Brisbane born and now Paris based Nathalie Latham, travels extensively and focuses her work on the people she encounters through photography, text and video.  Her exhibition Australia's Creative Diaspora:  Photographed by Nathalie Latham is the result of these travels and explores Australians, in the arts, who live and work in various cities outside of Australia.  This collection reveals insights into some of the remarkable achievements being carried out by Australians living in various locations around the globe. Latham’s images appear serious while at the same time spontaneous and personable, and through this means express the way in which creativity is a part of living shared with families, friends, colleagues and audiences.

"It’s the sheer number of them that gets to you. All these Australian artists, working overseas. One of them says that there are enough Australian musicians working in Europe to form an orchestra. An orchestra of hyphenated Australians. And then there’s the art dealer in Beijing, the set designer in London, the photographer in Paris, the pianist in Berlin, the composer in Los Angeles, the viola player in New York, the dancer in Geneva, the tuba player in Leipzig. Why have they all left? More to the point, why haven’t they come back to Australia?

They come to us now as photographs made by Paris-based Australian Nathalie Latham. Mostly (but not always) on the young side, they are hopeful, energetic, talented, successful, passionate about what they do. 

Driven by an autobiographical impulse, Nathalie Latham's photographing of others can be seen as an effort to acknowledge the scope of the current Australian artistic diaspora. Her portraits therefore have a double edge, being both celebratory pictures of courageous Australians going out there into the unknown, and melancholic pictures of loss, of the loss of another generation of young Australian artistic talent drawn to the lure of elsewhere."