How the arts can help us come back together again
Cherine Fahd and her photographic project features in a podcast from The Conversation, exploring how the arts help people deal with life's thorny challenges.
Congratulations to Associate Professor Cherine Fahd, who has been commissioned by C3West – an arts programme in western Sydney run by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia – to take portraits of people in the style of a school yearbook, amid the changing landscape of Parramatta. Some of the photos will be put on display in public in 2022 and compiled together in a printed volume, Being Together: Parramatta Yearbook.
Fahd told The Conversation that the project helps mark a moment in time, “a way of us coming back together after a period of social distancing and being apart”.
As The Conversation notes, “the City of Parramatta [is] a diverse suburb of Sydney, Australia, that’s changing fast as it undergoes a vast amount of construction and development. It was also an area hit hard by the COVID pandemic and subject to a hard lockdown. Reporter Olivia Rosenman went to Parramatta in mid-December to join [the] photoshoot … for [Fahd's] new project: ”
- Read the full story in The Conversation: How the arts can help us come back together again – podcast
Photograph. Cherine Fahd, Being Together: Parramatta Yearbook, 2021-2022. Produced by C3West on behalf of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia in partnership with Parramatta Artists’ Studios, an initiative of the City of Parramatta. Courtesy of the artist, Author provided (no reuse).
