Vanessa Berry

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Vanessa Berry reading her zine I am a Camera. Photograph by Joanne Saad

Vanessa Berry is a prolific Sydney, NSW, Australia based writer, artist and zinester, who has published notable one-off and influential ongoing Australian zines, including Psychobabble (1996-1998), Laughter and the Sound of Teacups (1997-2002) and I am a Camera (2000-).

In 2007 a book of Vanessa's autobiographical stories was published by Local Consumption Publications. Named Strawberry Hills Forever as a tribute to her post office box, the book includes stories taken in part from her zines I am a Camera and Laughter and the Sound of Teacups. She is also the author of the zine-influenced memoir Ninety 9 (2013), and the books Mirror Sydney (2017) and Gentle and Fierce (2021).

Berry's zine works to March 2009, ~120 zines, was exhibited as part of the exhibition Avoiding myth and message: Australian artists and the Literary world, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 7 April - 12 July 2009.

Contact

P.O. Box 1879

Strawberry Hills

NSW 2012

AUSTRALIA


Bibliography

"2021"

  • I am a Camera 21

"2020"

  • I am Camera 20

"2019"

  • Disposable Camera #14
  • MUGS (with Katie Haegele)

"2018"

  • Marrickville Map/Zine
  • Disposable Camera #13

"2017"

  • I am a Camera 19

"2016"

  • I am a Camera 18

"2015"

  • I Wear Your Clothes Like Armour (Throwing Muses zine, with Chiara Grassia)

"2014"

  • I am a Camera 17
  • Everyone Drives a Used Car/Boiracer and Mazdabator split zine (with Alex Wild)

"2013"

  • Split YOU/Disposable Camera (about The Housemartins)
  • Summer Here/Winter Here (split zine with Katie Haegele

"2012"

  • Biblioburbia
  • Time Attack Beast

"2011"

"2010"

  • I am a Camera #14
  • Kingdom by the Sea
  • Fern Zine
  • Still Looking for Junk, with Simon Yates
  • Vinnies - Blue Ribbon Edition. (Reissue of 1999 zine.)
  • various issues of Disposable Camera

2009

2008

2007

2006

2001

2000

1999

1997

1996

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