Found Song, Water(shed)

The work included in the exhibition and catalogue is part of a creative practice enquiry extending the capacity of emergent photographic practice to evoke notions of kinship and belonging. It explores how photographic imagery can communicate complex and nuanced relationships that form with a place. The staging of the water[shed] from 5 August - 27 August 2022 coincides with the 50th anniversary of the last heart-breaking summer in 1972 when dams on the Huon and Serpentine Rivers were closed and the impounded waters began to rise. Lake Pedder along with over 242 square kilometres of wild landscape in the heart of lutruwita (Tasmania) was swallowed up. The original lake is not forgotten. This 50-year anniversary of loss also coincides with the first year of the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021–2030.