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Thrilled my portrait of the talented force that is my Nonna Maria is a finalist in the Northern Territory Art Award this year, opening on the 29th of May.

Big thank you to Otis from @chapmanbaileydarwin for his beautiful work on the frame, everyone at @chapmanbailey_alice particularly Yul for his dry mounting expertise, and @peter_hatzipavlisfor your stunning work on the print!

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This work explores how personal histories are embedded within domestic spaces and everyday objects. Through portraiture, I use photography not only to document family, but as a method of spending time together. There is a space that is created with the camera, that means that even when I have known someone my whole life, a new way of communicating unfolds, new conversations, new meanings and a new way of connecting that is profoundly enriching to me. It can help change old patterns of communicating and to see each other differently.

In this image, my nonna Maria sits beside her sewing machine and overlocker, the tools of her craft. As a seamstress and designer of wedding dresses, these objects function as quiet markers of time, holding the traces of repeated gestures, immense skill, detail, labour, and care accumulated across decades both within her working life and her personal life.

Photographing her allows me to slow down and encounter her differently - to listen, to learn, and to understand more about the life she lived before I knew her. In this way, the photograph holds not only a portrayal of her skill and creativity, but also the moment of closeness that was facilitated by the camera.

Through this work, the portrait becomes both document and dialogue, tracing the intersection of family, labour, and intergenerational memory.

📸 2-3 by Otis Gold (@taro_gold)

Thrilled my portrait of the talented force that is my Nonna Maria is a finalist in the Northern Territory Art Award this year, opening on the 29th of May.

Big thank you to Otis from @chapmanbaileydarwin for his beautiful work on the frame, everyone at @chapmanbailey_alice particularly Yul for his dry mounting expertise, and @peter_hatzipavlisfor your stunning work on the print!

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This work explores how personal histories are embedded within domestic spaces and everyday objects. Through portraiture, I use photography not only to document family, but as a method of spending time together. There is a space that is created with the camera, that means that even when I have known someone my whole life, a new way of communicating unfolds, new conversations, new meanings and a new way of connecting that is profoundly enriching to me. It can help change old patterns of communicating and to see each other differently.

In this image, my nonna Maria sits beside her sewing machine and overlocker, the tools of her craft. As a seamstress and designer of wedding dresses, these objects function as quiet markers of time, holding the traces of repeated gestures, immense skill, detail, labour, and care accumulated across decades both within her working life and her personal life.

Photographing her allows me to slow down and encounter her differently - to listen, to learn, and to understand more about the life she lived before I knew her. In this way, the photograph holds not only a portrayal of her skill and creativity, but also the moment of closeness that was facilitated by the camera.

Through this work, the portrait becomes both document and dialogue, tracing the intersection of family, labour, and intergenerational memory.

📸 2-3 by Otis Gold (@taro_gold)

Thrilled my portrait of the talented force that is my Nonna Maria is a finalist in the Northern Territory Art Award this year, opening on the 29th of May.

Big thank you to Otis from @chapmanbaileydarwin for his beautiful work on the frame, everyone at @chapmanbailey_alice particularly Yul for his dry mounting expertise, and @peter_hatzipavlisfor your stunning work on the print!

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This work explores how personal histories are embedded within domestic spaces and everyday objects. Through portraiture, I use photography not only to document family, but as a method of spending time together. There is a space that is created with the camera, that means that even when I have known someone my whole life, a new way of communicating unfolds, new conversations, new meanings and a new way of connecting that is profoundly enriching to me. It can help change old patterns of communicating and to see each other differently.

In this image, my nonna Maria sits beside her sewing machine and overlocker, the tools of her craft. As a seamstress and designer of wedding dresses, these objects function as quiet markers of time, holding the traces of repeated gestures, immense skill, detail, labour, and care accumulated across decades both within her working life and her personal life.

Photographing her allows me to slow down and encounter her differently - to listen, to learn, and to understand more about the life she lived before I knew her. In this way, the photograph holds not only a portrayal of her skill and creativity, but also the moment of closeness that was facilitated by the camera.

Through this work, the portrait becomes both document and dialogue, tracing the intersection of family, labour, and intergenerational memory.

📸 2-3 by Otis Gold (@taro_gold)

A big thank you to everyone who came to the opening of TO HAVE SEEN SOMETHING IS TO NOT HAVE SEEN SOMETHING ELSE @solgalleryspace last week. It was a beautiful night with such a big turn out, we were blown away! Thank you to everyone who supported the show, especially all my fam and friends and my nonna ❤️

Big thank you to @peter_hatzipavlis for incredible work on the prints (as always) and @chapmanbailey_alice@transmutante for the beautiful framing.

Catalogue available online - link in bio.

Exhibition dates:17-29 March 206
SOL Gallery
420 Brunswick st, Fitzroy
Tuesday-Saturday 11-6 | Sun 11-4

Beautiful to be trusted with the install shots by a group of photographers ✨

@clallery @jazintown @forcelebrationspast and @brontebillman

A big thank you to everyone who came to the opening of TO HAVE SEEN SOMETHING IS TO NOT HAVE SEEN SOMETHING ELSE @solgalleryspace last week. It was a beautiful night with such a big turn out, we were blown away! Thank you to everyone who supported the show, especially all my fam and friends and my nonna ❤️

Big thank you to @peter_hatzipavlis for incredible work on the prints (as always) and @chapmanbailey_alice@transmutante for the beautiful framing.

Catalogue available online - link in bio.

Exhibition dates:17-29 March 206
SOL Gallery
420 Brunswick st, Fitzroy
Tuesday-Saturday 11-6 | Sun 11-4

Beautiful to be trusted with the install shots by a group of photographers ✨

@clallery @jazintown @forcelebrationspast and @brontebillman

A big thank you to everyone who came to the opening of TO HAVE SEEN SOMETHING IS TO NOT HAVE SEEN SOMETHING ELSE @solgalleryspace last week. It was a beautiful night with such a big turn out, we were blown away! Thank you to everyone who supported the show, especially all my fam and friends and my nonna ❤️

Big thank you to @peter_hatzipavlis for incredible work on the prints (as always) and @chapmanbailey_alice@transmutante for the beautiful framing.

Catalogue available online - link in bio.

Exhibition dates:17-29 March 206
SOL Gallery
420 Brunswick st, Fitzroy
Tuesday-Saturday 11-6 | Sun 11-4

Beautiful to be trusted with the install shots by a group of photographers ✨

@clallery @jazintown @forcelebrationspast and @brontebillman

A big thank you to everyone who came to the opening of TO HAVE SEEN SOMETHING IS TO NOT HAVE SEEN SOMETHING ELSE @solgalleryspace last week. It was a beautiful night with such a big turn out, we were blown away! Thank you to everyone who supported the show, especially all my fam and friends and my nonna ❤️

Big thank you to @peter_hatzipavlis for incredible work on the prints (as always) and @chapmanbailey_alice@transmutante for the beautiful framing.

Catalogue available online - link in bio.

Exhibition dates:17-29 March 206
SOL Gallery
420 Brunswick st, Fitzroy
Tuesday-Saturday 11-6 | Sun 11-4

Beautiful to be trusted with the install shots by a group of photographers ✨

@clallery @jazintown @forcelebrationspast and @brontebillman

A big thank you to everyone who came to the opening of TO HAVE SEEN SOMETHING IS TO NOT HAVE SEEN SOMETHING ELSE @solgalleryspace last week. It was a beautiful night with such a big turn out, we were blown away! Thank you to everyone who supported the show, especially all my fam and friends and my nonna ❤️

Big thank you to @peter_hatzipavlis for incredible work on the prints (as always) and @chapmanbailey_alice@transmutante for the beautiful framing.

Catalogue available online - link in bio.

Exhibition dates:17-29 March 206
SOL Gallery
420 Brunswick st, Fitzroy
Tuesday-Saturday 11-6 | Sun 11-4

Beautiful to be trusted with the install shots by a group of photographers ✨

@clallery @jazintown @forcelebrationspast and @brontebillman

A big thank you to everyone who came to the opening of TO HAVE SEEN SOMETHING IS TO NOT HAVE SEEN SOMETHING ELSE @solgalleryspace last week. It was a beautiful night with such a big turn out, we were blown away! Thank you to everyone who supported the show, especially all my fam and friends and my nonna ❤️

Big thank you to @peter_hatzipavlis for incredible work on the prints (as always) and @chapmanbailey_alice@transmutante for the beautiful framing.

Catalogue available online - link in bio.

Exhibition dates:17-29 March 206
SOL Gallery
420 Brunswick st, Fitzroy
Tuesday-Saturday 11-6 | Sun 11-4

Beautiful to be trusted with the install shots by a group of photographers ✨

@clallery @jazintown @forcelebrationspast and @brontebillman

Digital Features Editor @candicemarshall___ travelled to Alice Springs (Mparntwe) earlier this year for the free, 10-night, all-ages festival, Parrtjima 2025. Read her story at the link in bio. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy these 📸 from @_sarafoto
 
📆 Mark your calendars – the festival will return from 10–19 April 2026.

A total pleasure to photograph the opening of ‘Altherrpe’, an exhibition by @lillemadden last weekend @watchthisspace_ari. Congratulations Lille! ✨

Exhibition period: 16 May - 27 June

A total pleasure to photograph the opening of ‘Altherrpe’, an exhibition by @lillemadden last weekend @watchthisspace_ari. Congratulations Lille! ✨

Exhibition period: 16 May - 27 June

A total pleasure to photograph the opening of ‘Altherrpe’, an exhibition by @lillemadden last weekend @watchthisspace_ari. Congratulations Lille! ✨

Exhibition period: 16 May - 27 June

A total pleasure to photograph the opening of ‘Altherrpe’, an exhibition by @lillemadden last weekend @watchthisspace_ari. Congratulations Lille! ✨

Exhibition period: 16 May - 27 June

A total pleasure to photograph the opening of ‘Altherrpe’, an exhibition by @lillemadden last weekend @watchthisspace_ari. Congratulations Lille! ✨

Exhibition period: 16 May - 27 June

A total pleasure to photograph the opening of ‘Altherrpe’, an exhibition by @lillemadden last weekend @watchthisspace_ari. Congratulations Lille! ✨

Exhibition period: 16 May - 27 June

A total pleasure to photograph the opening of ‘Altherrpe’, an exhibition by @lillemadden last weekend @watchthisspace_ari. Congratulations Lille! ✨

Exhibition period: 16 May - 27 June

A total pleasure to photograph the opening of ‘Altherrpe’, an exhibition by @lillemadden last weekend @watchthisspace_ari. Congratulations Lille! ✨

Exhibition period: 16 May - 27 June

A total pleasure to photograph the opening of ‘Altherrpe’, an exhibition by @lillemadden last weekend @watchthisspace_ari. Congratulations Lille! ✨

Exhibition period: 16 May - 27 June

A total pleasure to photograph the opening of ‘Altherrpe’, an exhibition by @lillemadden last weekend @watchthisspace_ari. Congratulations Lille! ✨

Exhibition period: 16 May - 27 June

A total pleasure to photograph the opening of ‘Altherrpe’, an exhibition by @lillemadden last weekend @watchthisspace_ari. Congratulations Lille! ✨

Exhibition period: 16 May - 27 June

Portrait session with my favourite Emy @chikin_scratch

I have joined the @photoethicscentre campaign to increase and promote awareness of ethical storytelling across the industry. This campaign aims to address the lack of industry education and awareness regarding ethics and to promoting critical thinking, reflection of practice, accountability, consent and transparency across the photographic arts and media sector.

As the Photo Ethics Centre states, “We need more image makers who are ethically literate, able to negotiate ethical dilemmas with nuance and who can make sound ethical decisions…the pivotal role that photography plays in geopolitical events cannot be overstated. The impact of photographs can be both positive and negative and can influence at every level from the personal to the global. Photographs can stoke discrimination or influence policy.”

It has been a rewarding process to formalise the foundations of my approach to photography in a Statement of Ethics. Please have a read on my updated website - would love to hear the thoughts of others working in the sector on your own approaches.

I have joined the @photoethicscentre campaign to increase and promote awareness of ethical storytelling across the industry. This campaign aims to address the lack of industry education and awareness regarding ethics and to promoting critical thinking, reflection of practice, accountability, consent and transparency across the photographic arts and media sector.

As the Photo Ethics Centre states, “We need more image makers who are ethically literate, able to negotiate ethical dilemmas with nuance and who can make sound ethical decisions…the pivotal role that photography plays in geopolitical events cannot be overstated. The impact of photographs can be both positive and negative and can influence at every level from the personal to the global. Photographs can stoke discrimination or influence policy.”

It has been a rewarding process to formalise the foundations of my approach to photography in a Statement of Ethics. Please have a read on my updated website - would love to hear the thoughts of others working in the sector on your own approaches.

Excited to be a finalist in this year’s Northern Territory Art Award!

Exhibition dates: Friday, 29 May – Saturday, 11 July 2026

More details to come 🙌

Excited to be a finalist in this year’s Northern Territory Art Award!

Exhibition dates: Friday, 29 May – Saturday, 11 July 2026

More details to come 🙌

Grateful to have talented friends/collaborators like @desertdarlinpics capture this beautiful shot of me at work ❤️ Grateful that I continue to fall in love with photography again and again each year and each time in a different way. Thankful to have an avenue for making sense of the world and a way to connect with the people I love in it ✨

Thrilled to be a finalist in the 2026 Alice Prize with my portrait ‘You Can Have It All’ of friend and collaborator @gretel.bull.

Exhibition now showing @araluenartscentre until the 8th of June.

Big thank you as always to @peter_hatzipavlis from Final Grade for the beautiful print and @chapmanbailey_alice for their amazing work on the frame.

“Women have been sold the lie that progress means that they can have it all, when in reality it means we are doing paid work outside of the home while continuing to do all the unpaid, invisible work in the home. We are now both the breadwinners and the house keepers...something has got to give.” - Gretel Bull

‘You Can Have It All’ is part of Sara’s ongoing series, ‘Balm’, depicting women and non-binary people in their homes in Mparntwe. A commentary on the gender labour disparity in Australia, Sara and their subject’s share experiences about their collective experiences of domestic, emotional, logistical and advocacy labour, resulting in a cinematic documentary series of intimate and vulnerable portraits.

Image 2 credit: Araluen Arts Centre

Thrilled to be a finalist in the 2026 Alice Prize with my portrait ‘You Can Have It All’ of friend and collaborator @gretel.bull.

Exhibition now showing @araluenartscentre until the 8th of June.

Big thank you as always to @peter_hatzipavlis from Final Grade for the beautiful print and @chapmanbailey_alice for their amazing work on the frame.

“Women have been sold the lie that progress means that they can have it all, when in reality it means we are doing paid work outside of the home while continuing to do all the unpaid, invisible work in the home. We are now both the breadwinners and the house keepers...something has got to give.” - Gretel Bull

‘You Can Have It All’ is part of Sara’s ongoing series, ‘Balm’, depicting women and non-binary people in their homes in Mparntwe. A commentary on the gender labour disparity in Australia, Sara and their subject’s share experiences about their collective experiences of domestic, emotional, logistical and advocacy labour, resulting in a cinematic documentary series of intimate and vulnerable portraits.

Image 2 credit: Araluen Arts Centre

Had lots of fun doing this bush balm product shoot with @purplehousedialysis. Head over to their website to view their bush balm range!

Had lots of fun doing this bush balm product shoot with @purplehousedialysis. Head over to their website to view their bush balm range!

Had lots of fun doing this bush balm product shoot with @purplehousedialysis. Head over to their website to view their bush balm range!

Had lots of fun doing this bush balm product shoot with @purplehousedialysis. Head over to their website to view their bush balm range!

I opened my debut national tour in #Mparntwe (Alice Springs). We not only sold out but also threw a one of a kind queer house party 💕🌻💦🌊🥩✨ thank you so much for loving me and being a part of this magic.

Next up is #Castlemaine! Link to tix and your details in bio.

#trans #musician #newmusic

Images by Sara Maiorino ✨

I opened my debut national tour in #Mparntwe (Alice Springs). We not only sold out but also threw a one of a kind queer house party 💕🌻💦🌊🥩✨ thank you so much for loving me and being a part of this magic.

Next up is #Castlemaine! Link to tix and your details in bio.

#trans #musician #newmusic

Images by Sara Maiorino ✨

I opened my debut national tour in #Mparntwe (Alice Springs). We not only sold out but also threw a one of a kind queer house party 💕🌻💦🌊🥩✨ thank you so much for loving me and being a part of this magic.

Next up is #Castlemaine! Link to tix and your details in bio.

#trans #musician #newmusic

Images by Sara Maiorino ✨

I opened my debut national tour in #Mparntwe (Alice Springs). We not only sold out but also threw a one of a kind queer house party 💕🌻💦🌊🥩✨ thank you so much for loving me and being a part of this magic.

Next up is #Castlemaine! Link to tix and your details in bio.

#trans #musician #newmusic

Images by Sara Maiorino ✨

I opened my debut national tour in #Mparntwe (Alice Springs). We not only sold out but also threw a one of a kind queer house party 💕🌻💦🌊🥩✨ thank you so much for loving me and being a part of this magic.

Next up is #Castlemaine! Link to tix and your details in bio.

#trans #musician #newmusic

Images by Sara Maiorino ✨

Exhibition final days for my ongoing series, 'Nella Miscela', now exhibiting @solgalleryspace until the 29th of March. If you can't make it in person, you can view the catalogue online (link in bio).

Nella Miscela / In the Mix is a series of four works developed from my travels to Italy in 2024. The trip held particular significance for me as a second-generation Italian-Australian migrant seeking to explore my relationship to culture, place and language.

During this time, I confronted the tension of being perceived as Australian in a place I imagined as a site of belonging. While these photographs may initially resemble tourist images - moments of beauty, stillness and everyday life - they are shaped by a more complex experience of proximity and distance.

As a second-generation migrant, the act of returning to a cultural homeland can involve both connection and estrangement. Moments of belonging were often accompanied by subtle dislocations: speaking Italian and being answered in English, navigating miscommunications, and feeling like a visitor in a place where I was searching for home.

The works hold these layered experiences together, capturing moments of peace, familiarity and profound connection while also gesturing toward the quieter tensions that sit just outside the frame.

Nella Miscela - meaning “in the mix” - reflects the entanglement of vulnerability, euphoria and uncertainty that can arise when attempting to connect to culture as diaspora.

Exhibition final days for my ongoing series, 'Nella Miscela', now exhibiting @solgalleryspace until the 29th of March. If you can't make it in person, you can view the catalogue online (link in bio).

Nella Miscela / In the Mix is a series of four works developed from my travels to Italy in 2024. The trip held particular significance for me as a second-generation Italian-Australian migrant seeking to explore my relationship to culture, place and language.

During this time, I confronted the tension of being perceived as Australian in a place I imagined as a site of belonging. While these photographs may initially resemble tourist images - moments of beauty, stillness and everyday life - they are shaped by a more complex experience of proximity and distance.

As a second-generation migrant, the act of returning to a cultural homeland can involve both connection and estrangement. Moments of belonging were often accompanied by subtle dislocations: speaking Italian and being answered in English, navigating miscommunications, and feeling like a visitor in a place where I was searching for home.

The works hold these layered experiences together, capturing moments of peace, familiarity and profound connection while also gesturing toward the quieter tensions that sit just outside the frame.

Nella Miscela - meaning “in the mix” - reflects the entanglement of vulnerability, euphoria and uncertainty that can arise when attempting to connect to culture as diaspora.

Exhibition final days for my ongoing series, 'Nella Miscela', now exhibiting @solgalleryspace until the 29th of March. If you can't make it in person, you can view the catalogue online (link in bio).

Nella Miscela / In the Mix is a series of four works developed from my travels to Italy in 2024. The trip held particular significance for me as a second-generation Italian-Australian migrant seeking to explore my relationship to culture, place and language.

During this time, I confronted the tension of being perceived as Australian in a place I imagined as a site of belonging. While these photographs may initially resemble tourist images - moments of beauty, stillness and everyday life - they are shaped by a more complex experience of proximity and distance.

As a second-generation migrant, the act of returning to a cultural homeland can involve both connection and estrangement. Moments of belonging were often accompanied by subtle dislocations: speaking Italian and being answered in English, navigating miscommunications, and feeling like a visitor in a place where I was searching for home.

The works hold these layered experiences together, capturing moments of peace, familiarity and profound connection while also gesturing toward the quieter tensions that sit just outside the frame.

Nella Miscela - meaning “in the mix” - reflects the entanglement of vulnerability, euphoria and uncertainty that can arise when attempting to connect to culture as diaspora.

Exhibition final days for my ongoing series, 'Nella Miscela', now exhibiting @solgalleryspace until the 29th of March. If you can't make it in person, you can view the catalogue online (link in bio).

Nella Miscela / In the Mix is a series of four works developed from my travels to Italy in 2024. The trip held particular significance for me as a second-generation Italian-Australian migrant seeking to explore my relationship to culture, place and language.

During this time, I confronted the tension of being perceived as Australian in a place I imagined as a site of belonging. While these photographs may initially resemble tourist images - moments of beauty, stillness and everyday life - they are shaped by a more complex experience of proximity and distance.

As a second-generation migrant, the act of returning to a cultural homeland can involve both connection and estrangement. Moments of belonging were often accompanied by subtle dislocations: speaking Italian and being answered in English, navigating miscommunications, and feeling like a visitor in a place where I was searching for home.

The works hold these layered experiences together, capturing moments of peace, familiarity and profound connection while also gesturing toward the quieter tensions that sit just outside the frame.

Nella Miscela - meaning “in the mix” - reflects the entanglement of vulnerability, euphoria and uncertainty that can arise when attempting to connect to culture as diaspora.