Photographing with Country Workshop with Peta Clancy

Colonial landscape photographs from Australia were often produced for scientific, topographic, or tourism purposes and reflect aesthetic, possessive, and economic perspectives on land and waterways.

Landscape photographs tend to overlook Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ancestral and cultural connections with Country. For this workshop, participants are invited to bring a printed photograph of Country, landscape, or place to respond to.

For this workshop, participants are invited to bring a printed photograph of Country, landscape, or place to respond to. Participants will consider the agency of Country and acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the depicted land.

Discussions will reflect on the multiple time frames, histories, and viewpoints represented in the photographs. Participants will produce a photographic reinterpretation or written response informed by their reflections and positionality in relation to their shared photograph.

Peta Clancy (she/her) is a descendant of the Yorta Yorta people. She lives on Wurundjeri Country in Melbourne. Her large-scale photographic installations offer long-term in-depth depictions of Place and explore the agency of Country and relationality. She was awarded an Australia Council Fellowship for Visual Arts in 2022.

Her work has been exhibited widely in Australia and internationally. She is the photography coordinator in the Fine Art Department, a researcher in the Wominjeka Djeembana Indigenous research lab and Associate Dean – Indigenous at Monash’s Art Design & Architecture Faculty. Peta is represented by Dominik Mersch Gallery.

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