Photo Access

Photo Access

Links to my review of VIEW2026 (Cass Li, Dylan Marriott, Elesa Stellios, Toni Tait, XinShuo Zhuo), curated by Gabrielle Hall-Lomax at Photo Access (Canberra) from 4 June – 11 July 2026

https://ccc-canberracriticscircle.blogspot.com/2026/06/view2026.html

https://brianropephotography.wordpress.com/2026/06/18/view2026/

WORKSHOP | Camera Obscura

Build your own camera obscura and capture unique, painterly images in this hands-on workshop with artist Orlando Luminere

Saturday 27 June from 10 am to 4 pm at photo access

In a world where photography is often reduced to a tap on a screen, this course offers something slower, richer, and far more tactile. Step away from the automated and rediscover the medium by hand building your own camera obscura, transforming simple materials into a working camera.

Limited spots available, sign up now: https://photoaccess.org.au/calendar/workshops/camera-obscura-workshop/

Thank you for joining us to celebrate the opening of VIEW2026, featuring works by Cass Li, Dylan Marriott, Elesa Stellios, Toni Tait, and XinShuo Zhuo. The exhibition continues in the photo access galleries until 11 July.

‘Across these five bodies of work, there is a collective questioning of the sacred value of what cannot be seen, captured or resolved through image-making. ‘VIEW2026’ offers an invitation to contemplate absence in all its forms, whether we encounter it in the crevices of a photograph, the scratch that finds itself as a brushstroke, or the silence that the machine cannot fill. All gesture toward an interiority, toward meaning that accumulates not by knowing, but by dwelling in the threshold.’ - Victoria Kung in the exhibition catalogue essay ‘Absencing as a Mode of Seeing and Being in Photography’.

cass li
Dylan Marriott
elesa stellios

Xinshuo Zhuo

As always, a huge thank you to Lerida Estate Lerida Estate and Hawkes Brewing Co. Hawke's Brewing Co. for supporting our events.

photo access is supported by artsACT and Creative Australia

Images: Gabrielle Hall-Lomax