Timor-Leste: Moving Forward, Looking Back features works from Australian photographer Conor Ashleigh shot in Timor-Leste between 2009 and 2013. Exploring social issues and personal narratives, Ashleigh captures a young, independent nation grappling with its newfound freedom. The Exhibition features two series of work – Coffee: From Tree to Cup, “a digital photography study of the long and labour intensive process of coffee farming.” And Timor Remember, shot in black and white on medium format and “framed as single images and in triptychs, encouraging the viewer to consider the development of the country and its architecture, history and culture”.
Ashleigh said his photographs are vehicles of communication, constructed to give the viewer an insight into the lives of others, “in short, to help explain us to each other”.
EXHIBITION
Timor-Leste: Moving Forward, Looking Back
Until 4 June 2013
Art Est.
Studio 4, 67-69 Lords Road
Leichhardt, Sydney
Australia
