Atlas Monographs: Max Pam

Atlas Monographs is acompression of nine traveljournals, beginning withPam’s most recent work(Karakoram 2006) andshifting back through thedecades to his first journals,begun in 1970. The journalsmap – through text, photo and marks onpaper – his engagement with the cultures hehas travelled through. Just as importantly,the journals provided the engine room forhis development as a photographer, a writerand an artist.

Max Pam is one of Australia’smost important contemporary photographers.Working as a professional since theearly 1970s, he is among a handful ofAustralians to make a substantial impact onthe intensely competitive internationalphotographic scene.