James Tylor's self-portrait daguerreotype is included in the new permanent collection display at the newly reopened National Portrait Gallery, London.
Photography was historically used to document First Nations Peoples and the European colonisation of Australia. Tylor uses the historical 19th-century photographic daguerreotype process with the aid of modern technology to create contemporary images that re-contextualise the representation of Australian society and history.
Artwork:
James Tylor
Self Portrait, 2021
quarter-plate daguerreotype lined with Nantu Watpa Grey Kangaroo fur; taken on Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country, Kamberri/Canberra
12 x 10 cm
