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Camera Obscura
by Kathryn Lomer

Light and shadow, love and loss, the extraordinary and the everyday are captured through the lens of this evocative new collection of fiction.

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Overview

Camera Obscura moves through Greece, Italy and France, across to Japan and into the Australian suburbs, as its characters take journeys into themselves and away from their pasts.

A mother’s shattered view of the world is healed through her friendship with a blind man, and a mortician, unable to engage in life, finds solace among the dead. A couple plays out the final moments of a fading love, while an old man sets out to rekindle an enduring love from long ago.

Using a poet’s ear and a photographer’s eye, Kathryn Lomer infuses her writing with a distinctive irony and an intuitive understanding of the human experience.

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Awards

Sunday Tasmanian

‘Lomer is a versatile writer. She is both a novelist and poet who also demonstrates, in Camera Obscure, a fine facility for compressing emotion.’

The Age

‘Just as what lies out of frame may be significant, it’s the spaces between the words that speak volumes.’

The Sydney Morning Herald

‘Certainly able to be consumed in one sitting, these tasty morsels are like an amusebouche that might leave you interested in a more substantial main course.’

Kathryn Lomer

Kathryn Lomer grew up in north-west Tasmania and lives in Hobart. She has published across the genres of novel, short story, young adult fiction and poetry. Her books have received a number of awards, including a NSW Premier’s Literary Award, the Anne Elder Award and the Margaret Scott Prize.