Snap Blak Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island photography

Tony Albert, Girramay/Yidinyji/Kuku Yalanji peoples, Queensland Australia b.1981 / David C Collins, Australia b.1988 / Kieran Smythe-Jackson, Ngaanyatjarra people, Australia b.2005 / Kieran Lawson, Ngaanyatjarra people, Australia b.2006 / Timira Nelson, Ngaanyatjarra people, Australia b.2009 / Renisha Ward-Yates, Ngaanyatjarra people, Australia b.2007 / Nikisha Nelson, Ngaanyatjarra people, Australia b.2007 / Brittany Malbunka Reid, Ngaanyatjarra people, Australia b.2007 / Karni Mitchell, Ngaanyatjarra people, Australia b.2006 / Warakurna Superheroes (series) 2017 / Archival pigment print on paper / Seven sheets: 100 x 150cm (each) / Gift of the artists through the QAGOMA Foundation 2018 / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art / © Tony Albert/Copyright Agency

Tony Albert, Girramay/Yidinyji/Kuku Yalanji peoples, Queensland Australia b.1981 / David C Collins, Australia b.1988 / Kieran Smythe-Jackson, Ngaanyatjarra people, Australia b.2005 / Kieran Lawson, Ngaanyatjarra people, Australia b.2006 / Timira Nelson, Ngaanyatjarra people, Australia b.2009 / Renisha Ward-Yates, Ngaanyatjarra people, Australia b.2007 / Nikisha Nelson, Ngaanyatjarra people, Australia b.2007 / Brittany Malbunka Reid, Ngaanyatjarra people, Australia b.2007 / Karni Mitchell, Ngaanyatjarra people, Australia b.2006 / Warakurna Superheroes (series) 2017 / Archival pigment print on paper / Seven sheets: 100 x 150cm (each) / Gift of the artists through the QAGOMA Foundation 2018 / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art / © Tony Albert/Copyright Agency / View full image

When

30 Aug 2025 – 13 Sep 2026

Where

Gallery of Modern Art & Gallery 3.5 (Margaret Mittelheuser AM and Cathryn Mittelheuser AM Galleries)

About

'Snap Blak' brings together dynamic examples of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island photography that champion Indigenous self-representation, with assertions of visual sovereignty that resist prevalent stereotypes and re-present their people.

Throughout ‘Snap Blak’ each photograph both subverts the settler-colonial legacy of photography of Indigenous people as an instrument of disempowerment and misrepresentation; while asserting identity, cultural continuity and belonging.