Still Looking Good, 2017-19
A collaboration with Oliver Connew
Still Looking Good is triadic collaboration between siblings Oliver Connew (dancer/choreographer) and Alice Connew (photographer) that brings together dance, sound and a visual aesthetic that are drawn from and reference pervasive socio-political forces that organise modern human activity, as understood by the artists.
Originally presented by Oliver as a performative piece titled Things That Move Me, Oliver invited Alice to aid him in reimagining the concepts as short film and Still Looking Good was born. A year after the film was finished, Alice initiated taking the concepts and imagery used in the film and translating them into a book, which concluded the collaboration. The title, published by GLORIA Books, won the People’s Choice Award at the 2019 Australia & New Zealand Photobook Awards and was named on the Best Antipodean Photobook 2019 list.
Watch the film (8mins, 54secs) below.
Still Looking Good was published by GLORIA Books in September 2019. It is available online at gloria-books.com or at these select bookshops and stores:
New Zealand
Unity Books Wellington
Precinct 35
Crushes
Strange Goods
Blue Oyster Art Gallery
People’s Choice Award winner, Australia & New Zealand Photobook Awards 2019
Listed as one of the Best Antipodean Photobooks 2019