The Afterglow of Industry: New Zealand Photographs 2012-2022

The Afterglow of Industry collects photographs and texts made during a 10-year project in which the artist repeatedly traveled the length of New Zealand, from its urban centers to its most remote landscapes. Through painstakingly produced large-format film photographs and extended texts, the book explores the aftermath of the industrial era and colonial project in New Zealand, reflecting on what our labor and dreams can mean in an age of late-capitalism and climate change.

Photographs and Text: Chris Corson-Scott
Foreword: Christina Barton
Editor: Francis McWhannell
Design: Elliot Ferguson

Hardcover, 166 pages
270 x 295mm
Edition of 1100
Published 2025
Daylight Books, NC, USA

The Afterglow of Industry: New Zealand Photographs 2012-2022

The Afterglow of Industry: New Zealand Photographs 2012-2022

The Afterglow of Industry collects photographs and texts made during a 10-year project in which the artist repeatedly traveled the length of New Zealand, from its urban centers to its most remote landscapes. Through painstakingly produced large-format film photographs and extended texts, the book explores the aftermath of the industrial era and colonial project in New Zealand, reflecting on what our labor and dreams can mean in an age of late-capitalism and climate change.

Photographs and Text: Chris Corson-Scott
Foreword: Christina Barton
Editor: Francis McWhannell
Design: Elliot Ferguson

Hardcover, 166 pages
270 x 295mm
Edition of 1100
Published 2025
Daylight Books, NC, USA

Evanescent Monuments

Evanescent Monuments

New photographs from Chris Corson-Scott’s long-standing project to uncover Aotearoa New Zealand’s industrial heritage. This work looks to the forgotten endeavours that built the modern nation & environmental crises over indigenous land & asks: is our civilisation a monument worth, worthy of, or capable of sustaining, that history.

This publication also features essays by Laurence Simmons, Professor of Film Studies and Media Communication at The University of Auckland, & poet Chris Holdaway, as well as an interview between the artist and Emil McAvoy.

Evanescent Monuments was produced to accompany exhibitions of the same name that ran at Parlour Projects (June 9–July 7, 2018), & Trish Clark Gallery (October 5–November 9, 2018).

It is a follow-up of sorts to a previous collaboration Dreaming in the Anthropocene (Compound Press, 2017) between Chris Corson-Scott & Chris Holdaway.

Photographs: Chris Corson-Scott
Text: Laurence Simmons, Emil McAvoy, Chris Holdaway
Design: Elliot Ferguson

210 x 270mm
72 pages
staple-bound, offset printed
210 x 270mm
Edition of 400
Published 2018
Compound Press, Auckland, New Zealand
ISBN 978-0-9941123-5-4

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Dreaming in the Anthropocene

Dreaming in the Anthropocene

A collaboration between photographer Chris Corson-Scott & poet Chris Holdaway.

Intense photographs, lyrical essay, & elegiac poetry combine to chart the artists’ trek through fading dreams of New Zealand’s industrial heritage. Human material endeavours threaten to send the planet into an uninhabitable death-spiral; manufacturing towns once bustling with life are discarded like the consumer goods they once produced—: “Far from an enlightened response to material exploitation, our unimaginative flight from former rural centres & industrial towns is in fact the same inability to conceive an adequate response to climate change & the Anthropocene.”

This book was produced to accompany the exhibition Dreaming in the Anthropocene, which ran at Trish Clark Gallery, June 13–July 29, 2017.

Photographs: Chris Corson-Scott
Text: Chris Holdaway
Design: Elliot Ferguson

Softcover, 60 pages
210 x 270mm
Edition of 250
Published June, 2017
Compound Press, Auckland, New Zealand

out of print

Pictures They Want to Make: Recent Auckland Photography

Pictures They Want to Make: Recent Auckland Photography

Edited and curated by: Chris Corson-Scott and Edward Hanfling
Foreword: Ron Brownson

Featured artists: Mark Adams, Edith Amituanai, Fiona Amundsen, Harvey Benge, Bruce Connew, Chris Corson-Scott, Ngahuia Harrison, Derek Henderson, Ian Macdonald, Haruhiko Sameshima, Geoffrey H. Short and Talia Smith.

Hardcover, 176 pages
270 x 295mm
Edition of 1000
Published June, 2013
PhotoForum Inc & RIM Books, Auckland, New Zealand

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