Peter Zuvela
Peter Zuvela is a Photographer Artist from Fremantle, Australia. Peter teachers Digital Photography at the Fremantle Art Centre. [1]
Currently he is preparing to exhibited for the Fotofreo Fridge Festival. [2] The exhibition will be held at Greg James Sculpture [1], J Shed Fremantle. The FotoFreo Fringe Festival will run concurrently with FotoFreo, from 20 March to 18 April 2010.
Fotofreo Fridge Festival: Unrealised Dreams
Through the eye of the camera, trapped memories and dreams are captured in the decaying peeling paint, the muted colours of a deserted house and soft autumn light streaming through windows and doors. Images depict everyday objects now abandoned as the family fractured and moved away leaving a virtual museum of life frozen in time.
This dislocation and relocation, a common migrant experience, is poignantly represented by a series of beautiful images produced during a recent return visit by Peter to his family’s ancestral home, now deserted and empty of human life.
Peter is the son of Croatian Immigrants who travelled as a young couple to Fremantle in the early 1960’s from the island of Korcula (Dalmatia). After building a home, a successful business and a family of three children, his parents decided to return to the island (to a small town called Vela Luka). All of the adult children over time returned to Australia leaving their parent’s homeland. This dislocation and relocation, a common migrant experience, is poignantly represented by a series of beautiful images produced during a recent return visit by Peter to his family’s ancestral home, now deserted and empty of human life.
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