Exhibition: Angela LYNKUSHKA - Now that I am a man I can go to war February 28, 2008

to be opened by
Jason Smith
Director, MGA
3.00pm Saturday 01 March, 2007

Angela Lynkushka's photography is a collaboration between the subject, the medium and the artist. Believing in the transformative power of the photograph Lynkushka turns the camera onto young men that she has known over many years. The results are a revealing and intimate portrayal of the relationship between the photographer and her subject.

Angela Lynkushka works in the genre of documentary photography, chronicling contemporary Australian life; recording people in their environment and culture.

Recent projects have included a photographic collection of Gippsland Aboriginal Elders commissioned by the State Library of Victoria. The exhibition Dreaming in English, a Portrait of the Melbourne Jewish Community 1989 - 2006, shown in the Beth Hatefutsoth Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, Tel Aviv.

Lynkushka is represented in major collections throughouth Australia and internationally, including the Australian National Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art Library in New York and the Beth Hatefutsoth Museum of the Jewish Diaspora in Israel.


Angela LYNKUSHKA
Now that I am a man I can go to war
2005
chromogennic print

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