For over three decades Rod McNicol’s photographic practice has concentrated on portraiture. His approach to the genre is doggedly consistent, with his subjects almost always photographed staring back at the camera against neutral backgrounds. McNicol asks his subjects to pause and stare into the camera as if it is a mirror, with the intention of capturing portraits that function as witnesses to the inescapable passing of time.

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Yanni Florence (b. 1965, Melbourne, Australia) is a photographer, film maker, book designer, and publisher. He co-founded, edited and designed the seminal art publication Pataphysics Magazine (1989). He completed a Bachelor of Architecture at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (1997). His monographs comprise thoughtfully nuanced and sequenced selections of images. Yanni's work has been included in several group exhibitions, including Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria (2013) and NGV Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria (2021). His most recent solo exhibitions were Trees and Fences, ReadingRoom (2022) and Tram Windows, ReadingRoom (2019). He is currently completing a series of documentaries about photographers, and a book on the writer Raymond Roussel's 1920-21 travels around the world.

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