Stuart's Self Published Photobooks
Bespoke or handmade photobooks by Stuart Murdoch
Chronological list of self published works.
- Abandoned Shopping Carts 2025 |
- Abandoned 120 Empty shops 2023 |
- Steps & Ladders 2023 |
- Trigger Warning 2023 |
- Not Landscape 2022 |
- Contact 2020 |
- Body Bags & Other Misdemeanours 2019 |
- Crux 2018 |
- "Whats the ugliest part of your body?" 2017 |
- The Ericsson Files 2007~2009 2013 |
- Art & Mathematics 2012 |
- Doorways to the West 2011 |
- Castlemaine; Fleeting Glances 2011 |
- chance [July 2010] 2010 |
- buy, buy, buy 2007 |
- lo-fi volume 1 2007
Abandoned Shopping Carts
Published in 2025, also from the Abandoned series by Albumen Gallery. This time Shopping carts.
Folio (folded) – 24 pp, 21 cm x 27 cm, Albumen Publishing, ISBN: 978-1-7391990-1-2
This is primarily an online project, hosted on tumblr.com/offyatrolley
Abandoned 120 Empty Shops
Inspired by Ed Rushca's 26 Gasoline Stations.Published in 2023 in conjunction with Albumen Gallery London.
This is a soft covered book.
Folio (folded) – 24 pp 21 cm x 27 cm ISBN: 978-1-7391990-1-2
The idea has expanded well beyond 120. This is an ongoing online project hosted on tumblr.com
Steps & Ladders
Self-published in 2024, Steps & Ladders is a 40-page, laser-printed book on 80gsm paper with a 210gsm colored cover.
Trigger Warning
Published in 2024, Trigger Warning is a reflection on lockdown and its impact on my creative activities. It contains 40 pages with 30 images, printed on 80gsm paper.
Not Landscape
Self-published in 2022, Not Landscape explores the meaning and function of landscape photography in the 21st century.
15×23 cm, 82 Pages.
View digital version on Flickr
Contact
Self-published in 2021. Contact is a photobook featuring 26 tipped-in silver gelatin prints.
As of May 2025, I have one copy left of an edition of three.
It costs, $150.00 and comes with free shipping.
Body Bags & Other Misdemeanours
Self-published in 2020.
Learn more about Body Bags & Other Misdemeanours
Crux
Self-published in 2017. This small handcrafted zine was constructed from a single A4 sheet.
Available for purchase for $5 AUD plus postage (Sold out as of 2023).
"Whats the ugliest part of your body?"
Published in 2017, in conjunction with the Melbourne Photobook Collective, it too is available for purchase for $15.00 Aus plus postage. More information and images here.
The Ericsson Files 2007 ∼ 2009
This edition has a tighter edit and is printed on a cheaper soft back option. Either version can be purchased through blurb
Doorways to the West
This typology, published October 2011, looks at factory doorways in the inner Western Suburbs of Melbourne, which happen to also be some of the oldest industrialised parts of the city. These areas are now mostly gentrified in the 21st century.
Castlemaine; Fleeting Glances 2011
This is the end result of the annual SoFoMoBo month, in 2011 I travelled to Castlemaine in central Victoria, twice. I made a series of pictures that reflect my being an outsider looking in. It is free, download it and have a read, let me know what you think?
chance, [July 2010]
I discovered during my cyber-travels recently, SOFOBOMO, a site that encourages people the world over to self-publish, a small photographic book, within the constraints of a specified timeframe, using any software they can, that creates a pdf, [I used aperture]. I got involved and made, this small book, called Chance.
Chance is about 12 megabytes, [one of the constraints is to keep the book to a certain size, under 15 meg].
buy, buy, buy
A project that I have been sitting on since experimenting with my 1st digital camera has finally made it to fruition, buy buy buy is now available for download, this book, is 30 megabytes.
lo-fi volume 1
Lo-Fi Vol 1, is an 18 meg download, and will require a pdf reader to open and view.
Art & Mathematics (Published 2012)
This book is available from Blurb. It is inspired by a quote from Frederick Sommer.