Miriam Charlie: Lockdown 2022.

'These photos capture my time spent in isolation after testing positive for Covid. I wanted to capture how lonely it was, how isolated I felt, and how as an Aboriginal person, not being able to connect with my family and Country.'

N.Smith Gallery is honoured to present a new exhibition of polaroid photographs by Garrwa / Yanyuwa elder Miriam Charlie.

Miriam Charlie’s photographs show the reality of her lived experience in a form traversing documentary and art photography. Lockdown 2022 documents Miriam’s time in isolation while recovering from COVID-19. The intimacy of her photos is reminiscent of familiar photographs, reframing the experience of life in a remote community through the lens of compassion, dignity and respect. The Polaroid's low-fi technology removes the need for bulky equipment and editing, retaining complete agency over her projects.
polaroid photo with handwritten notes

10.8 x 8.8 cm

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'Ultimately, Charlie’s work is both as artist and activist, and it is through her photography that she demands more for her community... The intimacy of these Polaroid photos – reminiscent of our own family photographs – humanises those featured in them and reframes the experience of life in a remote community through the lens of compassion, dignity and respect.'

– Liz Nowell | Director, Institute of Modern Art
- Miriam Charlie, Lock Down 22, 2022
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- Miriam Charlie, Lockdown 2022, 2022
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- Miriam Charlie, Negative arrow, 2022
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- Miriam Charlie, (first day of freedom), 2022
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