Melbourne-based artist Stephen Haley explores the boundaries between actual and virtual spaces in an increasingly urbanised world. While Dragon City (2019) and it's accompanying artwork Inter City (2018) resemble traditional photographs of sweeping cityscapes, these artworks are camera-less ‘virtual photographs’ constructed using 3D digital modelling software. Haley, whose career spans two decades and 120 international exhibitions, uses technology to mirror the very tools urban planners employ to shape our physical world. By presenting simulated urban environments that feel familiar yet strangely impossible, Haley questions how digital technology alters human memory and perception. Both Inter City (2018) and Dragon City (2019) from his celebrated City Scape series offer a window into how our cities evolve, how we experience them, and perhaps most intriguingly, how they experience us.stonnington contemporary art collection, stephen haley, city, digital, 3d modelling, virtual spaces, urbanisation

Melbourne-based artist Stephen Haley explores the boundaries between actual and virtual spaces in an increasingly urbanised world. While Inter City (2018) and it's accompanying artwork Dragon City (2019) resemble traditional photographs of sweeping cityscapes, these artworks are camera-less ‘virtual photographs’ constructed using 3D digital modelling software. Haley, whose career spans two decades and 120 international exhibitions, uses technology to mirror the very tools urban planners employ to shape our physical world. By presenting simulated urban environments that feel familiar yet strangely impossible, Haley questions how digital technology alters human memory and perception. Both Inter City (2018) and Dragon City (2019), from his celebrated City Scape series, offer a window into how our cities evolve, how we experience them, and perhaps most intriguingly, how they experience us.stonnington contemporary art collection, stephen haley, 3d modelling, digital, urbanisation, virtual spaces

Sunil Gupta is a British/Canadian citizen, (b. New Delhi 1953) MA (RCA) PhD (Westminster) who lives in London and has been involved with independent photography as a critical practice for many years focusing on race, migration and queer issues. A retrospective was shown at The Photographers’ Gallery, London (2020/21) and The Image Center, Toronto. He is a Professorial Fellow at UCA, Farnham. His latest book is “We Were Here: Sexuality, Photography, and Cultural Difference, Selected Writings by Sunil Gupta”, Aperture New York 2022. His work is in many private and public collections including; the Tokyo Museum of Photography, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Royal Ontario Museum, Tate, Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art. His work is represented by Hales Gallery (New York, London), Materià Gallery (Rome), Stephen Bulger Gallery (Toronto) and Vadehra Art Gallery (New Delhi).Part of Queer PHOTO (Midsumm x PHOTO 2024) photography, british photography, queer photography, race, migration, portrait