Working with photographic commissions, residencies and exhibitions, paula roush is interested in the intersection of photographic research and the materiality of paper-based publishing. Her photobook works are photo-textual narratives tracing place, memory and identity. paula's long term research project, the Found Photo Foundation, examines the collecting, archiving and publishing of orphan photography, and she is also the founder of the photobook publishing platform msdm. paula typically stylises her name in lower case to avoid hierarchy.
A humorous twist on the idea of a coffee table book, the nine prints in this photo book can be laid out make a 122x86cm image. The photograph, sourced from the EPS collection/Arab Image Foundation, is rendered as a bitmap.
An experiment in the genre of the photo essay; an attempt to intersect a collection of photographs from the Al-Yom newspaper photo archives with text sampled from L’Ombre d’Une Ville by the Beirut-based writer and architect Elie-Pierre Sabbagh.
2017 The Book Dispersed, Casa das Artes + Sputenik & The Window, Porto, Portugal
2017 All Inked Up, Herbert Read Gallery UCA Canterbury, UK
2017 Blackchapel, Whitechapel Wounds, (site-specific installation), msdm studio Whitechapel, London, UK
2016 Whitechapel Guardian (site-specific installation), msdm studio Whitechapel, London, UK
2015 Torn, Folded, Curled, Plan BEY/ Makan, Beirut, Lebanon
2015 Photo Book Thing, School of Arts & Creative Industries London South Bank University, London, UK
2014 Girls' Own Fiction, flutter project space, London, UK
2014 We Hasten to Announce to You, East Street Arts Pop-Up, Watford, UK
2013 Queer Paper Gardens, Museu da Electricidade, Lisbon, Portugal
2013 Dreaming Through - On & Into the Exotic, 198 Contemporary, London,UK
2012 The Past Persists in the Present in the Form of a Dream (Participatory Architectures), Brighton Photo Biennial at the Phoenix, Brighton, UK
2017 The Summer of Love, Hive Studio, London, UK
2016 Les Rencontres d’Arles Photographie Photo-Text Award, Arles, France
2016 KALEID Oslo, KHiO Bibliotek, Oslo National Art Academy, Oslo, Norway
2015 Photobook Sheffield International Artist’s Book Prize, Bank Street Arts, Sheffield, UK
2015 Kaleid Editions, London Art Academy, London
2015 Art in a Bookshell: a Survey of Artists Working with and Inspired by Books, Milton Gallery, London, UK
2014 Connecting Worlds, the Drawing Room at UBM Offices, London, UK
2013 Dear Aby Warburg, What Can be Done with Images?, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany
2012 Self-Published Newspapers Show, mzin, Leipzig, Germany
2015-2018 The page Turner: Photographic archives, photobookworks and self-publishing, workshops and exhibitions in partnership with the V&A Academy, Lisbon
2015-2018 Photobook Fair at the School of Arts & Creative Industries, London South Bank University, London, UK
2016-2018 Photobook Pop-Up (curator), School of Arts & Creative Industries London South Bank University, London, UK
2016-2018 ə/uh/-books project space for material publishing (curator), School of Arts & Creative Industries, London South Bank University, London, UK
2017 Photobook Walks, Maxilla Gallery, London, UK
2016 Bus-Spotting + A Story (photobook) short-listed for Photo-Text Award, Arles Rencontres de Photographie, Arles, France
2015 Nothing To Undo (photobook) First Prize: The Sheffield International Artist’s Book Prize,Sheffield, UK
2015 Nothing To Undo (photobook) short-listed for Photobook Award, Fotobook festival, Kassel, Germany
2015 Arab Image Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon
2014 Frans Masereel Centre, Kasterlee, Belgium
2013 Adxistur, Xisto Villages, Portugal
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