I Saw You [SIGNED LIMITED EDITION]

Wellington, New Zealand: Vapour Momenta Books, 2007. First edition, limited. Hardcover. Fine condition. 415/600. Sextodecimo. Unpaginated. Original yellow quarter cloth over gray heavy boards with white lettering on cover. Black endpapers. Title printed to three pages, one word per page. Signed and hand-numbered on colophon at rear. Design by Catherine Griffiths and Bruce Connew.

"I looked out the window down to the pocket-sized figures about the public car park, half a kilometre away as the crow flies, and said to myself, "Peter Bialobrzeski, damn it, you're right, there's work to be done here. No shilly-shallying. I'll watch these people, and I'll photograph them. They won't know. How good is that, Peter Bialobrzeski, how simple is that?" For twelve months, from the top floor of home, veiled behind an apron of black velvet, through double-glazing and a long lens, I photographed the comings and goings of a car park, an ample piece of reclaiming Wellington land that juts out into the bay, a family beach to one side. Surveillance is routine nowadays. It's everywhere. It's everywhere. We've come to expect it; we've even come to embrace it. It promises social order... Then I took away some of their identity and shuffled them together." (Bruce Connew). Illustrated with fifty-two color photographs, altered and produced in photogravure.