Portraits from Tarnanthi Festivals and workshops along with a Yidaki performance
Images taken with a 55 year old Hasselblad, generally with expired medium format B&W film, all using natural light.
I'm am honoured to have had the privilege of working with many indigenous artists over recent years.
I was first offered the opportunity of recording Yolngu artists from Arnhem Land when a group of performers were down here for the opening of a major exhibition at the South Australian Museum in 2016. I recorded them preparing for their performance, painting ochre on their bodies and faces and adorning the heads with feathers.
When the Tarnanthi Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art came into being I was offered the opportunity to run photography workshops in central Australia, in particular at the Many Hands Iltja Ntjarra Art Centre in Alice Springs. I would go out on country with the artists and I had enough cameras with me (film and digital) that would allow the artists head off to record their own special places so that could have reference the images back in the studio. I also took the opportunity to introduce them to photography without expensive cameras, such as lumen printing with locally found plant materials and pinhole cameras made from bits and pieces we could buy cheaply from the Tip Shop. Being in the area, I also took the opportunity to visit both the Tangentyere Artists Aboriginal Arts Centre and the Yarrenyty Arltere Atists where I recorded the artists working with my digital camera and made film portraits of the artists with my Hasselblad. Some of the film portraits are shown below. Back in Adelaide for the Tarnanthi Festivals, I also too the opportunity to take portraits of some of the many artists who had travelled to Adelaide for the festival.
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©Tony Kearney 2020.
Images taken with a 55 year old Hasselblad, generally with expired medium format B&W film, all using natural light.
I'm am honoured to have had the privilege of working with many indigenous artists over recent years.
I was first offered the opportunity of recording Yolngu artists from Arnhem Land when a group of performers were down here for the opening of a major exhibition at the South Australian Museum in 2016. I recorded them preparing for their performance, painting ochre on their bodies and faces and adorning the heads with feathers.
When the Tarnanthi Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art came into being I was offered the opportunity to run photography workshops in central Australia, in particular at the Many Hands Iltja Ntjarra Art Centre in Alice Springs. I would go out on country with the artists and I had enough cameras with me (film and digital) that would allow the artists head off to record their own special places so that could have reference the images back in the studio. I also took the opportunity to introduce them to photography without expensive cameras, such as lumen printing with locally found plant materials and pinhole cameras made from bits and pieces we could buy cheaply from the Tip Shop. Being in the area, I also took the opportunity to visit both the Tangentyere Artists Aboriginal Arts Centre and the Yarrenyty Arltere Atists where I recorded the artists working with my digital camera and made film portraits of the artists with my Hasselblad. Some of the film portraits are shown below. Back in Adelaide for the Tarnanthi Festivals, I also too the opportunity to take portraits of some of the many artists who had travelled to Adelaide for the festival.
Click on an image to enlarge
©Tony Kearney 2020.
