IF the name “100 Views of Canberra” sounds familiar to you, it is. The title is a take on the famous series called “100 views of Mount Fuji” by Japanese Ukiyo–e Katsushika Hokusai.

Cleverly, PhotoAccess, helped by a grant from the ACT Government’s Community Centenary Initiatives Fund, has produced a book and an exhibition based on Hokusai’s idea that anything can be viewed from many points of view to express an infinite variety of moods and nuances.

The new book and the accompanying exhibition were launched last night by ACT Minister for the Arts, Joy Burch, in the Huw Davies Gallery at the Manuka Arts Centre.

PhotoAccess believes “100 Views of Canberra” is “important and insightful, recording through the eyes of local photographers the grand, not so grand and human faces of Canberra in its Centenary year”.

The photographic organisation invited photographers to submit images showing Canberra in all of its guises — the public face, the homely, the grungy, the youthful and “everything that makes our vibrant contemporary city tick”.

And it takes a photographer to know how to capture all this. “While the expected national monuments and buildings play a part in 100 Views of Canberra, they are seen with the photomedia artist’s eye and invite the viewer to see them as locals do.”

“100 Views of Canberra” exhibition, at Huw Davies Gallery, Manuka Arts Centre, until August 28. The book is now available from PhotoAccess and Paperchain Bookstore in Manuka.