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Title Australian Story: Turning the Gaze
Published Australia : ABC, 2013
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Summary Introduced by Jamila Rizvi from 'Mamamia' websiteMelbourne schoolgirl Olympia Nelson is only sixteen, but she's no stranger to controversy.She's grown up in an unusual but talented household as the daughter of an art critic and acclaimed photographer Poli Papapetrou. Olympia and her mother have had a long creative partnership. But in 2008 an unclothed photograph of Olympia aged six generated national controversy when it appeared on the cover of the magazine 'Art Monthly'. Even the Prime Minister bought in.Now Olympia has weighed in from an unexpected direction by publicly challenging the popularity of 'selfies' - often explicit self portraits posted on social media. Her robust analysis of the selfie trend and issues around girls, sexual expression and self image was published by The Age Newspaper, setting off a new debate
Event Broadcast 2013-09-23 at 20:00:00
Notes Classification: NC
Subject Photographic criticism.
Photography of children.
Photography of the nude.
Self-portraits.
Women photographers.
Australia.
Form Streaming video
Author Rizvi, Jamila, host
Holden, Andrew, contributor
Johnston, Hetty, contributor
King, Natalie, contributor
Matheson, Keiva, contributor
Moore, Lily, contributor
Nelson, Olympia, contributor
Nelson, Robert, contributor
Nelson, Solomon, contributor
Papapetrou, Polixeni, contributor
Papastergiadis, Nikos, contributor
Tankard Reist, Melinda, contributor
Rizvi, Jamila, contributor
Rudd, Kevin, contributor