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Category Archive: 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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1 January 2020 Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania
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