People's Blockade by Dean Sewell

Details

Retail price for the framed work is for pick-up from NERAM, Armidale. Shipping Australia-wide can be arranged and will be invoiced separately.

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Year: 2024

Size: 110 X 76cm 

Medium: Hahnemuhle cotton rag

Description

Newcastle artists and climate defenders Ellie Hannon (swinging) and Pete Parslow enjoy an early morning bowl of cereal during a 24 hour vigil to protect the 'Play Raft' from NSW Police sabotage. They were part of the 10,000-strong Rising Tide's People's Blockade 2024 of the world's largest coal export harbour – Newcastle. 

The Play Raft was a collaborative piece, designed and built by Newcastle's 40-strong Art Raft Collective, and they were told by NSW Police that if they attempted to launch it into the shipping lane, it would be dismantled and confiscated. The People's Blockade of Newcastle Harbour aim is to draw attention to Australia's reliance on coal and its contribution to climate change.

Biography

Dean Sewell has been a documentary photographer for 35 years, beginning his career with the Sydney Morning Herald in 1989. At the age of 24, Sewell became the youngest photographer to win the Nikon Press Photographer of the Year Awards in 1994. In 1996–1997 Sewell lived and worked in Moscow, Russia. On his return, he won the 1998 Nikon Press Photographer of the Year Awards. Sewell has won World Press Photo Awards in 2000, 2002, 2005. In 2009 and 2010 he was back-to-back winner of the Australian Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize. In 2020, Sewell won the Moscow International Photo Prize in the News Category for his coverage of the Black Summer Bushfire and in 2022 won best photographic essay in the Australian Walkley Awards. 

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