Lisa Jayne Cramer makes photographs about the human condition, living, ageing, loss, grief, our bodies of sorrows, our bodies of joy, and investigates the meaning of home and motherhood from both the observer point of view and autobiographically. Raised in a male-dominant family she uses her experience as a daughter, sister and wife to investigate concepts of family, home and their influences on self.
Lisa associates her photography with absence, deferring her urge of maternal love and tenderness onto her lens, using various methods and processes, which include her medium format film camera, poetry and text to portray the complexions of her mind.
Email: lisa@lisajaynecramer.com
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Memberships:
Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
Museum of Australian Photography, Melbourne
NAVA
Education:
Large Format Camera workshop, Shea Kirk, 2023
Silver Gelatin Darkroom Printing, Gold Street Studios, with Ellie Young, 2021
Seeing Through Photographs Certificate Course at The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, NYC, 2020
Creative Photography Certificate Course at Photography Studies College (Melbourne) 2016
Achievements:
Honourable Mention, 22nd Julia Margaret Cameron Awards 2024, Category Self Portrait Series ‘YOUR child, MY child, EVERYONE’S child’. Awarded work published in special issue of FotoNostrum Magazine.
Finalist, MAPh member’s LOOK! Prize 2023
Certificate of Excellence, Portfolio Presentation ‘Beautiful Age’, Photography Studies College Melbourne, 2016
Exhibitions: - Group:
The Julia Margaret Cameron Award Exhibition, to be held along with the Pollux Awards and the 8th Biennial of Fine Art and Documentary Photography, FotoNostrum Barcelona, Spain December 2024.
2023 CCP x Hahnemühle Summer Salon, 25 November - 17 December 2023
‘Barbara The Beautiful’, MAPh member’s LOOK! exhibition, 30 August - 27 November 2023
‘Somers Garden', Hillvale Photo Trophy 2023