'Yield' - hard cover coffee table book

An overview of the last 14 years of Stu Spence's fine art photography, 'Yield' takes viewers on a journey through triumphs, confusion, love, loss and a lot more.

“The images in this book span a fifteen-year period, and cover a number of my exhibitions. For a man with a truly terrible memory, I find it astonishing that I can recall the events precisely – the time, the places and, more importantly, my feelings when I was taking each of these images. It’s a double-edged sword, though, because I love and hate so many of the images, often at the same time. It’s a little like family members who you can’t live without, but are OK seeing just once a year, say, on Christmas Day.”

Stu Spence, 2023

Book dimensions: 320mm x 240mm x 20mm

Sample images below:

"His grainy, blurred works create a sense of wonder or awe. These are not slick, commercial snapshots of contemporary culture. They are gentle and generous documentations of life."

 Prue Gibson, author and research fellow, UNSW

"Spence's seemingly trivial, seductively Pointillist pictures have universal charm, primarily because their diffuse definition and soft colour take each picture away from photography's narrative strengths and towards a more painterly, universal quality." 

Robert McFarlane, Sydney Morning Herald