2009-05-05
NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY

The National Portrait Gallery exhibition Portraits + Architecture explores the relationship between creative thinking and identity. 

Presenting the work of seven leading Australian architect teams with commissioned photographic portraits by seven Australian photographers, the exhibition explores the thinking that informs creative architecture practice rather than the details of specific buildings or architectural projects.

Each architect team was asked to invite a photographer to create a suite of portrait photographs in response to a defined brief. The photographs are presented as A1 monochromatic black and white.

Photographed in the Northern Territory, David Lancashire has created a set of portraits that situate Troppo Architects in five diverse, immersive, and highly-textured natural environments that reflect the regions in which their offices are based – Adelaide, Darwin, Perth, Townsville and Byron Bay.

"In these portraits I wanted to show the strong connection Troppo Architects have with a sense of place. The way their Architecture responds to and sits at one with country, is inseparable from their understanding of the ancient rhythms and culture of this great Continent."

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