Black+White magazine was an Australian cultural icon for the 1990s and well into the 2000s, until its relatively recent demise.

A surprisingly large percentage of the population of Australia loyally bought every highly priced issue of the magazine, up until about number 50. It was even wellknown and subscribed-to at ruinous expense by advertising agencies and design firms the world over.

My latest e-book – How I Came Out of the Western Desert and Helped Kill Off the Cultural Cringe – tells the story of my involvement in the magazine’s conception and cofounding. This e-book started out as a set of notes in response to a request by a friend – Jennifer Treur of JAM Directions – to tell the story of how Black+White began. Then, as with many things in life, those notes just grew and grew until they became an e-book.

To download your free copy of this e-book, just go to the e-Books page of this website and click on the thumbnail image of How I Came Out of the Western Desert and Helped Kill Off the Cultural Cringe.

Reader’s Comments

Black+White’s concept was simple and dynamic – standing out on the newsagent’s shelf as collector’s items to the critical artistic eye, breathing inspiration into a dull aisle.

A blend of photography, design and interviews that bought attention to the world’s most famous fashion and art photographers including Helmut Newton, Robert Mapplethorpe and Patrick Demarchelier to name a few, and equally encouraging Australian photographers to share the world stage.

… Jennifer Treur, Writer, Director, Designer, JAM Directions, www.jamdirections.com.au

Karin’s work is inspirational. Take her Black+White magazine concept and its result – it was the Bible of the photographic art world, open to all sorts of interpretations; ethereal, confronting or simply beautiful.

… Carmel Duryea Morris, CEO, Big One Productions, www.carmelmorris.com