Snap Blak Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island photography from the Collection

Naomi Hobson, Kaantju/Umpila peoples, Australia b.1978 / Road play

Naomi Hobson, Kaantju/Umpila peoples, Australia b.1978 / Road play "She told Mum she was taking me for a ride down the road but she not." Laine. (from 'Adolescent Wonderland' series) 2019 / Archival inkjet print on 310gsm cotton rag art paper / 74 x 108cm / Purchased 2021. QAGOMA Foundation / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art / © Naomi Hobson / View full image

When

30 Aug 2025 – 6 Apr 2026

Where

Gallery of Modern Art, Gallery 3.5 (Margaret Mittelheuser AM and Cathryn Mittelheuser AM Galleries)

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.