IGOR HILL

RMIT University

My practice takes a documentary style outlook on our contemporary society and the in-between moments of everyday life. My process involves observing and documenting situations, events and people as they appear to me at the time, but equally important is the continual review of my prior works. A picture might subjectively document a time and place but it also has an ability to recontextualise itself at a later stage, such as this image, taken in rural New South Wales, Australia, in early January 2019.

Victoria Holessis

Deakin University

My practice examines how we might see, use, and touch photography differently in the contemporary digital age.  By digitally scanning gelatin silver prints and inserting my body back into the scanner’s field of vision during its operating sequence, my hybrid photographic process re-inserts human touch and the body back into a traditionally untouchable, archival and fixed medium. 

Through direct hands-on making at every stage of this process (shooting negative film, darkroom printing and digitally scanning), Embodied Specimen, 1.1 suspends this distribution between the human-user and photography.

Georgia Jones

deakin university

Originally designed as one continuous panoramic ‘The Avenue’ explores the act of recollection and the indistinct line between spatial memory of places which exist in ‘reality’ and those that exist in a technological world. A cycle from morning to night stretches across the artwork introducing known stability to an imagined street filled with dreamlike distortions. ‘The Avenue’ is comprised of over 15 street photographs taken both in PC games and in the town of Geelong, Australia.

Aleksandar Matic

newton high school of performing arts

I took this photograph a few days after the fires tore through Balmoral, a northern village of the Southern Highlands area of New South Wales. Witnessing first hand this devastation, I was moved to create this work to show how the environment and the lives of the people in this area were affected by this tragedy.

Kate Matthews

Australian National University

Cowra, a small regional town roughly 300km inland from Sydney, is at the best of times considered sleepy. Yet during the Covid-19 lockdown, it was positively dead. This collage is a considered snapshot of a typical street corner in the centre of town, and a part of a larger series documenting public spaces in the Capital Region of Australia. A man strolls out of an alley and down the street, a Ute filled with building materials grinds to a halt, shop windows are boarded up. It’s the outback apocalypse in action. 

Natasha Narain

Queensland University of Technology    

This image is part of a series exploring interstitial and indeterminate spaces existing between the tangible and the poetic—the camera lens affording a fleeting sense of belonging by closely observing marks and patterns that could be from anywhere and speak for my life as a diasporic, Bengali Australian.

Manohar S Sidhu

Photography Studies College

This image is part of my series ‘living in my brother’s house’, a documentation of time spent with my brother who migrated to Melbourne some 10 years ago. The work revisits our boyhood where we shared a room some 30 years ago in Malaysia.