The camera is god by Trent Parke
Over the past two decades, Trent Parke has brought his highly poetic sensibility to traditional documentary photography. This street portrait series, The camera is god, is the first major exhibition of internationally renowned Australian photojournalist's work to be shown in Victoria. It features grainy black-and-white pictures of faces arranged in a grid pattern, and puts a metaphysical spin on street photography. The 2013 series will be exhibited alongside a range of Parke’s work recently purchased for the MGA collection.
I am forever chasing light. Light turns the ordinary into the magical. –Trent Parke
About Trent Parke
Trent Parke never shoots digitally, preferring the surprise of developing a film and seeing what he has captured. Street photography was Parke’s first love from first picking a camera up aged 12. Parke is the first and only Australian photographer to be a full member of the acclaimed Magnum Photos. Other significant accolades and recognition include: the inaugural 2014 Prudential Eye Award for Photography in Singapore, Gold Lenses from the International Olympic Committee, World Press Photo Awards, and the prestigious W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his series, Minutes to Midnight.
Parke self-published his first two books, Dream/Life in 1999, and The Seventh Wave (with Narelle Autio) in 2000. In 2013, Steidl released two hardback publications of Parke’s work, Minutes to Midnight and The Christmas Tree Bucket. His work is held in many public and private collections
