Danielle Fitzgerald
Flex, 2025.
Edition 1/3
16 x 20 inch
Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art
$145 AUD
Includes GST & postage within Australia
Bio
Danielle Fitzgerald (b. 1985, UK) is a documentary photographer whose work explores identity, culture, and the intricacies of social resilience. With a background in social work, her practice is rooted in collaboration and storytelling, capturing narratives that challenge perception while celebrating human complexity.
Since 2022, Fitzgerald has been developing Venus 8, a long-term series documenting the backstage worlds of dancers and sex workers across Western Australia. Over four years, she has built close relationships within the community she photographs, shaping portraits that emerge through trust and co-authorship. This collaborative approach blends documentary and portraiture to explore ritual, agency, and the layered complexity of lived identity. Her lens turns away from spectacle to highlight solidarity, resilience, and the many dimensions of sex work.
Fitzgerald’s work has been recognised as a finalist in the Galah Regional Photographic Prize (2025) and in the Australian Photographic Prize, where she placed in the Top 30 Documentary category and received the Documentary Award for her images Rinse, In the Bag, and Femme. She has been published internationally in DAZED UK and exhibited in Australia, with a solo exhibition Venus 8: Flesh & Foam at Gallery ths, Margaret River, as part of the Head On Photo Festival Open Program (2025).
Statement
Fei's quiet flex. The grill, the nails, the ring.
An act of agency and defiance.
Since beginning Venus 8 in 2022, I have moved through strip clubs, locker rooms, and backstage spaces with workers across Western Australia. My drive to document comes from the erasure and misrepresentation of workers’ in both historical and current representation, and a determination to platform these stories within contemporary art and visual culture.
My practice is rooted in solidarity and collaboration, advocating for the recognition of workers’ rights while resisting the censorship and stigma that attempt to silence the community. Working closely with my co collaborators, we explore transformation, labour, and resilience. In this climate, my lens becomes both resistance and rebellion.
