Lethe, Ann Prochilo
What kind of photographs can visitors expect to see in Alone Together? While subjects and styles vary, the common thread is “alone-ness” – not to be confused with loneliness, says Curator Daniel Boetker-Smith, Director of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Photography. His selection includes one image from each of the Top 50 artists’ portfolios.
“For most photographers, the act of making an image, the moment itself, is one of ‘happy solitude’ (to borrow from Raymond Depardon). Photography gives us the opportunity to embrace alone-ness, in that moment a split second of silence, a decision, an intake of breath and the release of the shutter. Simultaneously photographs always exist in a state of flux, they do not exist in isolation, they oscillate through space and time being read, re-read and interpreted. The photographer, the subject, and the photograph itself are all alone together or somewhere in-between.
Each photograph in this exhibition provides space for you to ponder, to observe and to be alone in your thoughts. In doing so I ask you to occupy a spot in front of each image, pause, and consider the space each image provides, what does it mean to you? Where does your mind go when you consider the alone-ness presented here?”
Learn more: cpacphoto.org/alone-together
EXHIBITING ARTISTS
Streetmax 21, Tracy Barbutes, Lynne Breitfeller, Jo Ann Chaus, Diana Cheren Nygren, Lynne Breitfeller, Cathy Cone, Leah DeVun, Jesse Egner, David Ellingsen, Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo, Argus Paul Estabrook, Marina Font, Adair Freeman Rutledge, Jesse Freidin, Eva Gjaltema, Zoe Haynes-Smith, Sarah Hoskins, Shao-Feng Hsu, Allison Hunter, Lauren Semivan & John Simon, Michael Joseph, Roshni Khatri, Kazuaki Koseki, Jaume Llorens, Simone Lueck, Krysia Lukkason, Aimee McCrory, Diane Meyer, Frankie Mills, Kevin Bennett Moore, Lisa Murray, Bob Newman, Lou Peralta, Walter Plotnick, Ann Prochilo, André Ramos-Woodard, Nathan Rochefort, Ruddy Roye, Mateo Ruiz Gonzalez, Claudia Ruiz Gustafson, Daniel Sackheim, Leah Schretenthaler, Lindsay Siu, Stephen Starkman (tribute), Jamey Stillings, Nolan Streitberger, Krista Svalbonas, Rashod Taylor, Grace Weston, and Michael Young