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"Bring your family history. Bring your own cultural history. Bring your anger that you have about political issues, bring that to your work."
In this video artist Gayle Chong Kwan introduces her sculptural photographic series Cockaigne, which explores the ecology of Mauritius, and the impact of tourism on the landscape. She discusses photography as a life-long practice, and offers advice to young or emerging artists who are interested in pursuing a career in photography.
Dr. Gayle Chong Kwan is a British artist. Her work explores perspectives and possibilities to observe, model and contest aspects of historical, political and ecological life.
Her photographic works, installations, moving image work, performances, and ritual sensory events act within and against histories of oppression to position the viewer as one element in a cosmology of the political, personal, social, and ecological.
Dr. Gayle Chong Kwan's research engages with social practices that engender change in the way that organisations and institutions work with collecting, commissioning, remembering, redistributing, returning, and making meaning with audiences and artists. Her PhD Doctoral Thesis was titled 'Imaginal Travel: political and ecological positioning as fine art practice' - Royal College of Art, London (2023).
Our series providing tips on best practice in the photographic industry
See more This film was produced as part of the Seeing Differently: Learning Together project, connecting young people with diverse visual media and support teachers in making critical sense of images with their students.
Autograph is a place to see things differently. Since 1988, we have championed photography that explores issues of race, identity, representation, human rights and social justice, sharing how photographs reflect lived experiences and shape our understanding of ourselves and others.
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