Curating of Photography collection for exhibition
Budget: $250 – $750 AUD
Curating of Photography collection for Nature and Wildlife exhibition
- Number of photographs needed: 50-100
- The client is looking for a curator with experience in selecting and organizing photographs for a Landscape/Nature and Wildlife exhibition.
- The photographs are already post-processed, so no additional editing is required.
- The curator should have a deep understanding of the theme and be able to select photographs that capture the essence of landscapes/nature and wildlife.
- The ideal candidate should have a keen eye for composition and be able to create a cohesive and visually engaging exhibition.
- Strong organizational and communication skills are necessary to work closely with the client and coordinate the logistics of the exhibition.
- Experience in curating photography exhibitions and knowledge of the photography industry a must
- Photos would be selected from client's website (additional photos can be provided from Artists private unreleased collection.
Artist's Statement
I am a professional wildlife and landscape photographer based in Brisbane, Australia, but frequently travelling much further afield in search of my subjects. Although my route to photography was a fairly atypical one, since discovering my calling I’ve wasted little time in fully dedicating myself to the art form. Now, whether navigating the inland waterways of Borneo by longboat, trekking through Arnhem Land on foot, or rising above a tropical canopy in a helicopter, it’s only with camera in hand and hiking boots on my feet that I truly come into my element.
However, as with many who have spent extended periods of time immersed in nature, it has quickly become apparent to me just how serious a threat human behavior poses to the fragile ecosystem that supports our lives. So although photography serves a distinctly cathartic purpose for me personally, my work is just as equally an attempt to draw greater public attention to the unbearable toll our current way of life is inflicting upon the natural world.
The human relationship with the environment and the other animals we share it with is characterized by consumption. We look on other lifeforms not as cohabitants that should be afforded protection rights equal to our own, but as resources that exist solely for our benefit. Not only is this attitude detrimental to the well-being of those entities unfortunate enough to live alongside us, but also to the planet more generally; and thus ultimately also to ourselves as a species.
Nonetheless, as pressing as the ecological crisis may be, I prefer to avoid sensationalism; instead favoring a more understated photographic approach. In reality most environments I visit today display clear signs of the damage caused by humans, hence there is no need to shock the audience into action by concentrating on extreme cases. In practice this means that I neither deliberately seek out signs of environmental destruction, nor try to avoid, hide, remove, or delete them from my work by digital or other means.
Rather, I try to highlight environmental issues in an objective and non-politicized manner, in the hope that the viewer will form her or his own conclusions. I like to think that the result is an unromantic and matter-of-fact portrayal of the natural world as it is today; beautiful, but nonetheless scarred. A portrayal that subtly underlines all that we stand to loose if we don’t take immediate and far-reaching steps to change our violently unsustainable way of life.
- Number of photographs needed: 50-100
- The client is looking for a curator with experience in selecting and organizing photographs for a Landscape/Nature and Wildlife exhibition.
- The photographs are already post-processed, so no additional editing is required.
- The curator should have a deep understanding of the theme and be able to select photographs that capture the essence of landscapes/nature and wildlife.
- The ideal candidate should have a keen eye for composition and be able to create a cohesive and visually engaging exhibition.
- Strong organizational and communication skills are necessary to work closely with the client and coordinate the logistics of the exhibition.
- Experience in curating photography exhibitions and knowledge of the photography industry a must
- Photos would be selected from client's website (additional photos can be provided from Artists private unreleased collection.
Artist's Statement
I am a professional wildlife and landscape photographer based in Brisbane, Australia, but frequently travelling much further afield in search of my subjects. Although my route to photography was a fairly atypical one, since discovering my calling I’ve wasted little time in fully dedicating myself to the art form. Now, whether navigating the inland waterways of Borneo by longboat, trekking through Arnhem Land on foot, or rising above a tropical canopy in a helicopter, it’s only with camera in hand and hiking boots on my feet that I truly come into my element.
However, as with many who have spent extended periods of time immersed in nature, it has quickly become apparent to me just how serious a threat human behavior poses to the fragile ecosystem that supports our lives. So although photography serves a distinctly cathartic purpose for me personally, my work is just as equally an attempt to draw greater public attention to the unbearable toll our current way of life is inflicting upon the natural world.
The human relationship with the environment and the other animals we share it with is characterized by consumption. We look on other lifeforms not as cohabitants that should be afforded protection rights equal to our own, but as resources that exist solely for our benefit. Not only is this attitude detrimental to the well-being of those entities unfortunate enough to live alongside us, but also to the planet more generally; and thus ultimately also to ourselves as a species.
Nonetheless, as pressing as the ecological crisis may be, I prefer to avoid sensationalism; instead favoring a more understated photographic approach. In reality most environments I visit today display clear signs of the damage caused by humans, hence there is no need to shock the audience into action by concentrating on extreme cases. In practice this means that I neither deliberately seek out signs of environmental destruction, nor try to avoid, hide, remove, or delete them from my work by digital or other means.
Rather, I try to highlight environmental issues in an objective and non-politicized manner, in the hope that the viewer will form her or his own conclusions. I like to think that the result is an unromantic and matter-of-fact portrayal of the natural world as it is today; beautiful, but nonetheless scarred. A portrayal that subtly underlines all that we stand to loose if we don’t take immediate and far-reaching steps to change our violently unsustainable way of life.