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Warwick Baker

Tough & Tender

Tough & Tender
 
Hugh 2015, by Warwick Baker
Hugh 2015, by Warwick Baker

The intimate photographs by Warwick Baker allow their subjects to be at ease, capturing moments of calm reflection. 

Warwick Baker was born in Canberra in 1983. He studied photography at RMIT, Melbourne. His work has been exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery’s National Youth Self Portrait Prize, and National Photographic Portrait Prize.

The photographs in Tough and tender were taken between 2012 and 2016.

By Dr Christopher Chapman

9 portraits
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Beno 2016 by Warwick Baker
Spencer 2016, by Warwick Baker
Beno 2016 by Warwick Baker
1 Beno 2016 by Warwick Baker. 2 Spencer 2016, by Warwick Baker. 3 Beno 2016 by Warwick Baker.

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Spencer 2016, by Warwick Baker
Spencer 2016, by Warwick Baker
Spencer 2016, by Warwick Baker
Spencer 2016, by Warwick Baker

Tough & Tender

Previous exhibition, 2016

Art by Warwick Baker, Chris Burden, Larry Clark, Rozalind Drummond, Nan Goldin, Robert Mapplethorpe and Collier Schorr explores personal relations, individual expression and fluid identity.
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