Bernie Kaye - Rapture, 2021

 

Bernie is a largely self-taught photographer who first came to pick up the camera more than five years ago with the desire to document the diverse array of street art around the city here in Melbourne and its suburbs.

 

Not long after this she has started to explore the rural life; the abandoned objects sitting in fields or under trees wrapped up with their unique memories of people now long gone and often forgotten.  Her approach is based on the practice of Urbex or Urbexing , short for Urban Exploration, which is exploration of abandoned sites, structures and ruins in the man-made environment, often documented through photography, video or drone footage.

 

These bold images draw you into a time capsule of lost memories coated with layers of dust and wrapped up in cobwebs as she explains:

 

My very first ‘explore’ was as a child of some dilapidated tobacco kilns in country Victoria, I would have been around ten years old spending the day with my dad. This memory and excitement of exploring the forgotten sparked a curiosity and passion that has led me into a dusty, remote and sometimes risky world filled with derelict homes, forgotten farms, and paddocks with rusted cars, buses, trains and yes - even aeroplanes. Rapture

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Rapture: Noun, a feeling of intense pleasure or joy

 

 

Bernie Kaye Instagram: @seetheworldasone

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A room brochure with a list of all exhibited works can be found here.....

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