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Anna Zahalka Presentation
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Anna Zahalka
By Adeline Pritchard
Art works
Photographs
The Cleaner
'The Cleaner' Photo is one of the many new pieces of the new resemblance series produced in 2002. Anna Zahalka's made her picture to look the same as the resemblance series in 1987, she used the same fabric and props as the painting. She got a lot of criticism for the photos appearing to be from the bygone era but Anna says, "The images are deceptive, they play the game of artifice and resemblance where the models play themselves performing a role and where photography resembles painting."
The Sunbather
The sunbather is one of many pictures in the playground series. The Sunbather piece shows that sunbaking is normal in Australia and in these series she is trying to show that it is an Australian thing to go to the beach and it doesn't matter about your age, religion, colour or size the beach is a playground to all.
The girls
Anne Zahalka's photo, The girls, was made as a response to the Cronulla riots. Australian's were confused of these young Muslim women lifeguards because it's a stereo type to show skin on Australian beaches. This picture opened Australia up to different cultures and beliefs coming into Australia.
Childhood
Picture of Anne Zahalka now (there were no pictures of when she was little)
Childhood
Anne Zahalka born 1957 in Sydney, Australia. Zahalka was born in 1957 to a Jewish Austrian mother and Catholic Czech father. She developed an interest in Australia's migrants and diverse cultures in her early childhood. After primary school Anne Zahalka studied at East Sydney Technical College and Sydney College of the Arts, and began participating in group exhibitions in Australia and Germany. This is where she began her love of photography making it into her dream job and showing work exploring cultural stereotyping with a humorous and critical voice.
Inspiration and process
Anne Zahalka's says "I was inspired by a catalogue I came across of the postcard photography work of John Hinde studios, who produced postcards in the 1950s and 1960s in the UK. What is striking about these postcards is that they manipulated the colours, exposures and scenes to create 'dazzling' hyper-real images". Making her images some of her themes and interest she shows are cultural stereotyping identity, representation, gender, multiculturalism, interiors, appropriation and difference within Australian society.
Process
Process
With many of Anne Zahalka's photos her process and working method starts with working with medium-format colour positive film and experimenting with camera and darkrooms. She then prints her early images as large Cibachrome photographs in high gloss paper. Later she creates digitally manipulated photographic artworks, enhancing colours and including objects that could not co-exist logically in an environment.
- Works are often staged and constructed, with most of her friends and family poses.
- She normally creates a series rather than a individual piece.
- Her process starts with a conceptual idea, using photographic medium to create an image to communicate her message. This process was used in her series The playground.
Her message
Her message
Anne Zahalka's messages that displays in her photos is identity, stereotypes, multiculturalism, appearances and culture. We see these themes in both of her artworks The bathers and the series Wild life. In the bathers artwork it displays that Australians use the beach as a playground and that it is a stereo type not to show skin at a Australian beach. The series Wild life shows that Australian wildlife is suffering from human actions and man made things.
Achievements
Zahalka has exhibited ‘The Landscape Revisited’ at the Murray Art Museum and her ‘Wild Life’ series in Perth. A major survey exhibition of Zahalka’s beach themed works was held at Manly Art Gallery & Museum in 2015. Zahalka completed a commission at Parliament House, Canberra to mark the 25th Anniversary of the building in 2014 with the collection remaining there. In 2008, the Centre for Contemporary Photography collected one of her portraits, which toured to regional galleries in Australia as well as the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra. Sydney Airport also has Zahalka's photo portraying migrants. Zahalka’s was also work was selected for Dubai Photo Exhibition and she has undertaken Photography in Morocco with Amazigh Cultural Tours in 2016 and 2014. She has been the recipient of awards such as winning the Macarthur Cook Art Prize (2008), the National Photographic Prize (2007) and the Leopold Godowsky Photography Award in Boston, (2005) and she was a finalist in the 2017 Olive Cotton Aware.
Stangers in strange land
The photo Stanger's in strange land shows traditional cultures. This picture is a very different photo, it shows two cultures in one area. It is a bright and light photo which makes us believe that the picture is based in Australia. The 3 girls dressed in their traditional clothes are looking over an Australian desert compared to their own country. The title of the images represents a different culture in a different land. This image shows that cultures and people with different beliefs can live together keeping their ideas.