Solitude
By Sampson Mccrackan
Artist Bio
Sampson McCrackan is a young emerging photographer/film maker based in Boorloo. He is set to graduate in February of next year with a Bachelor of Media and Communications and a double major in Screen Production and Photomedia at Edith Cowan University. Sampson is of mixed Chinese and Australian ancestry, he is heavily inspired by his ancestral home of Hong Kong and its liveliness.
Artist Statement / Description of artwork
Solitude explores isolation and depersonalisation, portraying cities as “non-places” stripped of identity, where our relationship with them is purely transactional. As individualism clashes with our need for connection, cities become shallow, profit-driven spaces, leaving many in contemporary Australia with a profound sense of loneliness and alienation.