EXHIBITION DATES: 17 October – 13 December, 2025
OFFICIAL OPENING: Friday 17 October 2025, 6pm
COST: Free, no bookings required
PHOTO BOOTH SESSIONS:
- Saturday 23 August 2025, 11am – 2pm: Near Mimis Pit stop café, Mortimer Lewis Dr, Greenway
- Saturday 27 September 2025, 10am – 2pm: Tuggeranong Arts Centre, Grand Day Out
Details
TAC’s Faces of the South Photo booth celebrates the people and places of Tuggeranong through a series of portraits captured in a pop-up portrait booth and culminating in a black and white portrait exhibition at the Tuggeranong Arts Centre.
Set up at key locations in Tuggeranong, the project see artists from Photoaccess out and about with their temporary photo booth capturing stories from diverse members of the community.
Local residents will have the opportunity to tell their story in three different locations. The first pop-up will be set up at Mimis Pit stop café, on Mortimer Lewis Dr in Greenway on the fourth Saturday in August.
Come down between 11am – 2pm and share a cherished memory, something you love about living in Tuggeranong or something you wish people knew about Tuggeranong.
Your story will be captured on paper to accompany your portrait in the exhibition.A photobooth will also be set up at TAC’s Grand Day out in September.
About the Artists
Odette England is a photographer and writer whose work has been exhibited in over 120 museums and galleries worldwide. It is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, George Eastman Museum, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago, New Mexico Museum of Art, and Yale University.
Recent exhibitions have appeared in such venues as the Art Museum of South Texas, Australian Center for Contemporary Photography, Everson Museum, Monash Gallery of Art, Penumbra Foundation, Museum of Giorgione in Italy and the Princeton Art Museum.
England is a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow. Other recent honors include a Rhode Island Council Photography Fellowship and grants from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Puffin Foundation, and Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation, among many others. In 2023, England was the $10,000 EKARD artist-in-residence at Bucknell University and a finalist for the PhMusem Women Photographers Grant. She has been nominated twice for the prestigious Foam Paul Huf Award and for the Prix Pictet, the global award for photography and sustainability.
She has published five award-winning books, including Dairy Character, which won the $5,000 Light Work Book Award, and The Long Shadow, which received the $5,000 Ansel Adams Fellowship and a Polycopies & Co. publishing grant. Her sixth book, To Be Developed, To Be Continued, won the inaugural Tall Poppy Press Award and will be published in September. Her first novella, Isn’t X Beautiful, debuts later this year.
Her work has been featured in American Photo, The Australian, British Journal of Photography, Financial Times Weekend Magazine, Fisheye, The Guardian, Vogue, and The Washington Post. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2012 and earned her Ph.D. from the Australian National University in 2018.
Odette England, photographer, 2024
Jordan Stokes is a photographic and media artist based in Canberra, Australia. His work explores the evolving relationships between people, landscapes, and the built environment. Driven by a curiosity about how architecture shapes experience, Jordan’s practice blends urban exploration with historical and spatial inquiry. An interest in collective encounters and uncovering local stories fuels his engagement with place and people. Jordan is a graduate of UNSW Art and Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (2005) and The University of Technology, Sydney with a Master in Media Arts and Production (2008). He has held several solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group exhibitions and art awards throughout Australia.
Jordan Stokes, photo access