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[[Image: Vaness Berry.gif|frame|Vanessa Berry reading her [[zine]] ''I am a Camera''. Photograph by Joanne Saad]]
 
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'''Vanessa Berry''' is a prolific Sydney, NSW, Australia based [[artist]] and [[zinester]].
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'''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-).
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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).
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Berry's zine works to March 2009, ~120 zines, was exhibited as part of the exhibition [http://www.mca.com.au/default.asp?page_id=10&content_id=4751 Avoiding myth and message: Australian artists and the Literary world], Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 7 April - 12 July 2009.
  
 
==Contact==
 
==Contact==
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AUSTRALIA
 
AUSTRALIA
  
Email: vanessaberryworld@gmail.com
 
  
 
==Bibliography==
 
==Bibliography==
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"2021"
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*I am a Camera 21
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"2020"
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*I am Camera 20
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"2019"
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* Disposable Camera #14
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* MUGS (with Katie Haegele)
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"2018"
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* Marrickville Map/Zine
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* Disposable Camera #13
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"2017"
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* I am a Camera 19
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"2016"
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* I am a Camera 18
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"2015"
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* I Wear Your Clothes Like Armour (Throwing Muses zine, with Chiara Grassia)
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"2014"
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* I am a Camera 17
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* Everyone Drives a Used Car/Boiracer and Mazdabator split zine (with Alex Wild)
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"2013"
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* Split YOU/Disposable Camera (about The Housemartins)
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* Summer Here/Winter Here (split zine with Katie Haegele
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"2012"
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* Biblioburbia
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* Time Attack Beast
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"2011"
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* I am a Camera 16
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*[[I am a Camera #15 (in Dunedin)]]
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* Disposable Camera #12 (The Melbourne Issue)
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"2010"
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*[[I am a Camera #14]]
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*Kingdom by the Sea
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*Fern Zine
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*Still Looking for Junk, with Simon Yates
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*Vinnies - Blue Ribbon Edition. (Reissue of 1999 zine.)
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*various issues of [[Disposable Camera]]
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'''2009'''
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*[[June graveyard]] (2009)
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*[[The time you were in Paris]] (2009) illustrated by [[Leigh Rigozzi]] and written by Vanessa Berry.
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*[[I am a Camera #13]] (2009)
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* various issues of [[Disposable Camera]]
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'''2008'''
 
'''2008'''
*[[Germany 2008]] #1-2 (2008) excerpts from Vanessa Berry's blog [http://froschperspektive.wordpress.com/ Posted to Germany]
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* [[I am a Camera #12]] (2008)
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* various issues of [[Disposable Camera]]
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*[[Germany 2008]] #1-2, (2008) excerpts from Vanessa Berry's blog [http://froschperspektive.wordpress.com/ Posted to Germany]
 
*Contribution to [[Michelle Vandermeer]]'s [[Li'l Laundromatic]] (2008)
 
*Contribution to [[Michelle Vandermeer]]'s [[Li'l Laundromatic]] (2008)
  
 
'''2007'''
 
'''2007'''
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* I am a Camera #11 (2007)
 
*[[Disposable camera]] (2007?-)
 
*[[Disposable camera]] (2007?-)
 
*[[The rabbit and the bear]] (October 2007), by [[Miss Helen]] and Vanessa Berry
 
*[[The rabbit and the bear]] (October 2007), by [[Miss Helen]] and Vanessa Berry
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'''2006'''
 
'''2006'''
 
*[[News of the Vanessa Berry]] (2006?-)
 
*[[News of the Vanessa Berry]] (2006?-)
*Contribution to [[Post no bills]] (2006-), a [[mail art]]/[[zine]] project by [[Papercut Collective]]
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*Contribution to [[Post No Bills]] (2006-), a [[mail art]]/[[zine]] project by [[Papercut Collective]]
 
*Contribution to [[Anna Poletti]]'s ‘A People’s History of Australian Zines’, HEAT 11: Sheltered Lives (2006)
 
*Contribution to [[Anna Poletti]]'s ‘A People’s History of Australian Zines’, HEAT 11: Sheltered Lives (2006)
  
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'''1997'''
 
'''1997'''
*[[Laughter and the Sound of Teacups]] (1997-2002)
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*[[Laughter and the Sound of Teacups]] #1-67, (1997-2002)
  
 
'''1996'''
 
'''1996'''
*[[Psychobabble]] (1996-1998)
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*[[Psychobabble]] #1-20,(1996-1998)
  
 
==External Links==
 
==External Links==
*[http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~howodd/index.htm Vanessa Berry World]
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*[http://vanessaberryworld.wordpress.com Vanessa Berry World]
 
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/vanessaberry/ Laura Appleyard's photos] Vanessa Berry's Flickr webpage
 
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/vanessaberry/ Laura Appleyard's photos] Vanessa Berry's Flickr webpage
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*[http://biblioburbia.wordpress.com Biblioburbia] Vanessa Berry's Sydney Libraries Project
 
*[http://grrrlzines.net/interviews/vanessaberry.htm ''Vanessa's world in more than 100 zines: An interview with Vanessa Berry''], Sydney, Australia, by Elke Zobl, November 2002
 
*[http://grrrlzines.net/interviews/vanessaberry.htm ''Vanessa's world in more than 100 zines: An interview with Vanessa Berry''], Sydney, Australia, by Elke Zobl, November 2002
 
*[http://froschperspektive.wordpress.com/ Posted to Germany: Vanessa Berry's adventures in German and Germany]
 
*[http://froschperspektive.wordpress.com/ Posted to Germany: Vanessa Berry's adventures in German and Germany]
  
 
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Latest revision as of 07:17, 14 September 2021

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

External Links