Emerging from the depths of nature, Tamara Dean’s practice examines the human condition.
Leave only footprints is the first survey of the critically acclaimed photomedia artist and traverses more than 20 years of her photographic practice.
This immersive exhibition incorporates scent, photography, installation and the moving image to create an environment that engages the senses.
Dean’s practice transitioned from documentary to conceptual photography after the arrival of her first child. It transformed her practice into one that explores the primacy of nature and our connectedness to it, and to each other.
Leave only footprints spans more than 11 key bodies of work that explore transitional moments in our lives: rites of passage, rituals and motherhood, and is underpinned by the artist’s longing and desire to be within and to protect nature.
Tamara Dean | Leave only footprints is a Museum of Australian Photography touring exhibition.
Image credit: Tamara Dean, Tumbling through the treetops, 2020, from the series High jinks in the hydrangeas, pigment ink-jet print. Museum of Australian Photography, City of Monash Collection, donated by Tamara Dean 2022. Courtesy of the artist and Michael Reid Gallery (Sydney + Berlin).
