Week 22: Sydney snaps

I rocked up to the Australian Photography Centre (http://tmp.acp.org.au/current/) on a rainy Sunday morning to find myself the first patron of the day (it took me 12 more hours to realise that this was because I'd forgotten to turn the clocks back the night before....).

There are three (free!) exhibitions there at the moment; Zed Nelson's "Love me", a series themed around our relentless pursuit of beauty at any cost (leg-lengthening operations in China; 9-year-old girls wearing lipstick in pageants); Olivia Martin-McGuire's "Sleeping", created by fixing a camera to bedroom ceilings and taking shots of people at slumber; and "Domesticated" by Amy Stein, which won the Saatchi Gallery/Guardian prize recently.

The Amy Stein stuff was my favourite. What I especially liked about "Domesticated" was the kind of surreal aspect of every photo, even despite the necessary realism of photography as a medium. Here's a taste of her work....



Until next time, art fans,

Ali x