CAST Gallery

J.J. Voss’ practice initially took shape as an existential charge into unposed Street Photography. That problematic and risky bent slowly changed into photographically pursuing politicians in an attempt to disrupt their manufactured public image. After completing a Master of Fine Arts in Hobart in 1991, he moved back to NSW to take up a lectureship in Photography. Voss returned to Tasmania in 1995 to commence a PhD project The Australian Political Arena: Investigations into models of veracity in media imagery, a project that critically examined press photography, an area in which he also worked part-time. In 1996 he gained a guernsey on the Bill Clinton Australia Tour and continued to have his works published in national and international broadsheets and magazines. In 2001 he moved to Launceston to guest lecture in Photomedia for three years, complete the PhD project and changed practice quite markedly, commencing the series exhibited here.