Billy Hemmingson

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Billy Hemmingson is an early career aritst who’s practice probes at an underlying tension. Using documentary photography traditions as a provocateur to reveal the layered understandings of dismissed regions across Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand and currently Britain. His approach blends portraiture, landscape and observational imagery, giving agency to the contradictions, resilience an colloquial particularity that resist a simple narrative.

Born in Geraldton, Western Australia and raised across six towns across Australia before adulthood, Hemmingson developed an insider-outsider perspective on representation and belonging. This perspective informs a commitment to extended projects, unravelling the intricate dynamics and competing histories that shape each place.

Graduating from Massey University (Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand) in 2024 with first class honours in photography. Hemmingson currently resides in Liverpool, England, continuing his practice with ongoing inquiries into post industrial communities, new towns and British pastimes through out the north west.