Young women with selfie-stick in laneway 2016

CHAPMAN, Andrew

Registration number

1784240

Artist/maker

CHAPMAN, Andrew

Title

Young women with selfie-stick in laneway

Production date

2016

Medium

digital file

Credit line

Purchased, 2020
City of Melbourne Art and Heritage Collection

Keywords

Andrew Chapman, women, selfie-stick, laneway, laneways, graffiti, photography, 2016

Summary

A group of young women use a selfie-stick to photograph themselves, as they explore Melbourne’s laneways off little Bourke St near Chinatown, 16 July 2016. It always seems odd to me that graffiti, once despised by local government, has been embraced as a cultural activity and that large segments of the population who once avoided Melbourne’s dark and dank laneways now embrace them. Andrew Chapman