Alex Rogers
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Edition 1/3 
16 x 20 inch 
 
Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art 
 
$145 AUD 
Includes GST & postage within Australia 
 
Bio
Alex Rogers is an emerging Perth based multidisciplinary Photographer, currently undertaking a Bachelor of Design, with a major in Photography. His works are often based in alternative methods, such as film and dark room photography, seeking to capture life in its everyday beauty.
 
Statement
Growing up in a housing development shaped my formative years. As far as I was concerned, our house was perched on the edge of the earth; it stood as a part of the most recent addition to the suburb of Broome North, across the street was a vast sea of flat red dirt. This series takes inspiration from that experience and explores the developing suburb of Millars Landing, by Cedar Woods, in Perth’s south.
 
This body of work explores the “new Australian Dream”, a dream shaped by a shortage of affordable homes and by a system in which profit-driven housing developments thrive. When a lack of homes forces people further and further out from the city, people lose the ability to choose what, where and how their homes are built, and Millars Landing captures the segregated nature of  “Masterplanned Estates” and makes them feel like disconnected, lonely places. 
 
You would hope that when you tie your life, through a large mortgage, to a place, that it would be an enjoyable place to live. As it stands, Millar’s landing is a construction zone, less than one-third complete and half abandoned. Behind the facade propped up by its developers, Millars Landing is a sad echo of what the “Australian Dream” once was; with anything more than a glance, the suburb’s failings are unearthed. 
 
This series was inspired by the works of three artists, Tim Palman, James MacNeil and Todd Hido. Palman’s “Wellard” made clear to me the anxieties around “the home” in Australia and how Perth specifically has suffered from the housing crisis. MacNeil’s stunning paintings of Broome helped me to connect through nostalgia to my subject, and Hido’s indirect approach to his images inspired me to take a similar approach in my work.