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Reveries

Photography and mortality

Featuring works by Australian and New Zealand photographers from the late 1970s up to the present day Reveries focuses on images made in the presence of or consciousness of death.

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Selected images

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The Last Picture Show (Lewis Morley and Henry Talbot)
The Last Picture Show (Lewis Morley and Henry Talbot), 1999 Lewis Morley. © Lewis Morley Archive LLC
[Self-portrait], 1996
[Self-portrait], 1996
The Royal Hobart Hospital Series, 1979 by Carol Jerrems
The Royal Hobart Hospital Series, 1979 by Carol Jerrems
The Royal Hobart Hospital Series, 1979 by Carol Jerrems
The Royal Hobart Hospital Series, 1979 by Carol Jerrems
The Royal Hobart Hospital Series, 1979 by Carol Jerrems
The Royal Hobart Hospital Series, 1979 by Carol Jerrems
The Royal Hobart Hospital Series, 1979 by Carol Jerrems
The Royal Hobart Hospital Series, 1979 by Carol Jerrems
The Royal Hobart Hospital Series, 1979 by Carol Jerrems
The Royal Hobart Hospital Series, 1979 by Carol Jerrems
The Royal Hobart Hospital Series, 1979 by Carol Jerrems
The Royal Hobart Hospital Series, 1979 by Carol Jerrems
The Royal Hobart Hospital Series, 1979 by Carol Jerrems
The Royal Hobart Hospital Series, 1979 by Carol Jerrems
The Royal Hobart Hospital Series, 1979 by Carol Jerrems
The Royal Hobart Hospital Series, 1979 by Carol Jerrems
The Royal Hobart Hospital Series, 1979 by Carol Jerrems
The Royal Hobart Hospital Series, 1979 by Carol Jerrems
The Royal Hobart Hospital Series, 1979 by Carol Jerrems
The Royal Hobart Hospital Series, 1979 by Carol Jerrems
The Royal Hobart Hospital Series, 1979 by Carol Jerrems
The Royal Hobart Hospital Series, 1979 by Carol Jerrems
The Royal Hobart Hospital Series, 1979 by Carol Jerrems
The Royal Hobart Hospital Series, 1979 by Carol Jerrems
The Royal Hobart Hospital Series, 1979 by Carol Jerrems
The Royal Hobart Hospital Series, 1979 by Carol Jerrems
The Royal Hobart Hospital Series, 1979 by Carol Jerrems
The Royal Hobart Hospital Series, 1979 by Carol Jerrems
The Royal Hobart Hospital Series, 1979 by Carol Jerrems
The Royal Hobart Hospital Series, 1979 by Carol Jerrems
The Royal Hobart Hospital Series, 1979 by Carol Jerrems
The Royal Hobart Hospital Series, 1979 by Carol Jerrems
The Royal Hobart Hospital Series, 1979 by Carol Jerrems
The Royal Hobart Hospital Series, 1979 by Carol Jerrems
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[Self-portrait], 1996
[Self-portrait], 1996
[Self-portrait], 1996
[Self-portrait], 1996

Reveries

Magazine article by Helen Ennis, 2007

The exhibition Reveries: Photography and mortality is a powerful display which brings together images that depict the last phase of people's lives.
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