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“I have always found the suburbs very beautiful – the light, the change of seasons and so on. I am not so interested in the political dimensions of these things. I didn’t have any witticisms to land on suburbia. I was really just interested in how beautiful it was. I felt it was like a dreamscape and once I understood that was how I needed to approach it the dream started to expand in unusual ways.”

Quote by Bill Henson

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Bill Henson

Bill Henson is an Australian photographer known for his unique style and use of light and shadow. His works often focus on teenagers, exploring the confusion and growth of adolescence. Henson's art has gained international acclaim, and he has won numerous awards, including the Australian Art Prize and the Sydney Art Prize. His works are collected by museums and galleries around the world. more

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“Each time I make a photograph I celebrate the life I love and the beauty I know and the happiness I have experienced. All my photographs are made like that responding to my intuition... After all these years, I am still motivated by the radiance that light creates when it transforms an object into something magical. What the eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black-and-white image is yet another transformation. What exactly exists, we may never know.”