THIS WAY IS UP, THIS WAY IS NOT

“THIS WAY IS UP, THIS WAY IS NOT” is an artists’ book of colour photography, sequenced into single- and double-page spreads, printed in broadsheet newspaper format.

In a divided and polarized world where someone’s view of what’s “right” is someone else’s view of what’s “wrong” and where “right side up” can equally be “upside down”, depending on the beholder, readers are encouraged to rotate this publication upside down, sideways, and back again, so that they may judge – for themselves – which way is up.

The artist’s intent was to create an object that is fragile, while potentially falling apart in one’s hands at any moment, to not only match, but one up, our predicament in these 2020s. How a sequence of seemingly irrelevant colour images could ever capture this intention is up to the reader to see, or not.

About the maker: WOO SEE-MING has been a Toronto-based artist in a non-visual art field for nearly two decades. In 2022, he took up photography as an artistic practice, and act of desperation, in order to capture the world as best he could before it went up into a mushroom cloud.

By Woo See-Ming; January 2025; 332x475mm; 48 pages; Each copy of this publication is packaged in a protective translucent sleeve and contains a surprise instant film print, captioned by the artist; Zine Shine 2025;