Remote Perspectives — PSC 2025 Advanced Diploma Graduate Exhibition
Photography Studies College (PSC) proudly announces Remote Perspectives, the Advanced Diploma of Photography graduate exhibition featuring works by PSC students who have studied remotely from across Australia.
Opening at PSC’s South Melbourne campus on 21st November at 6pm, the exhibition celebrates the creativity, resilience, and diversity of six graduating photographers who have completed all their studies as part of PSC’s remote learning program.
Spanning genres as varied as still life, portrait, landscape, architectural and abstraction, and showcasing themes and topics just as broad, the exhibition offers audiences a compelling view of the breadth of contemporary Australian photography.
Remote Perspectives reflects the distinctive voices and unique viewpoints of photographers working from diverse geographical locations, cultural contexts and stylistic interests. From the quiet intensity of intimate portraits to bold explorations of space and form, and from small outback towns to the sweeping plains of Namibia, this exhibition demonstrates how distance can foster vastly different ways of seeing.
The exhibiting artists are Johanna Sierraalta, Louise Hollands, Alison Faigniez, Assunta Russo, Karen Bryant and Jessica Crerar.
Photography Studies College (PSC) is an award-winning tertiary institution specialising in photographic education for over fifty years. Offering a broad range of courses and facilities, the college is a centre of photographic excellence based in South Melbourne.
Exhibition Details
Title: Remote Perspectives
Venue: Photography Studies College, 37–47 Thistlethwaite Street, South Melbourne
Opening Function: 6pm to 8pm Friday 21st November 2025
Exhibition Dates: 21st November until 5 December 2025, weekdays and business hours only.
Remote Perspectives Group Exhibition Includes
Assunta Russo — ‘Garden of Curious Things’
“My work turns unusual produce into bold fashion icons, celebrating their imperfections instead of hiding them. By transforming what’s usually thrown away into runway stars, I explore individuality, beauty and the power of being different. It’s a playful, surreal world where quirks are celebrated and uniqueness steals the show.”
Johanna Sierraalta — ‘Chrysalida - Architecture as memory, symmetry as poetry, photography as interpretation’
“Through photography, I reimagine Sydney’s architecture beyond buildings structures — shifting from recognizable forms to abstractions where symmetry, geometry, and patterns take over. More than documentation, these images are interpretations—poetic studies of transformation. They invite viewers to contemplate architecture for its functional purpose, adding cultural language, aesthetic rhythm, and evolving vision of what our built environment can become. When buildings dissolve into symmetry and patterns, do we see their essence—or our own reflection?”
Alison Faigniez — ‘Shifting Sands’
Using surreal images taken in the deserted Namibian town of Kolmanskop, Alison Faigniez draws attention to the power of nature. Her series shows how the moving sand dunes eventually overcome man-made structures and resilient wildlife move in to make new homes.
Louise Hollands — ‘Expression in a Bottle’
“This series explores how photography can transform a simple still life into images that carry the sensibilities of painting. Drawing on both Cubism’s structural exploration and Expressionism’s expressive use of colour and form, the work moves beyond literal depiction to open space for interpretation. For me, it is about allowing the camera to behave more like a brush, turning the act of seeing into the act of creating.”
Karen Bryant — ‘Performative’
“I am drawn to the question of how people interact with our world through intention. How we claim space and express elements of who we are; and why. Lived moments of ordinary everyday life weave layers that shape how we are seen and outwardly display elements of how we ‘place’ ourselves. I am interested in how we ‘speak’ to others. How identity is not static, but continuously performed, witnessed, and reimagined. Enactments of activity often stand as small but powerful statements, providing visual reference points of their identity, where each story deepens our understanding of how the act of being seen becomes an act of empowerment. From this has arisen a series of intimate interviews and photographic explorations; collaborations between individual subjects and photographer.”
Jessica Crerar — ‘Brewed Together’
Brewed Together is a series based in the regional and remote communities of Far North Queensland. Shot on the Atherton Tablelands in Malanda, Yungaburra and Mount Garnet, the series focuses on the isolation in regional and rural communities, and how important small towns are for these small communities to find connection.
