[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="580"] Tamara Dean[/caption] Tamara Dean Talks at VIVID festival: 2 Jun | 9:00 am - 1:00 pm at Museum of Contemporary Art Australia ABOUT TAMARA: Tamara Dean (b. 1976, Sydney, Australia) is a photographic artist based in Australia whose works explore the informal rites of passage and rituals of young people. Subcultures, social rituals and portraiture continue to inform her photographic practice. Dean studied at the College of Fine Arts before completing her BA in Design at the University of Western Sydney, and is currently engaged in her MFA at the National Art School. Her solo shows include Ritualism, Divine Rites, This too Shall Pass and Only Human. Her next solo show ?The Edge? will be exhibited this August. Dean has received numerous awards including the Olive Cotton Award and Sydney Life: Art & About.?Dean?s works have been widely exhibited both nationally and internationally. Her work has featured in the Fotofever Brussels Art Fair, 2012 and Pingyau Photography Festival, China in 2012, as well as at leading Australian galleries including Inheritance 2009 and Hijacked 2 ? New Australian & German Photography 2010, both at the Australian Centre for Photography; Sydney Now ? New Australian Photojournalism, Museum of Sydney 2007; Terra Australis Incognita at Monash Gallery of Art. Dean has been awarded artist residencies with ArtOmi, New York State (June-July 2013), and previously Taronga Zoo, Montsalvat and repeatedly in the remote gold-mining town of Hill End, NSW. For a decade Dean was a member of Oculi photographic collective and is a photographer at the Sydney Morning Herald. REPORTAGE; FOUR STORIES EXHIBITION See Tamara's work at the Four Stories exhibition in Darling Quarter: [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="996"] Image Right: Tamara Dean, Centre of the Universe
Project: 4 Stories
Location: Civic Connector, Darling Quarter
When: 23 May to 29 June[/caption]   ?4 Stories?investigates four different perspectives of four award winning female documentary photographers. The exhibition one of five major outdoor installation exhibitions a part of the?2013 Reportage Festival?will be on show from Thursday May 23 to Saturday June 29, 2013 in Sydney?s?Darling Quarter. The photographers are storytellers and artists, framing their subjects with an empathetic curiosity that seeks to recontextualise the captured narratives so that they may inspire change. Where:?Darling Quarter? When:?Thursday May 23 to Saturday June 29, 2013 There will also be a projection outside the MCA from 6pm-midnight every night for the month. Also, don't miss Tamara Dean's photo in BACKYARD Exhibition as a part of 'Head On' festival at the Superintendent?s Residence in Centennial Park. Click here to read the ABC's article about the BACKYARD Exhibition, 'Democratisation of photography spawns grassroots movement' [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="600"] Backyard Exhibition, Tamara Dean 'Great Plans'[/caption] Tamara will be showing with us 7 - 25 August, 2013. Click here view her available works.