The Street

The Street | Sections of Abstract ColourPhotographs by Robert Young, 1998 – Chippendale, NSW As an artist, photographer, and sculptor, I’ve always been drawn to overlooked moments—quiet scenes that whisper stories if you stand still long enough to listen. The Street is a series of abstract photographs captured in 1998, wandering through the old streets […]

Mother Earth

Mother Earth Photography Collection — Works for Sale Mother Earth is a photographic exploration into the purity and paradox of the feminine form — as basic and essential as life itself, yet layered with complexity, politics, and power. This series examines the original connection between woman and earth: the source, the passage, the giver of […]

The Power Elite

The Power Elite puts on exhibition for the first time a series of images published in the Australian Financial Review between 1995 and 2000. These striking photographs use experimental techniques to document the gladiators of the business arena. They testify to the Fin Review’s unique supportive environment which encouraged us to explore new digital techniques as newspaper […]

Tension

[tension]seduce – entice – invokeOpening in New York at Caelum Gallery rex-livingston+corlette fine art Sydney2001 A spectacular exhibition of contemporary Australianphotography, [tension] features the work of threeartists working within the cultures of craving.Frances Mocnik, Robert Young and Marzena Wasikowska. Theexhibition explores the seductive qualities ofphotography in relation to ideas of femininity,tensions between beauty and pain, […]

LOOK at ME !

Look at Me, Selfie

Look at Me — Limited Edition PrintsSelf-Portrait Photography by Robert Young “Look at Me” is a collection of playful, sometimes confronting self-portraits created and curated by Australian artist Robert Young over the past thirty years.Each image, whether taken directly by me or directed, reflects an ongoing dialogue with identity, perception, and performance. In a world […]

Anni and my old site

My Original Site. http://robertyoung.com.au/orig/ It has been years, seriously many many years since I updated any information on this site. Mostly out of respect, the person who looked after all things online for me passed away. Anni, from afactor.com. I love this site, whilst now it may not be as progressives as it once was. […]

Body Adornment

Body Adornment1995 -1997 NSW State LibraryPermanent collectionPhotographic Silver Gelatin Print 12×16limited edition of 15 (1997) Body adornment, is a photographic project based in cultural tribalism. Young gives a rich and detailed look into the underworld of Piercing, Branding and Tattooing. Following a thematic idea, that the environments, shops, parlours and sex clubs where the photography […]