THE LANGUAGE OF LIGHT: MEREDITH O’SHEA
The Language of Light
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22m
00:23:00|Australia|Directed by Fiona Cochrane
Born into a working class family in Melbourne, Meredith’s father chose to move them to very outer suburban greenery and freedom. She preferred horse-riding to school, but became interested in film and photography. She was scooped up by THE AGE as soon as they saw her folio, and they have been her main employer for the last 2 decades. She creates most of her own story concepts for the newspaper and believes her working class background allows her to relate more easily to her subjects – she covers difficult issues and engages with her subjects at a profound level of intimacy, revealing hauntingly beautiful photographs of her subjects at their most vulnerable. And then there are the beautiful photos of her children, which she started taking during COVID
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00:26:57| Australia|Directed by Fiona Cochrane
Seven different Australian photographers, each with a significant body of work and each with a different photographic style: Emmanuel Santos is an art and documentary photographer.
Born on an island in the Philippines, Emmanuel was a photographer...