5 photo exhibitions against the status quo

With PHOTO 2022 well underway, ArtsHub looks at the five exhibitions that are pushing boundaries and challenging the conventional lens.

Housed in the Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP), Queering the Frame features artists Brook Andrew, J Davies, Helen Grace, Samuel Hodge, Shannon May Powell and The Huxleys in a well-rounded celebration of queer love and alternative stories.

The exhibition traces queer history from 70s up till the present with diverse voices, including the documentation of Amazon Acres, the female-only commune, by Helen Grace and Brook Andrew’s works capturing queer Indigenous joy in the 90s.

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Celina Lei is the Diversity and Inclusion Editor at ArtsHub. She acquired her M.A in Art, Law and Business in New York with a B.A. in Art History and Philosophy from the University of Melbourne. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Most recently, Celina was one of three Australian participants in DFAT’s the Future of Leadership program. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram @lleizy_