Angela Lynkushka, documentary photographer

"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Her work explores the juncture between photography as art form and as historical document.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 most recent photographs, which focus on figurative work connected to the environment, have been exibited widely – including Youth Culture in New York in 2000 and Texture of Memory at the Jewish Museum of Australia in 2002.

Lynkushka is represented in major collections throughouth Australia 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 in Israel.

Angela Lynkushka is available to participate in artists' forums and workshops at schools and tertiary institutions, and can accompany her exhibitions with floor talks. In the case of her most recent work this provides an opportunity for dialogue around art, the Holocaust and refugee issues.

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 to locate Angela's photographs)