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Louis Porter 2007 Australia
Chromogenic print 76.2 x 101.7 cm
CHEAP FLIGHTS
LOUIS PORTER
Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP)
Friday 05 June 2009 to Sunday 02 August 2009
Opening Thursday 04 June 2009 6–8pm
Exhibition
previously on
at
Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP)
in
Fitzroy-Collingwood precinct,
Victoria,
Australia
The photographs in Cheap Flights would not make it into many holiday albums, but they are still travel photographs. Taken on various trips between 2005-2008 they examine the more disappointing aspects of travel.
If someone were asked to imagine themself in Paris, there is a pretty good chance their immediate mental picture would exclude fast food outlets, conspicuous tourists, litter and all the other letdowns that any holiday destination has these days.
Travel is about expectation. We expect to have an enjoyable holiday; it says so in the brochure. The majority of travel photographs aim to reaffirm the idea that fun was indeed had; the sunsets beautiful and the locals charming. These mementos serve as homemade propaganda, along with images of weddings and other family events. Cheap Flights embraces the anti-climactic and relishes the fact that there is a little bit of home in every place you go.
GALLERY TWO IN MEMORY OF MORRY BARDAS
FREE ARTIST FLOOR TALKS
SATURDAY 6 JUNE 2009 , 12PM
Join artists Bianca hester, louis porter, arlo mountford,
simon zoric, catherine connolly and larissa hjorth.
Location
Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP)404 George Street
Fitzroy-Collingwood Precinct
Victoria
Australia
