Exposure: A photographic memoir + Botany Bay 1988 Limited Edition Print

Exclusive Piper Press Limited Edition Art Print with Book (Dispatches by December 15, 2025)

Botany Bay, 1988 Greg Weight photographs fellow artist Jonny Lewis, who is photographing a man walking along the sea wall on a cloudless day in 1988, over 200 years after the First Fleet attempted to land. This image evokes the stillness of surreal art and photography. Both strange and beautiful, it is also a photographer's photograph, both portrait and implied self portrait at the same time. This work has never been released or offered in editions before.

• Limited edition of 25 only
• Pigment on archival A2 paper
• Outer dimensions 42 x 59.4 cm
• Signed and numbered, unframed
• Certificate of authenticity.

Exposure: A photographic memoir is an intimate journey through Australia’s bohemian art world, told by acclaimed photographer Greg Weight, whose lens has captured some of Australia's most iconic artists and cultural moments over the past five decades.

With wit and candour, Weight shares his encounters with Martin Sharp, Brett Whiteley, Reg Mombassa, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Johnny Bell, John Olsen, Garry Shead, Margaret Olley, Luke Sciberras, Tracey Moffatt, Jeffrey Smart and others, bringing them to life in personal, often poignant settings. All the while, his own personal journey is revealed.

Trusted by artists to photograph both their portraits and their work, Weight became an artist in his own right, with John Olsen describing his gift as capturing “the Weight moment”. This book is a beautifully produced memoir accompanied by over 65 photographs—some iconic, others never before seen.

Through award-winning portraits and landscapes, he reveals not only the likeness but the psyche of each subject, creating a vivid chronicle of Australia’s art scene from the 1960s to the 2000s: its immense talent, tragedies, absurdities and hilarities. Playful, candid and revealing, this memoir takes readers to the front row of Sydney’s creative world.

From his childhood discovery of light and shadow to formative years with Martin Sharp, The Yellow House collective and the Sydney Push, Weight’s story unfolds in thirty-six “exposures”—chapters echoing the frames of a roll of film.

With foreword by artist Lin Utzon and endorsement from Reg Mombassa, this book is designed to be read and enjoyed alongside images. Printed on Japanese Fine Art paper in a readable, hardback format.

Release: December 2025.

We will ship your selected photograph with your book in December. This is a rare chance to secure Greg's fine art photographic work.