Tony Maniaty’s latest exhibition, The Planet of Possibilities, features 30 large-scale photographs taken in Greece, Turkey, France, Britain and Australia over the past two years.
As climate change increasingly threatens the planet, Maniaty’s images reflect the beauty of the Earth we are losing. “Creativity,” he says, “can lead us to new ways of seeing, to fresh appreciations of beauty. I see this as photography’s gift to humanity. Every day, we become increasingly aware of how fragile this planet we live on, this Earth, really is. The more we see beauty, the more we’re inclined to appreciate it, to revere it rather than damage it. To save it, we must open our eyes to the planet’s beauty.”
Tony Maniaty is a Sydney and Paris-based creative artist who incorporates photography, fiction and non-fiction writing, and documentary-making within his work. He has been a senior journalist and foreign correspondent with ABC, SBS and BBC and was an Associate Professor of Creative Practice at the University of Technology Sydney. He is currently the Features Editor of the Head On Interactional photography magazine. In 2021, he published his first photobook, Our Hearts Are Still Open, featuring street images from Paris during the 2020 Covid pandemic. His work appears regularly on the Paris-based site The Eye of Photography and in numerous international magazines and websites.
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