Wednesday, 27 June 2012

Tamara Dean

'This too shall pass'.
Tamara Dean's exploration of spirituality through staged photographs. Shot mainly on decaying urban locations, Sydney morphs into a world where nature threatens to claw back control. The beautiful and ephemeral nature of the locations echo one of documentary photography's central concerns - to record our visual history before it disappears. The women Dean depicts in these images are her friends, family and acquaintances - strong women, who she feels navigate their place in an ambiguous world.