Applications are now open for our brand new Photobooth Residency.

Offered in parallel to the exhibition Auto Photo: A Life in Portraits at RMIT Gallery (from 5 June to 16 August), CCP, RMIT & Metro-Auto-Photo are inviting applications from creative practitioners who have a connection to RMIT through work, life or study to take up a residency in our on-site analogue BW photobooth.

The opportunity

Each participant will have access to the working photobooth, installed within the exhibition at RMIT Gallery, to create a series of artworks (photobooth strips) during the exhibition run, culminating in at least SIX final photobooth artworks. 

This opportunity provides each practitioner with free access to the photobooth at RMIT Gallery to make up to FIFTEEN photobooth strips (three images on each strip) during June and July, as well as guidance and mentorship from our panel.

Each selected resident will receive a $750 fee for this opportunity. More details will be provided to the three selected artists.

Each selected resident will also have the opportunity to discuss and present their work at an event in the final week of the ‘Auto-Photo’ exhibition.

Residents will be selected by a panel consisting of Christopher Sutherland and Jessie Norman (Metro Auto Photo), Catlin Langford (Curator), and Julia Powles (RMIT Culture).

Your application should include:

• A 150-word statement about what you aim to create with the photobooth.
• A visual portfolio or a link to your website to provide a sense of your visual style and/or working methods.
• One sentence explaining your connection to RMIT University.

Please send your application to galleries@rmit.edu.au with the subject line ‘Photobooth Residency’. 

Please submit applications by midnight AET, 1 June 2025

This residency is presented as part of Auto Photo: A Life in Portraits at RMIT Gallery from 5 June to 16 August 2025. Auto Photo: A Life in Portraits is a Centre of Contemporary Photography exhibition, presented in partnership with RMIT Culture.

Curated by Catlin Langford and Metro Auto Photo. 

Featured image: courtesy of Ruth O’Leary