THE latest exhibition at Free Range Gallery is a joint display of photography from brothers Jackson and Gene Eaton.
Perth From Space explores themes of identity and estrangement in the context of coming home. The photographers have created a unique visual identity for a city more commonly represented by its sun-soaked scenery.
After spending considerable time living overseas, Jackson and Gene returned to Perth with a new perspective and the exhibition is part urban landscape and part intimate portrait study of some of the more forgotten aspects of everyday life in the world’s most isolated capital.
“The project began when Gene found a crumpled poster of an aerial photograph of Perth in the spare room he was preparing for me to stay in,” Jackson said.
“We wanted to focus on all the odd and often forgotten details of our environment in an attempt to re-understand a city that we used to call home.
He said the work combined personal reflection and social commentary in a textured array of images that explored the beauty in the neglected and the uneasy in the everyday.
“In one sense it is ‘space from Perth’; how the city appears after a considerable physical and temporal detachment from it. In another, it is about the city itself – how it comes to be given the space afforded to it,” Jackson said.
“It is Perth from space.”
The exhibition opens on Saturday and runs until April 1 at Free Range Gallery, 339 Wellington St, Perth.