counter-sites: Isabella Capezio, Aaron Claringbold, Rebecca McCauley, Matt Dunne, Nicholas Mahady, Christine McFetridge, Jahkarli Felicitas Romanis

Aaron Claringbold & Rebecca McCauley, Here’s what we know (Installation View), 2023
Aaron Claringbold & Rebecca McCauley, Here’s what we know (Installation View), 2023

Counter-sites is an exhibition program bringing together the work of seven artists whose lens-based practices dismantle, dissect and destabilise the complex relationship between photography and place.

Looking inward to the properties of the medium itself, and outward to the politics of vision in the post-colonial, post-digital moment, counter-sites uproots dominant notions of situation, settlement and landscape through the critical, archival and expanded approaches to photography.

Curated by Karl Halliday & Madeleine Sherburn

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November

Sydney: Until 11 April. Unfinished Business brings together the voices of 30 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living with disabilities from remote, regional, and urban communities across Australia.

Canberra: Until 6 Sept 2026. Trent Parke’s photographic series The Christmas tree bucket 2006–09 is a tender and darkly humorous portrayal of his extended family coming together to celebrate Christmas.

Melbourne: 28 Nov 2025 – 26 May 2026. The exhibition celebrates the wide-ranging photographic practices of more than eighty women artists working between 1900 and 1975.

February

Melbourne: 11 Feb – 25 April 2026. Familial brings together six international artists whose work navigates the emotional and psychological terrain of family.

March

Sydney: 03 March – 26 March 2026. NSW at Night is a photography exhibition offering a glimpse into life after dark across New South Wales, through the people, places and rhythms that shape it.

Sydney: Wednesday 4 March 2026. 6:30-9:30. One off event. With over two decades of experience, Emily Abay has collaborated with leading international publications and global clients across fashion, beauty, travel, and lifestyle.

Melbourne: 5 March – 7 August 2026. Between the mid-1970s and early 1990s, artist and social documentary photographer Viva Gibb (1945-2017) documented the suburbs of North and West Melbourne, where she lived.

Melbourne: 7 March – 24 May 2026. Photos of flowers from the NGA collection by prominent photographers drawn such as Robert Mapplethorpe and four groundbreaking Australian photographers.

Melbourne: 10 March – 5 May 2026. TOPshots is an annual celebration of emerging photo-media artists selected from a large pool of entries.

Melbourne: 13 – 22 March 2026. Award-winning photographers Andrew Tan and Rosalind Pach invite you to explore the city as a living, shifting experience.