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âWhat is your truth?â: The selfie project celebrating Melbourneâs many faces
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Melbourneâs streets have this week been transformed into open-air galleries displaying works from some of photographyâs biggest local and international names for the PHOTO 2021 festival. But the hundreds of black and white portraits pasted up in Federation Square are largely works of local amateurs. Photography, after all, belongs to everyone in the Instagram age.
These self-portraits form Inside Out, a global art project started in 2011 by French street artist JR, which has so far featured more than 250,000 participants in 129 countries, the world s largest participatory art project. In each country, participants have submitted portraits around themes such as diversity, hope and climate change.
LIKE explores the experiences and relationships of migrant workers in Oman. But rather than focusing on the defining public image of poor working conditions, photographer Ryan Debolski depicts men finding agency and connection to the landscape of the beach and companionship in each other they are as playful as they are introspective. A running dialogue of conversations via text message weaves together details of infrastructure and landscape and highlights the men’s digital communications with one another.
LIKE refuses to dehumanize or mystify the laborer, and an accompanying essay by Jason Koxvold, “Raw Material: Capital and Exploitation at the Neoliberal Frontier