Australian Photography Video Channel

Developed in partnership with RMIT Photography and The Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh) featuring interviews and commentary by Australian photographers in the collection of the MAPh.

RMIT University School of Art Photography and The Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh; formerly Monash Gallery of Art/MGA) have collaborated on an exclusive Australian photography video channel, featuring interviews with artists and photographers in the MAPh Collection.

MAPh is the Australian home of photography, championing Australian photography and inspiring audiences to delve into the powerful medium of photography.

In the mid-1980s, MAPh decided to focus the collection solely on collecting Australian photographs. Over the following four decades, the collection has grown to number more than 3,200 Australian photographs and stands as the only public collection solely dedicated to Australian photography.

The channel extends the MAPh Collection into a public domain, providing insights into the works of Australian photographers and artists, ensuring that the MAPh Collection is active, conserved and accessible to audiences.

The Photography Discipline at RMIT is as old as the institution itself, offered as one of the foundation subjects in 1887, the year the Working Men's College first opened. For generations, RMIT has had a central role in the narrative of photography in Melbourne and Australia, dedicated to the education of photography. The MAPh RMIT Photography channel is part of our ongoing commitment to an open dialogue about the power of photography, and its importance in society and culture.


Image credit

Tamara Dean, Tumbling through the treetops, 2020 (courtesy of the artist and Michael Reid Gallery (Sydney + Berlin)

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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.

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