PHOTO LIVE Special season with MGA and PSC In conversation | Pippa Milne with Dana Lixenberg

Live streamed webinar, join MGA Senior Curator, Pippa Milne in conversation with artist Dana Lixenberg (NL) as they discuss her approach to photography and her award-winning work, Imperial Courts, featured in Not standing still: new approaches in documentary photography.

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About Dana Lixenberg

Dana Lixenberg (born 1964) is a Dutch photographer who lives and works between Amsterdam and New York City. She studied photography at the London College of Printing (1984–86) and at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam (1987–89).

Lixenberg has received commissions from magazines, such as The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and Vibe. Besides her extensive editorial practice, she pursues long-term projects with a primary focus on marginalised communities.

Lixenberg has exhibited widely at institutions such as Huis Marseille Museum for Photography in Amsterdam (2015), Aperture Foundation in New York (2017), The Photographers’ Gallery in London (2017), and Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (2020). She has produced numerous publications of her projects, receiving the Best Dutch Book Design Award in 2018, 2017, 2008 and 2005. Lixenberg received the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize in 2017 for Imperial Courts.

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July

Sydney: Until 31 Dec 2025. PIX, Australia’s first pictorial news weekly, is brought to life in this exhibition, showcasing its archived images and stories for the very first time.

November

Canberra: Until 1 March 2026. Women photographers 1853–2018 highlights the transformative impact of women artists on the history of photography.

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.

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.

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.

December

Sydney: 4 Dec – 30 Jan 2026. The project brings together around 70 images over 50 metres of wall space, profiling a wide spectrum of practical action on climate

February

Perth: 1 Feb – 1 March 2026. Head On Photo Festival is expanding its footprint to Western Australia, with an outdoor and indoor festival program running from Sunday 1 February to Sunday 1 March 2026.