Collaboration and Friendship in the Photography of Juno Gemes

Abstract

In this dialogue, I speak with distinguished Australian photographer Juno Gemes about a retrospective collection of her work that she is in the process of compiling at her studio on the banks of the Hawkesbury River in New South Wales. Provisionally titled Something Personal: Chronicles of the Movement 1978–2022, it will include photographs produced during a long‐term collaboration between Gemes and her friend Frances Peters‐Little, a Gamilaraay Yuwaalaraay filmmaker and historian with whom I also spoke for this dialogue. Combined, these conversations provide insight into the social relations, protocols, and ethics that shape and inform Gemes' ongoing photographic practice.