Canberra Contemporary Photographic Prize
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Exhibition and competition celebrating both emerging and established talents in photo media.
Gallery
photo access presents an annual series of exhibitions featuring emerging and established artists and photographers, accessible public talks, events, performances and artist residencies that foster critical engagement with image practices.
What's On
Upcoming
LUCKY ROCKET:
Yani Clarke
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LUCKY ROCKET follows Yani Clarke’s return after the 2022 floods, revisiting Bun Bang Fai rocket festivals to explore place, ritual, and resilience.
Halfway Seen Halfway Home (半窥半归) :
Guylieuzy (Ming Liew & Will Wang)
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A moving-image exhibition exploring Chinese–Australian hybrid identity shaped by migration, memory and cultural negotiation.
Cloud Studies:
Rebecca Beardmore, Leah Beeferman, Yvette Hamilton, Anna Madeleine Raupach
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Cloud Studies brings together four artists to consider the atmosphere as a threshold where clouds sit between the natural and the technological.
What we carry:
Saskia Haalebos, Minh-An Pham, Kiah Pullens, David Newson-Tran
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Four artists use photography, archives and sculpture to explore family, memory and inheritance across generations.
Dark Matter 2026:
Louise Curham, Lucy Foster, Sophie Gabrielle, Siying Zhou
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Outcomes from our annual residency program supporting artists working with darkroom-based and alternative photographic processes