Tag: history
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Absent history
My working on this project had been put on hold whilst I helped to complete the Adelaide Art Photographers 1970-2000 book, and then finalise the images and text for the final collaborative Mallee Routes exhibition at the Murray Bridge Regional Gallery. I did make the Wentworth photocamp as well as a subsequent photocamp at Tanunda.…
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Frontier conflict on the Overland Stock Route
I am planning to go on a photocamp at Wentworth in NSW next week for the Mallee Routes project. I leave after Anzac Day, on Friday 26th of April. Whilst there I plan to explore along the lower Darling River, which is in dire straits due to the massive increased water use upstream, bad water management …
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pre-Mabo narratives of Australia
When you step into history of water and country in Anglo-Australian society you quickly reconnect with the colonisation of Australia, the pre-Mabo narratives of Australia as an empty landscape (the doctrine of terra nullius), the colonialist discourses that we are rooted in colonialist ideologies and legacies and racist law. These justify and legitimate the nigger hunts…
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The ‘Our Waters’ project: an update
The 1st Our Waters exhibition has been planned for the SALA Festival in Adelaide in 2019. Each photographer takes an image from the Godson Collection and responds to it. There will be six photographers and 12 prints in the exhibition.
Nourishing Terrains 