"Photographs are influential. They inform and change people's values."

Angela Lynkushka works in the genre of documentary photography, chronicling contemporary Australian life; recording people in their environment and culture.

Her images explore the juncture between photography as art form and as historical document. The photographs strive, beyond the composition, towards a final distillation of a moment – the witness of existence. In her work, identity and place become anchored in history.

Her recent series of photographs focus on figurative work connected to the environment. Exibited widely, they include Youth Culture in New York; Portraits of Gippsland Aboriginal Elders, State Library of Victoria; and Krowathankoolong, East Gippsland.

Lynkushka is represented in major collections throughout Australia, Tel Aviv, and internationally, including the Australian National Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art Library in New York and the Beth Hatefutsoth Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, Israel.

Angela Lynkushka is available to participate in artists' forums and workshops at educational and cultural institutions, and can accompany her exhibitions with floor talks.

Her work is available for exhibition and purchase.

You can see more images in these collections:
• National Library of Australia
• Australia Dancing website
• State Library of Victoria (type "Lynkushka" into the search box)