Perimeter turns 15 in 2026 and we're taking a trip down memory lane. The 15 Years of Perimeter poster series revisits a selection of Perimeter Editions titles published over the years – by Anu Kumar, Bartolomeo Celestino, Emily Ferretti, Travis MacDonald, and Ying Ang – many of which are no longer in print. Designed by our longtime creative collaborator (and friend) Narelle Brewer, the posters will be launched in store at Perimeter Books on Saturday, August 22 – details coming soon!
A1 poster (59.4 x 84.1 cm). Please note second image is a rough estimation of scale only.
Bartolomeo Celestino – Surface Phenomena | Perimeter Editions 015
Bartolomeo Celestino has been returning to a particular section of Sydney’s coastal fringe – atop an otherwise unremarkable set of cliffs in the eastern suburb of Bronte – day after day, year after year, to undertake the protracted task of setting up his large-format camera and training his lens downward to the fierce waters below.
In the images that populate his debut book Surface Phenomena, the horizon, the land or any other contextual details are absent; the ocean is everything and everywhere. The mass of turbulence and white water and the deft flashes of calm that these photographs describe occupy a fundamentally different formal and conceptual space to the iconography of the Australian coast. His mode of practice might just as proficiently be read through the late Modernist prism of seriality. Without the luxury of context – without foreground and horizon – Celestino’s images become loaded with formal, allegorical and interpretive potential. We can only begin to approach an understanding of the nature of our chosen subject through a process of assiduous repetition.