THE LANGUAGE OF LIGHT: RICKY MAYNARD
The Language of Light
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22m
00:22:30|Australia|Directed byFiona Cochrane
An Indigenous Tasmanian photographer, Ricky started as a darkroom technician at the age of 16. In viewing the racist treatment of Indigenous people in the past via colonial photos, Ricky started questioning the photographer’s role, the influence of the image in society and its persuasive power. It changed the way he viewed and made pictures: “this misrepresentation of Australia’s first nation people became a lifelong pursuit of providing insight into a tragic past and providing a profound, in-depth personal interpretation rooted in my own Aboriginal experience.” Ricky also struggled with alcoholism along the way and says that photography saved his life.
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