Centre for
Contemporary
Photography
Current exhibition:
‘Auto-Photo: A Life in Portraits’, June 5 – Aug 16, 2025
RMIT Gallery, 344 Swanston St, Melbourne
This exhibition is a collaboration between Agency Project and the Centre for Contemporary Photography. Presented at Agency Projects, 47 Easey St, Collingwood, Melbourne.
Exhibition text
“I visited my ancestral island of Mer in the Torres Strait. It was a transformative experience that was shared between myself and my cousins from the moment we landed on the tarmac. My Aunty was crying, we were finally home. I sat with my Ama, in our village of Las, as she explained to me the names of the tides. And that one day they will bring us all back home again. How do I hold a place, when a place holds all the roots of my being? How do I exist somewhere else, when all that I am is back there?
This series of works were born out of the longing to return to Mer.”
Peta Duncan
About the Artist
Peta Duncan is a self-taught, emerging lens-based artist whose work is both an exploration of her identity and a love letter to her culture and community.
Through her work, Peta explores familial relationships, cultural practices and the juxtapositions of embedding cultural knowledge in different contemporary photographic mediums and approaches.
