Speculative Horizons - Photography Symposium

Symposium Saturday 11th February 2023

1.00 pm

Dr Kristian Haggblom

Photography Expanded

Photography Expanded will outline and examine some photographic projects from Australia that push the use of lens-based practice in innovative and experimental ways. A focus will be on the presentation of long-form projects across exhibition, publishing and cyber platforms.

Video 1

Blake Dearman

The Inside of a Square

6.30 mins

1.30 pm

Lee Grant

A portrait!  What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound? (Baudelaire, 1859)

Through some of my own images I will attempt to outline my own processes and concerns for working with fellow humans.

Lee Grant “Yuwinji Portraits”

Video 2

Joseph Blair

Oceans 32

3.50 mins

2.00 pm

Lunch Break

Video 3

Kuba Dorabialski

Broken English is My Mother Tongue

9 mins

2.45 pm

Jesse Marlow

Anything Can Happen and Probably Will

I love the uncertainty of what working on the street provides. The element of the unknown and the idea that I can leave the house one morning and come home with a photo that will be with me forever continues to excite me.

Video 4

Steven Rhall

US

1.36 mins

3.30 pm

The Photobook

Discussions

In this interactive session, symposium/exhibition guests will be invited to interact with the books accompanying the Speculative Horizons exhibition as objects. This will facilitate discussion on book ‘architecture’, narrative through sequencing and design.

4.00 pm

End