Dirt Bike Dreaming by Katrina Starmer

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.

Retail price for unframed prints already includes shipping Australia-wide.

Year: 2024

Size: 871 x 624mm 

Medium: 260gsm premium semi-matte photo paper 

Description

Emergency service workers are exposed to some of the most raw moments of human trauma and tragedy. As a mother working in remote emergency services, we joke that this is compounded with the relative daily trauma of parenting teens. Recreation such as camping out in the shed and escaping on the dirt bikes is an important part of healing the psyche and regrouping with loved ones. As the warm rays of a dawn sun stream through the hair of this mother and daughter in their swags, they are able to pause for a precious moment to savour the warmth and grounding of a flannelette hug and dream of where their dirt bikes will take them.

Biography 

Katrina Starmer is an amateur photographer from Far North Queensland. Starmer works as a doctor for the Royal Flying Doctor Service and flies to patients in remote towns for medical care. Starmer has photographed her very patient children and her patient patients for years, as well as the rural towns and remote landscapes that she has worked in. Her photos have been published as part of a Rural Health Workforce photojournalism exhibit and in the Medical Journal of Australia (MJA). In her words: 'I recognise that I sit awkwardly and conspicuously amongst a group of real photographers as part of this prize. Though humble and relatively unimpressive in terms of photographic prowess – my proudest personal photographic achievement was winning the grand prize at my local show in the same year that my daughter Lilah won the junior prize for her photo of her little sister in the water of birdie creek on Cape York'.

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