Jeudi 30 Avril 2015 10:24:42 par Clarisse Treilles dans Expositions

Travel from Los Angeles to West Africa, from a heavy-metal moshpit to the nexus of photographic past and future. From 30 April to 11 May, GAFFA will be a veritable chimera of photographic talents and experiences.

Festival Crowd, by Sydney's rising star of photography Nic Bezzina, explores the power of music as an international and intergenerational experience. Spanning five years, five countries, and eleven unique music festivals, this series explores the physiological, kinetic, emotional, cognitive and behavioral potency of music.Forgoing the traditional focus upon the band inwards to the festival-goers, Bezzina captures the centrality of live-music to generations of festival-goers as an experience and right of passage alike.

Digging The Future exposes the darker side of gold. Matjaz Krivic travelled to Bani in Burkina Faso to document the gold mines and their inhabitants between 2012 and 2015. While the price of gold, Bani's most abundant resource, plummets, populations in Burkina Faso and West Africa rise. This manual labour is fraught with risk, from collapsing shafts to exposure to toxins, heavy metals and dust. Every increasingly deep shaft poisons the soil around it and those digging, hurting future generations physically and economically. Krivic deftly dismantles the expectation that mining gold will lead to a future as bright as the substance itself.

© Matjaž Krivic

Desert Ink is a tale of eight Mexican tattoo artists from the wrong side of the tracks, who following their love of art and tattooing found the will to change. With identities forged in street furnaces of gang banging, shoot outs, drug dealing and jail time, this band of men crafted new identities, forming a new type of gang, united by art and their determination to earn a decent living, rising from the trappings of their nefarious past lives.

© Jonathan May