ENTRY DESCRIPTION
I seek beauty in everyday (often discarded) objects, and revel in the joyful interactions between available light and the objects that are lit by it.

AUTHOR
Joe Calleri is an Australian fine art and live performance photographer. Joe’s intimate, exciting, colourful, often dramatic images have been exhibited in Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States and Russia, and have to date been published in three books and in many other publications. Joe’s theatre publicity images have featured in publications including The Age, The Herald Sun, MCV and Real Time.

Joe’s images reflect a profound statement – which has now become a sort of mantra for Joe - by famous Japanese Artist and Photographer, Hiroshi Sugimoto “Art Resides Even In Things With No Artistic Intentions”. What this statement means to Joe is that, anything around Joe can be beautiful: a red door with gold handles, the façade of the new RMIT building, a green wall with dark shadows photographed at 3pm one afternoon, graffiti on a wall, water streaming from a fountain, the handle on a Fire Box, a broken down VW van in someone’s front yard. What is critical is how Joe looks at a particular scene or object.

Each day Joe challenges himself to find beauty and simple details in the ordinary, in the innocuous, in the small things that many others walk past, ignore, step over or around, overlook or perhaps take for granted.

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