![Image: Abigail Varney, [Ocean Purge], 2020. Courtesy the artist.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Oculi_AbigailVarney_OceanPurge-200x143.jpeg "Oculi_AbigailVarney_OceanPurge")
Talk: Documenting Trauma
14 May 2022
Image: Oculi, 2022. Courtesy the artists.
Image: Oculi, 2022. Courtesy the artists.
When
14 May 2022
Saturday, 10am (AEST)
Region
Regional
Venue
Benalla Art Gallery [i]
Botanical Gardens, Bridge Street, Benalla
Daily, 10am - 4.30pm
Closed Tuesdays
Themes
History
Mortality
Nature
Self
Society
Accessibility
Wheelchair access
Price
Free, bookings required
Join Oculi photographers for a panel discussion exploring their experiences as both image makers, and humans, bearing witness to important events in Australia.
The talk relates directly to the Third Act within the group’s major Benalla Art Gallery exhibition, ACTS I-VII. Oculi members will reflect on their vast and varied experience in documenting major, and at times traumatic events across Australia. From fires, to floods, through drought and times of protest and upheaval, Oculi’s members consider…What is the role of photography in documenting these moments in history? What are the challenges and when do you choose not to take the shot? How has the emergence of social media changed the role of documentary photography during times of social upheaval?
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Artists
Oculi (AU)
Established 2000
Lives and works Australia-wideOculi 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.
![Image: James Bugg, {The Bend], 2022. Courtesy the artist.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Oculi_JamesBugg_TheBend-160x200.jpeg "Oculi_JamesBugg_TheBend")