‘I know a place’ is the fifth instalment in Drew Pettifer’s ongoing publishing project of monographic works centred on the negotiated queer male gaze.

For this volume, Pettifer invited curator and art historian Michael Gentle to assist in editing the book and to contribute an essay.
Gentle writes: ‘…..Pettifer’s work leans into the uneasiness of “place” as a generative force in identity formation. Rather than offering the queer body as icon or emblem, his images open it as a porous site where intimacy, memory, and desire fold into one another. This refusal of fixity troubles the fantasy of a distinctly “Australian queer aesthetic,” revealing instead how queerness bends and unsettles the very frameworks—colonial, national, normative—that seek to contain it.”