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I met Tuomas Laitinen last year during my Helsinki residency, he is an amazing artist that moves across all media. He was here last year to do research for the forthcoming Mildura Palimpsest: Collaborators and Saboteurs that I am co-curating with Helen Vivian. We are working on a collaborative video about infamous Australian Bushranger Captain Starlight.

Siri Hayes is an old mate in Australia and also works with a large-format camera. She is presently doing a residency in Barcelona so keep an eye out for her new photographs. Look for some well-known artists in the Transition Portraits...

Another new Finnish mate from my recent residency, Kalle Kataila, has described his relationship with photography and landscape as such; "Although it may occasionally seem like the landscape is still, this is, of course, never the case. Through photography, I attempt to bring about stillness, a moment of singular contemplation that enables the viewer to reflect on our role as humans in the ever-changing diversity of our planet’s landscapes..." The Nordic Zen Photographer.

Tomoaki Makino likes to photograph housewives. In Japan he shot 117 throughout the suburbs for his publication "Tokyo Soap Opera". He has recently been to NY shooting similar ladies for his new book Daydream. We showed together a few years back in Melbourne (and I still have a couple of those prints on my walls at home!).

The Switzerland-based French photographer Mathieu Bernard-Reymond is a prolific and innovative image-maker. An artist doing good things with Photoshop and to do so likes to travel "too far...!"

Juan Ford is an amazing Melbourne-based painter who constantly pushes the boundaries of what it means to paint in the new millennium. Although he looks the other way, he can see! One day we will do Project Two.

The dude from Osaka Yoshiro Masuda has an extraordinary eye for picturing the city. We traveled to Darwin together for Silent Ruptures in 2005 and had a great time. Another photographer using post-production with interesting results.

Man of many talents, Brendan Lee makes amazing videos on the grand subject of Australiana. Together we edited AUSTRALIA? that showed at Mildura Arts Centre and featured Angelica Mesiti, John A. Douglas, James Newitt & Lane Cormick. Check out his novel "Boagn Proof Fences"...

Barcelona-based photographer Aleix Plademunt makes intriguing photographs. The image on the front of his site (113) invites imaginatve ideas of Motel rooms from around the edges of the worlds cities.

I met Brazilian artist Beatriz Toledo in Finland as we both battled the weather to make photographs. She has a somewhat Japanese aesthetic and installs work with attention to detail in each gallery she shows in.

Louis Porter is an English-born photographer presently based in Melbourne where he looks upon the urban sprawl with renewed eyes. Ashley Crawford in The Age newspaper; "...Porter photographs suburbia like an antopodean David Lynch..."

Portraiture and mirrors have always interested me. Georgia Metaxas' work Lower your Eyes is an excellent B&W series. In a similar vain, I look forward to seeing more work from her new project; The Mourners is a work that examines the symbolic nature of black and its associations with death and the ritual of mourning.

John Vella is a Tasmanian-based artist recently confirmed for Mildura Palimpsest #8 in the Motel I am curating. His work is hard to pigeonhole and involves all media. Check his website for conceptually loaded projects...

Bonsai-Land, Waste Union, Green Area and Camp are all extraordinary bodies of work by Kudász Gábor Arion. Although small, the people within these images dictate what we are to read within these urba/landscapes.

Katrin Koenning is a German-born Melbourne-based documentary photographer who I will be showing with in the inaugural Edmund Pearce Gallery exhibition STILL. Check her extensive work on the Near portfolio she began in 2005, disturbing yet compassionate portraits.

The Moon, big landscapes and television studios are all inter-connected and fascinating subject matter for the great Japanese photographer Shigeru Takato who is presently based in Berlin. Our Elusive Cosmos is an amazing project I would like to see in exhibited in Australia.

The series Comic by Nobuto Osakabe is very funny - so very quirky and Japanese. Also check Holiday Making to see some overly popular Japanese touristscapes and other works...

West Australian photographer Graham Miller has some great portraits (especially Waiting for a Miracle), but it's his take on America I really enjoy, check American Photographs. I have also seen a selection of very nice prints from this series.

Selina Ou is another old mate, we hung out in Tokyo while she was on an ozco residency and she made the series Sakura Season (the best time to be in Japan). Her portraits illustrate our dependence on the things we create and surround ourselves with.

Reinaldo Loureiro's image of a golden tomato is fantastic (one day, we will do that swap!). Based in London, he has some striking photographs of constructed landscapes and portraits from Spain and Bolivia.