Ross Coulter’s series Corporate portraits: caregivers was commissioned by the City of Monash for the 2021 Clayton Festival. For this series, Coulter photographed people within the Clayton community who identified themselves as carers. In making these portraits, he adopted the conventions of corporate portraiture in order to give a voice and identity to people who participate in a form of unpaid labour that often goes unnoticed and is widely taken for granted. Coulter’s collaborative approach to the making of this series saw the sitters actively participating in discussions about their pose and posture, and in selecting their final image for inclusion.
This series is an extension of Coulter’s ongoing series Corporate portraits, which explores and critiques the style of everyday corporate portraiture that today can be found on websites, in annual reports and on online networking sites such as LinkedIn.
(2024)
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