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As we adjust to winter and some freedom of movement around the state - since the height of covid-19 restrictions. I've had the opportunity to get out and walk some tracks, some familiar and some new, mostly without my heavy professional camera kit. It's good to experience places without feeling pressure to frame that epic shot and it's good to know where to come back to later with the camera. The photos in the post were taken with a Canon GX9, a simple but quality point and shoot/pocket camera. 
 
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Unplaced is a body of work I produced through 2018-19, I exhibited it at Sawtooth ARI in Launceston late in 2019. Now the series has gone beyond Tasmania, the two images below are currently being exhibited separately with Loud and Luminous and the Percival Photographic Portrait Prize, while a small set of the body of work is being shown as part of the Head On Photo Festival.   Monoculture plantation forests displace and replace the stands of native species that once dominated the landscapes of New Zealand and Australia, where grew I up and where I live. Like the plantation forests that distort the ecologies of their environments, the monoculture of westernisation has distorted and displaced the rich and diverse cultures that existed before them.
Within these strange and dislocated environments, I find space to contemplate both the environmental impacts of colonisation and the legacy of colonial ancestors on my identity. I can question the pioneering female ideal handed down to me through five generations of women, and look at myself from other perspectives. |
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June 2020
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