Talk: Ross McDonnell and Philip Montgomery

Artists

• 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.

   

   

• Ross McDonnell (IE)

  Born 1979, Dublin, Ireland
  Lives and works New York, U.S.

  Ross McDonnell is a filmmaker and photographer. Ross’ early experience of travel and his love of cinema sparked a fascination with image making and storytelling. His work reflects his interest in the open-ended nature of non-fiction and the tensions, inherent in the photographic process, between transience and permanence.

  Ross’ debut feature film Colony premiered at TIFF and won the IDFA First Feature Award. Since then Ross has continued moving between disciplines as Director, Cinematographer and Producer. In 2021 he won an Emmy Award for his Cinematography on The Trade and was shortlisted for the Prix Pictet in 2019 for his project, Limbs.

• Philip Montgomery (MX/US)

  Born 1988, California, U.S.
  Lives and works New York, U.S.

  Philip Montgomery is a photographer whose work chronicles the fractured state of America. He is a contributor to The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Zeit Magazine. He has received numerous awards, including the National Magazine Award for feature photography for his work chronicling the opioid epidemic. His work has been exhibited at the ICP in New York, Foam Museum in Amsterdam, the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles, Aperture Gallery in New York, Les Rencontres d’Arles in France, and the Deichtorhallen House of Photography in Germany. Montgomery’s monograph, American Mirror, will be published by Aperture in Fall 2021.