National Library of Australia - Gateways

ISSN 1039-3498 | no. 64 | August 2003


Pictures Collection
Works by Satoshi Kinoshita

Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, NSW, 19 December 1986 by Satoshi Kinoshita

Satoshi Kinoshita (b.1959)
Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, NSW, 19 December 1986
gelatin silver photograph; 35 x 25.5 cm
Pictures Collection, nla.pic-an24219356

 

The recent acquisition by the National Library of 101 photographs by Satoshi Kinoshita has made a significant contribution to our documentation of Australian sub-cultures.

The majority of the collection, taken between 1986 and 2000 when Kinoshita lived and worked mainly in Australia, maps the differing experiences of life in Sydney by day and by night. Day-time Sydney features a range of subjects from the beautifully composed image of the Botanic Gardens above, to children playing outside the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and scenes in Hyde Park on Anzac Day. Much darker in subject matter and tone, the night-time images include a number of works from Kinoshita’s ‘Night People’ series, documenting the participants and performers at RAT (Recreational Arts Team) parties, the Mardi Gras Cabaret and the Hellfire Club and DragTrade parties at Blackmarket.

Currently based in New York, Satoshi Kinoshita was born in Osaka in 1959 and was educated in Kyoto. He studied photography in Osaka in 1983 and 1984, and has held exhibitions in Australia, Tokyo and San Francisco. A selection of his early work is published in AUST II: Australia 1986–1988.
—Michelle Hetherington

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