When we were judging the dummies for Photobook Bristol/Gazebook Sicily, there was a really high standard.
Despite that, there were only two books that we all instantly said yes to.
One of them was Mary Hamill's Semper Augustus.
'Semper Augustus is an inquiry into one woman’s understanding of her body and its cultural and historical significance' is what the artist's statement says.
The book a record of Hamill's periods as measured through tampons which are then upended to look like tulips, hence the title. It's very simple. It's very direct. Not many people would do it. Hamill did. It works.
Buy Semper Augustus here.
