Slowork Publishing is an independent press from Taiwan that specializes in documentary graphic novels about communities in Asia. It works with artists to boost regional creative energies, establish a new Asian graphic narrative, and amplify an authentic homegrown visual realism storytelling to a global audience.
Photography in Southeast Asia: A Survey is a comprehensive attempt to map the emergence and trajectories of photographic practices in Southeast Asia. The narrative begins in the colonial era, at the point when the transfer of photographic technology occurred between visiting practitioners and local photographers.
The disappointments of adult life, or what she called, “expectation fallacy”,《Waking Up in Dreams》is a collection of twenty-eight short stories by Taiwanese Canadian writer Coco Shen. These micro - sometimes nano - stories swing between sharp wit of Lydia Davis and melancholic humor of Lorrie Moore, a cutting yet poetic depiction of life’s living absurdity.
Travel without an address, but a big brown envelope: two passports, seven currencies, metro pass of several cities, receipts of different foreign languages, coaster from a German town that famous for its beer. Anti-biotic, mosquito repellent; paint brush, love letters. Four copies of signed and sealed divorce papers.”
Open the suitcase, choose an identity. Prose, poetry, travel journal and photography, Shen’s second book is a jigsaw of her ten years living elsewhere.
This book is a collaboration of a well-acclaimed young Hong Kong poet and four Taiwanese calligrapher. The poetry collection is divided into four sections. Each section is hand-written by a calligrapher, whose handwriting reflects personal understanding and feelings toward certain specific poems, and injects different emotional layers into the poems. As a result, this creates more space of interaction and imagination between the poet, calligraphers and the readers, and push poetry reading into another level.
