![Image: Alec Soth, [Adelyn, Ash Wednesday, New Orleans, Louisiana] (detail), from the series Sleeping by the
Mississippi, 2000. Courtesy the artist.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Alec-Soth-Adelyn-Ash-Wednesday-New-Orleans-Louisiana2000-from-the-series-Sleeping-by-the-Mississippi.-200x160.jpg)
George Georgiou (UK)
Americans Parade
18 February 2021 - 07 March 2021
![Image: George Georgiou, [Algiers, New Orleans] from the series [Americans Parade], 2016.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Algiers-New-Orleans-154-200x133.jpg)
Image: George Georgiou, Algiers, New Orleans from the series Americans Parade, 2016.
Image: George Georgiou, Algiers, New Orleans from the series Americans Parade, 2016.
When
18 February 2021 - 07 March 2021
Region
Central
Venues
Laurens St, Arden Station precinct [i]
Laurens St, North Melbourne
Outdoor work – accessible all hours
Accessibility
Wheelchair access
In 2016, the British photographer George Georgiou photographed people lining the streets of big cities and small towns across North America. The people were watching, or waiting for, parades. The resulting series was taken across fourteen states, twenty-four cities, and twenty-six parades in the year Trump was elected President.
The mass gathering of people feels like a distant memory, a reminder of life before Covid. Amidst scenes of togetherness and apparent community harmony, moments of boredom, difference and suspended tension emerge, revealing the unity and fracture of American society.
Presented by Photo Australia and the Metro Tunnel Creative Program for PHOTO 2021
On display from 18 February 2021
![Image: Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs, [Ghost Group], 2015 from [Continental Drift], 2013 – 2017.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Taiyo-Onorato-Nico-Krebs-200x141.jpg)
![Image: Emmanuelle Andrianjafy, from the series
[Nothing’s in Vain], 2017.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Nothings-in-vain-web-thumbnail-crop-200x123.jpg)