Rohan Hutchinson
The photography of Rohan Hutchinson is amazing, his subject matter of late focusing on the rapidly disappearing back alleyways in China which are being demolished for the Olympics, leaving thousands of people displaced. Hutchinson captures his images on large format negatives, meaning the processed photo can be enlarged almost to the size of a wall in a small room! He has his first exhibition between July 17-31 at the Flinders Lane Gallery in Melbourne.
Tagged: Melbourne, Melbourne galleries, Melbourne photographers, photo-realism
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SNAP! said | 22 July, 2008
Amazing stuff! I remember for the Sydney Olympics, they picked up all the homeless people in vans and drove them out of the city. This is obviously much worse – rock on the Olympics!