Category: Biography

• #2: Birregurra to Alice Springs (and Magritte to Mapplethorpe)

  “I can’t remember if I even had an interview, but I was given the job. A few days later I took the thirty-odd-hour train journey to ‘Alice’, which slowly acclimatised me to the endless desert and open skies that I would experience for the next six months.”

  Ben Blacket

  August 23, 2021

  Biography

  analogue photography, c-print, darkroom, darkroom print, digitisation, film photography, gelatin silver, kodak, kodak film, optical print, photography, ra-4, silver gelatin, t-max

• #1: ‘Course of Life’

  “CV’s never provide the full picture. There is as much value to be revealed in the bits we leave out—the not-so-good experiences and even the failures—as there is in the highlights and accolades.”

  Ben Blacket

  August 23, 2021

  Biography

  art curatorship, career, curating, curator, curriculum vitae, cv, museum, museum sector, photographer