Book
Send me a lullaby
Commissioned by PHOTO Editions as part of PHOTO 2021 International Photography Festival
Send me a lullaby
Commissioned by PHOTO Editions as part of PHOTO 2021 International Photography Festival
Published & commissioned by PHOTO Editions, Naarm / Melbourne, 2021
Design by Ziga Testen
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Send me a lullaby
Elias Redstone
Send me a lullaby is a love letter to a city undergoing immense change, created during a period of both urban transformation and global upheaval. Emma Phillips was commissioned by Photo Australia to make a photographic portrait of Melbourne in the lead up to PHOTO 2021 International Festival of Photography. The resulting book is a reflection on connection, navigation and time, and the constantly evolving relationship between people and place.
Phillips’ photographs contemplate urban, domestic and psychological space. Weaving into the series are portraits of people Phillips has come across in Melbourne, capturing a living, breathing city as it responds to the fallout of bushfires and a pandemic. These disparate photographs taken across different seasons construct a dialogue between some of the city’s component parts – homes, shops, parks, streets – with archelogical objects from beneath the city, offering myriad stories to uncover and tell.
The photography is accompanied by colloquial text that is bricolage in form, combining oberheard converstations, historical excerpts and facts about Melbourne with Phillips’ own fictional writing. She sees text as key to unlocking many of the images and exploring the boundaries between the personal, the public and “the truth”. Throughout, Phillips has sought to reproduce “experiences of seeing and feeling”, questioning our past and future in this expanding metropolis.
Elias Redstone is the Artistic Director of PHOTO 2021.
Send me a lullaby
Elias Redstone
Send me a lullaby is a love letter to a city undergoing immense change, created during a period of both urban transformation and global upheaval. Emma Phillips was commissioned by Photo Australia to make a photographic portrait of Melbourne in the lead up to PHOTO 2021 International Festival of Photography. The resulting book is a reflection on connection, navigation and time, and the constantly evolving relationship between people and place.
Phillips’ photographs contemplate urban, domestic and psychological space. Weaving into the series are portraits of people Phillips has come across in Melbourne, capturing a living, breathing city as it responds to the fallout of bushfires and a pandemic. These disparate photographs taken across different seasons construct a dialogue between some of the city’s component parts – homes, shops, parks, streets – with archelogical objects from beneath the city, offering myriad stories to uncover and tell.
The photography is accompanied by colloquial text that is bricolage in form, combining oberheard converstations, historical excerpts and facts about Melbourne with Phillips’ own fictional writing. She sees text as key to unlocking many of the images and exploring the boundaries between the personal, the public and “the truth”. Throughout, Phillips has sought to reproduce “experiences of seeing and feeling”, questioning our past and future in this expanding metropolis.
Elias Redstone is the Artistic Director of PHOTO 2021.
