MCA - Museum of Contemporary Art

"The Museum of Contemporary Art is Australia’s only museum dedicated to exhibiting, interpreting and collecting contemporary art from across Australia and around the world. With a continually changing program of exhibitions there’s always something new, exciting and inspiring to see at the MCA"

As I am researching contemporary photography, I thought the MCA was a good place to start.
They have many exhibitions of contemporary photographers, the first one I came across was that of Richard Maynard.

The exhibition is called Richard Maynard: Portrait of a Distant Land

Richard Maynard is the leading Indigenous photographer based on Flinders Island, situated in Bass Strait, between Tasmania and mainland Australia.

I admire this particular piece of work because the way it shows the compassion of the aboriginal people and the beautiful landcsape of Tasmania and Australia.
Portrait of a Distant Land is "a visual record of histories conveyed through stories and song ". Ricky Maynard has documented his own and other aboriginal communities. The series is about Tasmania's "physical and social landscapes", leading it to be a form of significant cultural research for the future.
Ricky Maynard has used simple black and white photographs to draw attention to the subject of the photographs, rather than the colours themselves.