Brodie Standen receives $10,000 in 2011 Pool Grant to pursue photographic project of choice
Photographic collective Pool has announced Brodie Standen (pictured far left with Sean Izzard) as the 2011 recipient of the $10,000 Pool Grant.
Now in its second year, the $10,000 prize was set up as part of Pool’s commitment to nuturing emerging talent and is awarded to assist in researching and producing a photographic project of the winner’s choice.
Standen’s honours project in 2010, The Space Between Men, began to examine masculinity in contemporary Australian society and explored the complex and multi-dimensional relationships between young men. With the Pool Grant funding he will extend this theme onto another body of work that continues to bring some of these issues to light.
The following is a quote from Standen’s ‘The Space Between Men’ project: ‘Within contemporary society males are pressured to walk a fine line between the traditional stereotypes and modern expectations; being strong and detached while displaying style, intelligence and sensitivity. By documenting the changing ideas of masculinity, the roles played by males in contemporary Australian society will be highlighted and will challenge the relatively shallow-representation of males in our culture.’
Photo credit: Carla Orsatti
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Nice work Blizz.