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August 3, 2011
The Ballarat International Foto Biennale 2011 runs from 20th August to 18th September 2011. A photographer in the Core Programme is Tony Whincup from Waikato New Zealand. An Associate Professor and Head of School, Visual and Material Culture at Massey University.
Tony Whincup, trainers, from Play Grounds
It appears from the BIFB website that the work to be shown at the Biennale is his Play grounds series rather than from his more academic ethnographic work. The latter is part of the shift (reflexive turn) in social science that both pictures the social landscape, visualizes the social world, and incorporates visual images in texts that interpret our social world.
My own interest is with his water on water series:
Tony Whincup, storm, from the water on water series
i relate to this work, not just because of my work at Victor Harbor, but because it recognizes that we are sighted beings and that seeing comes before words. It is seeing that establishes our embodied place in the world
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