I managed to attend the opening of Claudia Terstappen’s latest exhibition ‘In the Shadow of Change’ at the Monash Gallery of Art in early November 2013, the exhibition continues through to 19 January 2014.
The exhibition was opened Dr Bob Brown, former Senator and Parliamentary Leader of the Australian Greens. You can view his opening speech here.
In the shadow of change features almost 100 of Claudia’s striking landscape photographs.
Terstappen’s vast archive of landscape photographs has taken on significant environmental associations. As debates about the politics and impact of land use and climate change continue, Terstappen’s landscapes – from intimately scaled views of forests and riverbeds to grand views of mountains and glaciers – present a truly beautiful account of the landscape photography and its contemporary significance.
As Terstappen states: ‘There is a moral dimension to looking at and photographing landscape today. Landscape photography has tremendous currency. Many of the landscapes in my photographs will have either completely disappeared or drastically changed by now. I firmly believe we need to re-establish our relationship with nature and landscape and photography can help us to achieve this.’
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