PHOTODUST is an independent art and photography organisation based in Melbourne, Australia.
We are a not-for-profit Asia-Pacific curation project. Our aim is to engage and encourage collaboration between artists, for the production and publication of photographic and lens-based art.
PHOTODUST aims to establish a unique perspective toward visual culture. For this purpose, we are constantly searching for artworks that involve the use of photography and related processes.
The rules are simple: all photographic and lens-based works will be considered. Our only requirement is that the work should be produced by artists born or based in the Asia-Pacific region.
CURATORS:
In alphabetical order.
Alicia Peet
Andrew McLaughlin
Ariel Cameron
Bella Li
Christine McFetridge
Chris Parkinson
Dan Sibley
Lisa Bow
Mauricio Rivera
Mike Read
Sudeep Lingamneni
CONTRIBUTORS:
Andrew Brown
Anna Maria Antoinette D'Addario
Andrew McLaughlin
Ariel Cameron
Athena Zelandonii
Bella Li
Charlie Kinross
Chris Bowes
Chris Parkinson
Christopher Button
Christine McFetridge
Claire Capel-Stanley
Dan Sibley
David Veentjer
Dianne Reid
Dwi Asrul Fajar
Erin Baker
Flavia Dent
Georgina Campbell
Grace Pundyk
Ilona Nelson
Jacqueline Felstead
Jessye Wdowin-Mcgregor
Jimmy Langer
Jody Haines
Jonah Meyers
Jordan Madge
Justyn Koh
Karolina Nowosielska Solevag
Leanora Olmi
Lisa Bow
Madeline Bishop
Marcelle Bradbeer
Mary Macpherson
Mauricio Rivera
Melinda Smith
Mike Read
Morganna Magee
Natasha Cantwell
Nikki Lam
Paige Townsend
Pia Johnson
Renee Stamatova
Richard Butler-Bowdon
Robert Musgrave
Shen Wei
Simone Darcy
Sonya Louise
Sudeep Lingamneni
Tiffaney Bishop
Todd Johnson
Travis Fryer
EDITORS:
Bella Li
Chris Parkinson
Christine McFetridge
Mauricio Rivera
PARTNERSHIPS:
Photodust has a collaborative series with Peril (http://peril.com.au), an online magazine focused on issues of Asian-Australian arts and culture. Peril’s mission is to be a platform for Asian-Australian voices that empowers the creativity, agency and representation of Asian-Australian people in arts, society and culture.
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The further in age I get from teenagers, the more I like them.
The years between 15 and 17 are when we change and develop in ways that shape who we are for the rest of our lives. This was a tumultuous time for me: I was wild and nothing could stop me. It’s a period I never want to revisit, but the experience allows me, as an adult, to understand how hard it can be for others.
I connect with my subjects through social media. The relationships I form become integral to my photography: these teens allow me into their lives to photograph them without artifice, showing incredible openness and vulnerability. I share my own experiences with them. Our friendship develops and I become a sounding board, someone to text late at night, to tag on Facebook and pay attention. I become the person I needed in my life when I was that age.
In this long-form, ongoing series I use portraiture to humanise a generation caught between traditional expectations and the strong push by contemporary society to grow up fast. These teens show what life is like in an era when validation comes from a virtual world.
Morganna Magee is a Melbourne-based social documentary photographer who believes everyone has a story worth telling.
http://www.mnmphotography.com.au
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