Heavy Volume One marks the first published release from The Heavy Collective. It draws on a diverse group of past contributors from the online platform, making the leap from the screen to a tangible connection between artist and paper. The volume features interviews, short stories and essays from photographers and writers including Bryan Schutmaat, Mark Steinmetz, Lucas Foglia, Stacy Kranitz, Tim Page, Kate Peters, Zhang Xiao, Sara Cwynar, Simon Davidson, Emmanuel Angelicas and Daniel Boetker Smith.

It is a significant showcase of contemporary work, a compendium of the relationships and the archive that The Heavy Collective has cultivated with some of the most important practitioners working today. The collective is an Australian online and offline platform dedicated to the showcase and discussion of contemporary work, hoping through publishing, exhibitions and online media to illuminate the practice of making pictures and its ability to represent or reflect our lived experiences.