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Below are some selections from upcoming and recent solo photography exhibitions: human rights in Europe, natural/abstract environments in Australia, and documentation of the making of the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliment House, Canberra.

Selections from each series can be downloaded and played as a slideshow through Adobe Reader, which is free to download here.
Excerpts from a range of other series will be added to a new section of the website in early 2010.

: Limited edition framed/unframed prints are available on request :

Upcoming

Sending out Surveys of Spain (SoSoS) + Sending out Sketches of Spain (SoSoS) (2010)

Sketches of Spain & Surveys of Spain are a series of solo photography exhibitions that will be produced by travelling to Spain, via the assistance of the Spanish Cultural Cooperation Program between the Spanish Ministry of Culture and the Australan National University. Post-production and exhibitions of both will occur through residencies at PhotoAccess and the ANU School of Art Photomedia department in 2010.

Recently passed

Royal Bank of Scotland Emerging Artist Award Exhibition (2009)

My photograph 'muddle' in group exhibition of works by Australian artists in various media
Curator: Susan Manford
Renzo Piano RBS Tower, 88 Phillip Street, Sydney
0730 to 1900 weekdays September 21 - October 2 2009
Press release available here

muddle (nee deep butterfried pigs don’t straighten up and fly right wing) 2008

the idea of [(n)t+f(n)(q)] (2009)

: traipse through North for a month :
: nature by numbers :
: slip slide crawl climb with camera + backpack :
: no tripod/cropping/editing/tilting/image manipulation :
: save for tweak brightness + contrast re digital file vs sugar cane colour shifts :
: printed on Sugar Cane by Stephen Best @ Macquarie Editions :

solo exhibition of images of not-so-built
natural environments of
[(n)orthern
(t)erritory
+
(f)ar
(n)orth
(q)ueensland]

Photospace Gallery,
Level II, ANU School of Art
0900-1700 weekdays from September 21 - October 9 2009
The list of the titles of the exhiited photograhs can be downloaded here.

Making Me MoAD (2009)
Chronological meanderings through the making of
The Museum of Australian Democrazy at Old Parliament House, Canberra

The series explores some pivotal contrasts surrounding the making of the Museum of Australian Democracy (MoAD) at Old Parliament House over 2008-2009. Working as an Interaction Designer on MoAD, while also being EDM Studios’ Documentary Photographer of the entire making of MoAD, I captured contradictory celebrations and criticisms of how and why democracy exists in Australia. This series represents a slice of the distinction between my dual ‘internal’ perspective as an Interaction Designer working on MoAD, with my ‘external’ documentation of public figures and private workers during the making of…

…the rights to which we are all entitled (2008-9)
Photographs from Germany, Austria, Italy, England, Holland, Beglium and Switzerland.

This exhibition was commissioned by the National Europe Centre to mark the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and also to mark the beginning of the National Europe Centre’s 2008 Summer School: Human Rights - Law, Policy and Practice: Lessons from Europe. The list of the titles of the exhiited photograhs can be downloaded here.

15 December 2008 – 20 February 2009
Exhibition Opened by Professor Mandy Thomas, ANU Pro Vice-Chancellor
National Europe Centre
1 Liversidge Street
Research School of Humanities, ANU