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Ben Pearse’s Studio-Community Portrait Project

Ben Pearse's community portrait project

In association with the the opening of the annual Blue Mountains Portraits exhibition 2025, Australian portrait photographer Ben Pearse setup a portrait studio at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre. The result was 120 portraits of the community who came and sat for a portrait with Ben. All of the images were shot live and tethered to a monitor so that participants could choose their favourite image for keeping after their brief portrait sitting. The images were available to the public to see via a nightly projection at Civic Place Katoomba until April 13th, 2025. They were also available for the public to see via a digital display at the Cultural Centre until the close of the portrait exhibition 2025. Below is all the portraits captured during this wonderful Blue Mountains community project.

Ben Pearse is an Australian portrait photographer based in the Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia.

Website: https://benpearsephotography.com.au/

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Interconnection

This is my entry into the Blue Mountains Portraits 2021 exhibition, currently on show at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre in Katoomba.
“In this image of Becky, I wanted to capture and combine two key aspects of Becky’s life, her work with the National Parks and Wildlife Service and as a long-time senior performer with Wagana Aboriginal Dancers. Both of these life paths enable Becky to honour and to be on Country, which as a Kamilaroi woman, is very important to her”.
Subject- Becky Chatfield
Photographer: Ben Pearse
Medium: Photographic print, AO size.

Note: This image went on to win the “People’s Choice Award” at the Blue Mountains portrait exhibition in March 2021.