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National Photographic Portrait Prize 2024 Finalist
Paul Knight
born Australia 1976, Berlin from 2019
Untitled (Chamber Music) 2023
pigment photographic print on paper
‘My photographic series Chamber Music explores, without confines, the relationship I share with my partner, Peter. A direct strategy in this work is that we both make ourselves vulnerable to the camera and to its way of seeing. In this spirit, the camera has equal access to both of us and our shared life. The evidence of intimacy and connection that the image presents is a testament to the camera and the resultant images’ ability to be a container and simultaneously act as an index of the cognitive need for love and intimate recognition between people.’
Paul Knight is a Berlin-based Australian artist whose work takes intimacy as its primary theme, including the vast space it creates in social lives, and the importance intimacy plays in the development and construction of people as intellectual beings.
The National Photographic Portrait Prize 2024 celebrates established and emerging artistic talent from across the country.
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