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June 2025 Melbourne/Naarm:

 

Announcing On Country: Photography from Australia – a landmark publication featuring 17 of Australia’s best contemporary photographic artists and collectives, accompanying the first-ever group exhibition of Australian photography at Les Rencontres d’Arles 2025.

 

Placing First Peoples’ practice and relationality at the core of this project – accompanying a landmark exhibition at Les Rencontres d’Arles 2025 – On Country: Photography from Australia brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists who bear witness to both the visible and invisible aspects of being on Country. Through their work, the project explores old and new relationships between Country and colonialism, community, and identity in Australia today.

Co-published by PHOTO Australia and Perimeter Editions, On Country: Photography from Australia presents artists who connect to Country in dynamic ways and are shifting the power dynamics inherent in photography, redefining photographic practice on this southern land. The catalogue features artworks by Tony Albert and David Charles Collins, Ying Ang, Atong Atem, Sonja Carmichael and Elisa Jane Carmichael, Maree Clarke, Michael Cook, Brenda L Croft, J Davies, Liss Fenwick, Adam Ferguson, Robert Fielding, The Huxleys –Garrett Huxley and Will Huxley, Ricky Maynard, Lisa Sorgini, Tace Stevens, wani toaishara, and James Tylor; and texts by Kelli Cole, Pippa Milne, Brendan McCleary, Kimberley Moulton, and Elias Redstone.

 

Published on the occasion of the exhibition On Country: Photography from Australia, presented at Les Rencontres d’Arles from July 7 to October 5, 2025.

 

Title: On Country: Photography from Australia
Authors: Elias Redstone, Kimberley Moulton, Pippa Milne, Brendan McCleary, Kelli Cole
Retail price: €40/$70 AUD
Publish date: July 2025
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1-922545-45-9
Size: 23 x 30 cm
Page count: 192 pages

 

This catalogue was made possible through the support of FACEF – French Australian Cultural Exchange Foundation and Gordon Darling Foundation.

 

The exhibition On Country: Photography from Australia was made possible through the support of the Australian Government through the International Cultural Diplomacy Arts Fund, the Bowness Family Foundation, and FACEF – French Australian Cultural Exchange Foundation. Additional support by the Australian Embassy, France, and the French Embassy, Australia, and Michael & Emily Tong.

 

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