Oculi (AU)

Image: Abigail Varney, [Ocean Purge], 2020. Courtesy the artist.

Image: Abigail Varney, Ocean Purge, 2020. Courtesy the artist.

Established 2000
Lives and works Australia-wide

Oculi is an Australian collective of 19 award-winning photographers, working across many diverse styles and perspectives. Now in its twenty-first year, Oculi is a leading influence in Australian fine art and documentary photography, its members united by a central conviction to visually respond to the changing world, through contemporary ethical practices. Oculi photographers have been recognised through national and international awards including World Press Photo, the Moran Contemporary Photography Prize, Australia’s National Photographic Portrait Prize, and the William and Winifred Bowness Prize for Photography. Oculi’s work is internationally published, widely exhibited, and represented throughout Europe and Japan by Agence VU.

PHOTO 2022 Events

Founding Partners
  • Bowness Family Foundation
  • Naomi Milgrom Foundation
Major Government Partners
  • City of Melbourne Arts Grants Program
  • Creative Victoria
Major Partners
  • Maddocks

PHOTO Australia respectfully acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands upon which we work and live, and the rich and diverse Indigenous cultures across what is now called Australia. For over 60,000 years, Indigenous arts and culture have thrived on this sacred land, and we honour Elders and cultural leaders past and present. This was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.

01–24 March