image: Harry Burmeister
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Abby Gray
VULNERABLE is an immersive experience of visual and emotional rhythm, movement, sound, and light. Vulnerability is power. Power is gained through relationships and connections with other people, which is grounded in the ability and willingness to be vulnerable. The work
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Adrian J. Song
Recipient of the Kallman Feitel Endowment and the World Centred Award: The Perimeter Books Award. _________________________________ WHISPERING A SECRET INTO A SEALED BAG explores what Édouard Glissant describes as the ‘right to opacity’. The book presents itself, both in form
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Al-Hayya Siddiqui
ROOH OF PAKISTAN Encapsulating the essence of Pakistan with its traditional cuts, meticulous craftsmanship and vivacious colours, each edit from this collection draws inspiration from the rich Pakistani culture and heritage bound to make you look classy and stylish. Rooh
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Alexander Munday
LIGHT, SHADOW, AND OTHER SOUNDS is a body of multi-media work that explores the symbiotic relationship between image and sound. Presented in the considered form of a classic CD digipak, the work combines photography, sound art, music and graphic design
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Alicia Lo
VICARIOUS YOUTH is a street photography series, that depicts the psychological struggles of adolescents attempting to reintegrate into the cacophony of the post-lockdown world. It explores the idea of experiencing youth through the captured moments of others. This voyeuristic approach emulates
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Amy McGrath
AFTER SCHOOL is a reflection of youth culture and adolescence, the moments between childhood and adulthood that are chaotic, and formative. Based on memory, experience and observations, the lighthearted scenes suggest freedom, pleasure and excitement for what is to come.
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Anthony Hart
Recipient of the Client Centred Award: Sun Studios Award and the Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence, Bachelor of Arts (Photography) sponsored by Arten Framing. _________________________________ THE JOURNEY OF CHOCOLATE is made up of seven handmade chocolate slides, each designed to create
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Bohan Gao
EMBRACE To me, art has always been a form of therapy. I have found that the work that I create often is a mystery to me, as I follow the journey which my work takes me through. The meaning slowly
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Bren White
Recipient of the Kallman Feitel Endowment and the Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence, Bachelor of Arts (Photography) Highly Commended. _________________________________ BLUE is a visual and written exploration of the self, following an adult ADHD and ASD diagnosis and coming to an
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Caleb Elliott
DATA CYMATIC explores the fluidity of digital data through the creation of visuals and sound and their connectivity. Audio-reactive connections between a combination of renders and source imagery have been coded to the sound source to rip the visual data
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Chelsea Lee
THE PAIN OF LOVE REMOVED is an art-based project by Chelsea Lee Picken exploring discourses of sexual dysphoria, contemporary gender issues as a form of therapy to reconcile with her own being. Combining written passages with intimate black and white
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Daniel Walton
OCEAN CULTURES is a photo documentary of my personal journey in finding a connection towards the ocean. This documentary investigates the perspectives of different maritime figures such as fishermen, shipwrights, and maritime curators to learn from their lived experiences and to
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Eloise Beath
UNDEFINED Utilising a combination of self-portraiture, social media screenshots, archival photography and handwritten reflections from personal journals, Eloise explores the disenchantment of love and modern dating with honesty and a sense of humour. With UNDEFINED, she deconstructs the idyllic narratives
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Emily Short
GRANDMA’S WARDROBE is an exploration of Australian fashion throughout history. Using vintage clothing that corresponds to specific dates and eras, a timeline of fashion is thus laid out. Ten decades have been explored, with their distinct styles and trends showcasing
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Emma Bramich
THE VALLEY OF YELLOW FIRE sits in the Latrobe region, settled between mountain ranges in South-East Australia. The coal industry has dominated the region for almost a century, supplying energy across the state from three power stations: Yallourn, Loy Yang,
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Emma Rothberg
NEOMA: NEW MOON (Greek origin) Time is abstract. Time is constantly moving forward. Time is fluid. This project documents the abstract nature of time and the visual cues that remind us of time passing. Everywhere around us, time flows, leaves
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Gabriel Orloff
REWORKING LANDSCAPES The following imagery has been produced on Boon Wurrung, Wadda Wurrung, Woi Wurrung and Latji Latji lands of the Eastern and Western Kulin nations. I acknowledge these language groups to be the traditional owners of the land and
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George Downing
HOUSE OF WAX comments on reproduction and re-appropriation. I am re-appropriating horror films that have either been remade or were heavily influenced by other films. The images focus on themes of the uncanny (castration, double, involuntary repetition and animistic conceptions of
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Grace Allen
Recipient of the Baillot & Balfour Endowment. _________________________________ HEAVENLY CREATURES is a photographic project exploring alternative methods of representing the female body in fashion photography. The commercially-inspired photographs accentuate rather than hide aspects of the female body that society deems
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Grace Robinson
BEHIND THE GRAPHICS – UNDER THE HOOD is the photographic exploration of the typically unseen light of infrared photography and the enhancement of graphic design and its power to completely alter traditional elements of photography while expressing the use of
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Harry Burmeister
Recipient of the Robyn Beeche Award. _________________________________ OF STRANGE WEATHER Born of the 1924 Manifesto of Surrealism, ‘Breton demanded that a work of surrealist art should be a window through which the viewer could look upon some inner landscape of
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He Yang
ESSENCE innovatively inherits traditional Chinese aesthetics through the fusion of colour and gesture. In Chinese Taoism, nothingness is transformed into points, points into lines, lines into surfaces, and surfaces into solid space that presents and contains everything. The soul
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James Jenkinson
A POSTCARD TO AOTEAROA (New Zealand) is a series of images exploring the emancipating concept of escapism, but consequential from the misfortune of not being able to return home, due to lockdown restrictions in Melbourne at the time. Jenkinson, who originally
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Jamin Walsh Menegazzo
Recipient of the Art Centred Award: The Centre for Contemporary Photography Award. _________________________________ IT WILL BE BEAUTIFUL is a series that probes the female experience, as informed by our subconscious mind. Recurring themes of surrealism and the human body in disarray are
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Jennifer Walker
UNTITLED My major project is a fictionalised miniature world based in the 1950s exploring themes of traditional domesticity, loneliness, and the mundane. Using a tableaux style of photography, I created a narrative within a miniature set in 1:12 scale, that
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Jiajia Hu
SUNSET DREAMING We all dream, day or night. Sunset dreams can represent the beginning of a new phase in life, readiness for a fresh start, and the promise of a new beginning. As mentioned in the Bible, in the book
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Jorja Nichols
ELEMENTS consists of a collection of images documenting rural landscapes, concentrating on capturing the landscape as it encounters a diverse range of elements, which occur as a consequence of the weather. The weather in which a certain photograph is captured, has
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Josh Bowker
LITTLE LON MEDIA CAMPAIGN
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Karmen Gibson
ROSE is a diaristic piece looking at Alzheimer’s disease, memory, delusions and narrative, telling the story of my Nana, Rose, and her experience with Alzheimer’s disease from an outsider’s perspective. Detailing the visible disorientation, frustration, guilt, and the tender moments where
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Leo Spyrou
SPECTRUM The aim of Spectrum was to increase awareness of the struggles and what it is like living on the spectrum and to portray us as normal people and in a positive light and as ‘normal’ as possible because often
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Maud Freeman
AN IMAGE OF: An Image That Looks Like Other Images General Significant Images draws on Vilém Flusser’s concept of the technical image, which he defined as ‘…an image produced by apparatuses. As apparatuses themselves are the products of applied scientific texts,
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Michaela Fernando
Recipient of the Client Centred Award: The Brownbill Effect Award. _________________________________ FAMILY FAVOURITES Welcome to Family Favourites. This project is a family cookbook that contains recipes from both my parents and food that I have grown up with throughout my
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Monique De Bono
THROUGH THE AGES In this body of work, I aim to create photographs that encapsulate what an individual’s work area would look like in various eras and decades—whether it’s kitchen/wash area, study/den area–by perusing antique stores and op shops to
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Nathan Harbutt
THE FILING CABINET IN THE BACK OF MY MIND I struggle to share my feelings, even with those close to me. The title of this body of work refers to the metaphorical filing cabinet in my mind that holds all
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Nick Timson
STOMPING GROUND is a documentation of the diverse and unpredictable electronic music scene of Naarm (Melbourne). It focuses on who considers themselves part of the scene, what they’re wearing, how they dance and what keeps the events running. The project
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Rani Bartholomeusz
Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence, Bachelor of Arts (Photography) Sponsored by Sun Studios. WATER AND LIGHT My body of work explores light and water’s relationship with the sublime. Looking at various bodies of water, I capture how different lighting can manipulate
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Renee Coster
Recipient of the Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence, Bachelor of Arts (Photography) Highly Commended. _________________________________ PURE INTENTIONS investigates the implications and complexities of purity culture and considers the intersection and contradictions of ideology and desire. Purity culture promotes conservative religious teachings
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Sophie Spence
In this work, histories of the Convent of the Good Shepherd (Abbotsford) are visualised. Experiences of the Convent are vast, complex and many of them painful. Each image is a speculative retelling, based on traces of conversations with women who
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Steven Charles
PHOTOBOOK CAPTURING RMIT SCHOOL OF ART STUDENTS, FEATURING INDIVIDUAL PROFILES OF THEIR PRACTICE. instagram.com/steven.charles.photography
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Vasilios Argiropoulos
URBAN TIME I have always been influenced by the world of both photography and advertising. Having completed two years of this course online during a global pandemic, I was intrigued by how companies were adapting to the new climate and
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Veronica Purcell
NO NAMES // IMPRESSIONS MADE The concept of immortalisation, of leaving an impact after death, a proof of existence, is something so specifically human. Like graveyards and museums, books or photography. ‘The bush’ exists outside of that, in a constant
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Zachariah Micallef
LATENT HALIDE The core mechanisms of the photographic process involve a blank medium exposed to external phenomena in order to record an event. Traditionally, light alone is given the sole role in representation despite other phenomena playing an important role