RMIT School of Art at PHOTO 2022
29 April – 22 May 2022
Taking place in person and streaming live
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We are delighted to share this special edition newsletter, which highlights our Photography discipline's engagement with PHOTO 2022. This is Australia's premier event dedicated to Photography, which this year focuses on the theme of 'Being Human':
Australia’s largest photography biennale will return to the streets and galleries of Melbourne and regional Victoria, with PHOTO 2022 International Festival of Photography taking place from 29 April to 22 May 2022. The Festival will honour 123 local and international artists and photographers across 90 exhibitions, with 50 world premieres including 24 specially commissioned projects.
Now in its second edition, PHOTO 2022 provides an opportunity for audiences from across Australia and around the world to be part of a global celebration of new photography, art and ideas—featuring large-scale outdoor installations at iconic and unexpected sites across Melbourne, expertly curated exhibitions at 38 galleries including ACMI and NGV Australia, and thought-provoking events and education programs. By focusing on the issues most important to our times, the Festival connects the arts with different elements of our lives across science, psychology, sociology, technology, current affairs and many others.
Through PHOTO 2022’s theme: ‘Being Human’, artists and photographers will unpack the human condition to explore what informs who we are: what unites us and what makes us unique within the narratives of Society, Self, Mortality, Nature and History. From an Ecuadorian tribe fighting to save the rainforest to Chinese youth culture, and deepfakes to First Nations stories, the diversity and richness of contemporary human life is on display.
We are proud to be an Education Partner alongside RMIT Culture as an Exhibition Partner, and invite you to enjoy and celebrate the extraordinary richness of PHOTO 2022.
Professor Kit Wise
Dean, School of Art
Image: Lesley Turnbull, Untitled #1, 2020, as part of the exhibition Darkroom Encounters, First Site Gallery