Nathan Kelly is a photographer who lives in Cairns and teaches visual arts at a secondary school here. In 2007 Nathan made a series of formal portraits at the Laura Aboriginal Dance Festival. Nathan had his medium format negatives printed as extra large scale prints which were then mounted on aluminium.
A set of these images (20"x24" prints) has been donated by Nathan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which came about after six months of discussion with the museum's Curator of Oceanic Art Eric Kjellgren.
Nathan with his large format prints.
©Sean Davey/The Cairns Post
The Laura Aboriginal Dance Festival is held every two years at Laura, about four hours' drive north-west of Cairns. The three day festival is a major highlight in the Far North Queensland cultural calender which attracts locals and international tourists alike.
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