Disruption - Ballarat International Foto Biennale [BIFB]

Presented in partnership with Auckland Festival of Photography online programme & Ballarat International Foto Biennale digital, Australia as part of the Disruption [raruraru] theme.

In Translation, presented as part of the 2021 Ballarat International Foto Biennale, explores the approach of four leading contemporary photographers, Erieta Attali (ISR), Lard Buurman (NLD), Rory Gardiner (AUS) and John Gollings (AUS) whose careers have taken them across borders to some of the most unique public and private spaces where they translate, narrate and showcase the language of architecture and the built environment. Essay by exhibition curator Felicity Martin.

https://ballaratfoto.org/in-translation-essay/

Raining Embers, presented as part of the 2021 Ballarat International Foto Biennale, examines the global climate crisis through the lens of four photojournalists that captured the 2020 Australian bushfires. Interviewed by exhibition curator Olivia Poloni, this series of interviews shed light on the artists’ intentions approaches and reasons behind their images. Featuring Aletheia Casey (AUS), Gideon Mendel (ZAF), Ruth Maddison (AUS) and Rachel Mounsey (AUS), these photographers take us through the devastation and despair of communities that were taken by the wildfires. Intimate and broken portraits of people, the ravage that was done to human made objects and the devastation of the land stand for a heart-breaking time in recent history.

https://ballaratfoto.org/raining-embers-interview/ 

Aletheia Casey, New South Wales south coast Australia, 2019-2020. Courtesy the artist

Kengo Kuma & Associates, Water | Glass, Atami, JP, 2002 © Erieta Attali. Courtesy the artist