Gemma-Rose Turnbull

Overview:
Gemma-Rose Turnbull instigates photo-based projects that examine how the integration of collaborative strategies can catalyse social change agendas. She is a PhD candidate at The University of Queensland, Australia, and was a Scholar in Residence in the Art and Social Practice MFA program at Portland State University. She writes at Photography As a Social Practice.
Research Interests:
- Photo-based Social Practice
- Socially Engaged Art Practices
- Visual Activism
- Collaborative and Participatory Methodologies in Documentary Photography
- Documentary Photography
Research Topic:
Translating co-authored production into representation methodologies in socially engaged documentary photographic projects.
Supervisors: Dr Sally Butler, Dr Natalie Collie, and Dr Marnie Badham
Publications:
“Exploring the Tension Between Process And Product in Photo-based Collaborations,” in Beyond the impasse: New thinking in communication and social change, Nordicom Journal (special edition), Ed. Dr Pradip Thomas
The Questions We Ask Together. (Ed.) Portland, OR: OE In Print.
The Disposable Camera Project, Melbourne, VIC: Colour Box Studio.
A discussion of socially engaged, transdisciplinary, and expanded practices in contemporary photography, (in collaboration with Pete Brook, Eliza Gregory, Mark Strandquist), New York, NY: A Social Practice.
Talk to the Gun, (Ed.) Portland, OR: Publication Studio.
Red Light Dark Room; Sex, lives and stereotypes, Melbourne, VIC: G-R.Turnbull.