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6 - 13 December 2025

Collective

Collective is WA’s largest open-themed photography exhibition and fundraiser—a vibrant showcase of collectable prints by established and emerging photographic artists from WA and beyond.

Each year the exhibition brings together a dynamic mix of voices and visions, offering audiences the chance to discover and collect new work while experiencing the creativity and curiosity of Australian photographic artists' today.

4 - 18 October 2025

IRIS Award

Presented by the Perth Centre for Photography, the IRIS Award is Australia’s most distinctive and uninhibited portrait prize.

Embracing unrestrained approaches to portraiture, the Award celebrates works of nuance, raw emotion, and personal connection — revealing the essence of human relationships and lived experience, whether in love, joy, desire, distance, or disconnection. We are invited into the shifting constellations of human sentiment, a space for reflection and dialogue on intimacy and identity in contemporary life.

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7 August - 17 September 2025

Carine Thévenau - 13 in the Anthropocene

What is it like to be 13 years old in 2024? A time period that can be described as the Anthropocene, an epoch that recognizes the overwhelming impact humanity has had on our planet. This is a world that includes the climate crisis, artificial intelligence, and social media. The tempo of life is fast and, at times, seems erratic and nonsensical.

In this series, photographer Carine Thevenau asks our future people about their experience in the world during a time of significant disruption and uncertainty.

16 August - 16 September 2025

Tace Stevens - We Were Just Little Boys

In 2023, Tace Stevens, Noongar and Spinifex visual storyteller, was commissioned by Magnum Foundation, and World Monuments Fund, to work with the Survivors of the Kinchela Aboriginals Boys Training Home (KBH), to create a body of work that shone a light on the site, and the truth.

We Were Just Little Boys, is a series of juxtapositions. Lies and truth. Past and present. Little boys and old men.

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24 July - 17 August 2025

Image.Object. - Photobook Series

Walyalup in Black and White - Photo Stroll

Photobook Dummy - Workshop

Nan Goldin, Photobook Legacies with Anne O'Hehir

Book Binding - Workshop

Tailored Photobook Mentoring

Advanced Photobook Design - Workshop

Rough Cuts, Final Takes - Speed Talks

15 February - 3 May 2025

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Kyle Archie Knight, Ramak Bazmar, Torika Bolatagici, Miriam Charlie, Brenda L Croft, Gerwyn Davies, Mary-Lou Divilli, Amos Gebhardt, Simryn Gill, Naomi Hobson, Nuriah Jadai, Maria Maraltadj, Sherry Quiambao, Scotty So, Tace Stevens, Taloi Havini

de centre -centre re-centre highlights the strength and diversity of contemporary photography in Australia. Deploying and disrupting conventions of portraiture and landscape, the selected artists explore place and belonging in First Nations, diasporic, and queer communities.

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6 - 12 December 2024

Collective

Collective is PCP's annual exhibition, fundraiser and art party. WA's premier open-themed photographic art showcase. Collective is a vibrant display of local, national, and international talent that lies within PCP's network. With up to 100 original limited edition prints on show, there's something for everyone.

Each year, Collective brings together an inspiring array of artistic visions, inviting collectors and wider audiences to experience the creativity and curiosity defining contemporary photography.

17 - 27 September 2024

Petrina Hicks - Mythologies

Presenting some of the most significant and enduring works from Petrina Hicks' celebrated archive. The artist's work includes large-scale photographs that draw from mythology, fables, and historical art imagery to re-frame the contemporary female experience. Permeated with a sense of magical realism, animals and females often appear together to represent aspects of psyche and identity, alluding to the complexity of female identity and the sentience of animals.

12 - 27 July 2024

CLIP Award

The CLIP Award is PCP’s biennial award for contemporary urban, natural, and conceptual landscape photography.

CLIP celebrates new international photography that exemplifies excellence and intrigue.

PCP welcomed Anouska Phizacklea, Director of the Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh), as the pre-selection curatorial judge.

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11 March - 13 May 2024

Exposure 3.0: New Voices in Australian Photography

New Voices in Australian Photography reveals stories about First Nations People, by First Nations People.

The theme of healing is delicately interwoven across each of the artworks, with personal narratives examining relationships to Country, people, and themselves. Coming from different remote communities across the Kimberley region, various language groups, and a wide age range, each artist brings a distinctive voice to the exhibition.

11 March - 13 May 2024

Chloe Bartram - Capturing Starlight

Bartram's solo exhibition, Capturing Starlight, draws on the visual and written language of light. The work features archival photography, fieldwork, and artefacts while exploring the tension between the photographic image as both art and historic evidence.

Capturing Starlight follows the 1922 Wallal Solar Eclipse Expedition. Through incorporating fragmentation into unfolding its scientific observations, Bartram illuminates what is unseen in the archive, between what is visible, what is observed, and the very uncertainty that is within this dichotomy. The exhibition encourages us to actively engage with the archive, allowing for play and analysis of the material.

2 December - 18 February 2023

IRIS Award

Presented by the Perth Centre for Photography, the IRIS Award is Australia’s most distinctive and uninhibited portrait prize.

10 December - 18 February 2023

Gera Woltjer - GR#D

A new chronicle of Perth artist’s Gera Woltjer’s lifelong preoccupation with grids, GR#D takes us on a journey of grid-appreciation and play through the worlds of everyday, industrial and architectural shapes and materials.

Gera Woltjer is a collector: her studio overflows with found materials; her sketchbooks are dense with notes, plans and drawings; her camera and computer are full of patterns, colours and forms of the world around us. Beginning her practice in textile art, Woltjer's interest in patterns of the built environment grew. Through these patterns, Woltjer reflects on how people use them to organise belongings, surroundings, even thoughts.

10 December - 18 February 2023

Flavia Schuster - SWAN SONG

Flavia Schuster‘s (1976, Buenos Aires) visual interests respond to a curiosity that intertwines love and madness, and the ubiquity of both states in the private as well as the public sphere.

'In 2006 my father was diagnosed with a slow-setting form of Alzheimer’s disease. My mother moved heavens and hells in search of cures while doing all at hand to appease his hardships as the years passed. She dedicated her life to caring for him while researching the disease, drugs, trials and doctors with a mighty force and bleak results. Their vital range became narrow and the passage of time condensed to those moments shared with each other, past and future became fogged and imprecise...'

10 December - 18 February 2023

Queer Collective

Perth Centre for Photography is pleased to announce the artists participating in Queer Collective 2022.

Michael Allery, Patricia Amorim Da Silva, Freya Gomez Bosch, Christophe Canato, Su Cassiano, Chloe Clem, David Charles Collins, Gregory Helleren, Joshua Stanley Hoe, Pablo Izquierdo, Eloise C. Levis, Jarrad Levy, Isobel Markus-Dunworth, Johannes Reinhart, Scotty So, Emmason Tucker, Esin Ustundag, Hugo Vásquez.

20 May - 1 July 2023

Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson -

Golden Dreams

Golden Dreams, is a multi-sensory poem exploring the fragility and elusiveness of place and experience, capturing the poignancy of memory and association integral to the understanding of loss or displacement.

The exhibition invites viewers to explore the poignancy of memory and association integral to the understanding of loss or displacement. Through fragmented and poetic imagery, the artist highlights the paradox of survival and healing, inviting a critical discussion surrounding empathy, trust, custodianship, compassion, and social change.

20 May - 1 July 2023

Alex Boyd - The Remote Part

The Remote Part by Alex Boyd highlights the importance of environmental conservation. The decade-long project captures the fragile Atlantic coastlines of Scotland and Ireland, showcasing the stunning beauty of its landscapes and its ancient settlements. On the edge of Europe, this exhibition presents the stunning mountain ranges, lochs, and lonely moors which have long inspired the work of artists and poets.

8 July - 26 August 2023

Wanda Tuerlinckx - Androids

Wanda Tuerlinckx captures robots with a 180-year-old photographic camera to visualise the new technological wonders across the borders of time in a historical way of scientific documentation. In collaboration with Erwin R. Boer, a human-machine interaction scientist, they have been traveling the world documenting the current robot revolution.

8 July - 26 August 2023

Kate Golding - Labours of Love

Labours of Love is a new exhibition by Kate Golding and her collaborators is the result of a co-making art practice that has occurred alongside the artist's care-work. For this mode of creation the studio location had endless possibilities - the domestic space, outdoors in nature, or a social setting in which the artist and her community found themselves. In the resulting body of work the praxis of care and art combine, where the artist’s attention rather than being divided between caregiving and art-making is able to move between the two.

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15 December 2023

Collective

COLLECTIVE is Western Australia’s largest open-themed photographic art event and PCP fundraiser, held in celebration of our diverse and talented photographic community. Navigating the intricate landscape of today's global environment, COLLECTIVE provides a haven for the convergence of creativity, innovative thinking, multiple perspectives and critical discourse. Guaranteed to be an indelible experience, COLLECTIVE is a must-attend for lovers of photography and those in pursuit of fresh new artworks.

1 December - 4 December 2023

Curtin Grad Show - A View From the Window

The Perth Centre for Photography is pleased to host A View From the Window, an exhibition of new work from the graduates of Curtin University’s School of Design and Built Environment.

20 August - 17 September 2022

Gregor MacGregor - No Direction Home

No Direction Home incorporates photographs, three-dimensional prints and animation, examining the potential of optical technologies in altering our perception of the photographic image. Through the deconstruction of digital photogrammetry, Gregor MacGregor explores the relationship between us and the world around us, a world that increasingly no longer exists.

20 August - 17 September 2022

Look Closer: Photo Project

Look Closer is the result of an inclusive participatory Photo Project inviting members of the WA community to make art with found trash on the streets of Perth. The project aims to provoke thought about the human impact on the environment and to look at ways in which we can improve how we inhabit our everyday spaces. The resulting exhibition will be presented in a group exhibition at the King Street Art Centre.

9 July - 13 August 2022

Karl Halliday - About Time

As a child rummaging through his parent’s archive of pictures recounting stories of their youth, the artist discovered photography as an opportunity to explore the ways in which images persuade our perception of the past, and by doing so, inform our experience of the future. About Time is the artist's pursuit of personal myth and a testament to his perspectives around the fallacy of ‘truth’ in photography.

9 July - 13 August 2022

Collected Works: Asia Pacific Photobook Archive

The Asia Pacific Photobook Archive (APPA) is a response to the European and American focus on photography and photobooks. The APPA is committed to promoting the production and dissemination of photobooks in the region. With over one thousand submissions, Collected Works focuses on thought-provoking stories and clever dissemination of ideas that promote the materiality of the photobook.

9 & 25 August 2022

Curatorial Considerations - Online Workshop

Curatorial Considerations is a five-session program that focuses on the possibilities for curatorial practice within the field of expanded photography. Suitable for those wishing to develop their curatorial skills and knowledge, the online series will feature invited national and international guest speakers, exploring concept generation, audience engagement, administrational logistics, funding avenues and exhibitions in traditional and alternative spaces.

24 September - 29 October 2022

CLIP Award

The CLIP Award is the Perth Centre for Photography’s biennial award for contemporary urban, natural, and conceptual landscape photography. CLIP celebrates new international photography, that exemplifies excellence and intrigue. Selected works will be critically engaging, innovative, and reflective of global, cultural, social, and environmental issues.

21 May - 2 July 2022

TRES - And Yet It Moves

And Yet it Moves explores the social life of the abandoned and peculiar objects we call trash. The exhibition showcases the result of a campervan journey around Australia in 2016: 6,383kms, 29 driving days, a collection of thousands of indistinct well-travelled trash, and an ecological understanding of its journey.

TRES (Ilana Boltvinik + Rodrigo Viñasy, Mexico City) is an art-research collective, whose practice explores the associations between humans and non-humans through science, anthropology, and archaeology.

21 May - 2 July 2022

Emilio Cresciani - State of Change

'The ice caps are melting. New landscapes are created through rising sea levels. And as the ice sheets shrink, more light is absorbed onto the earth’s surface, further accelerating global warming. A vicious circle.' State of Change documents melting ice in a sea of negative space, suggesting the profound impacts of human-induced climate change on the landscape.

21 May - 2 July 2022

Johannes Reinhart - S A P I L A N D

'We might be the only species that is aware of nature and its crucial role in our survival. But to this day, we fail to even plan to act in a unified way to live sustainably on this one and only planet Earth.' S A P I L A N D calls attention to the paradoxical relationship modern humans have with nature.

4 November 2022

Collective - 30th Anniversary Edition

It’s PCP’s 30th Anniversary, let’s celebrate!

Collective is Western Australia’s largest open-themed photographic art event, held in celebration of our diverse and talented photographic community. For over a decade, Collective’s platform has presented the work of photographic artists, generating a connection between emerging artists and established artists. The result is an eclectic and compelling exhibition, turning the spotlight on some of our most talented members.

In 2022 Collective will showcase the work of over 130 photographic artists, including an additional selection of new work by past PCP exhibitors.

12 March - 14 May 2022

Starry Kong - You Can't Walk This Earth Forever, Someday You Will Have To Fly

Starry Kong is a Melbourne-based visual artist who was born in Kunming, China. Starry is interested in the intangible and inexpressible sentiments that are characteristic of humankind. She explores this phenomenon through her own experiences of loss, grief, alienation and her long-term mental illness, which has become the foundation and origin of her creative practice.

12 March - 14 May 2022

Animalis

Exploring the connection between human and non-human animals, at a time when the world is experiencing a multitude of social and environmental challenges.

A group exhibition comprised of photographic work by local, national and international artists and featuring an essay by animal behaviourist and artist Dr Nicole Lobry de Bruyn (Animal Sense).

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EXPOSURE 3.0 - Project

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EXPOSURE 3.0 - Exhibition 2021

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20 February - 3 April 2021

Dawn Woolley - Consumed: Stilled Lives

Dawn Woolley (UK) is a visual artist that uses photographs of objects and people to question issues of artificiality and idealisation. Woolley’s artwork is a feminist critique of culture. She examines representations of gender in popular culture to draw attention to stereotypes.

Sculpted objects function as portraits of different types of consumer. We are what we consume. She also creates public interventions in spaces in cities - keep an eye around the Perth CBD for Woolley's latest public intervention!

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20 February - 3 April 2021

Lumina Collective - A Particular Being

Lumina is a group of award-winning female artists from around Australia who are committed to revealing narratives within the Australian landscape and further afield. Artists include Donna Bailey, Chloe Bartram, Jessie Boylan, Aletheia Casey, Anna Maria Antoinette D'Addario, Lyndal Irons, Morganna Magee and Sarah Rhodes.

A Particular Being is Lumina Collective’s major exhibition showcasing new work exploring notions of grievability, memory and recognition in an unstable world. Through their eight distinct lenses, Lumina reimagines diverse and discrete lives poised at times of personal or global unease- with each response a reckoning and an intervention into acts of forgetting.

20 February - 3 April 2021

Lauren McCartney - Nightworks Sequence

Lauren McCartney’s Sequence is a performance in which she stretches her body, in an attempt to split her legs. This excruciating task draws from the notion that in Western culture, we are told from childhood that a woman’s value is in her physique. It is expected that women must endure violence to our bodies and minds to create and maintain conventional beauty norms, which in turn makes this suffering easy to accept and even familiar and comforting to endure.

10 April - 8 May 2021

Meet the Pattis - The Patti Smiths

The Perth Centre for Photography is pleased to present Meet the Pattis, a group exhibition by The Patti Smith Art Collective.

Perth’s disparate and famously
non - conforming;
Patti Smiths Art Collective;
describe their work
loosely as
neo-modernist,
post / retro-punk
with ironic dollops of pomo kitsch.

10 April - 8 May 2021

Paul-Michael Bartok - Nightworks þLµTØ

Paul-Michael Bartok’s þLµTØ is a short experimental film exploring the role social media, and technology play in controlling and altering mind states of the populous. The films draws from Plato's allegory of the cave and Foucault's theories on Jeremy Bentham's 'Panopticon'.

15 May - 31 July 2021

Mavis Phillips (Nee Walley) Collection

The Perth Centre for Photography in partnership with CAN, and the State Library of WA are proud to present a unique collection of Aboriginal photographs taken by one of Australia's earliest photographers - the Mavis Phillips (nee Walley) Collection.

Through her box brownie camera, Mavis captured the everyday moments of her community in Goomalling, Western Australia from the 1930s.

Her photographs capture joy, spontaneity, pride and hope from the thriving Wheatbelt Aboriginal community. The photos are extremely rare in that they capture daily life from a Noongar perspective.

7 August - 18 September 2021

Paul Sutherland - Digital Dérive

Digital Dérive provides light-hearted speculation on the role of the flâneur or street photographer during a period of travel restrictions and lockdown. For this series, Sutherland adopted the role of a “digital flâneur”, strolling through international cities on 'Google Street View', looking for scenes that were deemed photogenic and taking screenshots as he went. As a result of his digital dérives, the images, processed in an idiosyncratic and obscure manner, turned out to be dream-like, whimsical, and maybe a bit empty or hollow as if something is always missing.

7 August - 18 September 2021

Reset - Multi Artist Residency

Cole Baxter / Nicolee Fox / Gregor MacGregor / Donna Sadler / Bernard Taylor

Come and meet the artists involved in this year's RESET Multi-artist studio residency program. Have a sneak peek of their workspaces, gain an insight into their projects and share your thoughts.

The Open Studio night is a great opportunity to get an insight into how these artists will be working throughout the RESET program, whilst offering the opportunity to network in a photographic industry setting.

7 August - 18 September 2021

Layli Rakhsha - I Was Being Watched

I was being watched is a series of photographs that explores the idea of boundaries between public and private spaces. During a short visit to Melbourne in 2011, Rakhsha documented the large screen in Federation Square after seeing herself on the screen, initially unaware that she was being monitored and watched. Going through her archive ten years later, Rakhsha is presenting the documented images in a video format to reflect on the missed boundaries in public places. I was being watched presents a dark, mute and ongoing dialogue between public and private space.

25 September - 16 October 2021

IRIS Award

The IRIS Award (IRIS) is a biennial art prize acknowledging outstanding portraiture photography internationally. The award's 18 year history saw its inaugural exhibition in 2003, as a Western Australian prize for contemporary portraiture.

IRIS celebrates portraiture photography which is unique, unprecedented and conceptually stimulating.

The award encourages artists to stretch the scope of this genre by incorporating new practices. In doing so, providing a space for artists to challenge tradition, encouraging an experimental approach towards conventional techniques.

25th September - 16th October 2021

Tim Barretto - Scratchy Fish

Tim Barretto captured the Scratchy Fish footage on film at a local aquarium. In post-development, the negatives were scratched and tampered against various textures, then scanned, re-captured and assembled into sequence frame by frame. The process completes the sequence with dynamics and reveals stills within motion.

5 - 27 November 2021

Transitions

The Perth Centre for Photography and Rotterdam Photo is pleased to present Transitions, a collaborative international group exhibition featuring work from the Rotterdam Photo Festival, First Nations artists from the Exposure Collective and Perth artist May Bluebell.

Transition through concepts of the 21st century, where regression and progression come to a head. Transition through the resilience of First Nations Australians, countering historical misrepresentation and reclaiming their narrative through photographic practice. Transition through notions of time and geographical significance, with an exploration of space, place, and memory.

11 December - 22 January 2021

Collective

PCP’s Collective is WA’s largest open-themed photographic art event and PCP’s annual fundraising exhibition, held in celebration of our diverse and talented membership. For over a decade, Collective’s platform has supported the talents of photographers and artists, generating a connection between rising artists and the established photo community, instilling a culture of diversification and inclusivity.

2 - 5 December 2021

Superposition - Curtin Grad Show

Perth Centre for Photography is pleased to host the 2021 Curtin Photography Degree Exhibition. An exhibition featuring student work from Curtin University’s School of Design and Built Environment.

25 January - 22 February 2020

Massimiliano Camellini - Al Di Là Dell'acqua

The title of the project derives from the phrase ‘Lòt Bò Dio’, a Kreyòl expression of the Haitian inhabitants, which stands for a promise (of a better future), and peril (of Black Atlantic Ocean), hope and despair, seeing different answers on the other side of the water.

Massimiliano boards ships that will be at sea for months, he gets into work areas, he looks for the captain's headquarters, he observes the restrooms, the places of leisure, the private cabins. He excludes the inhabitants from the photographs, we find them out instead through objects, in little totems or amulets which are used to create a connection with dry land. The oxymoron lies in the existence of daily normality made up of small rituals which are in a state of continuous movement. - Andrea Tinterri, project Curator

25 January - 22 February 2020

Olive Lipscombe - Au Nom De La Mère

Au nom de la mère is a photographic auto-ethnography that re/presents the mother subject and the mother/daughter bond within a cultural milieu where the maternal experience is both ignored and feared.

Drawing on her understanding of the maternal as a daughter, the artist uses photography to capture intimate and powerful moments of a personal relationship which expose the complex dichotomies and multilayered identities inherent in the mother-daughter experience.

29 February - 28 March 2020

Days Of Their Lives

Days of Their Lives presents a survey of contemporary photography by women in the early stages of their practices; Chloe Bartram, Anaïs Bellini, Yabini Kickett, Millie Murfitt, Sherry Paddon, Ebony Talijancich, Erica Watkin, and Chiluba Young.

The works produced by each of these locally based artists offer insight into the current concerns of emerging female photographers today – from challenging patriarchal narratives and refiguring traditional gender representations, to examining expansive topics such as consumerism, power, sexuality, memory, and nostalgia. In an era where digital photography is ubiquitous, these diverse bodies of work collectively reaffirm the importance of a considered lens-based artistic practice.

14 August 2020

CLIP Award - Online Edition

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The Contemporary Landscapes in Photography (CLIP) Awards is an internationally open photographic prize for new perspectives in natural and urban landscape photography. The selection criteria focuses on images which are original, stimulating, and that challenge traditional notions of landscape photography.

8 August - 19 September 2020

Reset - Multi Artist Residency

Lyle Branson / GAPE Collective / Perdita Phillips / Layli Rakhsha / Laura Sikes / Jacob Wallwork / Kate Webb

PCP is delighted to announce the opening of a multi-studio residency program, to take place in August at their space in the heart of the city. Aimed at strengthening community relationships and encouraging new creative work, seven artists have been invited to develop their work over six weeks, responding creatively to current political, social and environmental issues.

26 September - 7 November 2020

Daniel Gevaux - Conversations With Myself

The 300 images that form the body of this exhibition heavily feature the CBD of Perth. This subject is one that has pre-occupied Gevaux since 2014, but in this case, he has opted to predominantly forgo the human figure in favour of the artefacts of their interaction with the environment; the evidence and proof of their passage and existence. In many ways, these photographic documents offer a second order of witness to the lives of the people of the city. Like a forensic photographer, Gevaux provides us with the evidence of a situation we must imaginatively reconstruct.

26 September - 7 November 2020

Christophe Canato - ANIMA

Christophe Canato’s new work ANIMA is an immersive, polychromatic photographic series that is exploring the inner feminine side of the man.

The Anima is both a personal complex and an archetypal that expresses the fact that man psyche has a minority of feminine qualities according to psychologist Carl Jung (26 July 1875 - 6 June 1961). It is an unconscious factor incarnated anew in every male child and is responsible for the mechanism of projection.

8 August - 19 September 2020

Lauren McCartney - Fantasy

Fantasy (II), 2020 is the second video in the performative series Here, with a bang! that parodies the burlesque balloon pop as a catalyst to explore how women engage with absurd and playful approaches to performing their bodies seductively. The work confronts constructed expectations of feminine sexual expression, offering defiant corporeal feminism in its place.

11 November - 14 November 2020

Djinanginy Ngany - Seeing Me

Djinanginy Ngany (Seeing Me) explores the self expression and identification of the Moorditj Koolangka program participants through portrait photography and pattern. The exhibition will be accompanied by a poem by Noongar author Cassie Lynch, which has been written in response to the children and the project progression.

The Moorditj Koolangka program is an after school group of Aboriginal youth from Mirrabooka and the surrounding areas. The children in the program participate in an array of activities spanning visual art, sport, culture and music. Moorditj Koolangka aims to provide a fun and encouraging environment for all participants as well as the opportunity to try new things without fear.

12 December - 14 February 2021

Duncan Wright - ‘ssǝuᴉddɐɥ’

Photographed between January 2018 and December 2020 and combining Wright’s personal and commercial approaches to photography, ‘ssǝuᴉddɐɥ’ simultaneously asks the viewer to question and reflect upon the past two years, a time of great environmental, political and social upheaval and concern. Spanning images of beach parties, bushfire devastation and commercial and personal portraiture, the work is presented in a rough, chronological order with the viewer being encouraged to create their own understanding through subtle references to the iconic/ironic cliche of Australia presented.

12 December - 14 February 2021

Tami Xiang - Gengzi Picture of Modern Exiles

Gengzi Picture of Modern Exiles addresses the situation of the 300 million Chinese domestic migrant works from the countryside, who do not have the same access to public welfare due to the household registration system which differentiates the people from the rural areas and urban areas. Xiang has appropriated the Picture of Exiles (1943) created by famous Chinese artist Jiang Zhaohe, depicting the condition of Chinese refugees during the 1943 famine.

In 2017, three million migrant workers were forcibly exiled back to their hometown from Beijing. Xiang photographed the ruined doors and collected images of migrant workers on their trips. Xiang appropriated these images into the Picture of Exile, to communicate with the people in history, also questioning our reality.

12 December - 14 February 2021

Liam Gnaden - Now Is Enough

Taken over several years in countries such as America, Hong Kong & Vietnam, and locally in Perth, 'Now is Enough’ is an experiential exhibition exploring the way in which we absorb photographic media in today's digital society. The collection showcases a series of images focused on subjects appearing somewhat dystopian or disconnected within their urban context through gestural or even humorous manners, which is exhibited through varying physical display techniques and experiences.

20 November 2020

Collective

COLLECTIVE is PCP's annual Members exhibition, art party and fundraising event showcasing collectable photographic work by emerging and established artists. This is WA's biggest photographic exhibition, featuring over 65 artists from Australia and beyond.

COLLECTIVE is an opportunity to own a piece of new, collectable photography produced by emerging and established photographic artists. The Art / Swap Edition means that every one of the artists who contribute their artwork will be rewarded with a limited COLLECTIVE edition print of their choice from the exhibition.

3 - 6 December 2020

Magnetic Fields - Curtin Grad Show

PCP is pleased to host the 2020 Curtin Photography Degree Exhibition.

8 March 2019

Hoda Afshar - Behold

Behold was made unexpectedly, and without design. I was travelling in a city that I sometimes return to, and I got to know a group of gay men. There, where they live, these men (and many others like them) are mostly left to be. But only on the condition that they lead one part of their lives in secret. Rarely, that is, do their bodies ever meet in open honesty outside, in public. Only here, in this bathhouse, where their desire to be seen and embraced by others – just to be and to be held – is played out the partial openness of these four closed walls. - Hoda Afshar

8 March 2019

Laurence Watts - Looking West

Looking West, by Laurence Watts, is a photographic work that examines performative masculinity in Australian Rodeo subculture and the iconography of the Cowboy. The work is underpinned by a semi-narrative throughline of 'searching for the cowboy'. This search finds that long after the West has been won, and the Frontier closed, the Cowboy exists as a set of visual cultural ideals through which masculinity is articulated in the Australian Rodeo, utilising the sartorial codes of the Western hat, boots, shirt and belt buckle.

27 Apr – 25 May 2019

Jacobus Capone - Sincerity and Symbiosos

Act 2 in the context of a large ongoing project titled 'Forewarning', by Jacobus Capone, 2018

27 Apr – 25 May 2019

Jane Finlay - Further Closer

A personal narrative by WA artist Jane Finlay reflecting on human impact, loss, change and the poetics of anthropomorphism.

June 2019

CLIP Award

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6 July - 3 August 2019

Light Works

Light Years presents works by 13 leading Australian photo-media artists. Each significant contemporary artist in this enluminure, has selected an iconic image to highlight the colour, detail and visual ambition capable with new light-box technology.

Narelle Autio, Nici Cumpston, Marian Drew, Derek Henderson, Petrina Hicks, Joseph McGlennon, Fabian Muir, Catherine Nelson, Polixeni Papapetrou, Trente Parke, Joan Ross, Luke Shadbolt, Dr. Christian Thompson AO

10 July - 7 September 2019

Brianna Elton - Second Light

Second Light is a considered study of the boundaries of portraiture. Rather than profiling its subjects, the images obscure them, reducing them to ciphers. The space they inhabit is cloaked in darkness, save for a single, vaguely-defined source of illumination. Intimacy is conjured through movement and gesture, as bodies stripped of their specifics gravitate towards the light.

Brianna was the winner of PCP's UNCOVER Award 2017. The UNCOVER Award is an opportunity for emerging artists to develop and exhibit a body of work. As the winner of the award, she will be exhibiting her solo exhibition with the support of PCP and Fitzgerald Photo Imaging.

19 October - 9 November 2019

IRIS Award

The IRIS Award is an international prize recognising new and outstanding portraiture in photographic art. The criteria for selection focuses on portraits that are unique, compelling and engaging whilst maintaining excellence in photography.

14 September - 12 October 2019

Marzena Wasikowska - Journey Reluctantly Taken

A work which considers human-induced climate change.

The series is a response to our environmental predicament and advances a notion of a sublime. We stand before nature wondering what on earth we have unleashed.

This series references the vocabulary of the sublime, to visualise impacts of climate change on coastal settlements. It proposes that the most relevant contemporary sublime is the ecological sublime.

14 September - 12 October 2019

Christopher Young - Eight

Eight is a new body of photographic work by Western Australian artist Christopher Young. It looks at end-of-life cultural experiences; how people respond to such experiences; and the environments and institutions they encounter.

Utilising spaces such as hospitals, doctors’ surgeries and funeral homes, it addresses the paradox of highly charged, emotive events in seemingly sterile and controlled spaces.

14 September - 12 October 2019

Ellen Dahl - At the Edge of Place

Ellen Dahl’s At the Edge of Place responds directly to the strange and uncanny sense of time and aesthetic within Timothy Morton’s ‘dark ecology’ concept. Morton proposes that we that we now live in multiple timescales: while ‘we’ live fast, ecological change (global warming) is comparatively slow, making ecological awareness ambiguous and disorientating. To reflect on this potential future caught somewhere between the still and the moving, Dahl employs the hybrid still-motion, a medium considered to be operating between the past (photography) and present (the moving image).

14 September - 12 October 2019

Daniel Gevaux - Conversations With Myself

Local WA artist, Daniel Gevaux is currently working on a participatory artwork in PCP's Studio Loft, titled “Conversations with Myself”. Members of the public are invited to join Daniel in the PCP residency to discuss their relationship with photography, responding to a series of images. In an exercise that may take 30 minutes or 3 hours, participants will have the opportunity to find patterns and/or personal narratives in Daniel's latest body of work by looking through physical prints and pinning them to the walls.

22 November 2019

Collective

Collective is the Perth Centre for Photography (PCP)'s annual members Exhibition, Art Party and Fundraiser.

This event is for anyone who loves photography and is looking for an exhibition opening with a twisted twist!

While the walls of the PCP gallery will be adorned in images by some of WA's most talented photographic artists, the King Street Arts Centre will be transformed into a multi-sensory lighting and sound experience.

5 - 8 December 2019

Red Giant - Curtin Grad Show

Curtin Photo-Media Graduation Exhibition. A showcase of student work from Curtin University’s school of Design and Built Environment.

16 February - 18 March 2018

Connie Petrillo - The Lost Child

The Lost Child aims to challenge audiences to examine how they view children in art, and asks if this part of artistic representation should slip into obscurity and be completely removed from our gaze.

How would Dodgson’s Alice Liddell as a beggar-girl be without Alice Liddell?

How would Balthus’ Therese be without Therese?

16 February - 18 March 2018

Cynthia Verspaget - Extended Landfall

Extended Landfall is the instinctive ‘knowing’ of oncoming land by ancient seafarers through
sensory anomalies such as the smell of grass, the presence of particular animals, sea swells
and so on, gathered well before any land is seen. It is in this moment that imaginings of place become charged with anticipatory emotions provoking fantastical and frightful potential.

23 March - 14 April 2018

Fragile Armour

Fragile Armour brings together the work of five artists who utilise photographic portraiture in their practices to explore the complexities of the human condition.

Abdul Abdullah, Tony Albert, David Charles Collins, Petrina Hicks and Angela Tiatia individually present their subjects as a symbol of strength, resilience and defiance. Equally this strength is juxtaposed with a reading of vulnerability and exposure. This dual depiction of strength and fragility play off each other evoking empathy and awe for subjects in the work.

23 March - 14 April 2018

Interference Pattern

Interference Pattern challenges the conventions of landscape photography by bringing the work of Rebecca Najdowski and Vivian Cooper Smith together to form new temporal images – landscapes in flux. No longer strictly representational, these photographs instead speak of the apparatus of image and meaning-making that makes up photography today.

27 April - 19 May 2018

CLIP Award

Details Coming Soon

1st June - 23 June 2018

Sam Forsyth-Gray - On the Sea Stands a Rock

On the Sea Stands a Rock stems from a recent discovery of both familial historical archives and multiple collections of vernacular images from unknown origins. This work forms a project that uses various techniques and processes to explore the idea of a photograph existing as a physical object.

1st June - 23 June 2018

Light Objects - Photography in the Expanded Field

Isobel Markus-Dunworth / Simone Darcy / Bernadette Smith

Light Objects – Photography in the Expanded Field is an exhibition of three photo-media artists stretching the medium of photography through explorations of light and objects in real space. Each artist challenges the idea of the conventional photograph allowing the photographic medium to expand beyond the flatness of the frame into three dimensions.

3 August - 25 August 2018

Katie Breckon - Light + Ochre

Ochre + Light was born from a feeling of homesickness. Living in the remote West Kimberley and returning home to New Zealand once a year, means Breckon moves between two very different worlds. The Kimberley ochre is harvested and deeply symbolic and the colours are different to New Zealand Kokowai (ochre). Breckon references ochre within her artwork as a way to compare her two homes and to visually translate a feeling of belonging and nostalgia for each place.

3 August - 25 August 2018

Lyle Branson - Identification

Identification is a new body of work that Branson developed during his studio residency at the Perth Centre for Photography in 2017. Branson takes a look at the native bush that is left in the urban areas around Perth while at some time feeling estranged within this landscape as it’s not part of his cultural heritage. The work was first exhibited as part of an artistic development exchange between PCP and the Rotterdam Photo Festival.

3 August - 25 August 2018

Daniel Gevaux - Round Midday

Round Midday looks at Perth as a city of change. A city, which always proclaimed, new to be better than old. Arguably, the monuments of our victories and mistakes have been pulled down time and time again, part of a state looking for independence and freedom, still chained to the principles and guidance of others, both on the opposite side of the country and the world.