Exhibitions by Nathan David Kelly

Cairns To The Cape: A Photographic Journey

Cairns Regional Gallery

26th of July - 31st Of August 2008

Cairns To the Cape; A Photographic Journey started off as an idea, an excuse to go wandering, to talk to those I didn’t know and see what is up the road and around the corner.

The series of images created during these wanderings is only a small portion of a much larger ongoing series of work.

Several landscapes will be displayed many of which were created using a compact Zeiss Ikon camera that is some 50 years old. The reason for using the camera is to slow the image making process, to make you think about the composition of the image more...the camera also creates a shallow depth of field making the images appear a little dreamlike.

The most striking images in the show are the portraits of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander dancers created at The Laura Dance Festival. The portraits were shot using a makeshift black backdrop strung between two trees at the dance ground and using only available light. The results however look as though they were taken in a studio.

More Info from Cairns Regional Gallery

Australian Traveller Magazine Exhibition Link

Exhibition Invite

Cairns Eye Article

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