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.
Andrew McLaughlin
Ariel Cameron
Bella Li
Christine McFetridge
Chris Parkinson
Dan Sibley
Mauricio Rivera
Mike Read
Sudeep Lingamneni
CONTRIBUTORS:
Aline Brugel
Alister McKeich
Andrew Brown
Andrew McLaughlin
Anna Maria Antoinette D'Addario
Ao Kim Ngan
Ariel Cameron
Athena Zelandonii
Bella Li
Blanca Galindo
Catherine Croll
Charlie Kinross
Chloe Bartram
Chris Bowes
Chris Parkinson
Christopher Button
Christine McFetridge
Claire Capel-Stanley
Dan Sibley
Dat Vu
David Simon Martret
David Veentjer
Devika Bilimoria
Diana Yong
Dianne Reid
Dwi Asrul Fajar
Erin Baker
Ezz Monem
Flavia Dent
Gary Sauer-Thompson
Georgina Campbell
Grace Feng Fang Juan
Grace Pundyk
Ian Gibbins
Ilona Nelson
Jacqueline Felstead
James Hunter
Jess D’cruze
Jessie Imam
Jessye Wdowin-Mcgregor
Jimmy Langer
Jody Haines
Jonah Meyers
Jordan Madge
Jue Yang
Justyn Koh
Karolina Nowosielska Solevag
Kip Scott
Kris Washusen
Leanora Olmi
Lena Sheridan
Lisa Bow
Lydia Beilby
Lyndal Irons
Madeline Bishop
Marcelle Bradbeer
Mary Macpherson
Matthew Victor Pastor
Mauricio Rivera
Meg Hewitt
Melinda Smith
Michael Hurse
Mike Read
Morganna Magee
Natasha Cantwell
Nikki Lam
Ohm Phanphiroj
Paige Townsend
Phuong Tran Minh
Pia Johnson
Renee Stamatova
Richard Butler-Bowdon
Robert Albazi
Robert Musgrave
Shen Wei
Simone Darcy
Siying Zhou
Snehargho Ghosh
Sonya Louise
Sudeep Lingamneni
Susan Doel
Susan Mountford
Taha Ahmad
Tammy Law
Tania Lou Smith
Tanja Milbourne
Tiffaney Bishop
Tim Allen
Todd Johnson
Travis Fryer
Yixuan Pan
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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By submitting work to PHOTODUST, you are confirming that you own the copyright to this work or have permission from the copyright holder to submit it. You are granting PHOTODUST a non-exclusive licence to use the work in its submitted form, for publication on the PHOTODUST website for as long as the website exists and to include in any publication (both digital or in print) that PHOTODUST may produce in the future.
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I try to convince myself: the spaces, the borders, mean something. I was never one to wait. Ten years—of sky, of sea. It is true that I like bright lights. The beginning, or the end: ‘the wind blows terribly here’. Rodin’s roses; never underestimate a woman who has had to rebuild herself.
WE ARE SEEKING ARTISTS & WRITERS WHO WISH TO CONTRIBUTE TO OUR WEBSITE, BLOG AND SOCIAL MEDIA.
Our invitation is open to all Asia-Pacific born and/or based artists who are passionate about lens-based media. We are looking for resourceful and imaginative creators who are willing to produce and exhibit original artwork.
If you are a looking for a space to share your work, and engage with a community of photographers and writers, then please contact us. We are open to all forms and subjects that involve the use of lens-based processes.
You can send a sample image or a full submission, including accompanying text (up to 2000 words), to: [email protected]. Please use the word ‘SUBMISSION’ in your subject line.
We look forward to hearing from you,
The PHOTODUST Collective
(http://PHOTODUST.org)
Photography by Sudeep Lingamneni
2017, Melbourne, Australia
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I looked through my poetry, and there was Singapore, like a seed, or a root, across a family of poems. We begin with a map, and we trace the borders over and over, drawing and redrawing from memory, from experience, from imaginings. Where does home begin, and end? Where do our journeys take us, within and without our bodies and our minds? Does language begin before knowing? Does the image exist without language? All these unanswerable questions, but questions are important. We tell our stories, as true as we know how. What is real for one is fiction for another. We braid our knowledge, old into new; friends grow into sisters, the cord one of our own forging. This is alchemy: of making something from nothing, of making new from what is old, of making sense where there is none to be had. Leaving is a form of arrival; a loss can also be a gain. For me, creating Map-Making was an act of faith, and of magic. Love is the strongest, most unbreakable spell.
I’ve always wanted to escape. Escape from myself, escape from my country, escape from reality. But I cannot as so many things are holding me back. Frustrated with the situation, I found another way to calm and heal myself, through movies, music and meeting up with new faces via Tinder.
Liss Fenwick chats to Photodust curator Ariel Cameron about her photographic series ‘Wrought’. Exhibited at Testing Grounds (Melbourne) in 2017, this ongoing project explores the extractive industries and the tension between growth and destruction in humanity’s relationship to the land. Motivated by a deep ambivalence towards the idea of Progress, Liss spent months living on the road in central Queensland’s coalfields witnessing firsthand the quandaries of development (or the lack thereof) and the double-edged sword of Capitalism.
MELODRAMA / RANDOM / MELBOURNE! is an experimental feature film, part two of a Fil-Aus (Filipino-Australian) trilogy. All three films use the sentimentality of cinema to explore Filipino identity in Australia. Part one, I am JUPITER I am the BIGGEST PLANET, is a silent film; part three, MAGANDA! Pinoy Boy vs Milk Man, is a Filipino exploitation film. MELODRAMA / RANDOM / MELBOURNE! is a documentary, drama and ‘glorious cinema-o-ke’, that explores the intersection of gender and race through fragmented images set to pop-punk tunes.
