Photography as Memory;Photography as Garbage
Emma Armstrong-Porter
2024, Cyanotype Print on Found Fabric
54cm x 48cm (chain 62cm long)

POA – please contact Emma to purchase this artwork on armstrongporter@gmail.com

Fast fashion, uterus health, environmental degredation, climate crisis, housing crisis, cost of living, hunger, ai, waste, war; the world is a binfire. Photographs serve to capture the world around us, but are destined to end up in the great pacific garbage patch like everything else ever made.

About the artist:

Emma Armstrong-Porter is an artist and educator who lives and works on Dja Dja Wurrung Country. They were born in 1986 and are known for their work across many disciplines, especially printmaking and chemistry based photography. They were the co-founder of NOIR darkroom, a gallery and photographic darkroom based in Naarm/Melbourne. They were the recipient of the 2023 Noel Counihan Art Award, the 2021 Midsumma Australia Post Arts prize, and have been a finalist in many art prizes including the National Photographic Portrait Prize in 2023 and 2024. Emma has exhibited across Victoria and interstate, and their work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria as well as many private collectors.

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Web: emmaarmstrongporter.wordpress.com