With Water

In With Water, three First Nations women from Australia, Bolivia, and Ecuador work with water in their photographic practices, as they
address ideas that sit close to them.

Elisa Carmichael uses water in the process of making cyanotypes. Her newly commissioned work for PHOTO 2024 pictures coastal erosion and human intervention taking place in the Rainbow Channel located between Minjerribah and Mulgumpin (Moreton Island), Queensland, where the artist’s great-grandmother was born.

Research-led documentary photographer, and winner of the Arles Discovery Award 2023, Isadora Romero explores the tradition of seed guardianship, and the role that seed guardians like her great-grandparents play in combating inequality and conserving resources for future generations.

Finally, Bolivian artist Wayra embodies the Andean tradition that sees water as the blood that gives life to Mother Earth, protects us, and links the cosmos, the world of the here and now, and the world below.