Museum of Australian Photography – November 2025 to February 2026 exhibitions – various

Venue: Museum of Australian Photography
Location: 860 Ferntree Gully Road Wheelers Hill Victoria 3150
30 Nov, 2025 - 22 Feb, 2026
Web: https://maph.org.au/

ImageL Naomi Hobson.
The good sister ‘Ms. Daley, the kindergarten teacher has a flash black bike, it’s them olden-style one. Every time I drop Erica off at kindy, I always check it out.’ Kayla2019
from the series Adolescent wonderland
pigment ink-jet print
69.2 x 104.1 cm
Museum of Australian Photography, City of Monash Collection
acquired 2021
MAPh 2021.135
courtesy of the artist and Vivien Anderson Gallery (Melbourne) — Image: Naomi Hobson from **Young | youth in Australian photography: 1980s to now.** The good sister ‘Ms. Daley, the kindergarten teacher has a flash black bike, it’s them olden-style one. Every time I drop Erica off at kindy, I always check it out.’ Kayla2019 from the series Adolescent wonderland pigment ink-jet print 69.2 x 104.1 cm Museum of Australian Photography, City of Monash Collection acquired 2021 MAPh 2021.135 courtesy of the artist and Vivien Anderson Gallery (Melbourne)

Young | youth in Australian photography: 1980s to now

22 November 2025 – 22 February 2026
Artists: Atong Atem, Donna Bailey, Anne Ferran, Bill Henson, Petrina Hicks, Naomi Hobson, Samuel Hodge, Paul Knight, Katrin Koenning, Christopher Köller, Jesse Marlow, Rod McNicol, Jacqueline Mitelman, Tracey Moffatt, Corben Mudjandi, Prudence Murphy, Derek O'Connor, Polixeni Papapetrou, Trent Parke, Drew Pettifer, David Rosetzky, Julie Rrap, Naomie Sunner, Darren Sylvester, Simon Terrill, David M Thomas, Lisa Tomasetti, Lyndal Walker.

Daniel Temesgen | Us

22 November 2025 – 22 February 2026
Born in Ethiopia and now living in Australia, Daniel Temesgen creates portraits that are intimate, luminous, and grounded in community. Focusing on friends and peers, he celebrates youth, friendship and the vibrancy of Black life in contemporary Australia, exploring layered identities and cultural richness through a personal lens.

Drawing on the visual language of fashion photography, including composition, light and colour, Temesgen transforms these tools into expressions of tenderness. His subjects appear in transitional spaces such as cars and shorelines: ordinary yet cinematic, capturing moments of movement, change and self-possession.

Valeriy Taouk | Lights

22 November 2025 – 22 February 2026
Melbourne-based artist Valeriy Taouk works with found objects and appropriated photographs to examine how images shape culture, desire and collective memory. His intuitive, darkroom-based practice embraces unorthodox printing methods and experimental processes, blurring the boundaries between photography and its material form.

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February

Women Photographers 1900–1975: A Legacy of Light

Melbourne: 28 Nov 2025 – 26 May 2026. The exhibition celebrates the wide-ranging photographic practices of more than eighty women artists working between 1900 and 1975.

180 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne VIC 3006 NGV | 1 Feb - 26 May, 2026

Unfinished Business: a 3D photography exhibition

Sydney: Until 11 April. Unfinished Business brings together the voices of 30 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living with disabilities from remote, regional, and urban communities across Australia.

1 William St, Sydney NSW 2010 Australian Musem | 1 Feb - 19 Apr, 2026

Trent Parke: The Christmas tree bucket

Canberra: Until 6 Sept 2026. Trent Parke’s photographic series The Christmas tree bucket 2006–09 is a tender and darkly humorous portrayal of his extended family coming together to celebrate Christmas.

National Gallery of Australia (NGA) Parkes Place East, Parkes ACT 2600 | 2 Feb - 6 Sep, 2026

Familial – presented by CCP

Melbourne: 11 Feb – 25 April 2026. Familial brings together six international artists whose work navigates the emotional and psychological terrain of family.

360 Burwood Rd, Hawthorn, Victoria Town Hall Gallery – Hawthorn Arts Centre | 11 Feb - 25 Apr, 2026

March

Mervyn Bishop: Close Up

Sydney: Until 7 Feb 2027. From his archive of more than 200,000 images, Close Up celebrates the historic moments and pivotal people he famously captured.

1 Shakespeare Place Sydney NSW 2000 State Library of NSW | 1 Mar, 2026 - 7 Feb, 2027

NSW at Night

Sydney: 03 March – 26 March 2026. NSW at Night is a photography exhibition offering a glimpse into life after dark across New South Wales, through the people, places and rhythms that shape it.

6 Macquarie St, Sydney NSW 2000 Fountain Court, Parliament House | 3 Mar - 26 Mar, 2026

On the street where I live: Viva Gibb's portrait of North and West Melbourne

Melbourne: 5 March – 7 August 2026. Between the mid-1970s and early 1990s, artist and social documentary photographer Viva Gibb (1945-2017) documented the suburbs of North and West Melbourne, where she lived.

110 Swanston St Melbourne 3000 City Gallery – Melbourne Town Hall | 5 Mar - 7 Aug, 2026

Coded Blooms | flowers have never been innocent

Melbourne: 7 March – 24 May 2026. Photos of flowers from the NGA collection by prominent photographers drawn such as Robert Mapplethorpe and four groundbreaking Australian photographers.

860 Ferntree Gully Road Wheelers Hill Victoria 3150 Australia Museum of Australian Photography | 7 Mar - 24 May, 2026

TOPshots 2026

Melbourne: 10 March – 5 May 2026. TOPshots is an annual celebration of emerging photo-media artists selected from a large pool of entries.

860 Ferntree Gully Road Wheelers Hill Victoria 3150 Museum of Australian Photography | 10 Mar - 5 May, 2026

The City Is Not Still - Andrew Tan and Rosalind Pach

Melbourne: 13 – 22 March 2026. Award-winning photographers Andrew Tan and Rosalind Pach invite you to explore the city as a living, shifting experience.

Level 2, 125 Smith St, Fitzroy, VIC, Australia, Victoria 3065 Fitzroy Public Gallery | 13 Mar - 22 Mar, 2026