Exhibition catalog
Ephemeral
Edith Cowan University
Exhibition. Through the Lens: A Photomedia Record of the ECU Mount Lawley Campus (ECU, Mount Lawley, 03/09/2025–11/09/2025)
09/2025
Abstract
A series of nine of my images, titled "Ephemeral," were selected for Through the Lens – an exhibition which commemorated the history of ECU Mt Lawley, ahead of the move to its city location.
Experimenting with Polaroid transfers (an alternative analogue photographic process), this series explored themes of nostalgia and memory. When lifting the emulsion from the polaroid backing during a Polaroid transfer, the images become momentarily translucent, extremely fragile and malleable before they take on a new form on a different surface. It is a reminder of the ephemeral nature of both the photograph and what it temporarily captures. And like memories, these malleable images warp, stretch, and fragment, and will also fade and be re-shaped with the passing of time.
The works were selected by an international panel of acclaimed photographers, including Jerome Jehel (Paris, France) and Associate Professor Oh Soon Hwa (Singapore), and the exhibition was curated by Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies Panizza Allmark and Dr Duncan Barnes (ECU, Perth).
Details
- Title
- Ephemeral
- Authors/Creators
- Talhy Stotzer (Artist)
- Event
- Exhibition. Through the Lens: A Photomedia Record of the ECU Mount Lawley Campus (ECU, Mount Lawley, 03/09/2025–11/09/2025)
- Publisher
- Edith Cowan University
- Identifiers
- 991005850287707891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Media and Communication
- Resource Type
- Exhibition catalog
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