Currently living, studying and working in Brisbane, documentary practitioner Kelly Hussey-Smith is interested in sharing human experiences through photography and storytelling. Kelly regularly exhibits work nationally and internationally and has won numerous awards and grants for her work including the Churchie National Emerging Art Award, and was selected for the Institute of Modern Art’s Fresh Cut show for her Caged series in 2010. Currently completing post graduate study at the Queensland College of Art - exploring the impacts [...]

Belinda Kochanowska interviews Alison Brady. Alison Brady is an established international photographic artist based in New York. Her work is characterised by psychological themes, which deliberately prompt a cognitive dissonance in a viewer. Brady adopts devices such as humour, horror, the grotesque and the bizarre. Brady has described her work as “constructive imagery, because there is no before and after in my images; the work is so much about the [...]

EJ Canita interviews Michael Cook. How did you start your career in photography and what or who got you into it? My brother gave me my first camera (a Chinon) when I was 14. I started in mini labs for a few years after leaving school and continued into a pro colour darkroom for a further 6 years. The lab I worked in also had a studio where I started [...]

Lynette Letic interviews Raphaela Rosella. Last year’s winner of QCP’s Youngblood Editions Raphaela Rosella answers some questions in regards to her background in photography, her Honours projects and future plans. What attracted you to study and practice photography? Was it an interest that developed over time? I can’t remember what attracted me to the practice, but from a young age I always wanted to be a photographer. My earliest memories [...]

Lynette Letic interviews Sean Davey. How did you begin your career in photography? In 1999 I was working as a sound recordist in the Press Gallery at Parliament House in Canberra. The Fairfax photographers there let me do some work experience with them and they also let me use their processors to develop my film. I applied for a traineeship with Fairfax in 2000 and, rather luckily, was taken on. [...]

Belinda Kochanowska interviews ANU students in relation to their exhibition #Bombala at QCP. Set with the task of documenting the small New South Wales high-country town of Bombala, third year Photomedia students from the ANU School of Art engaged in several field trips between March and May, 2013. They subsequently curated the #Bombala exhibition for the QCP Window Gallery based on what each artist determined to be symptomatic of the [...]

Belinda Kochanowska interviews Sophie Richards. Sophie Richards’ work is an intimate, personal documentary shot predominately on film. Polly Borland has described Sophie Richards work as “highly personal and beautifully rendered with a freshness”. At just 20 years old, Sophie won the prestigious Qantas Spirit of Youth Australia award. Sophie has completed a Bachelor of Photography degree at the Queensland College of Art and is currently undertaking her honours year and [...]

Lynette Letic interviews Anna Carey. Living and working on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Anna Carey’s practice overlaps both photography and sculpture. With memory and recall as the only reference of permanency, she interweaves model making, drawing and photography to create fictive architectural spaces from her immediate urban environment, the Gold Coast. Anna discusses her interest in model making, her publication of Mirage, and her plans for the year ahead. How [...]

Maurice Ortega interviews Steve Reinstein. Steve Reinstein is a collector of photography based in Los Angeles. He holds the work of two Australian artists, Marian Drew and Murray McKeich, among many other international photographers. This interview provides a background to the exhibition Treasures: the art of collecting, currently showing at the Queensland Centre for Photography. How did you develop an interest in the arts? I grew up in Manhattan, the [...]