The Power of Abstraction: The Photography of Sonya Noskowiak
By Alanna O’Riley. Sonya Noskowiak (1900-1975) was an American photographer and member of Group f.64, a collective of Californian photographers during the 1930s. Named after the smallest aperture on a camera, Group f.64 was united by a contempt for the dominant pictorialist aesthetic, instead embracing the values of ‘straight photography.’ …
Pushpamala: A Performative Deconstruction of the Typography of Indigenous Women Through a Postcolonial Lens
By Katja Neef.
Photography has always been a method to record important moments in time while providing accuracy by capturing the subject, its setting, and the surrounding environment. Yet, seen through a postcolonial lens, photography specifically employed by ethnographers and anthropologists in the 1900s was instrumentalised to create the subordinate 'other' by fixating on differences by removing context…
Dissenting the master narrative.
By Maya Love.
Alice Procter guides Uncomfortable Art Tours through British museums as an act of dissent. She begins by describing an object, how it is displayed and how it might have arrived in a museum. Using visual analysis as a point of entry, she opens the door to discuss the museum as a colonial institute…
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