Mary with her daughters Aja and Adau, and her granddaughter Nankir
Lee Grant's photograph, ‘Mary with her daughters Aja and Adau, and her granddaughter Nankir’ (2009) is a formal portrait of a Sudanese migrant family set in their home in Canberra. The work forms part of a series that looks at the lives of the Sudanese diaspora after settling in their new homes in the outer-suburbs of various Australian towns and cities. When Grant created this series, the Sudanese community was one of the fastest growing groups in Australia and she had witnessed many Sudanese migrants moving into her area, watching their integration into the wider, largely Anglo community. This work fits with Grant’s broader practice, which revolves around the examination of identity, integration and the migrant experience. Her explorations often take place against the backdrop of Australian suburbia and draw on her own experiences as an Australian with Korean heritage.
With this work, Grant won the 2010 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize.
(2020)
Also known as Giclee prints or bubble-jet prints, pigment ink-jet prints are generated by computer printers from digital or scanned files using dye-based or pigment-based inks. A series of nozzles spray tiny droplets of ink onto the paper surface in a precise pattern that corresponds to the digital image file. In dye-based prints the ink soaks into the paper, whereas in pigment-based prints the ink rests and dries on top of the paper surface.
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