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‘A slow burn’: Why it’s never too late to take up photography

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14.03.2024

The word “emerging” suggests a creative to look out for, generally someone who is young and showing signs of promise.

Olympus by Nicholas GioiaCredit: Nicholas Gioia

However, in the case of Nicholas Gioia, an architect who has been focusing his practice on photography for the last 15 years, it’s been a slow burn with solo exhibitions in both Melbourne where he resides, and a couple of exhibitions in Turin, Italy.

And although Gioia sees himself as “emerging”, he recently turned 70.

“My transition into photography started by taking images on my Nokia phone of the many things I was drawn to on my walks whether it was certain gutters edging pavements or even the strange and bizarre, like an air conditioning unit awkwardly strung across a clothesline,” says Gioia.

An industrial site in Brunswick photographed at 7am on a Sunday morning presented quite a surrealist image, not dissimilar to a painting by artist Jeffrey Smart (hence this photograph is loosely referred to as........

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