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For Rex Dupain, representing the season of Summer through photography is about so much more than beach culture. It’s about street theatre, family, outdoor gyms and even echoes of Luchino Visconti’s 1971, Death in Venice.
His exhibition, Summer – Bondi to Barcelona, showing at MAMA (Murray Art Museum Albury) until 2 April captures the essence of Summer with images from Bondi, New York, Brighton, Sorrento (Italy), Bay of Naples, Barcelona and New York City.
Border Cafe’s Robyne Young caught up with Rex to discuss his exhibition and thoughts on photography.
You started out as a photographer and then studied painting and now have returned to photography.
What influence, if any, have your painting studies had on your photography?
I thought I had mastered photography at eighteen and so I went to art school because I wanted to do something a bit more difficult which was painting.
I was hung in the Archibald three times and the Wynne and Sulman, so I did okay as a painte