Lynette Letic: Let's Get Together

Overview

Interested in tight-knit rural communities and how ritual plays an important part in our daily lives, Melbourne-based portrait and documentary photographer Lynette Letic brings a new exhibition to Junior Space. Having been raised in Brisbane suburbia, throughout 2015 Letic journeyed to numerous regional communities where she approached strangers to photograph their community events, social gatherings, dances and fairs. Culminating in the Let's Get Together exhibition, through her photographs, Letic began to realise the importance of coming together and the deeper role these events have in small-town life.

Inspired by renowned photographers such as Rineke Dijkstra, Alec Soth, Diane Arbus and Walker Evans, Letic takes a similar documentarian approach with Let's Get Together, revealing the idiosyncrasies of small town communities and uncovering how distinct events and people can share unmistakable similarities.

Let's Get Together is on display at Junior Space from Thursday, July 13 until Wednesday, July 26.