nathalie latham: The National Portrait Gallery show in Australia

I just got these images in this morning from the National Portrait Gallery.
Photographs done by a local photographer David Paterson, (DORIAN Photographics).

For those who couldn't make it - this is the exterior (love those Australian sunsets!)

Entrance with Copenhagen based musicians :
Pete Morrison and Tonya Lemoh.

Entrance with snaps of all those Australian artists living around the world.

I photographed and interviewed over 100 Australian artists
who at one stage decided to pack their bags and head out to other shores
where their work would gather a different resonance/ response.
Some returned. Most didn't.

The exhibition included photography, and video
(both a projection room and a video stack).

All the photos are in black and white,
each artist is photographed in their favourite location.

I photographed and interviewed Australian artists based in cities :
Amsterdam, Beijing, Berlin, Copenhagen, London, Los Angeles, New York, Shanghai.

The series took six years.
I feel like I am doing the voice over of a the-making-of-dvd...

This is the back wall of the Gallery - the second shot to the left is Geoffrey Batchen,
wonderful photographic historian based in New York.
He wrote a powerful introduction to ze book.

The book is worth reading. And I don't say that because it's my work but because it's a great documentation of a bunch of talented people of my generation who received a great education and absorbed an extraordinary landscape growing up in Australian and chose to practise their art globally.