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November 28, 2011
Whilst I was in Melbourne I visited the Centre of Contemporary Photography and their documentary photography exhibition, which is a biennial showcase of contemporary Australian documentary photography.
I was impressed by Thomas Breakwell’s suburban-fringe Squats. People are absent from the frame, but the plastic chairs, car tyres, junk food packets, clothing and other detritus they have left in small clearings beneath the trees form a strange, allusive portrait of sorts.
Thomas Breakwell, untitled, Squats
Breakwell is a Melbourne based photographer who came out of RMIT . the work was done on a Toya Field 45AII large-format field camera. He has published some books.
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