Tamara Dean est née à Sydney, Australie, en 1976. Elle a étudié la photographie à l'Ecole des Beaux Arts, a obtenu un diplôme de l'université de Sydney, spécialité Design. Elle est actuellement basée à Sydney où elle travaille comme photographe salariée pour le Sydney Morning Herald. En 2002 Tamara Dean a intégré Oculi, une agence formée en 2001 par 9 photographes "se consacrant à éclairer la vie quotidienne et les histoires souvent négligées par les grands médias". Son travail personnel fouille les sous cultures australiennes, les problématiques sociales et la pratique du portrait. Elle a été exposée dans les plus importantes galeries australiennes, dont l'Australian Centre For Photography (ACP), l'Art Gallery of NSW, la Stills South Gallery, la Byron Mapp Gallery, Customs House, Photo Technica Gallery et la Blender Gallery. Le travail de Tamara Dean fait partie des collections de l'ACP, la Bibliothèque Nationale de New South Wales, le Fuji ACMP Australian Photographers Collection 9, l'AMP (City of Sydney 'Art and About') et de collections privées. En 2005 et 2008, elle a été choisie pour une résidence d'artiste par la galerie d'art régionale Bathurst dans le village isolé de chercheurs d'or Hill End, dans le NSW, Australie.
Ladies and gentlemen, grab your partners and take to the floor for the Dance Issue...
We're a bit behind schedule again, for which we can only offer our humble apologies. Part of the reason is that it has taken us quite a long time to accumulate a good, strong set of relevant stories. We're happy to admit that we inadvertently made life more difficult for ourselves this time around by opting for such a specific theme. There are, after all, only so many ways to interpret the word 'dance'. But you live and learn and in future we shall endeavor to pick broad-ranging themes that are open to a much wider variety of interpretations, (on which note: the theme for the next issue is 'memory').
Despite this self-imposed handicap, we have still managed to gather a fascinating diversity of material, including a beautiful set o...
Donna Bailey, James Brickwood, Tamara Dean, Jesse Marlow, Nick Moir, Jeremy Piper, Andrew Quilty, Dean Sewell, Steven Siewert, Tamara Voninski...
You can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your family.
From the tight nuclear unit to the multi-generational extended family, from refuges for the homeless to middle class suburbia, Inheritance examines the way our families shape the person we become; for better or for worse.
Taking Tracey Moffatt’s acclaimed series Scarred for Life as a starting point, the exhibition includes the work of eleven Australian artists who explore the modern family through a range of photographic disciplines, including documentary, portraiture and video. Sometimes serious and sometimes satirical, Inheritance is a family album that celebrates the skeletons and the psychodramas alongside the newborns and the nuptials....