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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

Maika Elan: A Gentle Curiosity

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VIETNAM: Focusing on people at the margins of society, these relaxed domestic moments explore, without sensationalism, the intimate companionship that is a foundation of our shared human experience.

25 February 2023 Asia

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

Angelika Kollin: The Worth of Being

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ESTONIA / AFRICA: Images of love and loss delicately exploring the essential mystery of human interconnection.

26 November 2022 Africa, Europe

Mohammad Shahnewaz Khan: Of Hope and Humanity

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BANGLADESH: A humanitarian photographer who not only documents injustice and inequity in the world, but also explores his own imperfection with poignant honesty.

5 November 2022 Asia

Robin Schwartz: The Communion of Animals

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USA: Spanning two decades, a mother and daughter explore the deep connection between people and their animal companions.

10 September 2022 Americas

Diego Moreno: The Rebel and His Monsters

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MEXICO: Named one of the top twenty talents worldwide by FOAM magazine, Diego Moreno’s monsters have much to show us about familial love and about domestic abuse.

11 June 2022 Americas

Allison Plass: Contours of Masculinity

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USA: A mother’s delicate reflections on masculinity within the everyday intimacy of family life as boys become men and men become middle-aged.

4 June 2022 Americas

Andy Wiener: The Story Behind the Mask

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UNITED KINGDOM: Conjuring the familial past and a satirical future through the evocative power of photographic masks.

12 March 2022 Europe

Dona Schwartz: On the Nest

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USA / CANADA: A visual ethnographer, Dona Schwartz photographs expectant parents and empty-nesters marking those moments when each couple stands outside the gates of family life.

9 October 2021 Americas

Diana Blok: The Beautiful Imperfect

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NETHERLANDS: Portraits that speak to the entanglement of individual, interpersonal and collective identity, the mutability of the body, and the fluidity of being.

18 September 2021 Europe

Viktoria Sorochinski: The Mystery of Human Connection

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UKRAINE: Psychological dramas that play out the emotional interior of their protagonists: the aching desire to connect that can never be fully realised.

17 July 2021 Europe

Agnieszka Sosnowska: Veritable Myths

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ICELAND: Picturing the resilient lives and enduring landscapes of a small farming community in the East of Iceland caught between harsh reality and timeless myth.

3 July 2021 Europe

Tim Hetherington: Of War and Compassion

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UNITED KINGDOM: Four friends of the late Tim Hetherington discuss the work of this compassionate war photographer who sought to depict Big History through the lens of small history.

19 June 2021 Europe

Daniel W. Coburn: The Enigma of Family Connection

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USA: Emerging from person crisis, these images unfold a domestic conversation around the paradox of family ties and the quest for redemption.

8 May 2021 Americas

Nana Frimpong Oduro: Frames of Mind

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GHANA: With few resources and no connections into the wider art-world, Nana Frimpong Oduro has developed a distinctive photo-art practice gaining recognition internationally.

6 March 2021 Africa

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

Wendy Sacks: Water and the Art of Healing

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USA: Employing the symbolic and physical qualities of water, Wendy Sacks makes photographs that speak of the complex nature of human relationships, both light and dark.

31 October 2020 Americas

The Mirror of Three Kingdoms: Shanxi Family Portraits

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CHINA: Reflections on the meanings and value of family photo archives in traditional homes in Shanxi Province.

10 October 2020 Asia

The Jackson Twins: Seeing Double

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UNITED KINGDOM: A collaboration between identical twins drawing on the traditions of European folklore, Gothic Romance and Hollywood cinema, blending British whimsy with a darker psychological ambiguity that lends depth and complexity.

3 October 2020 Europe

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

Daniel Schumann: At Home with Love and Loss

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GERMANY: Images that speak with quiet compassion of the impermanence that marks us out as human, and the dignity to be afforded to all, regardless of situation, apparent difference, or stage of life.

18 July 2020 Europe

Angkor Photography Festival: Small is Beautiful

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CAMBODIA: With a focus on discovery, education and sharing, this festival and workshop program provides a generous and egalitarian environment in which to learn new skills, exchange ideas and establish new friendships.

13 May 2020 Asia

John Paul Evans: At Home with Otherness

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UNITED KINGDOM: Quintessentially British in their rigorous formality, these allegorical tableaux grow from the personal experience of an intergenerational life partnership condemned to the margins of ‘otherness’.

9 May 2020 Europe

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
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