This exhibition is a photographic journey through two of the most mythological periods of Australian history: The Gallipoli Campaign and the frontier conflicts between Indigenous Australians and white settlers. The latter, writes Darwin-based Campbell, also represents a war, though undeclared in a legal sense that defined our nation as much as the Anzac Campaign.
Glenn Campbell is no stranger to zones of conflict through his work as a photojournalist at home and abroad, and as an Australian War Memorial official photographer. For this series he has travelled across Australia and to ANZAC Cove searching for links between the nation’s pathological reverence for the myth of ANZAC and its amnesia regarding its own frontier conflicts.
Northern Centre for Contemporary Art (NCCA)
4 April to 2 May, 2015
Darwin
Myall Creek, 2014, silver gelatine print on fibre based paper, 16 x 20cm
Courtesy the artist
