORIA Books

July 21, 2023

As part of The Library Project’s Tsundoku Art Book Fair programme, Alice spoke on the birth of GLORIA Books and her and Katie shared endeavour of publishing as critical practice.

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Source: https://tsundoku.ie/art-booooook-fair-2023/programme/publishing-as-critical-practice-the-story-of-gloria-books/ Tags: gloriabooks, speaking event, photobook
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Petrolettes prints now available

February 03, 2023

Limited edition, signed and numbered A4 giclée prints are available for various images from the Petrolettes series.

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Petrolettes in D-Photo

August 20, 2022

Petrolettes has been featured in the Spring Issue #105 of Aotearoa’s D-Photo magazine.

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Tags: petrolettes, dphoto

GLORIA Books x Metro Magazine

July 31, 2022

See GLORIA Books and Alice’s award-winning photobook Still Looking Good featured in Metro Magazine, issue 435.

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Tags: metro magazine, new zealand, small press, gloria books, photobook

People's Choice Award Winner

July 05, 2021

‘Still Looking Good’ has won the Australia and New Zealand Photobook People's Choice Award 2019.

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Tags: award, photobook, anz photobook awards
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Read Amidst and Beyond on Contemporary Hum

March 09, 2021

You can now read mine and Virginia Woods-Jack’s contribution to Dwelling in the Margins: Art Publishing in Aotearoa over on Contemporary Hum.

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Dwelling in the Margins

February 19, 2021

So pleased to share a conversation between myself and the esteemed Virginia Woods-Jack has been included in Katie Kerr’s latest title, Dwelling in the Margins: Art Publishing in Aotearoa, published by GLORIA Books.

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Still Looking Good, Black River

November 29, 2020

Still Looking Good has been featured in the inaugural issue of Black River, the digital rebrand for of the land and us.
Best viewed on a large screen, issue 1 is available to view here

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Source: https://blackriver.online/ Tags: photography, feature, black river, of the land and us, magazine
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Still Looking Good, Art New Zealand

November 21, 2020

“Still Looking Good, a tiny potent work featuring dystopian industrial landscapes with the figure of a dancer flitting in and out of the images; this was a finalist in this year’s Photobook Awards.”

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Source: https://art-newzealand.com/
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Tsundoku, HALFTONE Print Fair, The Library Project

October 29, 2020

An initiative of PhotoIreland, the annual HALFTONE Print Fair is on at The Library Project in Dublin, Nov 5 - Dec 6, 2020. Running alongside the print fair is Tsundoku, a dedicated celebration of the book format. Still Looking Good is part of the Australia & New Zealand Photo Book Award travelling exhibition which is being presented at the fair alongside titles from the Kassel Dummy Award.

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Source: http://2020.halftone.ie/tsundoku-5-nov-6-dec-2020/
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Petrolettes, Photoforum NZ

August 17, 2020

“Alice shows us an insider view of this rising subculture that is about empowerment, claiming space, tackling stereotypes and the ongoing challenges of representation.”

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Source: https://www.photoforum-nz.org/blog/2020/8/16/alice-connew-featured-portfolio
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Finalist ANZ Photobook Award 2019

February 20, 2020

Still Looking Good has been named a finalist in the 2019 Australia and New Zealand Photobook Awards. Find out more and see the full list of finalists here.

If you would like to get a copy of Still Looking Good, head to GLORIA Books. Signed and numbered edition of 300 with a Special Edition of 30 with a signed and numbered print.

Source: https://www.anzphotobookaward.com/ Tags: photobook, anz photobook awards, momento pro, still looking good, alice connew, photo award, publishing, indie publishing, gloria books, gloriabooks, new zealand, photography
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Best Antipodean Photobook 2019

February 05, 2020

Nominated by Victoria Cooper, Still Looking Good has been named one of 2019’s Best Antipodean Photobooks.

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Source: https://theantipodeanphotobook.com/2020/02/05/best-antipodean-photobooks-2019/
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Interview with The Stack, Monocle Magazine

January 19, 2020

"And now to New Zealand, where a vibrant art book scene is emerging. GLORIA is a publishing platform that treats the production of books as an artistic practice. The result: exquisite books that touch on topics from migration to dance, politics to food, photography to typography. But for GLORIA, the form is just as important as the content, and each publication is a work of art.”

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Source: https://monocle.com/radio/shows/the-stack/386/ Tags: gloriabooks, photography, design, publishing, monocle, the stack
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Friday Fry Up, The Heavy Collective

December 05, 2019

Still Looking Good is featured in The Heavy Collective’s Friday Fry Up.

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Source: http://theheavycollective.com/2019/12/05/friday-fry-up-alice-connew-still-looking-good-gloria-books/ Tags: alice connew, the heavy collective, feature, still looking good, photobook
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Still Looking Good, Photoforum

December 02, 2019

Still Looking Good is featured on Photoforum New Zealand’s website.

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Source: https://www.photoforum-nz.org/blog/2019/12/1/still-looking-good-publication Tags: photoforum, still looking good, gloriabooks, gloria