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Below are selections from photography exhibitions, including six solo photography exhibitions upcoming in 2012: climate change induced sea level rise in Oceania (Turaluralu Tuvalu); environmental portraiture in Spain (Sense of Surroundings); human rights in Western Europe (…the rights to which we are all entitled); natural/abstract environments in Australia (the idea of [(n)t+f(n)(q)]); human ecology in the Indian Himalayas (Down to Earth Up in the Himalayas); human ecology in the Gangetic Delta (A Day in the Life of the City of Death); not-so-built natural environments vs not-so-natural built environments (ABACADABA (AKA grin reepercussions)); and documentation of the making of the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House, Canberra (Making Me MoAD).

All work to date is unstaged, candid, near-spontaneous depictions of surrounding built and natural environments and fellow humans within these surroundings, in the traditions of reportage, documentary and street photography. This has included commissioned solo acquisitive exhibitions of candid portraiture, and social documentary photography, such as on the making of the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House. when i was a buoyant, an upcoming project, departs from previous practice, being a series of composed solo portrait photography.

Previously exhibited series can be viewed by clicking on the exhibition flyers below, and played as a slideshow through Adobe Reader. In 2012, photography series I shot in 2010 in Spain, France, Switzerland, Netherlands, England, Germany and Italy and in 2011 in Turkey, Syria, Egypt, Greece, Japan and South Korea will be uploaded on this page. These will be viewable in full screen Flash slideshows.

Images are available for use in on-line and off-line publications (on request only) and to purchase as limited edition framed or unframed prints from printing and framing companies in Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne. Prints/frames can be posted nationally and internationally.

For enquiries, pricing and sales, please contact josh [at] arch-angle [dot] net

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when i was a buoyant (2012)

when i was a buoyant is a series of composed solo portrait photography about climate change induced sea level rise. The portraits feature diptychs of participants, each in interior and exterior settings which represent future sea level rise should global temperatures increase more or less than 2 degrees by 2100.

The project is based in community engagement. I am currently seeking 6 volunteers to participate as the 6 portrait subjects. Please contact josh [at] arch-angle [dot] net if you are interested to be involved and/or would like further information about the project.

Production will take place through an Artist Residency at Marrickville Council in July-August 2012.

The solo exhibition of the participants' portraits will be at Chrissie Cotter Gallery in Sydney, from August 15 - August 26 2012.

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Turaluralu Tuvalu (2009-12)

Turaluralu Tuvalu is an exhibition of landscape and seascape photographs concerning the effect of sea level rise on low-lying South Pacific islands. The title of the exhibition refers to 'bidding goodbye' to Tuvalu, as it is among the most susceptible islands in the world to global warming induced seal level rise. The suite of photographs were taken on four different islands in Tonga in 2009. The suite does not seek to represent issues or ideas that are specific to Tonga or Tuvalu, but rather are universal to all land that is susceptible to sea level rise.

The solo exhibition will be at the School of Art Foyer Gallery, Australian National University, from May 22 - June 2 2012.

here comes that sinking feeling from the series Turaluralu Tuvalu

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Premio Italia National Art Competition (2011)

The following triptych won second place in the Art Category of the Premio Italia National Art Competition. The photographs were taken in Italy in 2010.

More information about the competition is available here

Side By Side, Onwards And Upwards and The All Clear

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Sense of Surroundings (2009-12)

entre naturaleza et culture from the series Sense of Surroundings

Sense of Surroundings is a series of street photography and candid environmental portraiture of Spain in 2010. The suite depicts spontaneous responses to making sense of my surroundings: of cultural/physical environments and fellow humans enveloped within these surroundings. Human subjects appear to relate to their surrounding environments as seemingly small elements in the compositions, to express the relationship between infinitesimal life slices amidst the flux of the wider world.

This project has been produced by traveling to Spain in 2010, through a grant from the Spanish Cultural Cooperation Program between the Spanish Ministry of Culture and the ANU Centre for European Studies. Post-production was supported by Artist Residencies at PhotoAccess and the Department of Photography and Media Arts at ANU School of Art in 2011 and by Hang Ups Picture Framing.

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Royal Bank of Scotland Emerging Artist Award Exhibition (2009)

The following photograph, muddle was in the RBS Emerging Artist Award Exhibition in 2009. It was taken in London, UK.
The exhibition was curated by Susan Manford and featured works by 53 Australian artists in various media.

Exhibited at
Renzo Piano RBS Tower
88 Phillip Street, Sydney
September 21 - October 2 2009
0730 to 1900 weekdays
Press release available here

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

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the idea of [(n)t+f(n)(q)] (2007-9)

16°04'35.82"145°28'16.05":22:14.0:1/400:16.05.18:080907/the faint glimmer of hope in the haunting spectre of death
from the series the idea of [(n)t+f(n)(q)]

the idea of [(n)t+f(n)(q)] is a suite of photos of natural environments (such as trees, forests, lakes, wetlands and oceans) in the Northern Territory + Far North Queensland of Australia. Their arrangement collectively concerns metapatterns, structures and forms within nature-at-large. As these themes are implicit, rather than explicit, they are conveyed through the relationship between the exhibition title, image titles and their arrangement. The title refers to The Idea of North: Glenn Gould's contrapuntal radio documentary about individuals who live in remote+wild areas of Northern Canada. The locations of the images forms an acronym and mathematical equation, referring to The North as a physical place, and as a metaphor for solitude: [(n)orthern (t)erritory+(f)ar (n)orth (q)ueensland].

This acronym refers to the implicit themes, with the following 'equation' on the exhibition poster, stating that this 'Northern' state (of place and mind) depicted through the suite is somewhere:
where
[(n)umber times
(t)imes
≠
(f)unction of
(q)uash rational (n)umbers]

Each individual title also expresses these relationships between nature and numbers (the list of all titles is below). Part 1 of each title is the data going from place into time: i.e. Latitude+Longitude of where the photo was taken, followed by Focal Length; Aperture; Shutter Speed; Time and Date. The presentation of this meta-data in each title goes from the exact location where the objects in the photographs are, and then travels into the camera lens (i.e. Focal Length and Aperture) and then into time and beyond. The beyond is the second part of each title: the human element of language. The language component is raised, to suggest that this number is being multiplied by the power of the words.

Aesthetically, production involving no tripod/cropping/editing/tilting/image manipulation (save for tweaking brightness+contrast due to colour shifts between digital files and paper prints). This was for deliberate irony due to the purely natural subjects depicted, and also for matching the minimal production equipment with minimal post-production. The series was printed on Hahnemühle FineArt Sugar Cane inkjet paper by Stephen Best @ Macquarie Editions.

Previously exhibited as solo exhibition at
Australian National University
Photospace Gallery
0900-1700 weekdays
September 21 - October 9 2009
Part of the 2009 BeginningMiddleEnd festival at ANU School of Art

The titles of the exhibited photographs

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Making Me MoAD (2008-9)

Meandering through the making of
The Museum of Australian Democracy
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 2008-9. Working as an Interaction Designer on the making of 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.

I, Kant, believe it's not beta from the series Making Me MoAD.
Click the flyer to view the series.

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…the rights to which we are all entitled (2006-9)

Photographs from Germany, Austria, Italy, England, Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland

This exhibition was commissioned by The Australian National University Centre for European Studies to mark the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), and also to mark the beginning of the Centre for European Studies' 2008 Summer School: 'Human Rights - Law, Policy and Practice: Lessons from Europe.'

My response was to construct a suite of impressionistic depictions of the influences of the UDHR on contemporary Western Europe, to allegorically evoke human rights in Western Europe. The exhibition explores central principles of the UDHR: embracing multiculturalism, pluralism, ethnic diversity, religious tolerance and freedom of expression. Relations between these subjects arise through the purposefully sequential arrangement in triptychs, whereby each photograph exists in consonance and dissonance within and between all seven triptychs. The entire suite is composed of interlinked cross-referenced photographs, so as to embody the content within the form of representation. This is heightened by intertextual linking between all the titles (the list of all titles is below).

Solo exhibition at ANU Centre for European Studies
1 Liversidge Street, ANU
0900-1700 weekdays from December 15 2008 – February 20 2009
Exhibition opened by Professor Mandy Thomas, ANU Pro Vice-Chancellor

on the outside looking in (Arnhem Land Intervention Day#1 2007) from the series ...the rights to which we are all entitled.
Click the flyer to view the series.

The titles of the exhibited photographs

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