Snap Blak Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island photography
Tony Albert, Girramay/Yidinyji/Kuku Yalanji peoples, Queensland Australia b.1981 / David C Collins, Australia b.1988 / Kieran Smythe-Jackson, Ngaanyatjarra people, Australia b.2005 / Kieran Lawson, Ngaanyatjarra people, Australia b.2006 / Timira Nelson, Ngaanyatjarra people, Australia b.2009 / Renisha Ward-Yates, Ngaanyatjarra people, Australia b.2007 / Nikisha Nelson, Ngaanyatjarra people, Australia b.2007 / Brittany Malbunka Reid, Ngaanyatjarra people, Australia b.2007 / Karni Mitchell, Ngaanyatjarra people, Australia b.2006 / Warakurna Superheroes (series) 2017 / Archival pigment print on paper / Seven sheets: 100 x 150cm (each) / Gift of the artists through the QAGOMA Foundation 2018 / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art / © Tony Albert/Copyright Agency / View full image
When
30 Aug 2025 – 13 Sep 2026
Where
Gallery of Modern Art, Gallery 3.5 (Margaret Mittelheuser AM and Cathryn Mittelheuser AM Galleries)
Admission
Free
About
'Snap Blak' brings together dynamic examples of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island photography that champion Indigenous self-representation, with assertions of visual sovereignty that resist prevalent stereotypes and re-present their people.
Throughout ‘Snap Blak’ each photograph both subverts the settler-colonial legacy of photography of Indigenous people as an instrument of disempowerment and misrepresentation; while asserting identity, cultural continuity and belonging.
Michael Cook, Bidjara people, Australia b.1968 / Broken Dreams #2 2010 / Pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Bright White 310gsm paper / 124 x 100cm / Gift of Andrew Clouston through the QAGOMA Foundation 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art / © Michael Cook / View full image
