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SHAWNA HANEL
Lives and works in Melbourne, Australia
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A visual thinker, I took to photography early. Since the tender age of nine, have taken a frank look at personal consumption habits and their relationship
when my parents brought home a black plastic Kodak Instamatic, I have been to recent American foreign policy.
developing an aesthetic sense. In our troubled times, it is no longer enough for me to make art void of moral
At first, I was interested mostly in color, shape and form. As I grew more aware consciousness or art that carries no responsibility.
of the planet we inhabit, environmental themes crept into my work. After We must accept once more that vision is a social practice intrinsic to our
living in several developing countries, I began to understand the magnitude existence and ultimately to our abilities to empathize with the existence of
of human suffering throughout our world. Eventually, I saw my photographs others. Today, I ask as Henry David Thoreau did over a century ago, “Could
as a way to constructively address issues of social justice and equality. In a greater thing take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for
the past, I focused on what it means to be a white person. More recently, I an instant?”
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