After a number of years of producing annual ‘Melbourne Classics’ calendars, I’ve now produced a book celebrating my favourite images of our city. This lovely hardback book features 110 pages of black-and-white (and a few colour) images taken over the last decade. The book measures 200 mm x 250 mm and I’ve kept the photos to one per page – sometimes one per spread – so that they’re nice and large. It’s Printed on premium paper with a lustre finish, they look great!

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“Today’s Melbourne has so much to offer the visitor, the resident and especially the photographer. Architecture classic and modern, streets wide and narrow, parks and creeks, laneways and bridges, cafes and pubs. Four seasons, often in one day. People and life. So much life.

And always something new. I’ve wandered the city and its surrounds for years and still on each visit I discover shapes and light and perspectives I’ve never noticed before. A new café appears in a nook under a stairwell in an art-deco laneway, with barely enough space for the machine. Street art creeps up a wall previously invisible in its greyness. On another wall a fading sign, perhaps 50 years old, possibly more, demands attention because now, all of a sudden, it’s ‘cool’.

I trust that within these pages you too will discover some sides of Melbourne you haven’t noticed before.”

David Brewster