![Image: Mathieu Asselin, [Van Buren, Indiana], 2013
. From the series [Monsanto]. Courtesy the artist.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Asselin_VAN-BUREN-INDIANA-163x200.jpg)
![Image: Broomberg & Chanarin, [The Revolutionary], from the series [Spirit is a bone], 2013. Courtesy the artists.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/The-Revolutionary-200x136.jpg)
![Image: Cristina de Middel, [Iko Iko], 2012. From the series [Afronauts]. Courtesy the artist.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/de_Middel_IKO-IKO-200x200.jpg)
![Image: Laura El Tantawy, from the series [In The Shadow of the Pyramids]. Courtesy the artist.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Laura-El-Tantawy-200x131.jpg)
![Image: Yoshikatsu Fujii, from the series [Hiroshima Graph – rabbits abandon their children]. Courtesy the artist.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Hiroshima-Graph-2-200x122.jpg)
![Image: Ashley Gilbertson, [Untitled], 2020. Purchased, NGV Foundation, 2021. Collection National Gallery of Victoria.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Fe105088_RGB-WEB-200x151.jpg "Ashley Gilbertson Requiem for New York")
![Image: Gauri Gill and Rajesh Vangad, [Heaven and Hell], 2014. From the series, [Fields of sight]. Courtesy the artists.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Gill_HEAVEN-AND-HELL-200x134.jpg)
![Image: Zhang Kechun,[煤场里的佛像], from the series [Yellow River]. Courtesy the artist](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/5-煤场里的佛像-宁夏-200x170.jpg)
![Image: Dana Lixenberg, [Toussaint], 1993. From the series [Imperial courts] (1993-2015). Courtesy the artist.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Lixenberg_TOUSSAINT-158x200.jpg)
![Image: Max Pinckers, [No title], 2018. From the series [Red ink]. Courtesy the artist.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Pinckers-200x134.jpg)
![Image: Raphaela Rosella, [we met a little early, but i get to love you longer]](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Raphaela-Rosella-–-we-met-a-little-early-but-i-get-to-love-you-longer-200x133.jpg)
![Image: James Tylor, [Economics of Water #2 (Divide)], 2018. Courtesy the artist.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Economics-of-water-2Divide-2018-Gold-paint-on-Photograph-100x100cm-200x200.jpg)
![Image: Jacky Redgate, [Light throw (mirrors) #4], 2011 from the series [Light throw (mirrors)], 2010–11, Monash
Gallery of Art, City of Monash Collection. Courtesy the artist.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Redgate-Light-Throw-Mirrors4-2010_2011-1-200x160.jpg)
Not Standing Still: New Approaches in Documentary Photography
17 February 2021 - 16 May 2021
![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)
Image: Alec Soth, Adelyn, Ash Wednesday, New Orleans, Louisiana (detail), from the series Sleeping by the Mississippi, 2000. Courtesy the artist.
Image: Alec Soth, Adelyn, Ash Wednesday, New Orleans, Louisiana (detail), from the series Sleeping by the Mississippi, 2000. Courtesy the artist.
When
17 February 2021 - 16 May 2021
Region
East
Venue
Monash Gallery of Art [i]
860 Ferntree Gully Rd, Wheelers Hill
Tue – Fri, 10am – 5pm
Sat – Sun, 10am – 4pm
Accessibility
Wheelchair access, Accessible Toilets, Accessible Parking
This headline exhibition for PHOTO 2021 features photographers from around the world who are challenging documentary photography’s relationship with truth.
Not standing still celebrates divergent and conceptual photographic processes that discuss current issues of environment, politics, warfare, judicial inequality, racism, history, and revolution.
Over the past 15 years, documentary photography has been approached differently, and as a result, new ways of ‘telling’ have emerged. What was once the territory of the traditional photojournalist is now shared with photographers who see themselves as artists and collaborators, more interested in raising questions than in telling complete, digestible stories.
The image-makers in this exhibition use contemporary modes of photographic storytelling. They promote personal connection and long-term interaction with a subject. They seek respectful representation of marginal voices, and they co-opt narrative structures, and even fictions. All this asks for a deep and meaningful engagement by the viewer to unpack the truths of each subject.
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Curators
Daniel Boetker-Smith (AU)
Daniel Boetker-Smith is the Director of the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, and the Founder of the Asia-Pacific Photobook Archive. He was previously Dean of Studies at Photography Studies College and is a regular contributor to a range of Australian and international print and online publications.
Pippa Milne (NZ)
Pippa Milne is a writer and curator based in Melbourne. She is the Senior Curator at Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne and has been working with photography since 2011. She was previously Curator at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne and Associate Curator of International Art at Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane. Recent exhibitions Pippa has curated include Bill Henson: The light fades but the gods remain (2019), Architecture Makes Us: Cinematic Visions of Sonia Leber and David Chesworth (2018) (co-curated with Naomi Cass and Made Spencer Castle) and An unorthodox flow of images (co-curated with Naomi Cass) (2017). Pippa is a regular contributor to publications and institutions in Australia and New Zealand and has been a nominator for various prizes including ICP Infinity Award and Prix Pictet.
