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Powerhouse Photography launches inaugural program

Powerhouse Photography announces acquisitions, workshops, internships and Hayley Millar Baker as a new Advisory Group member.

9 Mar 2023

Celina Lei

Visual Arts

Pixy Liao will present talks, workshops and a curated program for Powerhouse Photography. Image: Pixy Liao, ‘Photography and her Muse I’, 2014. Image: Supplied.

After a four-month wait following the acquisition of the Australian Centre for Photography’s (ACP) $1.6 million fund and archive, Powerhouse Photography has now launched its inaugural program, featuring new acquisitions, public programs, a photography-focused tertiary internship and a new member joining its dedicated Advisory Group.

Powerhouse Photography’s first acquisition consists of 12 works by photographic artist Anu Kumar exploring her identity as a woman born in India and raised in Australia.

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Celina Lei

Celina Lei is an arts writer and 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. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne.