Daniella Zalcman

SIGNS OF YOUR IDENTITY

Daniella Zalcman’s project “Signs of your Identity” will occupy the Foyer Space in the Main Gallery at the Moores Building. This long-term project examines the legacy of colonisation and in particular the impact of residential schools on first nations People. The exhibition will show work form Canada, the USA as well as previously unseen work created in Australia.

Zalcman is a Vietnamese-American documentary photographer based in New Orleans, LA. She is a 2021 Catchlight Fellow, a multiple grantee of the National Geographic Society and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a fellow with the international Women's Media Foundation, and the founder of Women Photograph, a non-profit working to elevate the voices of women and non-binary visual journalists

Judith Nangala Crispin

The Dingo’s Noctuary

Judith Crispin’s new work “The Dingo’s Noctuary” will occupy the Main Gallery at the Moores Building. Foto Freo is excited to invite Judith to deliver an artist talk and poetry reading for “The Dingo’s Noctuary”, and to participate in our panel discussions on intersectional representation in the arts. Judith’s work is not only visually compelling and thought provoking, it speaks to Foto Freo’s mission in a number of ways. With a focus on intersectional representation, and hidden histories, Judith has used photography to explore her concealed Aboriginality. The work is a statement and a reclamation of this identity. Judith uses an entirely original photographic process which she has named Lumachrome glass printing because it is the production of colours in emulsion by light (Lumachrome) and textures made possible by layers of perspex or glass (glass printing). These lumachrome glass prints have arisen from her serious attempt to understand connection with Country, and she see them as a collaboration with nature. They are, in a very literal sense, constructed from light, earth and flesh

Claire Martin

“Boys”

“Boys” explores masculinity through the frame of the feminine gaze. In 2014 I travelled the length of the Danube River over a 5 week period, as part of the “Danube Revisited Project”, visiting every Roma community I could find along the way. Unavoidably I started to photograph the concept of masculinity, as women disappeared into the sidelines and men and boys postured for the camera. I travelled alone with no common language and visited each place for only a few hours. Depending on chance encounters and body language allowed me to photograph without an intellectual agenda, and to allow a common humanity to bring about a series of fleeting intimacies with strangers.

Duncan Wright

Last Days Of Shark Park

Jesse Pretorius

Suburban Expeditions

Suburban Expeditions is a journey through the urban sprawl of Perth from the point-of-view of a sojourner: “a stranger in a strange land.” What is this flâneur to make of a suburban-industrial complex? — a “treeless plain” of non-places, where the banal meets the beach, and the sublime is to be found somewhere north-of-the-river. What are these artefacts? — a combination shopping trolley/barbecue in a Mirrabooka carpark; a Christmas tree of surveillance cameras in December; a traffic cone on top of a light pole in downtown Morley — placed there by aliens? Stranger in a strange land, indeed.

Billy Reeves

Golden Teeth

Lyle Branson

It’s A Thing or Something

It’s A Thing or Something is series of photos that Branson has been making over last three years constructing dioramas using reject photos from previous projects and other materials and objects that he had lying around the studio. With this process, he constructs these dystopian landscapes with surreal figures in the foreground lit with LED torches that gives a theatrical scenery to landscape at the edge of the world.