In documentary photography from across the world, the overlooked, as well as familiar landscapes are transformed into sites of tension and ambiguity.
A new exhibition by Edith Cowan University's (ECU's) Professor Panizza Allmark titled "Reframed Horizons" will run at the Ellenbrook Art Gallery between January 17 and February 17, as part of FRINGE WORLD 2026.
Reframed Horizons showcases Professor Allmark's global practice of photographie féminine, a dynamic, photographic response to the environment. In documentary photography from across the world, the overlooked, as well as familiar landscapes are transformed into sites of tension and ambiguity.
Through strategies such as the use of doubling, the ordinary appears strange and the strange unsettling familiar. This creates a dialectical vision that oscillates between the natural and constructed, presence and absence, reality and artifice.
In a range of photographic series, Professor Allmark explores the politics of the uncanny as an aesthetic practice, by challenging dominant visual narratives of people and place, exposing hidden views, and reclaiming vision as a space of resistance to the everyday.
"With previous solo exhibitions in London and New York, this exhibition offers Perth audiences an opportunity to engage with a photographic approach that I hope will reveal a sense of global connection, reimagining overlooked places and lives," she said.
Professor Allmark will also host an artist talk on February 7, at the Ellenbrook Arts HQ, with tickets available.
