Harry Nankin — Adjunct Associate Professor
Dr Harry Nankin is Adjunct Associate Professor in the AEGIS research network in the School of Art at RMIT, where he completed his PhD in 2015.
Harry is a widely respected Australian photographer and environmental activist. His work examines the contested ethical, emotional and aesthetic meanings of the non-human world, of ‘place’ and ‘nature’. Under the shadow of the emerging global ecological crisis, this has become an enquiry into the affective and ontological space between wonder and Tragedy, which he calls an ‘ecological gaze’. Rather than picture the world seen by the naked eye or camera Harry prefers to employ the cameraless ‘photogram’ or ‘shadowgram’ to reveal the abject, ambient, transient and invisible.