Hustle Culture by TOM MELICK

Occasionally John will send updates about the birds visiting the baths. Susi does too, when she tends to them by replenishing the water. All these birds live amidst heavy industry. They nest in the refineries, fly through the smoke and the gaseous air and over the green deserts of oil palms, visiting baths and spots like the one at the side of the house, and the habitat corridors too.
—Tom Melick

This book is published by Stolon Press, to accompany the film Hustle Culture. Both the film and the book were made for the third Lahore Biennale, Of Mountains and Seas, curated by John Tain, and held from 5 October to 8 November, 2024. The text was written in Sydney, Port Dickson, and Lahore, with a forthcoming edition in Urdu.

text by Tom Melick
photographs by Simryn Gill
2024, published by Stolon Press, 20 pages, 21 x 27 pages