Out of the Frame : Conversations about Photography

This episode of Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography features guest artist Hanna Moon talking to host Pia Johnson about their fashion photography, personal projects and being rebellious.Hanna Moon is an artist, photographer and creative interlocutor, born in South Korea, and based in London. Her first critically-acclaimed contribution to fashion culture was her launch of A Nice Magazine, created by Moon for her graduation from Central St Martins, London, in 2014. Intentionally working with ideas and subjects outside of the conventions of fashion photography, Moon has defined herself as an important new voice in the field. Moon has featured in publications including i-D, Dazed, AnOther, M le Monde, POP, Dazed & Confused, Re-Edition, Arena Homme+ and British Vogue as well as the visual identities of brands including Hermés, Gucci, Miu Miu, Marc Jacobs, Fendi and Supreme.More on Hanna @hannamoon69 and Pia @piajohnsonphotography on Instagram. If you've enjoyed this episode, please leave us your feedback and subscribe. Thank you for listening to Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography. For all requests, please email info@piajohnson.com

This episode of Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography features guest artist Minami Ivory talking to host Pia Johnson about their artistic practice and self-portraiture, personal stories and trauma. Minami Ivory is a photographic artist based in Tasmania, Australia. Born and raised in Hokkaido, Japan, she moved to Australia at the age of fifteen. Her practice blends analogue and digital photography, incorporating paint, text, and collage to deepen meaning. Centred on issues affecting women in Japanese society, her work has been showcased in art prizes and photography festivals both nationally and internationally.Trigger Warning***Please note that this episode contains potentially distressing material, and discusses violence and trauma to women, young women and mental health concerns.Follow Minami @minamiivory and Pia @piajohnsonphotography on Instagram. If you've enjoyed this episode, please leave us your feedback and subscribe. Thank you for listening to Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography. For all requests, please email info@piajohnson.com

This is a special episode for the group exhibition Refusal / Futurity at Platform Arts, Geelong.Exhibition dates: SAT 10 MAY—FRI 11 JUL 2025Curated by Jody Haines, Refusal / Futurity is a group exhibition of contemporary women's self-portraiture, exploring how the artists use lens-based media as a tool and mechanism to subvert the colonial, western and patriarchal gaze. The exhibition features Eddie Abd, Hayley Millar Baker, Amy Carkeek, Pia Johnson, Clare Rae, Jahkarli Felicitas Romanis, Jody Haines(C).The episode shares interviews with artist curator Jody Haines, Jahkarli Felicitas Romanis and Clare Rae in the studio, and artist talk recordings from the opening event by Amy Carkeek and Pia Johnson.Trigger Warning****Please note that this episode contains potentially distressing material, and discusses topics including the Aboriginal Stolen Generation, childbirth and mental health concerns.The essay written by Kelly Hussey-Smith relating to the exhibition can be found here.Please share, rate, review and subscribe to Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography. For more information or any queries please contact Pia Johnson on info@piajohnson.com

This episode of Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography features guest artist Katrin Koenning talking to host Pia Johnson about photography as a process and the idea of drawing closer.Katrin Koenning’s work centres around practice as relational encounter. In extended image-dialogues, Katrin uses fragments and slippages to suggest narrative spaces, communities and lived experiences that are allied, fluid and multiplicit.Please note, this episode includes discussion about mental health and suicide, which may be triggering for some listeners. If you have concerns about your own situation, please reach out to a professional or get support from https://www.beyondblue.org.au.Follow Katrin @k_koenning and Pia @piajohnsonphotography on Instagram. If you've enjoyed this episode, please leave us your feedback and subscribe. Thank you for listening to Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography. For all requests, please email info@piajohnson.com

This episode of Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography features guest artist Matt Dunne talking to host Pia Johnson about photographing nature and seeing beyond the immediate story, as well as all things about publishing photobooks for Tall Poppy Press.Matt Dunne is an artist whose work explores Australia’s environment as a product of colonial legacy. Using photography and research as a basis, he develops publications, installations and education programs that engage wide-ranging and diverse audiences to deepen their connection to the world around them.Follow Matt on @matt.dunne @tallpoppypress and Pia @piajohnsonphotography on Instagram. If you've enjoyed this episode, please leave us your feedback and subscribe. Thank you for listening to Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography. For all requests, please email info@piajohnson.com

This episode of Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography features guest artist Isabella Capezio talking to host Pia Johnson about their practice covering ideas about queering the landscape, bodies and making photographs in the darkroom.Isabella Capezio is a photographer, artist and a lecturer in Photography in the School of Art at RMIT. Isabella’s research and artwork engages in themes of failure, queerness and landscape. Isabella is experimenting with alternative ways to reflect on place, vision, ‘nature’ and colonial frameworks of power through landscape photography.Follow Isabella on @isabella_capezio and Pia @piajohnsonphotography on Instagram. If you've enjoyed this episode, please leave us your feedback and subscribe. Thank you for listening to Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography. For all requests, please email info@piajohnson.comThis is the final episode for Season 2. Thanks for listening!

This episode of Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography features guest artist Lesley Turnbull talking to host Pia Johnson about her practice, notions of growing up a tomboy, being a lesbian and photographing the Scottish landscape.Lesley is a Scottish Australian artist and teacher with a research-based art practice that investigates photo-based practices, performance, creative writing, and sculpture to explore how marginalisation shapes personal narratives and lived experiences.More on Lesley: https://www.lesley-turnbull.comFollow @lesleyturn_bull and Pia @piajohnsonphotography on Instagram. If you've enjoyed this episode, please leave us your feedback and subscribe. Thank you for listening to Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography. New episode released each month. For all requests, please email info@piajohnson.com

This episode of Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography features guest artist Emma Phillips talking to host Pia Johnson about her love of photographing people, being a feminist and advocating for the sexy-selfie.Emma Phillips is a photographer and researcher/lecturer in Visual Communication with the University of Canberra. Her work uses photographic methodologies which foreground the representational experiences of women and non-binary people. More on Emma www.emmaphillips.com.auFollow Emma on @emmatremora and Pia @piajohnsonphotography on Instagram. If you've enjoyed this episode, please leave us your feedback and subscribe. Thank you for listening to Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography. New episode released each month. For all requests, please email info@piajohnson.com

This episode of Out of the Frame : Conversations about Photography features guest photographer Kate Robertson talking to host Pia Johnson about how she engages with community and landscape with authentic connection and mindfulness. Through experimental analogue and digital photographic techniques, Kate explores unseen yet felt phenomena relating to healing and connectedness within environmental community contexts. She works with camera-less photographic methods and with photographic processes that can act as a receptacle for absorbing and understanding imparted information, rather than merely a mechanism for capturing a descriptive likeness. Follow Kate @katerobertsonphoto and Pia @piajohnsonphotography on Instagram. If you've enjoyed this episode, please leave us your feedback and subscribe. Thank you for listening to Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography. New episode released each month. For all requests, please email info@piajohnson.com

This episode of Out of the Frame : Conversations about Photography features guest photographer Sarah Anderson talking to host Pia Johnson about how she manages clients, works on collaborative projects and is a creative problem solver.With a love of visual stories, Sarah’s experience spans across food & beverage, interiors and architecture. A practical problem solver, Sarah helps clients bring their work to life - always aiming to understand and capture the story beyond the shot. Follow Sarah @sarahanderson and Pia @piajohnsonphotography on Instagram. If you've enjoyed this episode, please leave us your feedback and subscribe. Thank you for listening to Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography. New episode released each month. For all requests, please email info@piajohnson.com

This episode of Out of the Frame : Conversations about Photography features guest artist Zoë Croggon talking to host Pia Johnson about how she uses collage, the body, dance and the material through her art practice. Melbourne based Zoë Croggon works with sculpture, video, drawing and primarily, collage. Her practice considers the relationship between the kinetic body and its surroundings, contemplating the role we play in our environment and how deeply our surroundings inform the cadence of our lives.Follow Zoë @zoecroggon & Pia @piajohnsonphotography on Instagram. If you've enjoyed this episode, please leave us your feedback and subscribe. Thank you for listening to Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography. New episode released each month. For all requests, please email info@piajohnson.com

This episode of Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography features 3 interviews with guest artists from the Photo2024 Festival: Clifford Prince King, Elyssia Wilson-Heti (FAFSWAG) and Sunil Gupta with Charan Singh, talking about queer voices in photography.Follow them on @cliffordprinceking, @elyssiaw, @fafswag, @sunilgupta7402, @random_access01 and Pia on @piajohnsonphotographyIf you've enjoyed this episode, please leave us your feedback and subscribe. Thank you for listening to Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography. New episode released each month. For all requests, please email info@piajohnson.com

This episode of Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography features guest artist Jody Haines talking to host Pia Johnson about her practice as a lens-based artist, portraiture and yarning.Jody Haines (palawa) is a contemporary artist based in Naarm/Melbourne. She is known for her unique art practice, which combines elements of social practice, photomedia, and public art. Her approach is deeply rooted in Indigenous feminist k/new/known materialism and emphasises yarning, relationality, and standpoint as a way to explore themes of identity, representation, and the female gaze.Follow Jody @jodyhaines_photography & Pia @piajohnsonphotography on Instagram. If you've enjoyed this episode, please leave us your feedback and subscribe. Thank you for listening to Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography. New episode released each month. For all requests, please email info@piajohnson.com

This episode of Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography features guest artists from the Photo2024 Festival, Isadora Romero, Jemima Wyman and Carmen Winant talking about photography as activism.Isadora Romero is an Ecuadorian photographer and visual storyteller based in Quito. Her work is a frontier between documentary and art photography, focusing on social justice and environmental issues. Jemima Wyman’s practice encompasses performance, video, installation, collage, photography and painting. Her recent work focuses on protective coverings (patterns, masking and smoke) used by marginalized groups to gain power during conflict. Carmen Winant is an artist and the Roy Lichtenstein Chair of Studio Art at the Ohio State University. Her work utilizes installation and collage strategies to center modes of feminist exchange and social movement building, with particular emphasis on intergenerational and multiracial solidarity.Follow them on @isadoraromerophoto, @jemimawyman and @carmen.winant, and Pia on @piajohnsonphotographyIf you've enjoyed this episode, please leave us your feedback and subscribe. Thank you for listening to Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography. New episode released each month. For all requests, please email info@piajohnson.com

This episode of Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography features guest artist Morganna Magee talking to host Pia Johnson about her practice as a photographer and themes of grief, melancholy and the darkness.Morganna is based in Melbourne, Australia, living and working on the unceded land of the Bunurong/Boonwurrung people of the Kulin Nations. Her practice explores human relations to the more-than-human world using traditional photographic practices in non-traditional ways.Follow Morganna @morgannamagee & Pia @piajohnsonphotography on Instagram. If you've enjoyed this episode, please leave us your feedback and subscribe. Thank you for listening to Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography. New episode released each month. For all requests, please email info@piajohnson.com

This episode of Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography features guest Brisbane based photographer Tammy Law talking to host Pia Johnson about her practice as a documentary art photographer.Tammy is an Asian Australian photographer whose practice speaks to issues of migration and diaspora; revealing the complexities of displacement and the emotional, psychological and physical dislocations that occur.Follow Tammy @tammy_laws & Pia @piajohnsonphotography on Instagram. If you've enjoyed this episode, please leave us your feedback and subscribe. Thank you for listening to Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography. New episode released each month. For all requests, please email info@piajohnson.com

This episode of Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography features guest artist Shannon McGrath talking to host Pia Johnson about her love of interiors, architecture and photography.Shannon has been photographing architecture and interior design works for 25 years. Her images are known for their beautiful portrayal of light and form, with a soft realism that celebrates the subject matter. Follow Shannon @shannonmcgrath7 & Pia @piajohnsonphotography on Instagram. If you've enjoyed this episode, please leave us your feedback and subscribe. Thank you for listening to Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography. New episode released each month. For all requests, please email info@piajohnson.com

This episode of Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography features guest artist Torika Bolatagici talking to host Pia Johnson about her practice, bodies and photography.Torika is a Fijian-Australian artist, writer and academic working across multiple disciplines including photography, video, installation, publication, and curation. Her work explores the social, cultural and political movement of bodies.Follow Torika @torika_b & Pia @piajohnsonphotography on Instagram. If you've enjoyed this episode, please leave us your feedback and subscribe. Thank you for listening to Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography. New episode released each month. For all requests, please email info@piajohnson.com

This first episode for Out of the Frame : Conversations about Photography and features guest photographer Rebecca Nadjowski talking to host Pia Johnson about her practice, the landscape and photography.Rebecca (b. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA) is an American/Australian artist whose work examines imaging technologies, the mediation of nature, and visualizations of the climate emergency.Follow Rebecca @rebecca.najdowski & Pia @piajohnsonphotography on Instagram. If you've enjoyed this episode, please leave us your feedback and subscribe. Thank you for listening to Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography. New episode released each month. For all requests, please email info@piajohnson.com