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Carol Jerrems, ½ length self portrait in mirror, wearing pyjama shirt, camera at shoulder height, 1979. National Library of Australia Manuscript collection (MS 10718). © The Estate of Carol Jerrems

Carol Jerrems captured Melbourne and Sydney of the 1970s, understanding photography as a collaboration

Jane Simon, Macquarie University

Carol Jerrems worked primarily with black and white photography until her early death in 1980. Over 140 of her photographs are currently on display at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra.
Anne Zahalka, The Artist (self portrait),1988, from the series Resemblance II. Silver dye bleach print 50.0 x 50.0 cm. Courtesy of the artist represented by ARC ONE Gallery (Melbourne) and Dominik Mersch Gallery (Sydney).

The stunning photographs of Australian artist Anne Zahalka: remembering the past and recording the present

Joanna Mendelssohn, The University of Melbourne

In 1986 the Australia Council paid for a young photographer to live for a year in Berlin. Anne Zahalka’s subsequent career shows this was money well spent.
Raphaela Rosella with Dayannah Baker Barlow, Kathleen Duncan, Gillianne Laurie, Tammara Macrokanis, Amelia Rosella, Nunjul Townsend, Laurinda Whitton, Tricia Whitton, and family, You’ll Know It When You Feel It, 2011–2023. Installation view, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2023. Photo: Louis Lim.

More than a picture: how the work of documentary photographer Raphaela Rosella is defined by co‑creation

Tom Williams, University of Wollongong

In You’ll Know It When You Feel It at the Institute of Modern Art, Raphaela Rosella and her co-creators have sought to reclaim and counteract the narratives formed by state records.

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