‘Trust’ a 1.5-metre long photograph by Zo Damage, has been named as the winner of the Smith & Singer People’s Choice Award in the William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize.
The 1.5-metre long gelatin silver print, ‘Trust’ created in 2022 by artist Zo Damage, has been chosen from the 66 finalists in the William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize exhibition for 2023 as the winner of the Smith & Singer People’s Choice Award. (Courtesy of the artist.)
Zo Damage is a Melbourne-based photographer and printmaker. Specialising in live music photography, her work has been published in print and online for two decades and shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions. She describes her work ‘Trust’ in the following statement:
‘Trust’ questions and explores how analogue photography can be used to cultivate random innovative interactions to produce novel outcomes that visually iterate aesthetic responses to lived experience. The title further denotes the willingness to let go and trust in my creative process, the presence and intent echoed in the phenomenological interplays between artist, materials and methods – unfolding in real time – akin to the physical and psychological responses lived experience can induce.
Click here for more details on the artwork and here for details on current and up-coming exhibitions at the Museum of Australian Photography.
