SOME PICTURES by Adrian Cook

© Adrian Cook. Gurrumul - Selenium toned Silver Gelatin Print.
© Adrian Cook. Gurrumul - Selenium toned silver gelatin print.

Adrian Cook's latest exhibition, SOME PICTURES, features a series of hand-printed silver gelatin prints and wet plate collodion images. The exhibition runs until 26 June at Sydney's Disorder gallery.

Click here to attend opening night cocktails & canapés from 6pm on 10 June.

© Adrian Cook. Lockdown Landscapes #5.
© Adrian Cook. Lockdown Landscapes #5.

About the artist

Adrian Cook is an award-winning portrait and documentary photographer and has worked for major advertising agencies and magazines around the world for the last 25 years. His work has been exhibited worldwide and has picked up awards at Cannes and D&AD, amongst others. In Australia, he has been a finalist in Head On, Art & About, The Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize, and the National Photographic Portrait Prize.

In early 2015, uninspired by the predictability and monotony of digital photography, he began taking photographs using the wet plate collodion process in an effort to recreate the aesthetic qualities and characteristics lost with the demise of film. He now works on personal projects using wet-plate techniques, both in the studio and on-the-road from his mobile darkroom.

© Adrian Cook. Rowland S. Howard.
© Adrian Cook. Rowland S. Howard.
© Adrian Cook. Elizabeth.
© Adrian Cook. Elizabeth.
© Adrian Cook. Nya.
© Adrian Cook. Nya.
© Adrian Cook. Harries Place - 5x4 Black Glass Ambrotype.
© Adrian Cook. Harries Place - 5x4 Black Glass Ambrotype.

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November

Sydney: The exhibition delves into the State Library of NSW's vast collection of two million images, showcasing 400 photos – many displayed for the first time.

February

Ballarat: Scotty So is a Melbourne-based artist who works across media, using painting, photography, sculptures, site-responsive installation, videos and drag performance.

Melbourne: Jill Orr’s The Promised Land Refigured is an exhibition that reworks the original project created in 2012 with new insights that have emerged in the past eleven years.

Sydney: Curated by Lynn Smith, Urban Enigmas aims to unlock the subtle mysteries that lurk in out-of-the-way places in big cities: back lanes, river banks, street markets, abandoned factories, old bridges and so on.

March

Ballarat: Nan Goldin is an American artist whose work explores subcultures, moments of intimacy, the impacts of the HIV/AIDS and opioid epidemics on her communities, and photography as a tool for social activism.

Sydney: The Ocean Photographer of the Year Award, run by London based Oceanographic Magazine is in its 4th year and has quickly achieved recognition amongst photographers around the world.

Albury: The National Photography Prize offers a $30,000 acquisitive prize, the $5000 John and Margaret Baker Fellowship for an emerging practitioner, and further supports a number of artists through focused acquisitions.