Tag Archives: Asia-Pacific photography

Picture Paradise: Asia Pacific photography

Asia Pacific photography research

I have uploaded a 2025 online presentation of the catalogue for the 2008 exhibition, Pacific Paradise,  at the National Gallery of Australia. It was fun to revisit these images and to think on those times spent bringing these collections together. Click here.

 

 

Travel with Indonesian photography

South-East Asia photography research

I have revised and added to an essay that was previously published in 2022 on Indonesian photography. In revisiting this work I was reminded of Leo Haks, the wonderful collector who we now miss and who was so much at the centre of how this collection came together. I hope to honour him soon with an essay and special online page or two.
My essay on Indonesian photography is online — click here.

 

Curatorland

Writing in the Rain, FX Harsono - Still from colour video 2011  Collection National Gallery of Australia

Following my leaving the National Gallery in September 2014, I was asked by the editor of the Journal of the Asian Arts Society Australia to write about my last decade at the gallery — the decade that saw the establishment of a survey collection of Asia-Pacific photography spanning from South Asia to the west coast of the Americas.

The new collection was largely based around major collections acquired from several major private collections of Asia-Pacific photography including one of some 5000 colonial-era Indonesian photographs.

Here’s that story — click here

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For the list of my other essays (being updated) click here