Publisher's Description
Works from Australia’s leading photographers
Oculi Photography Group
‘As a collective, we made a real point of documenting our homeland – its sensitivities, its great
brutalist elements, the light that has scorched and battered this land for millennia.’ – Dean Sewell
This stunning anthology of 250 photographs marks ten years
since the formation of the acclaimed Oculi photographic
collective.
From apocalyptic representations of drought and fire-ravaged
landscapes to intimate yet haunting portraits of young
parenthood, Oculi’s ten multi-award winning photographers
vividly explore the intersection of the human condition and the
urban and rural environment in Australia and beyond.
This superbly produced book features works from Australia’s leading photographers including Donna
Bailey, Tamara Dean, Jesse Marlow, Dean Sewell, Nick Moir, Steven Siewert, Andrew Quilty, James
Brickwood, Tamara Voninski and Jeremy Piper.
Oculi is a powerful photographic study of our time.
Oculi' is a survey that charters the first ten years of the Australian documentary photographic
collective Oculi - an examination of the geo-political and social landscape of Australia and our regional
neighbours throughout the first decade of the 21st Century. It addresses the social implications of the
new globalised economy of which we are part as well as the environmental consequences exerted by
climate change, as well as Australian youth cultures, subcultures, social rituals and the human
condition. 'Oculi' explores the broadest gamet of photographic documentary genres including street
photography, photojournalism, press photography, portraiture, social/environmental documentary,
still life and embraces contemporary and fine art practice.
Read Tom Leininger's review of
Oculi in photo-eye Magazine.
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