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
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
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
Mauricio Rivera
Meg Hewitt
Melinda Smith
Michael Hurse
Mike Read
Morganna Magee
Natasha Cantwell
Nikki Lam
Paige Townsend
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
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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‘The Winter Garden’ photobook
Launch Saturday 10 March, 1:30pm
To be launched by Harry Culy, Director of Bad News Books
Photobook NZ Book Fair
ICON, Level 2
Te Papa Tongarewa
Wellington, New Zealand
Morganna Magee, Shania, 17. From the ongoing series Teenage Wildlife.
Morganna Magee: Your portfolio at first glance seems so diverse–family, sexuality, memory and children and there is a strong thread of feminine rebellion running through much of it. Your newer work has a more tangible sense of this but even Sparkle, baby, which is more of a traditional documentary project, questions the gaze and preconceptions of the audience toward females. Is that a conscious consideration in your work? Does it come through organically in the way that you photograph?
Aline Brugel is a French-based interdisciplinary artist. Her work Corps In Situ In City (CISIC) uses the photographic lens to explore where the human form and space intersect. Aline approaches public space as a frame, where she repositions bodies in relation to lines: shape and space, where every crevice and blank wall are interpreted as a canvas.
FINAL CALL OUT :: Australian Photographers who’ve visited South West China to participate in ‘An Australian Photographer in China’ Dali Photography Museum Yunnan April 2018 * EOIs CLOSE FEB 28 *
This Wild Song is a long-term project by artist and curator Ilona Nelson which sees her creating photographic portraits of Australian female artists and transforming them to become a part of their work. Over the coming months, Photodust will feature portraits and interviews from Ilona Nelson’s ongoing project.
Polixeni Papapetrou photographed by Ilona Nelson for This Wild Song
The Untitled (home) series was developed in early 2015 in Bangkok, Thailand at the Poh Chang Academy of the Arts. The academy is a large, formal building with columns, surrounded by a network of temporary tarpaulin housing. This housing was used by construction workers and cleaning and catering support staff at the academy. I wanted to honour this hard-working material in costume and I embellished it with sequins as a gesture of my respect. The performances wearing the tarpaulin costume were intended to foreground this material that exists only to support buildings or people. This work was made possible with kind thanks to all the workers, academic staff and students of Poh Chang Academy of the Arts, Bangkok, Thailand.
The website mr2books.com compiles a process of approximately eight years of experimentation with words, images and sounds.
The experiment continues with this article, and the reader may participate by listening to different types of music when they see the video presented below. Following this idea, I would also like to extend an invitation to musicians, producers, sound designers and mixers of all kind to add a sample of your music (or some other type of sound that you may consider appropriate) to the video:
The Narciss(us) series grew out of a feeling of consternation about our place in, and effect on the world in which we live. I wanted to create a body of work that uniquely expressed human fragility to mother nature, without being evangelical about it.
I was very happy to accept a place at the Archipelago Art Residency in Korpo, Finland (AARK) earlier this year. I spent my time in the seemingly endless daylight on Korpo investigating the borders and boundaries of the small island and those of the broader archipelago, and the relationship these borders have to those of the body.
It may seem strange that India, the second most populated country on earth, should be so rich in deserted buildings. Yet ninety percent of the mansions of Shekhawati are abandoned, secured at best by the presence of a caretaker. Their original inhabitants and their descendents have been drawn to urban centres, returning only on special occasions, if at all. The result is that the towns of Shekhawati often have a ghostly air.
Abandonment has always been a recurring theme in my work, whether the disused factories of the West or the redundant institutions of Europe, but in Shekhawati one feels a greater urgency to capture and preserve the past for fear it may disappear.
