Let’s Get Together by Lynette Letic
“In 2015, I spent time in a number of small towns west of Brisbane photographing people at community events, social gatherings, dances, and fairs. The project was driven by a desire to venture outside of the capital, for the first time, and photograph people and events that were unfamiliar to me. Initially, I was wary of interfering with the events by making pictures with my clunky camera and flash, but the people were invariably accommodating and welcome to the idea of having their regular social activities, as well as their selves, documented.
What ultimatelyemerges from the photographsis a pictureofcommunityand tradition.As I watchedpeople gatherweekly to eat white-bread sandwiches, play bingo and performchoreographed dances together, I noticed the ritual nature of these events and wondered what it means to come together as a group in such a way. Through gathered observations of expressions of community, this project serves to testify the collective endeavour of small town communities to perform and uphold traditions.”
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About Lynette Letic
Lynette Letic is a Melbourne-based documentary photographer. She completed a Bachelor of Photography with Honours at the Queensland College of Art in 2015 and has exhibited extensively since 2011. Her work has featured in various group exhibitions nationally and internationally, including Photo Contemporary and photo l.a. (2015), and publications such as Der Grief, Common Ground and Excerpt Magazine. In 2016, she was a finalist in the National Photographic Portrait Prize, and a finalist in the Documentary/Photojournalism category of Australia’s Top Emerging Photographers Awards for her series, Let’s Get Together.
