HIJACKED 2
Australia/German

Hardbound, 10½" x 8½", 412 pages
Numerous illustrations
2010, Big City Press/Kehrer Verlag
Edited by Mark MacPherson, Ute Noll and Markus Schaden

From the Publisher:
Hijacked 2 is a comprehensive and expansive photographic compendium, and the first to delineate the important artistic and socio-cultural relationship that exists between Australia and Germany. Building on the considerable success of the inaugural publication Hijacked 1, Australia and America; Hijacked 2 showcases the diverse talents and perspectives of 32 contemporary German and Australian photographers. With a focus on the depiction and representation of the young, the boundary-riding, and fringe.dwelling, Hijacked is layered with imagery both evocative and confronting, dreamlike and rousing.

As a rare bilateral visual arts anthology, Hijacked compels us to consider two socially divergent and disparate photographic nations. Germany and Australia are juxtaposed to stimulate conversation, suggest connection and invite deconstruction . framing a unique space marked both by synergy and by discord. Hijacked engages with the complexities of contemporary photographic practice and documentation, its traditional aims and its transforming technologies, and, as such, offers exceptional insight into an emerging and otherwise evasive zeitgeist.

Australian artists:
Narelle Autio, James Brickwood, Michael Corridore, Andrew Cowen, Tamara Dean, Jackson Eaton, Suzie FoX, Lee Grant, Derek Henderson, Rebecca Ann Hobbs, Ingvar Kenne, Bronek Kozka, Georgia Metaxas, Conor O'Brien, Polixeni Papapetrou and Louis Porter

German Artists:
Johanna Ahlert, Natalie Bothur, Jorg Bruggemann, Thekla Ehling, Albrecht Fuchs, Karsten Kronas, Anne Lass, Jens Liebchen, Myriam Lutz, Julian Roder, Josef Schulz, Oliver Sieber, Ivonne Thein, Olaf Unverzart, Jan Von Holleben and Sascha Weidner