Parallels & Contrasts
Chapter 2
EXHIBITION OPEN:
28 August to 11 September 2026
10am to 4pm, Tuesday to Thursday and 10am to 2pm, Friday to Monday
Entry with gold coin donation
We are excited to announce that Chapter 2 of the “Parallels & Contrasts” Photography Exhibition will feature 9 talented local photographers! Returning for another year we have Sarah Hughes, Scott Kelleher and David James. They will be joined by Annabel Marley, Dale Harper, Grant Cross, Joe Cordoba, Kev Schultz and Margo Marchbank!
This Exhibition is an opportunity to see the world through their eyes. Whilst they each have a unique perspective, they clearly all have a dedication to the artistry of photography. We invite you to take the opportunity to view the Exhibition and experience the parallels and contrasts of the world around us!
Exhibition Opening: Friday 28th of August 2026 at 6pm.
Join us to celebrate the opening of this amazing exhibition! This is your opportunity to have a close look at the photography, meet the artists and socialise with a friendly group of people. BONUS - Trysta Willoughby will be performing! Cost of $10pp covers entry and snacks. The TACC Bar will be open to buy drinks.
Please buy your ticket by 12noon on Friday 28th of August for catering purposes.
ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHERS
Annabel Marley
Annabel was a High School Visual Arts and Photography teacher for thirty years and considers herself a dabbler rather than an artist. She particularly enjoys working with film and experimenting in the dark room! Annabel is proficient in a variety of artistic media and enjoys printmaking and works on paper, and has run several successful workshops at TACC including watercolour, collographs, stencil art and Lino printing.
David James
David is a local school teacher with an interest in photography. Since being a teenager and having a strong connection to nature, a passion for landscape photography was started. Being self-taught since his time at university, his style has evolved through the mediums of colour, black and white film to digital monochrome. The use of black and white imagery allows stronger moods and interpretations to be expressed about local landscapes, nature and environments.
Dale Harper
A photographer drawn to surfaces. With an established artist mother - Helen Harper, his earliest memories are the oil paintings in his Mum's studio. Ever since, the natural artistic direction has been to consider surfaces. Like those oil paintings always around him as he grew up. The direction taken artistically has been abstract art. A journey learning what constitutes a successful abstract composition by selecting the elements contained in a photograph, and their relationship with each other.
Grant Cross
Grant was born and raised in Cootamundra, picking up an interest in photography during high school, around the same time as the emergence of Freestyle Motocross. He then chased the sport as both an athlete, and a photographer and journalist for the next decade and a half, before pivoting into more automotive and documentary style photography in the wake of FMX's collapse from its peak. At this time he also returned to shooting film with classic manual cameras for a large part of the work.
Joseph Cordoba
Age: the better side of 60! I have 4 children and 5 grandchildren. I was born and raised in the Illawarra before making the move to Coota 10 years ago. I spent 35 years as an Industrial Protecive Coatings Specialist AKA industrial Spraypainter (lol) and now I spend my time fishing (salt water and fresh), scale model making and of course a bit of photography.
Margo Marchbank
Margo Marchbank has been taking photographs for as long as she can remember — starting on her 8th birthday, when her parents gave her an Agfa Clack 120-film camera. These days, she shoots in both black and white and colour, with a particular love of documenting rural life and getting up close to the natural world. She has recently bought a vintage film camera and is excited to step back into the distinctive world of B&W film photography. Her current project, ‘Sale-O, sale-O’, is a photographic series about rural stock and clearing sales. Through it, she hopes to capture their variety, character and quirks before online auctions become the norm.
Sarah Hughes - Bye Bye Blackbird Photography
Sarah Hughes began her photography journey at the young age of 7 when her photo-enthusiast father handed her his 1970s Practika 35mm film camera. From that moment her fascination with photography quickly grew. Sarah began working as the official field photographer for the Australian Macadamia Society in 2009 and established Bye Bye Blackbird Photography in Lismore NSW in 2013. In 2019 after 10 years working in the macadamia industry, Sarah went full time with her first Lismore based studio and in the same year achieved Northern Rivers Photographer of the Year. Her photographic journey has always been varied but successful, and after relocating to Cootamundra in 2022, Sarah opened the Bye Bye Blackbird Gallery in Parker Street as well as working as Programs Assistant for Eastern Riverina Arts. Her current project is the establishment of a Film Lab/Darkroom in the Parker Street Gallery. Sarah is an avid explorer and ultramarathon runner, and you will regularly see her running around town with her Kelpie George.
Scott Kelleher - Kranky Kactus Fotografia
Scotty, or Kactus Skot is an Australian documentary, editorial, conceptual, and portrait photographer based in Wiradjuri Country, Cootamundra. He is an active member of the Australian Association of Street Photographers (AASPi) and the Australian Photographic Society(APS). Passionate about chasing light, discovering and capturing the extraordinary in the ordinary.
Bios & photos to come for Kev…