Wednesday, July 04, 2018

"Rod McNicol: Portraits from my Village" & "Tsuka: An Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Photography" (CCP)

Rod McNicol's 'village' is Fitzroy and Collingwood, and the portraits range from the 80s to today, with much of the interest arising from the changes over that time. Liked these.


There were several amongst the contemporary Japanese photography exhibition that I liked, though as a whole it was thornier and more difficult than I'd anticipated/hoped. Favourites were Mayumi Suzuki's hazy "The Restoration Will" series (2015) and Go Itami's interesting, large-format 'photocopies' (2018), some of which reminded me, in a fairly ineffable way, of Andreas Gursky.



(w/ R)