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By: Damien Worst
Date: 31st May 06
Medium: Photography
Drink: Long neck in a paper bag
What:
Identity Uncut: a selection of self portraits
Where:
Citylights, Hosier Lane, Melbourne
When:
Opening 6-8pm June 1
until July 13
How much:
Free
It kind of sounds like Jamie’s Kitchen but with cameras and no pukka accent. Over the past 12 weeks, 10 at risk young Melbournians have been slugging it out as part of a photography course at the Centre of Contemporary Photography (CCP).
Organised by Open Family, the project was designed to give kids who’ve had their share of tough times instruction in digital photography, plus the chance to exhibit their pictures to the entire city.
Running for six weeks in Hosier Lane, Identity Uncut profiles work created during the course, touching on themes of self-identity, but not necessarily through direct portraits. From hyper-colour ‘Fruitloops’ to the quiet isolation of a jumbled room, the snapshots themselves are raw and talented expressions of a life few have experienced first-hand.