A Stranger’s Birthplace, 2017

35mm film


A Stranger’s Birthplace is a dissection of domestic diaspora; examining the familial, cultural and geographical facets of spatially aggravated trauma. 

This photographic body engages in intimate conversation with their estranged paternal family residing in semi-rural Western Australia. These images subsequently exhibit the role of agrarian tradition in the dissemination of toxic masculinity through generations. Concepts of the patriarchal country are further examined via the Starr family run sausage factory, pertaining its own relationship to man’s conquest over nature. 

Starr, queer identifying reflects upon their personal struggle in defying constructed norms associated with Australian manhood. These conservative expectations being firmly upheld by their family’s own cultural beliefs. 
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