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Centre for Contemporary Photography The Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) is one of Australia’s premier organisations for the promotion and celebration of contemporary photo-based arts.

The Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) is one of Australia’s premier venues for the exhibition of contemporary photo-based arts, providing a context for the enjoyment, education, understanding and appraisal of contemporary practice. CCP acknowledges the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation as the traditional owners of the land on which Centre for Contemporary Photography stands, and we respectfully recognise Elders past, present and future.

📣CCP Director Daniel Boetker-Smith, and the CCP Board, chaired by Dr Patrick Pound, are delighted to announce the appoin...
12/10/2026

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CCP Director Daniel Boetker-Smith, and the CCP Board, chaired by Dr Patrick Pound, are delighted to announce the appointment of our newest Board Member, Professor Kit Wise.

Kit is a graduate of Oxford University and the Royal College of Art. He received the Wingate Rome Scholarship in Fine Art in 1999 to study at the British School at Rome. In 2001 he received a Boise Travel Scholarship, administered by the Slade School of Fine Art, for subsequent research in New York & Australia. Since moving permanently to Australia in 2002, Wise has received four Creative Australia grants, as well as grants and commissions from Arts Victoria, Arts Tasmania, the Ian Potter Foundation and the Besen Family Foundation. He completed his PhD at Monash University in 2012.
 
Kit has exhibited at the Centre for Contemporary Photography a number of times over the past 20 years, and has additionally presented his creative work in dozens of group and solo exhibitions, festivals, biennales, and via commissions in Australia, USA, Italy, China, Taiwan, Korea, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Holland, and has published numerous articles, reviews, book chapters and catalogue essays including texts for Australian and international art journals such as Frieze, unMagazineand Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies.
 
He is currently Professor of Fine Art and Dean of the School of Art at RMIT University. He is represented by Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne. Sarah Scout Presents RMIT: ART RMIT University

We are dRMIT Universitye Kit join us on the CCP Board, to advise and help steer us in the coming years as we work with government agencies, funding bodies, and other partners to secure our long-term future.

Welcome to the CCP Board Kit! 👏🙏

Repost from Perimeter Books -Launching tonight! CCP.PE.Z.009 Hanako Muller – Family Sleeping & CCP.PE.Z.010 Ruth O’Leary...
09/10/2026

Repost from Perimeter Books
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Launching tonight!
CCP.PE.Z.009 Hanako Muller – Family Sleeping & CCP.PE.Z.010 Ruth O’Leary – Hidden Mothers (edited here to keep IG happy…), the latest zines from the CCP.PE.ZINES publishing initiative from Centre for Contemporary Photography and Perimeter Editions.

To celebrate the new zines, join us at Perimeter Books from 6pm, tonight Friday October 9. The launch will feature a brief introduction by Perimeter and CCP, artist signings, and a casual celebration to follow. We hope to see you there!

EVENT DETAILS
Perimeter Books
734 High St, Thornbury VIC
Friday October 9, 2026
6pm–8pm

This is a free event, with no reservations required.

CCP.PE.Z.009 Hanako Muller – Family Sleeping
CCP.PE.Z.010 Ruth O’Leary – Hidden Mothers

Find all the details about the launch, or purchase the zines, via the link in our bio.

CCP.PE.ZINES is a collaborative publishing initiative by the Centre for Contemporary Photography and Perimeter Editions, dedicated to providing a platform for emerging photographic artists to exhibit their work in an accessible zine format. Each zine in the series – launched periodically in pairs – focuses on a single body of work by artists selected by the CCP.

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Launching tomorrow!!!Please join us on Friday October 9th at Perimeter Books (734 High St, Thornbury) in Melbourne to la...
08/10/2026

Launching tomorrow!!!
Please join us on Friday October 9th at Perimeter Books (734 High St, Thornbury) in Melbourne to launch the ninth and tenth zines in the CCP.PE.Zine series:
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Hanako Muller - ‘Family Sleeping’, &
Ruth O’Leary - ‘Hidden Mothers’.
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Running 6pm-8pm, the launch will include a brief introduction by CCP Director Daniel Boetker-Smith, with a casual celebration with the artists to follow. All are welcome!

EVENT DETAILS
Perimeter Books
734 High St, Thornbury VIC
Friday October 9, 2026
6pm-8pm

This is a free event, with no reservations required.

The zines will be for sale at the launch, and the artists will be signing copies; for those who can’t make it in person, postal pre-orders are open now - link in bio!
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CCP.PE.ZINE is a collaborative publishing initiative from the Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) and Perimeter Editions, dedicated to providing a platform for emerging photographic artists to exhibit their work in an accessible zine format. Each zine in the series - launched periodically in pairs - focuses on a single body of work by artists selected by the CCP.
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CCP.PE.Z.001, Minami Ivory, Fourteen, 2025 Minami Ivory

CCP.PE.Z.002, Nik Ranepura, Corrosion, 2025 nik

CCP.PE.Z.003, Yask Desai, Shimla, 2025 Yask

CCP.PE.Z.004, Ryley Clarke, Tomorrow, 2025 Ryley Clarke

CCP.PE.Z.005, Patricia Sofra, Subside, 2025 PATRICIA SOFRA

CCP.PE.Z.006, Hussein Abdirahman Mohamud, Street, 2025 hussein

CCP.PE.Z.007, Sean Kweifio-Okai, ASORKPOR, 2026 SEANOKAI.

CCP.PE.Z.008, Teva Cosic, Birdsong, 2026 teva cosic

CCP.PE.Z.009, Hanako Muller, Family Sleeping, 2026 Hanako Müller

CCP.PE.Z.010, Ruth O’Leary, Hidden Mothers, 2026 ruth_o.leary
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📣Launching Friday October 9th 6pm at Perimeter Books in Melbourne is: 📕📸Ruth O’Leary‘s ‘Hidden Mothers’ - CCP.PE.Z.010➡️...
01/10/2026

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Launching Friday October 9th 6pm at Perimeter Books in Melbourne is:
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Ruth O’Leary‘s ‘Hidden Mothers’ - CCP.PE.Z.010
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‘Hidden Mothers’ takes its title and conceptual framework from Victorian-era photography, where mothers were concealed beneath draped fabric to photograph their children. This historical practice of maternal erasure became my point of departure for a sustained critique of idealised maternal iconography throughout art history. Shot in photobooths around Melbourne in this series I appropriate the Victorian veil and transform it through painted fabric that renders the maternal body hypervisible rather than concealed. My torso becomes a surface inscribed with witches, washing machines, ravens, and clocks – domestic objects and mythic figures that constitute the visual lexicon through which motherhood is culturally inscribed. These loaded symbols form a counter-iconography that speaks to the materiality of maternal experience: its embodied labour, its corporeal presence, its dialectic of creation and erasure’ - Ruth O’Leary.
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Ruth O’Leary is an artist based in Naarm, Australia. Her work explores maternal self-documentation – spanning gestation, birth, child-rearing, and aging – addressing art history’s systematic erasure of motherhood as lived experience.

CCP.PE.ZINE is a collaborative publishing initiative from the Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) and Perimeter Editions, dedicated to providing a platform for emerging photographic artists to exhibit their work in an accessible zine format. Each zine in the series – launched periodically in pairs – focuses on a single body of work by artists selected by CCP Director Daniel Boetker-Smith
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Each zine is 32 pages, 14.8 x 21 cm, saddle-stitched softcover.
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Launches Friday October 9th, 6pm at Perimeter Books. If you cant make it in person online preorders available now via Perimeter Books (link in bio).
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🎶 ‘Bloody Mother Fu***ng Asshole’, Martha Wainwright ❤️ Martha Wainwright

Launching Friday October 9th 6pm at Perimeter Books in Melbourne is: 📕📸Hanako Muller‘s ‘Family Sleeping’ - CCP.PE.Z.009➡...
30/09/2026

Launching Friday October 9th 6pm at Perimeter Books in Melbourne is:
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Hanako Muller‘s ‘Family Sleeping’ - CCP.PE.Z.009
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‘Family Sleeping’ is “an evolving body of work that gently considers the role photographs play in memory consolidation and our understanding of familial relationships. Using images from my family archive, I merge my own work within these moments as a way to explore how our individual timelines, experiences and lives can begin to morph and overlap when we are provided with visual reminders that bear a sense of familiarity. Finding echoes within intergenerational imagery, I look for comfort in photography’s ability to disrupt our linear perception of time and blur the distance between lives.” Hanako Muller
Hanako Müller
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Hanako Muller is an emerging artist living on unceded Wurundjeri land. Her work explores themes of connection and identity with personal reflections on adolescence, queerness and memory.

Using photography as a process to piece together stories and relationships, Hanako considers the ways in which we are shaped by the people and spaces that surround us.
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CCP.PE.ZINE is a collaborative publishing initiative from the Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) and Perimeter Editions, dedicated to providing a platform for emerging photographic artists to exhibit their work in an accessible zine format. Each zine in the series – launched periodically in pairs – focuses on a single body of work by artists selected by CCP Director Daniel Boetker-Smith
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Each zine is 32 pages, 14.8 x 21 cm, saddle-stitched softcover.
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Launches October 9th, 6pm at Perimeter Books. If you cant make it in person online preorders available now via Perimeter Books (link in bio).
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🎶 ‘Daydreaming’, Aretha Franklin ❤️

29/09/2026

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Centre for Contemporary Photography, Australia & Perimeter Books are excited to announce the launch of the two newest issues of CCP.PE.ZINE, a collaborative initiative dedicated to providing a platform for emerging photographic artists to publish their work in an accessible A5 zine format.

Each zine in the series – released periodically in pairs – focuses on a single body of work by artists selected by CCP’s Daniel Boetker-Smith.

These two new zines are available for pre-order now via Perimeter Books: Z.009 & Z.010 - featuring artists HANAKO MULLER and RUTH O’LEARY.

Hanako Müller
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Launching Friday 9th October at 6pm at Perimeter Books, 734 High Street, Thornbury, Melbourne. All are welcome, no bookings required. Both artists will be present to sign copies of their zine.

The zines can be pre-ordered online from Perimeter Books or purchased in-person at the launch. The zines will then be available nationally and internationally via Perimeter Distribution.

📣‘ASORKPOR’ by SEANOKAI. CCP.PE.Z08Published by Centre for Contemporary Photography, Australia & Perimeter Books-Availab...
22/09/2026

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‘ASORKPOR’ by SEANOKAI.
CCP.PE.Z08
Published by Centre for Contemporary Photography, Australia & Perimeter Books
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Available this coming weekend at the Perimeter Editions table at the New York Art Book Fair 👏❤️🏙️ Printed Matter Art Book Fairs Printed Matter, Inc.

‘Birdsong’ by teva cosic CCP.PE.Z08Published by Centre for Contemporary Photography, Australia & Perimeter Books-Availab...
21/09/2026

‘Birdsong’ by teva cosic
CCP.PE.Z08
Published by Centre for Contemporary Photography, Australia & Perimeter Books
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Available this coming weekend at the Perimeter Editions table at the New York Art Book Fair 👏❤️🏙️ Printed Matter Art Book Fairs Printed Matter, Inc.

Join us tomorrow at 12 for ‘Photography & Place’, a conversation with exhibiting artists Patricia Sofra and Yask Desai. ...
11/09/2026

Join us tomorrow at 12 for ‘Photography & Place’, a conversation with exhibiting artists Patricia Sofra and Yask Desai. This is a free 45 min informal talk and Q&A, facilitated by CCP Director Daniel Boetker-Smith.
Daniel Boetker-Smith PATRICIA SOFRA Yask

📍 ArtSpace, at Realm, Eastland, Ringwood.

This is the final weekend of ‘Unbound: New Photo Zines’ - which closes Sunday. Presented by Centre for Contemporary Photography, Australia in partnership with Arts in Maroondah Maroondah City Council and supported by Spicers Australia Hahnemühle Digital FineArt & .

Exhibiting artists: Minami Ivory Ryley Clarke nik hussein Yask & PATRICIA SOFRA

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