A free exhibition of photographs by Kathryn McCool opens at the Centre for Contemporary Photography in Melbourne on 26 October and will run until 14 December 2024.
One of the images from the ‘P.North’ exhibition. © Kathryn McCool.
Kathryn McCool is a New-Zealand-born photographer who has lived and worked in Australia since 1994. The images in the exhibition were taken in the late 1980s and early 1990s, as Kathryn McCool neared the end of her teenage years, using black-and-white film with a Rolleiflex camera. With little photographic experience, McCool set out to photograph her community, friends and family. The result is a set of unguarded, simple and eerie images. Exhibited in its entirety for the first time, ‘P.North’ doesn’t refer to a place but rather to a dreamlike and dislocated moment in time. McCool’s work shows shopkeepers, youths, churchgoers, young children and animals populating the nondescript landscapes of sleepy small towns amidst strangely loaded backdrops. All works in this exhibition were printed by Peter Hatzipavlis at Final Grade Printing on Hahnemühle PhotoRag Baryta, with the support of Hahnemühle and Spicers (Daniela Barth).
Kathryn McCool will be signing copies of her photobook P.NORTH (published by Perimeter Editions) at the exhibition opening on Friday 26 October. Click here for details. Copies will be available for sale at the event for AUS$49.00. Online/Postal orders can be made anytime through the Perimeter Books website.
