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Colin Gray: Restaging the Parents

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UNITED KINGDOM: Whimsical, poignant, fantastical, dark… these family photos restage the complex nature of parenting and the domestic dynamic, from ageing and the shift in mutual dependence, to ultimate departure.

4 February 2023 Europe

Dina Goldstein: Telling Tales

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CANADA: a satirical retelling of familiar stories as Disney princesses, deities, and US presidents tumble into the real world like Alice in reverse.

20 August 2022 Americas

Manit Sriwanichpoom: The Colours of Dissent

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THAILAND: Scathing satirical tableaux critiquing the country’s turbulent socio-political scene, created by one of Southeast Asia’s leading artists.

23 July 2022 Asia

Patty Carroll: Death by Décor

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USA: Patty Carroll’s ‘Anonymous Women’ parody and personify the frenetic consumerism and suffocating domesticity of ‘idealised’ notions of femininity promoted in the post-war era.

23 April 2022 Americas

Herman van den Boom: The Domain of Domestic Diversity

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BELGIUM: The Belgian spirit of whimsical individuality found hiding in plain sight at the edge of suburbia.

23 October 2021 Europe

Maleonn: Theatre of the Mind

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CHINA: A fusion of theatre and photography that, with an eccentric magic, weaves together the light and dark of the human condition.

26 June 2021 Asia

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

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

Sian Bonnell: Insights of the Absurd

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UNITED KINGDOM: Throwing the paradoxes of the domestic environment into sharp relief, Sian Bonnell uses absurdity to critique the socially constructed role of women in the home.

14 November 2020 Europe

Dulce Pinzón: Practical Magic

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MEXICO: Dulce Pinzón creates latter-day visual fables that address real social issues: racial prejudice, low-paid workers, environmental damage.

22 August 2020 Americas

Diana Thorneycroft: Long Shadows in the North

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CANADA: Combining humour with cultural critique; history with psychology, Diana Thorneycroft constructs visual stories of the anxiety and contradiction embedded in the dark subsoil of Canadian national mythology.

11 July 2020 Americas

Encontros da Imagem: Theme and Variation

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PORTUGAL: The long-running annual festival of photography in Braga takes a lively approach to integrating imagery and architecture, concept and conviviality that has sustained the engaging freshness that is the hallmark of the event.

10 June 2020 Europe

Hillerbrand + Magsamen: The Stuff of Dreams

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USA: Repurposing their household possession to create a mandala or build a spaceship, Stephan Hillerbrand and Mary Magsamen use photography, video, performance and installation to explore the paradoxes of the American Dream.

11 April 2020 Americas

Kaunas Photo: At the European Crossroads

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LITHUANIA: Set in the historical centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life, KAUNAS PHOTO is a festival that sits at the intersection of tradition and innovation, all laced with a dash of humour.

1 April 2020 Europe

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
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