Stella Loftus-Hills is Curator at the Museum of Australian Photography. During her time at the museum, she has curated and co-curated around thirty exhibitions, including Antipodean emanations: cameraless photographs from Australia and New Zealand (2018), Return to nature (2022), 100 faces (2023) and Stargazing (2023). Loftus-Hills has also written for MAPh publications including Zahalkaworld: an artist’s archive (2023) and has contributed to the development of the museum’s significant collection of Australian photographs. Loftus-Hills holds a Bachelor of Creative Arts and a Master of Art Curatorship from the University of Melbourne and has been working in the public gallery sector in Melbourne since 2003.

Robert Ashton graduated from Prahran College in 1970 and first exhibited his work at Brummels Gallery of Photography 1973. His early documentary work concentrated on inner-city subjects, and he is widely known for his series Fitzroy, which was originally published as a photobook, Into the hollow mountains: a portrait of Fitzroy in 1974. More recently, landscapes have been a persistent and ongoing theme. Ashton is an accomplished printer and has used various printing techniques including photogravures and wet-plate collodion.

Andrew Chapman studied photography at Prahran College of Advanced Education (PCAE) from 1974 to 1976 and then again in 1980. Throughout his career he has photographed much of Australia’s social and political landscape, working both personally and for clients, including as a photojournalist for major Australian newspapers and magazines. His work has been widely exhibited and included in a number of publications.