Brisbane-based photographer, Dane Beesley, will release his third collection of photographs, SHADES on Friday June 10 at This Must Be The Place, Bakery Lane.
In SHADES, morning seems to originate in the stillness of a parked car. A leaning smoking woman in a striped shirt has less a shadow more a shadow self – it’s all in the texture of shades. Models clamber on a sand dune (or do they channel it?). A suitedup cowboy-man alights a shopping centre escalator while inky-dark ferns track him.
“You’re on your own with photography, on an obscure mission to capture something,” says Beesley. “I don’t often know what I’m looking for but I know when I see it.” Beesley’s range is on show in SHADES, and a David Lynchian eeriness pervades over the familiar.
About Dane Beesley Dane Beesley is an awarding winning Brisbane-based photojournalist, portrait and street photographer, and one of Australia’s best-known music photographers. He has published The Road (2012) and Splitting the Seconds: A Photographer’s Journal (2011). His photos have been exhibited widely, and appear regularly in Rolling Stone Magazine, Australian dailies and stress press. His photographs are held in public and private collections in Australia.
Shades will be launched at This Must Be The Place 6.00 – 9.00pm Friday 10 June, Exhibition runs 11 June – 8 July 2016.
