A giant in photography falls – for now

The Centre for Contemporary Photography has laid off staff and will vacate its existing premises at the end of this month.
The exterior of CCP’s Fitzroy home. A rectangular white brick building at dusk.

Melbourne’s long-running Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) has been forced to vacate its Fitzroy home of nearly 20 years due to the loss of significant multi-year funding from both Creative Australia and Creative Victoria.

The organisation shared the announcement today (23 August) with its supporters and community via email and social media.

Over the past few months, CCP has had to let go of two of its three permanent staff, including curator Caitlin Langford (who joined in October 2022) and Gallery Manager Tyler Meredith (who joined in January 2023).

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Celina Lei is the Diversity and Inclusion Editor at ArtsHub. She acquired her M.A in Art, Law and Business in New York with a B.A. in Art History and Philosophy from the University of Melbourne. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Most recently, Celina was one of three Australian participants in DFAT’s the Future of Leadership program. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram @lleizy_