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IASKA, kellerberin, Western Australia, 2005. French flaps|Softcover. FINE!.  AUSTRALIAN ART Exhibition CatalogueJunctions is an exhibition of photographic portraits created by Gerson Bettencourt Ferreira during his residency at IASKA. Bettencourt’s penetrating and empathetic images depict a broad cross-section of residents and visitors to the small town of Kellerberrin captured in everyday public and private settings. The subjects pose consciously and deliberately, having momentarily interrupted everyday activities to engage in a brief silent exchange with the photographer. The resulting images are dignified and compelling in their unadorned directness. Bettencourt’s work is in this sense quite antithetic to the tradition of ‘spontaneous’ photography that feeds on images of people caught unaware by an intrusive photographic eye seeking the quirky, the shocking or the picturesqueAbout the artist:This exhibition follows previous projects that Bettencourt developed in the USA,… Read More