Face Value - Photographic Portrait Exhibition
Thu, 14 Nov
|Glimmer Photography (inside Genesis Gym)
The first round of portraits from my Face Value Project, exploring connection to places which are represented by Antique and Vintage postage stamp elements.
Time & Location
14 Nov 2024, 6:00 pm – 17 Nov 2024, 5:00 pm
Glimmer Photography (inside Genesis Gym), 211 Hawthorn Rd, Caulfield North VIC 3161, Australia
Guests
About the event
I started working on this project in April 2023 after coming across a vintage stamp album in my late father's belongings. This album contains stamps from as early as the 1860s and has been beautifully annotated over the years. It was started by either my grandfather or great grandfather.
The stamps captivated me with their beauty and narratives. I found it fascinating how these stamps held historical significance, representing places that had undergone various transformations like name changes, border shifts, changes in allegiances, independence movements, or marked specific moments in time, such as wartime occupations. I have been using these stamps to categorise the diverse range of stamps in the collection, spanning from republics to kingdoms, from the Vatican to Monaco, and everything in between.
My approach involved reaching out to individuals with intriguing stories to feature in portraits, incorporating elements from the stamps into the final artwork. The process…