Young Australian Skeptics

For those of you who attended the opening of National Science Week you would have seen off in the corner some fascinating artwork inspired by the micro-​​world. It shows how science and art work hand in hand, reflecting and enhancing the beauty that is the natural world.

In honour of this relationship I wanted to direct your discerning eyes to some really special photographs which are currently available to purchase. Georgina Campbell is an innovative photographer who uses all manner of strange image capturing methods such as scanners, plastic and toy cameras (which are often simple devices with plastic lenses, no aperture or shutter speed controls) to create some very beautiful and dare i say ethereal works.


Many of her photos have a real ‘science’ theme to them, from her ‘Science Experiments’ series to her ‘What Lies Beneath’ and ‘The Grandfather Paradox: Parallel’ works.

A common theme running through her works seems to be about revealing and enhancing the peripheral aspects of objects that the observer would normally miss (much like the microscope affords us new revelations). In this case it is like you are viewing hidden depths that were always in full view but you just hadn’t noticed. It reminds me of the most thrilling aspect of being a skeptic, that is to reveal something new to a person and have them say “i never thought about it that way”.   

Head over to  http://​georginacampbell​.com​.au/​p​h​o​t​o​g​r​a​phs/ and be sure to pass the link on to other photography fans and others who support local artists.  And feel free to email me with any other local artists you think the YAS readers would appreciate.  

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This entry was posted on Thursday, August 20th, 2009 at 5:31 pm and is filed under Dan Kerr, Science. Tagged as: art, photography, Science. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.