Tim Hetherington
Doug Rickard
In association with Yossi Milo Gallery and Head On Photo Festival
Exhibition 22 May to 22 June 2013
Opening Thursday 23 May, 6 – 8pm
In association with Head On Photo Festival, Stills Gallery is delighted to
host compelling works by two internationally acclaimed artists, Tim
Hetherington and Doug Rickard, brought to Australian audiences from Yossi Milo
Gallery, New York.
Without the guns and artillery of war, or the armor of bravado and
aggression, Tim Hetherington’s
images of sleeping American soldiers are
disarmingly peaceful and childlike in their vulnerability. Hetherington
observed this active-duty battalion while they were stationed in Afghanistan’s
Korengal Valley during 2007-08, capturing beneath the camouflage the most
intimate of moments, which are seemingly at odds with common reportage images
of adrenaline-fuelled and stony-faced soldiers. Through his photographs,
writing and films, Tim Hetherington gave us new ways to look at and think
about human suffering. Tim was tragically killed on April 20, 2011, while
photographing and filming the conflict in Libya.
Doug Rickard’s A New American Picture depicts American street
scenes, located using the internet platform Google Street View. Over a
four-year period, Rickard virtually explored the roads of America looking for
forgotten, economically devastated, and largely abandoned places. After
locating and composing scenes of urban and rural decay, Rickard
re-photographed the images on his computer screen, freeing the image from its
technological origins and re-presenting them on a new documentary plane.
Rickard’s work evokes a connection to the tradition of American street
photography. He both follows and advances that tradition, with a documentary
strategy that acknowledges an increasingly technological world. Collectively,
these images present a photographic portrait of the socially disenfranchised
and economically powerless, those living an inversion of the American
Dream.
Both artists are highly regarded for their contributions to contemporary
photographic and film practices. Before his untimely death Hetherington
received numerous accolades for his documentation of conflict zones, including
the 2007 World Press Photo of the Year, the Rory Peck Award for Features
(2008), an Alfred I. duPont Award (2009), and an Academy Award nomination for
Restrepo (2011). His work has posthumously become part of the Magnum
Photo Archive. Doug Rickard is founder of American Suburb X and
These Americans, and his work has been widely exhibited including in
New Photography 2011 at MOMA, New York, Le Bal, Paris, and the 42nd
edition of Les Rencontres d’Arles. A monograph of A New American
Picture was first published in 2010 and was rereleased in 2012.This is the
first opportunity for Australian audiences to see many of these works, and it
is also a new collaboration with the prestigious Yossi Milo Gallery,
established in 2000, and focused on the representation of artists specializing
in photo-based art, video and works on paper.
Supported by
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Doug Rickard
From the series A New American Picture
#40.805716, Bronx, NY (2009), 2011
Archival Pigment Print
© Doug Rickard, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
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Tim Hetherington
Alcantara, Korengal Valley, Kunar Province, Afghanistan, 2008
Digital C-print
© Tim Hetherington, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
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