Kristian Laemmle-Ruff is a photographic artist based in Melbourne, Australia.
His work focuses on social, cultural and environmental challenges in an increasingly fragile and globalised world. Having recently expanded his practice to include sound and installation, Kristian blends documentary rawness with conceptual uses of symbolism and colour.
“Kristian Laemmle-Ruff is a photographer with a visually acute and potent sense of image-making. His Pine Gap has a surprising and unexpected beauty which, in its own term, belies it political purpose.” – Chris Saines CNZM
Naomi Cass, director of the Centre for Contemporary Photography, found his series Littoral to be a “beautiful yet terrible” expression of humanity’s effect on our landscape.
In 2014 he published his first photo-book In the Folds of Hills in which Mr Malcolm Fraser wrote that this book “will come to have historic significance because it captures aspects of Australian rural life, which in many parts of this country are fast disappearing.”
The book was a finalist in the Australian Photobook of the Year Awards 2014.
Kristian regularly engages in collaborations with other artists (Luke Cornish, Ilka White) and has completed photo-work for galleries such as Metro Gallery, Liverpool Street Gallery and Buku Larrnggay Mulka Centre in Arnhem Land as well as NGO’s in Japan. He also undertakes architectural, studio and portrait-based commissions.
Having exhibited throughout Australia as well as overseas, Kristian’s works are part of permanent collections including the Queensland Centre for Photography and the State Library of Victoria.
Kristian lives and works at Merring Studio in the thriving arts-hub of Northcote in Melbourne. Here he is also part of the creative team
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Mind the Gap, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth, Australia
Mind the Gap, Watch this Space, Alice Springs, Australia (forthcoming)
In the Folds of Hills, Swanpool Cinema, Swanpool, Australia
In the Folds of Hills, Tap Gallery, Sydney, Australia
In the Folds of Hills, The Field Institute, Melbourne, Australia
Littoral, Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane, Australia
Littoral, Colour Factory Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Cuba, Carbon Black Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Light Unseen, Sofitel Melbourne, Australia
39th Alice Art Prize, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, Australia
Fukushima Disaster 5th Anniversary, The Asia Institute, University of Melbourne, Australia
Island - Australia, Photo Ireland Festival, The Copper House,
Dublin, Ireland (curated by Claire Monneraye from ACP)
Asia Pacific Photobook Day, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Sydney, Australia
Lateral/Liminal, Monday Week Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Littoral, Head On Photo Festival, Gallery Eight, Sydney, Australia
Time, Poimena Gallery, Launceston, Australia
Get Eco-Friendly, Sustainable Living Festival, Melbourne, Australia
Littoral (studio show), Paradise Hills Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Cuba (selected works), Somewhere Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Dualscape ‘New Photo’, Subject Matter Art Space, Melbourne, Australia
10 Lessons from Fukushima. Reducing risks and protecting communities from nuclear disasters. Fukushima Booklet Publication Committee (cover and p.46 images)
In the Folds of Hills, Pearce Press, Melbourne
IPPNW, Peace and Health Blog, 11 March, Fukushima three years on: A photo essay
Queensland Centre for Photography Catalogue, text by David Broker, CCAS Director
The Book, ‘Architecture in Australia’
Silvershotz Photographic Annual Folio
39th Alice Prize, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs (highly commended)
Australian Photobook of the Year Awards 2014 (finalist)
ABC News, TV interview and online article by Shuba Krishnan, 17th April
News.com.au, article by Debra Killalea, 4th March
The Syndey Morning Herald, article by Daniel Flitton, 28th May
The Age, article by Daniel Flitton, 28th May
The Canberra Times, article by Daniel Flitton, 28th May
ABC Radio National interview on ‘Tony Delroy Nightlife’ 14th May
ABC Radio National interview on ‘Bush Telegraph’ 1st May
ABC Shepparton Radio, interview with Matt Dowling 21st May
The Australian, Arts Guide 29th April
The Age, Arts Feature by Dylan Rainforth 30th April
Australian Photography Magazine, profile feature by Robert Keeley,
July Edition
Australian Photography Magazine, online article 8th April
Broadsheet, article by Tobie Brown 28th April
L’oeil de la Photographie, article by Alison Stieven-Taylor 8th May
Photojournalism Now, article by Alison Stieven-Taylor 25th April
Eastside Radio Arts Thursday 89.7FM, interview with
Angela Stretch 15th May
Habitus Living, online article 14th April
Urban Light, online feature 1st May
The Field Institute, online feature 15th April
Art Blart, exhibition and book preview 8th April
Time Out Melbourne, online feature 8th April
Stock and Land, online article 30th April
The Locavore Edition, online article 8th April
The Big Issue, article by Alan Attwood 23rd May
Art Monthly Australia, March edition 257 p 79
The Mercury, article by Rebecca Fitzgibbon 13th Feb
The Australian, ‘Timing’s Right for this Show’, Justin Burke 10th Feb
Art Blart, by Dr Marcus Bunyan, Melbourne’s Magnificent Eleven 2nd Jan
Art Blart, by Dr Marcus Bunyan Review: ‘Littoral’ 20th May
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