Liz Ham

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Liz Ham
Born1975 (age 47–48)
London, England
NationalityAustralian
Known forPhotography

Liz Ham (born 1975) is an English-born Australian photographer based in Sydney, Australia. Ham has photographed urban life, fashion, music and politics for years and in 2017 published a photography book called Punk Girls. Some of Ham's photographs have been purchased and archived by Australia National Libraries as representations of the culture of Australia.

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Career

Ham is one of Australia's contemporary photographers "who often works overseas". [1] Ham began photographing when she was 14, then studied photography at the College of Fine Arts in Sydney. [2] Since then she has documented life in Australia with her photos, from city dwelling, to fashion, [3] to ballet, and punk rock [4] for 20 years. Her work is editorial in nature, portrait, and for advertisers. [5] [6] [7] [8] Ham 'has thrived in the male-dominated industry of fashion photography' [9] but "social advocacy is her motivating factor" [10] as she captures images, using her Canon EOS 5D Mark III [11] and a 4×5 rangefinder Polaroid conversion camera. [12] Her photographs have appeared in Vogue, Elle, Russh, Oyster, Dazed & Confused and i-D. [13]

Exhibitions

In 2000, Ham exhibited her work at Stills Gallery, [14] [15] in 2013 at the Sydney Photographer's Exhibition, [16] and in 2018 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney. [17]

Selected awards

Ham has received the following awards for her work. [18] [2] [19]

Photographic collections

Fashion

Ham has done work for Oyster magazine [20] and in 2009, Teddy Girls images by Ham were published by Oyster [21] and then in Art Monthly Australia in 2010. [22] Ham has photographed for Vogue Australia. [23] [15] Design Scene magazine featured a retro style photo shoot by Ham entitled The Apple of My Eye. [24]

Culture of Australia

In 1997 Ham photographed bohemian dancer Vali Myers. [25] To represent the culture of Australia, Ham has photographed people she knows in their natural daily environment, using realism [1] and social documentary photography. [26] [4]

Archived

Some of her photographs have been purchased and archived by the State Library of New South Wales [7] and by the State Library of Victoria. [27] The collections archived by Australian state libraries relate to ordinary people in Sydney doing regular things: urban life, people at work, [28] and dance, [7] hairdressing, and shopping. [8]

Publications

Ham spent years working on Punk Girls, a photo-book featuring portraits of women, many of her friends, in punk fashion. It began as a punk zine but was published in 2017 by Manuscript Daily. [29] [12] [30] [15] [31] Discrimination against the punk rock subculture is explored with her photographs in the book; these girls who are different, but beautiful in their difference. [32] [17]

In 2014 Ham self-published a limited edition of Eastern Suburbs Girls, a small 56-page photo-book showing what it might have been like "growing up in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, Australia in the 1980s and 1990s." [33]

Personal life

Born in London in 1975, she emigrated with her parents to Sydney in 1980. [34] Ham lives with her husband and two children in Sydney. [12]

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