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South East Coastal Adaption Project 28 Images The research objective of the South East Coastal Adaptation (SECA) Project is to identify how an Australian, climate-adapted, small coastal settlement might be configured to 2030. A number of artists are participating in the project, through the Environment Studio at the ANU School of Art, to contribute to the SECA communications strategy. This folder contains samples of my own work on the project. |
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34 Images The landscapes of the Monaro and Snowy Mountains regions are inscribed with the various (and often conflicting) narratives of a range of people - the original Ngarigo people, explorers, artists, settlers, pastoralists, builders of the Snowy hydro scheme, conservationists, adventure sports enthusiasts.All view the land as in some way their own. In these images, fragments of the contending narratives take on physical presence. For more information about each of the individual images, see my blog at www.jokar.com.au/blog |
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Private thoughts in public places 18 Images These photos are urban textscapes. They are stills from a video slideshow project which juxataposes the commonplace pleasantries that we exchange with each other in 'ordinary' conversation, with the sometimes dark internal thoughts and inner dialogues that may be going on simultaneously. In the photos, those dark inner thoughts are 'leaking out' from the private thoughts and into the public spaces. |
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33 Images 'Sekala: ritual and ceremony in Bali'' was the title of my solo exhibition at the PhotoAccess Huw Davies Gallery, Manuka ACT, from 23 February to 11 March 2012. The 33 images were selected from the 15,000 that I took during 2009-10 when Karen and I worked on a volunteer assignment with a textile arts foundation based in Ubud, Bali. During that time we travelled a great deal, and were privileged to encounter a range of people, places, performances and ceremonies, many of which were well off the standard tourist trail. The exhibition sought to reveal some of the ceremonial and ritual practices that we found most compelling. I hope that it goes some way to explaining our fascination with this extraordinary place and its people – a living and vibrant culture surviving in the face of great social, environmental and economic change. |
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34 Images This project was originally intended to record a week of meals - not so much the food consumed, but the circumstance and social environment around each meal. The project was so absorbing that I let it run for another four days - by which time I was ready to just go back to enjoying each meal without having to think about how to capture the experience. |
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56 Images Set up a 'temporary studio' at the party, and cajoled each of the guests into sitting for a portrait at some stage of the evening. A slice of special time, many friends and family who don't get together often, and will never again be all assembled for such an occasion. Song for the night was "Hallelujah" (the Leonard Cohen version, that is...) |
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40 Images Photos commissioned for the Australian Bureau of Statistics 2007 statistical review of the Australian Capital Territory. |
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44 Images Still wondering whether HDR photography is a passing fad, to disappear in a few years when camera sensors are able to capture as wide a range of light intensities as the human eye. Then we'll look back at HDR photos and say: "Oh, that looks SO 2011!" In the mean time, it's fun to experiment with... though I'm already over the 'grungy ones'. |
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95 Images This is an ongoing little project - trying to get a series of new images of a (wonderful) iconic building that has been photographed many many times already. |
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