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  • Art photo of a man wearing a hat seated on the ground next to a metal gate.
  • Empty tables and bench seating in a curtained cafe.
  • Shadowed figure walking up steps to join people dwarfed by city buildings.
  • A man seated in a stark room with wooden flooring.
Until 12 Oct

You Don't Have to Turn on the Red Light...But It Helps

  • Free
  • Art

This is a survey of where one group of Melbourne's analogue photographers are up to.

The only thing these images have in common is the photographic process to make them. The subjects vary greatly, as does the author's experience of the process.

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Date Times
Thu 4 Sep
  • 1pm - 5pm 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Fri 5 Sep
  • 1pm - 5pm 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Sat 6 Sep
  • 1pm - 5pm 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Sun 7 Sep
  • 1pm - 5pm 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Thu 11 Sep
  • 1pm - 5pm 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Fri 12 Sep
  • 1pm - 5pm 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Sat 13 Sep
  • 1pm - 5pm 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Sun 14 Sep
  • 1pm - 5pm 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Thu 18 Sep
  • 1pm - 5pm 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Fri 19 Sep
  • 1pm - 5pm 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Sat 20 Sep
  • 1pm - 5pm 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Sun 21 Sep
  • 1pm - 5pm 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Thu 25 Sep
  • 1pm - 5pm 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Fri 26 Sep
  • 1pm - 5pm 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Sat 27 Sep
  • 1pm - 5pm 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Sun 28 Sep
  • 1pm - 5pm 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Thu 2 Oct
  • 1pm - 5pm 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Fri 3 Oct
  • 1pm - 5pm 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Sat 4 Oct
  • 1pm - 5pm 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Sun 5 Oct
  • 1pm - 5pm 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Thu 9 Oct
  • 1pm - 5pm 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Fri 10 Oct
  • 1pm - 5pm 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Sat 11 Oct
  • 1pm - 5pm 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Sun 12 Oct
  • 1pm - 5pm 1:00pm - 5:00pm

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312/757 Bourke St
Docklands 3008

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  • telephone number: 03 7016 2267
  • email address: xyzphotogallery@gmail.com
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