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Installation view of Ruth Maddison: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, 2021, Centre for Contemporary Photography. Photo: J Forsyth.

Ruth Maddison, It was the best of times, it was the worst of times
  • Chelsea Hopper


10 Apr 2021
Centre for Contemporary Photography 25 Feb - 18 Apr 2021

Ruth Maddison began taking photographs at the same age as I am as I write this review. She was thirty-one. Her housemate Greig Pickhaver lent her a 35mm camera while living in a share house on Rathdowne Street in Carlton North. We see the results of this transaction in First roll of film (1976), a series of candid self-portraits pinned at the entrance of her exhibition, It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, currently on display in Fitzroy at the Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP).

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