
Some Voices Carry
- Publisher
- Perimeter Editions
- Year
- 2026
- ISBN
- 978-1-922545-74-9
- Specifications
- Softcover with flaps, OTA binding
24 x 32 cm
80 pages
First edition of 800
Perimeter Editions 138
Printed by Wilco Art Books, The Netherlands
Texts by Arini Byng and Travis Byng
Edited by Justine Ellis, Ash Holmes and Dan Rule
Design by Narelle Brewer for Perimeter Bureau
Lithography by Mariska Bijl, robstolk amsterdam
Some Voices Carry is Arini Byng's second book with Perimeter Editions, a collection of photo-collages made by layering family snapshots over pages lifted from issues of EBONY magazine, chiefly from 1980, the year her parents met, and 1982, the year they married. Her late father Travis Byng, her best friend and long-time collaborator, appears in several of them, as do her Australian mother Anna, her sister Chren, her cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents in her American family. Bringing family intimacy into dialogue with the editorial and photographic language of EBONY, a Black-owned magazine that shone a light on Black life, culture and social justice, the images work as beacons and also whisper of cultural distance and yearning, since her father's sudden death in 2022 took her primary link to her Black American heritage. The cover is a collage over a JET magazine page with the title in orange capitals across a smiling portrait.