Centre for Contemporary Photography

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.

A big thank you post - the ‘Unbound: New Photo Zines’ exhibition is now open, and we’d like to say a big thanks to our s...
19/08/2026

A big thank you post - the ‘Unbound: New Photo Zines’ exhibition is now open, and we’d like to say a big thanks to our sponsors and supporters Michael Gellert Michael Gellert and HCPro Printers, Daniela Barth and the Spicers Australia team, and Hahnemühle Digital FineArt / Hahnemühle FineArt. Their collaboration has truly brought this show to life!
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Of course this exhibition wouldn’t have been possible without the six amazing artists (L to R) nik Yask Ryley Clarke PATRICIA SOFRA Minami Ivory and hussein whose work is personal, dynamic, gentle, intense, celebratory and layered!
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Go see the show - and keep your eye out for upcoming workshops and talks! Make sure you also pick up a copy of the six zines produced in partnership with Perimeter Books
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Open for business!Visit ‘Unbound: New Photo Zines’ our new exhibition - presented in partnership with and hosted by Arts...
10/08/2026

Open for business!
Visit ‘Unbound: New Photo Zines’ our new exhibition - presented in partnership with and hosted by Arts in Maroondah & Maroondah City Council.
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Features artists Ryley Clarke nik PATRICIA SOFRA Minami Ivory Yask and hussein
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Open every day.
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Supported by HCPro Hahnemühle Digital FineArt

Available now in-store and online at Perimeter Books -CCP.PE.ZINE Issues 7 & 8‘Asorkpor’ SEANOKAI. & ‘Birdsong’ teva cos...
08/08/2026

Available now in-store and online at Perimeter Books
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CCP.PE.ZINE Issues 7 & 8

‘Asorkpor’ SEANOKAI. & ‘Birdsong’ teva cosic

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New exhibition launching tomorrow!!!Thursday August 6th - ‘Unbound: New Photo Zines’ - featuring the work of Yask Desai ...
05/08/2026

New exhibition launching tomorrow!!!Thursday August 6th - ‘Unbound: New Photo Zines’ - featuring the work of Yask Desai Yask
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This is a new Centre for Contemporary Photography, Australia exhibition presented in partnership with Arts in Maroondah & Maroondah City Council
Curated by Daniel Boetker-Smith in collaboration with Gareth Syvret.
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‘As a child I spent considerable time in the city of Shimla in Northern India where my father was a research scholar at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study. A visit to the Indian Coffee House some three kilometres walk away was often a part of our late afternoon routine. Now more than 40 years later it endures, largely unchanged. Its atmosphere, patrons, and political conversations remain, preserved as a workers’ cooperative born from colonial exclusion. It continues to function as an informal public space where democratic debate and the creation of cultural capital are sustained outside of an institutional setting. My work traces its continuity as a quiet civic monument and acknowledges both the personal and national history that it embodies.’ – Yask Desai
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The exhibition production, printing, framing and mounting is supported by Arts in Maroondah and Maroondah City Council - and as always is produced with Centre for Contemporary Photography, Australia’s brilliant professional partners HCPro, Spicers Australia, Hahnemühle Digital FineArt
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Join us 6pm August 6th at ArtSpace at Realm Arts in Maroondah for the official opening event, and to meet the artists and curator. More public events, talks and workshops to follow.
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Ryley Clarke
Yask
Minami Ivory
hussein
nik
PATRICIA SOFRA
Perimeter Books
Clayton Walker

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New exhibition launching Thursday August 6th - ‘Unbound: New Photo Zines’ - featuring the work of Nik Ranepura nik -A ne...
03/08/2026

New exhibition launching Thursday August 6th - ‘Unbound: New Photo Zines’ - featuring the work of Nik Ranepura nik
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A new Centre for Contemporary Photography, Australia exhibition presented in partnership with Arts in Maroondah & Maroondah City Council
Curated by Daniel Boetker-Smith in collaboration with Gareth Syvret.
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‘’Corrosion’ presents a diaristic collection of images that documents elements of the subcultures and communities that I am immersed in, in my home of Naarm / Melbourne. The zine offers an intimate perspective on friends, collaborators, memories and motifs. I hope to create an imagined space for viewers to reside in, that is tinged with the city’s same fragile grey.’ – Nik Ranepura
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The exhibition production, printing, framing and mounting is supported by Arts in Maroondah and Maroondah City Council - and as always is produced with Centre for Contemporary Photography, Australia’s brilliant professional partners HCPro, Spicers Australia, Hahnemühle Digital FineArt
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Join us 6pm August 6th at ArtSpace at Realm Arts in Maroondah for the official opening event, and to meet the artists and curator. More public events, talks and workshops to follow.
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Ryley Clarke
Yask
Minami Ivory
hussein
nik
PATRICIA SOFRA
Perimeter Books
Clayton Walker

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New exhibition launching Thursday August 6th - ‘Unbound: New Photo Zines’ - featuring the work of Minami Ivory Minami Iv...
03/08/2026

New exhibition launching Thursday August 6th - ‘Unbound: New Photo Zines’ - featuring the work of Minami Ivory Minami Ivory
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A new Centre for Contemporary Photography, Australia exhibition presented in partnership with Arts in Maroondah & Maroondah City Council
Curated by Daniel Boetker-Smith in collaboration with Gareth Syvret.
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‘’Fourteen’ stems from my wider and ongoing series ‘Weapon of Choice’, which revisits the trauma that I experienced at the age of fourteen. In this zine, I address unspoken topics through my personal perspective using colour, pose, memory, and mark making. Despite recent movements to change the stigma against victims of s*xual assault, inadequate s*x education leaves the vulnerable ill-equipped to confront abuse. Instead, they are faceless and muted by fear, censored and isolated. Silence becomes their shield from a system that too often fails them.’ – Minami Ivory
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The exhibition production, printing, framing and mounting is supported by Arts in Maroondah and Maroondah City Council - and as always is produced with Centre for Contemporary Photography, Australia’s brilliant professional partners HCPro, Spicers Australia, Hahnemühle Digital FineArt
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Join us 6pm August 6th at ArtSpace at Realm Arts in Maroondah for the official opening event, and to meet the artists and curator. More public events, talks and workshops to follow.
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Ryley Clarke
Yask
Minami Ivory
hussein
nik
PATRICIA SOFRA
Perimeter Books
Clayton Walker

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Thanks to everyone who came to the launch of CCP.PE.Zine 07 & 08 at Perimeter Books last night!-And thanks to the artist...
01/08/2026

Thanks to everyone who came to the launch of CCP.PE.Zine 07 & 08 at Perimeter Books last night!
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And thanks to the artists teva cosic & SEANOKAI., as they both head overseas for now projects and new adventures!
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Copies (inc. some signed) are now available at Perimeter Books.
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Thanks also to the Perimeter Books team for all their work on this co-publication!

New exhibition coming soon - ‘Unbound: New Photo Zines’ - featuring the work Hussein Abdirahman Mohamud hussein -A new C...
27/07/2026

New exhibition coming soon - ‘Unbound: New Photo Zines’ - featuring the work Hussein Abdirahman Mohamud hussein
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A new Centre for Contemporary Photography, Australia exhibition presented in partnership with Arts in Maroondah & Maroondah City Council
Curated by Daniel Boetker-Smith in collaboration with Gareth Syvret.
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“‘Street’ is a collection of images made across Melbourne; portraits and candid photographs of the everyday, of people’s experience of daily life in a city that is going through visible changes. These images have been selected from thousands I have made over recent years, and they provide an imperfect snapshot of my fleeting encounters with people momentarily fixed into photographs.”– Hussein Abdirahman Mohamud
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The exhibition production, printing, framing and mounting is supported by Arts in Maroondah and Maroondah City Council - and as always is produced with Centre for Contemporary Photography, Australia’s brilliant professional partners HCPro, Spicers Australia, Hahnemühle Digital FineArt
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Join us 6pm August 6th at ArtSpace at Realm Arts in Maroondah for the official opening event, and to meet the artists and curator. More public events, talks and workshops to follow.
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Ryley Clarke
Yask
Minami Ivory
hussein
nik
PATRICIA SOFRA
Perimeter Books
Clayton Walker

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New exhibition coming soon - ‘Unbound: New Photo Zines’ - featuring the work Ryley Clarke Ryley Clarke -A new Centre for...
26/07/2026

New exhibition coming soon - ‘Unbound: New Photo Zines’ - featuring the work Ryley Clarke Ryley Clarke
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A new Centre for Contemporary Photography, Australia exhibition presented in partnership with Arts in Maroondah & Maroondah City Council
Curated by Daniel Boetker-Smith in collaboration with Gareth Syvret.
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“‘Tomorrow’ explores my experiences of the world. I am drawn to chaos and contradictions, and to moments of instability and upheaval. In searching for a bittersweet understanding of these experiences, this zine reflects the desire to understand an ever-shifting world of uncertainty and affective moments that shape me. It is equal parts a cinematic coming of age story, and an observational look at a past still not fully comprehended.” – Ryley Clarke
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The exhibition production, printing, framing and mounting is supported by Arts in Maroondah and Maroondah City Council - and as always is produced with Centre for Contemporary Photography, Australia’s brilliant professional partners HCPro, Spicers Australia, Hahnemühle Digital FineArt
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Join us 6pm August 6th at ArtSpace at Realm Arts in Maroondah for the official opening event, and to meet the artists and curator. More public events, talks and workshops to follow.
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Ryley Clarke
Yask
Minami Ivory
hussein
nik
PATRICIA SOFRA
Perimeter Books
Clayton Walker

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New exhibition coming soon - ‘Unbound: New Photo Zines’ - featuring the work Patricia Sofra PATRICIA SOFRA-A new Centre ...
26/07/2026

New exhibition coming soon - ‘Unbound: New Photo Zines’ - featuring the work Patricia Sofra PATRICIA SOFRA
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A new Centre for Contemporary Photography, Australia exhibition presented in partnership with Arts in Maroondah & Maroondah City Council
Curated by Daniel Boetker-Smith in collaboration with Gareth Syvret.
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“I travelled to Silesia, one of Europe’s most polluted regions, to document Poland’s enduring reliance on coal and the impact it leaves on both people and place. Travelling through the small mining towns of Imielin and Bytom, ‘Subside’ moves through these fractured landscapes, documenting sinking homes, abandoned façades, and the quiet persistence of those who stay. A polluted haze softens the outlines of buildings, while “Save Imielin” posters and school murals signal local resistance. Across these shifting and fractured environments, the work examines the tension between economic necessity and environmental damage, reflecting a dependency that binds communities to an unsustainable future.”– Patricia Sofra
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The exhibition production, printing, framing and mounting is supported by Arts in Maroondah and Maroondah City Council - and as always is produced with Centre for Contemporary Photography, Australia’s brilliant professional partners HCPro, Spicers Australia, Hahnemühle Digital FineArt
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Join us August 6th at ArtSpace at Realm Arts in Maroondah for the official opening event, and to meet the artists and curator. More public events, talks and workshops to follow.
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Ryley Clarke
Yask
Minami Ivory
hussein
nik
PATRICIA SOFRA
Perimeter Books

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