WHEN : 13th July – 11th August
WHERE : Queensland Centre of Photography
The congregation of CITIZENs, here in this show, was never premeditated. I didn’t set out to capture any of them, with the greater collection called CITIZEN in mind. They happened over time.
These images are from a broad subject of people I came across over the last fifteen years. There is no narrative, nor a place or topic, connecting these citizens. Many encounters were random; others due more to luck of having received a commission. I have approached them all with the same intent and strict parameters.
In CITIZEN you meet a prostitute, tribal dancers, famous actors, a dissident artist and a truck driver at the banks of a remote river in Laos…and more.
Their title is given due to the circumstances we met or the reason for which I was commissioned to photograph. It is simply a way to catalogue and label, but it certainly doesn’t sum up who and what that person is.
This project does have a direct link to my previous book of portraits – “Chasing Summer – A Journal Of A Global Motorcycle Journey”. On that journey, I visited 35 or so countries over two and half years. You could place any of those earlier portraits in the context of Citizen and it would fit right in. They are like two chapters of the same book.
Image: Ingvar Kenne ‘Angus Young, Musician, Sydney, Australia’ 2003 – C-Type Print, 100 x 100 cm
