Out of the Frame : Conversations about Photography

This episode of Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography features guest artist Tamara Dean talking to host Pia Johnson about their photographic practice and her exploration of ideas on humanity and the passages of time within our environments. Tamara Dean is a critically acclaimed photo media artist working in photography, installation and moving image. Her practice explores our connectio...

This episode of Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography features guest artist Kirsten Garner Lyttle talking to host Pia Johnson about her photography practice, ancestors and archives, considering indigenous knowledges and perspectives. Dr Kirsten Garner Lyttle is a Māori Australian academic, and creative practice-led researcher (Waka: Tainui; Hapū: Ngāti Tahinga) who has exhibited her wo...

This episode of Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography features guest artist Hanna Moon talking to host Pia Johnson about their fashion photography, personal projects and being rebellious. Hanna Moon is an artist, photographer and creative interlocutor, born in South Korea, and based in London. Her first critically-acclaimed contribution to fashion culture was her launch of A Nice Magaz...

This episode of Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography features guest artist Minami Ivory talking to host Pia Johnson about their artistic practice and self-portraiture, personal stories and trauma. Minami Ivory is a photographic artist based in Tasmania, Australia. Born and raised in Hokkaido, Japan, she moved to Australia at the age of fifteen. Her practice blends analogue and digital...

This is a special episode for the group exhibition Refusal / Futurity at Platform Arts, Geelong. Exhibition dates: SAT 10 MAY—FRI 11 JUL 2025 Curated by Jody Haines, Refusal / Futurity is a group exhibition of contemporary women's self-portraiture, exploring how the artists use lens-based media as a tool and mechanism to subvert the colonial, western and patriarchal gaze. The exhibition features E...

This episode of Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography features guest artist Katrin Koenning talking to host Pia Johnson about photography as a process and the idea of drawing closer. Katrin Koenning’s work centres around practice as relational encounter. In extended image-dialogues, Katrin uses fragments and slippages to suggest narrative spaces, communities and lived experiences that...

This episode of Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography features guest artist Matt Dunne talking to host Pia Johnson about photographing nature and seeing beyond the immediate story, as well as all things about publishing photobooks for Tall Poppy Press. Matt Dunne is an artist whose work explores Australia’s environment as a product of colonial legacy. Using photography and research as...

This episode of Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography features guest artist Isabella Capezio talking to host Pia Johnson about their practice covering ideas about queering the landscape, bodies and making photographs in the darkroom. Isabella Capezio is a photographer, artist and a lecturer in Photography in the School of Art at RMIT. Isabella’s research and artwork engages in themes o...

This episode of Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography features guest artist Lesley Turnbull talking to host Pia Johnson about her practice, notions of growing up a tomboy, being a lesbian and photographing the Scottish landscape. Lesley is a Scottish Australian artist and teacher with a research-based art practice that investigates photo-based practices, performance, creative writing,...

This episode of Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography features guest artist Emma Phillips talking to host Pia Johnson about her love of photographing people, being a feminist and advocating for the sexy-selfie. Emma Phillips is a photographer and researcher/lecturer in Visual Communication with the University of Canberra. Her work uses photographic methodologies which foreground the re...

This episode of Out of the Frame : Conversations about Photography features guest photographer Kate Robertson talking to host Pia Johnson about how she engages with community and landscape with authentic connection and mindfulness. Through experimental analogue and digital photographic techniques, Kate explores unseen yet felt phenomena relating to healing and connectedness within environmental co...

This episode of Out of the Frame : Conversations about Photography features guest photographer Sarah Anderson talking to host Pia Johnson about how she manages clients, works on collaborative projects and is a creative problem solver. With a love of visual stories, Sarah’s experience spans across food & beverage, interiors and architecture. A practical problem solver, Sarah helps clients bring...

This episode of Out of the Frame : Conversations about Photography features guest artist Zoë Croggon talking to host Pia Johnson about how she uses collage, the body, dance and the material through her art practice. Melbourne based Zoë Croggon works with sculpture, video, drawing and primarily, collage. Her practice considers the relationship between the kinetic body and its surroundings, contempl...

This episode of Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography features 3 interviews with guest artists from the Photo2024 Festival : Clifford Prince King, Elyssia Wilson-Heti (FAFSWAG) and Sunil Gupta with Charan Singh , talking about queer voices in photography. Follow them on @cliffordprinceking, @elyssiaw, @fafswag, @sunilgupta7402, @random_access01 and Pia on @piajohnsonphotography If you'...

This episode of Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography features guest artist Jody Haines talking to host Pia Johnson about her practice as a lens-based artist, portraiture and yarning. Jody Haines (palawa) is a contemporary artist based in Naarm/Melbourne. She is known for her unique art practice, which combines elements of social practice, photomedia, and public art. Her approach is de...

This episode of Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography features guest artists from the Photo2024 Festival , Isadora Romero, Jemima Wyman and Carmen Winant talking about photography as activism. Isadora Romero is an Ecuadorian photographer and visual storyteller based in Quito. Her work is a frontier between documentary and art photography, focusing on social justice and environmental is...

This episode of Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography features guest artist Morganna Magee talking to host Pia Johnson about her practice as a photographer and themes of grief, melancholy and the darkness. Morganna is based in Melbourne, Australia, living and working on the unceded land of the Bunurong/Boonwurrung people of the Kulin Nations. Her practice explores human relations to th...

This episode of Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography features guest Brisbane based photographer Tammy Law talking to host Pia Johnson about her practice as a documentary art photographer. Tammy is an Asian Australian photographer whose practice speaks to issues of migration and diaspora; revealing the complexities of displacement and the emotional, psychological and physical dislocati...

This episode of Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography features guest artist Shannon McGrath talking to host Pia Johnson about her love of interiors, architecture and photography. Shannon has been photographing architecture and interior design works for 25 years. Her images are known for their beautiful portrayal of light and form, with a soft realism that celebrates the subject matter....

This episode of Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography features guest artist Torika Bolatagici talking to host Pia Johnson about her practice, bodies and photography. Torika is a Fijian-Australian artist, writer and academic working across multiple disciplines including photography, video, installation, publication, and curation. Her work explores the social, cultural and political move...

This first episode for Out of the Frame : Conversations about Photography and features guest photographer Rebecca Nadjowski talking to host Pia Johnson about her practice, the landscape and photography. Rebecca (b. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA) is an American/Australian artist whose work examines imaging technologies, the mediation of nature, and visualizations of the climate emergency. Follow Rebecc...