Andrew Stark (photographer)

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Andrew Stark
Born
Sydney, Australia
NationalityAustralian
Education Newington College
Known for Street photography

Andrew Stark is an Australian candid and urban street photographer, active since the early 1980s and based in Sydney.

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Early life and education

Stark was born in Sydney and educated at Newington College (1976–1981). [1]

Life and work

Stark lives on the Central Coast, New South Wales.

In 2003, his first book, Snaps from Sydney, was self-published. A second, Candidly Inclined, followed in 2005. From September 2006 to February 2007 an exhibition of his work, Starkers, was held at the Museum of Sydney. [2] Throughout 2007, Stark documented the Sutherland Shire district, known for the 2005 Cronulla race riots, and the resulting exhibit Down South was commissioned and shown at Hazelhurst Gallery, Sydney in late 2008. [3] [4] A third book, Escaping into Life: A psycho study of the contemporary street photographer was self-published in 2010. A review of his work in Black+White magazine stated, "Stark's idiomatic and wryly observed urban photographs of Sydney, Australia, represent a vital continuation of documentary street photography, reflecting similar social concerns and the same aesthetic irony as Robert Frank, William Klein and Garry Winogrand." [5] In 2019 he published Here come the townies: The early history of Gosford Rugby League: 1890–1950. [6]

He works in black and white using a Konica TC film camera and a 28 or 40 mm lens. [4] "He is drawn in by the emotions of his subjects – a fleeting look of vulnerability, a spontaneous burst of joy, or the blank stare of melancholy." [2]

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References

  1. Newington College Register of Past Students 1863–1998 (Syd, 1999) pp 188
  2. 1 2 "Starkers: photographs by Andrew Stark". Sydney Living Museums / Museum of Sydney. 17 January 2014. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
  3. ""Down South" exhibition". Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre .[ permanent dead link ]
  4. 1 2 "Candid Photography in Australia: An Interview with Andrew Stark". Urban Photography Art. 2010. Archived from the original on 20 March 2013. Retrieved 4 July 2013.
  5. "Review". Black+White. November–December 2003.
  6. "Here come the townies: The early history of Gosford Rugby League: 1890–1950 / Andrew Stark". trove.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 21 July 2020.