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Category Archive: Oceania

Deborah Paauwe: Behind the Myth of Innocence

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AUSTRALIA: subtly disquieting images that evoke the artist’s youthful memories, unravelling the myth of childhood innocence.

18 March 2023 Oceania

Stephen Dupont: Don’t Look Away

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AUSTRALIA: Images of conflict that avoid the explosive spectacle of war, to explore the lives of individuals caught up in events beyond their control.

18 February 2023 Oceania

NEXT: Re-Imagining the Post-Pandemic World

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INTERNATIONAL: Eleven artists reflect on what they learned during the pandemic, picking just one thing they would reimagine for the better in the future.

17 December 2022 Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania

Alison Bennett: Queering the Paradigm

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AUSTRALIA: Distinctive ways of being and knowing, experienced through a queer perspective on expanded photography.

12 November 2022 Oceania

Celebrating:

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VIDEO: marking 150 interviews published on Talking Pictures.

1 November 2022 Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania

Mark Kimber: Imperfect Memories

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AUSTRALIA: Luminous yet elusive images that navigate the gulf between the world of the senses and the interior realm of the self.

2 July 2022 Oceania

Serena Dzenis: Out of This World

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AUSTRALIA / ICELAND: Haunting images of natural, urban, and industrial landscapes that rekindle a mythical past or spark ethical speculation about the future.

18 June 2022 Europe, Oceania

Polixeni Papapetrou: Tales from Elsewhere

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AUSTRALIA: Fables that are at once personal and universal, familial and public, recounting childhood perspicacity and adult frailty far the here and now.

14 May 2022 Oceania

Ayman Kaake: Beyond Words

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LEBANON / AUSTRALIA: Dreamlike psychodramas that envision the émigré’s feelings of separation, longing and isolation.

26 March 2022 Asia, Oceania

Belinda Mason: Humanity in Difference

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AUSTRALIA: Challenging misconceptions around disability and making evident the violent abuse that can sometimes be its cause.

5 March 2022 Oceania

Zelko Nedic: Of Ambiguity and Personal Truth

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BOSNIA / AUSTRALIA: Darkly beautiful images that use alternative photographic processes to convey the ultimate ambiguity of life as experience.

22 January 2022 Europe, Oceania

Murray Fredericks: The Space Between Somewhere and Nowhere

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AUSTRALIA: From the arid heat of central Australia to the windswept ice sheet of Greenland, powerful and austere images that push the very notion of landscape to its extreme.

8 January 2022 Oceania

Alexia Sinclair: The Art of the Historical Present

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AUSTRALIA: Figures from history and legend elegantly reconceived with the technology and sensibility of the present.

11 December 2021 Oceania

Magdalena Bors: Household Magic

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AUSTRALIA: Fantastical photographs suggesting a domestic magic brought into being by longing, obsession or childlike exuberance.

20 November 2021 Oceania

Martin Hill & Philippa Jones: The Art of the Sustainable

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NEW ZEALAND: Images of ephemeral land-art projects that symbolise the interdependence of natural systems that connect us all in the web of life.

13 November 2021 Oceania

William Yang: Stories from the Margin

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AUSTRALIA: A contemporary story-teller who combines photography and words to synthesis rich and complex narratives of family, community and sexuality.

16 October 2021 Oceania

Jeremy Blincoe: The Honest Mythmaker

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NEW ZEALAND / AUSTRALIA: A visual storyteller exploring the interior world of the mind through the shared imagination of the community.

2 October 2021 Oceania

Hoda Afshar: Compassion and the ‘Other’

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IRAN / AUSTRALIA: Poetically perceptive imagery that engages the layers of displacement, difference and marginality that define what it means to be ‘other’.

15 May 2021 Asia, Oceania

Gerard & Marc: Storytelling on a Grand Scale

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AUSTRALIA: Raucous, irreverently grandiose images that bring to mind the diverse traditions of William Hogarth’s 18th-century satirical etchings, 19th-century history painting and 20th-century cinema.

1 May 2021 Oceania

Robyn Stacey: Bringing the Museum to Life

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AUSTRALIA: Photographic tableaux that bring new life to the artefacts of historical and natural-history museums nationally and internationally.

27 March 2021 Oceania

Judith Crispin: The Compassion of Country

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AUSTRALIA: a remarkable synthesis of timeless Aboriginal wisdom and radically innovative printmaking that creates pictures of intense poetic beauty.

27 February 2021 Oceania

Murray McKeich: The Imagination Machine

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AUSTRALIA: An artist who uses generative computer software to autonomously breed art-works while he is sleeping.

30 January 2021 Oceania

Alasdair Foster: Question the Image

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AUSTRALIA: Alasdair Foster, a curator, researcher, and writer who draws on an array of experiences from around the world, offers his perspective on photography – and where it’s going next. Interview by Alexander Strecker.

9 January 2021 Oceania

The 12 Days of…: Revisiting the Festive Season

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INTERNATIONAL: Impressions of Christmas and the New Year through the kaleidoscopic lens of artists from Asia, the Americas, Europe and Oceania.

19 December 2020 Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania

Sam Harris: Postcards from Home

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AUSTRALIA: A successful celebrity photographer discovers real inspiration nearer to home when he emigrates from London to make a new life in rural Western Australia.

21 November 2020 Oceania

Ilan Wittenberg: Real Men

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NEW ZEALAND: Ilan Wittenberg’s extensive catalogue of Auckland men captures the uniqueness and imperfection that lays bare the inhumanity of commercially idealised masculinity.

7 November 2020 Oceania

Marian Drew: Natural Wonders and Human Conceits

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AUSTRALIA: With a subtle insistence, Marian Drew’s still-life and light-painting images question how we might inhabit and share the natural world in a sustainable and equitable way.

17 October 2020 Oceania

Christophe Canato: Principles of Uncertainty

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AUSTRALIA: Rather than illustrating an idea, Christophe Canato’s images propose a paradox that animates questions around gender, sexuality and the transition from child to adult.

19 September 2020 Oceania

Trent Parke: Dream / Life

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AUSTRALIA: The only Australian in the celebrated Magnum collective, Trent Parke’s work is acclaimed around the world for its innovation and originality.

12 September 2020 Oceania

Pat Brassington: 1+1=3

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AUSTRALIA: Pat Brassington exploits the legacies of Surrealism while subtly subverting those (primarily masculine) traditions with a clearly feminine and feminist inflection.

8 August 2020 Oceania

David Stephenson: Of Heaven and Earth

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AUSTRALIA: David Stephenson’s photographs are about very big ideas: the endless Antarctic icecap; the vastness of the heavens; the great domes of European architecture, and the luminous excesses of the modern metropolis.

20 June 2020 Oceania

Peter Solness: The Worlds of a Light Painter

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AUSTRALIA: An artist painting with light to create richly coloured and emotionally intensified images of the natural and human worlds.

13 June 2020 Oceania

Patricia Casey: Inner Worlds

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AUSTRALIA: Photography, digital montage and embroidery combine in images that draw the viewer into the often-disquieting aesthetic of dreams.

16 May 2020 Oceania

Auckland Festival of Photography: Perspectives from the Edge of the World

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NEW ZEALAND: Located on the rim of the Pacific, this is a festival of and by the people: stimulating creativity, encouraging participation, and celebrating the many and diverse expressions of human imagination.

6 May 2020 Oceania

Head On: Facing Up to Controversy

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AUSTRALIA: In a world that all too often seeks to segregate professionals from amateurs, celebrities from ordinary people, Head On provides an alternative based on mutual respect and a passion for photographic creativity.

29 April 2020 Oceania

Tatjana Plitt: The Beautiful Mundane

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AUSTRALIA: An unconventional approach to portraiture that subverts clichés and stereotypes to emphasise the value of real human relationships over fantasy or caricature.

28 March 2020 Oceania

Simon Harsent: Portrait of an Iceberg

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AUSTRALIA: the stark reality of global warming given particular poignancy by an artist who identifies with the melting icebergs.

14 March 2020 Oceania

Glenn Sloggett: Damaged Goods

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AUSTRALIA: Documenting the dysfunctional, the dispossessed, and the dogged hope that lingers amid the ashes of failure.

1 February 2020 Oceania

Richard Woldendorp: Inspired by Perfection

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AUSTRALIA: In a career spanning six decades, this celebrated aerial photographer has captured the magnificence of the Great Southern Continent.

6 January 2020 Oceania

A Free Educational Resource

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EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE: Talking Pictures features in-depth interviews with photographers and photo-festival directors around the world.

1 January 2020 Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania

Welcome to Talking Pictures

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WELCOME to Talking Pictures – interviews with photographers around the world. Here’s how to navigate the website.

1 January 2020 Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania
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