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26/9/2014

My trip

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Through the work of three artists from the Gallery’s collection, this exhibition explores the connections and disjunctions of travelling in ‘strange lands’ and recording photographically what is thought, seen and experienced.

Australian documentary photographer Max Pam has travelled extensively throughout his 40-year career, primarily in Asia. His work is driven by the desire to successfully record and visually resolve the immediacy of his experiences and the momentary collision of otherness that travel affords.

Jon Rhodes has dedicated much of his photographic career to documenting Australian Indigenous culture. Living with communities for extended periods of time, Rhodes develops sustained relationships with his subjects. His photographs are often displayed in sequential arrangements that weave narrative connections between adjacent images.

Micky Allan’s My trip is a publication she produced in the 1970s when she undertook a 17-day road trip through rural Victoria. Choosing to photograph everyone she met and then invite them to take their own photograph, Allan used the camera to mediate her interactions with strangers. The publication does not simply record her personal experience on the road but also catalogues the public perception of a woman travelling alone during the active years of second-wave feminism.

Image: Jon Rhodes Black Diamond Pool 1986, printed 2000, gelatin sliver photograph, 21.7 × 31.9 cm. Gift of Henry Ergas 2009. Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program © AIATSIS

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Susanne Briggs
Tel +61 2 9225 1791
Mob 0412 268 320
susanne.briggs@ag.nsw.gov.au

Claire Martin
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Mob 0414 437 588
claire.martin@ag.nsw.gov.au

Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Gallery Road, The Domain, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia
Open
Every day 10am until 5pm.
Open late on Wednesdays
Until 10pm.

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