Bronek Kozka, the Melbourne-based photographer and a lecturer at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (university), has been confirmed for the Turner Galleries in North Perth during FotoFreo 2012 as part of the core programme of the Festival.

His photography also explore the notion of suburbia using as reference points ‘suburbian’ imagery from movies, commercials and advertising. He is interested in the disparity between how suburbia is shown through these mediums and to people’s own memory of growing up in suburbia.

The suburban landscape, be it outdoors or interiors, is the staging ground for the “re-enactments” that often appear to be cinema based in that they are carefully constructed tableaus, cast with actors playing their various roles, propped and lit, with every detail considered and controlled.

Kozka says the EH Holden image:

appears on the surface to be a very natural scene when in fact, it is a little too perfect, like a dream. The way the light falls and the green foliage. A perfect mood surrounds the couple in the car, parked on the steely grey of the wet road... it is, of course a recollection, it is a memory. EH Holden draws on my memory and the collective memory of the freedom my first car gave me. It is a freedom, out of sight and control of parents. On one level, this image celebrates freedom, on another level; there is a sense of melancholy and regret, both inescapable outcomes of freedom.