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Kosovo
Refugees 1999 Methodist Ladies College, Kew |
NGV: Jen, what are you doing this year? J: This year I'm at RMIT doing an applied science and photography course. It's a 3 year comprehensive photography course, which deals with the scientific side of photography and the techniques behind photography. I could have gone to the art course at the Victorian College of the Arts. I just thought the VCE art course concentrated more on creativity. I wanted to concentrate more on the technical side. NGV: With reference to your artwork last year, did you find it difficult to find something to work on? J: Well what I did was I looked ahead at my future where I could be working as a professional photographer and portraiture was the first thing that came to my mind. I then went further on to use the idea of struggle as my main concept for the project and from that I branched off and decided who my models would be.
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NGV: Did anything influence you to make Kosovo Refugees? J:
Well...At
the time the Kosovo refugees had come to Australia and had been placed
in camps throughout Australia. By looking at all the papers and images
from the magazines I saw that these people had really interesting looking
expressions and faces and one could really see a story behind them. So
I wrote a letter to the immigration department and asked if I could photograph
the Kosovo refugees at the Portsea Safe-Haven. I organized a time and
although I called a few times I managed to get through, so that I could
photograph them.
NGV: So there's a lot of preparatory work involved? J: Yes |
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