Panizza Allmark

Reframed Horizons

January 17- February 15, 2026

Panizza Allmark: Montral, Canada, 2016, photograph.

'Reframed Horizons’ is a retrospective of Panizza Allmark's thirty-year photographic practice.

This exhibition engages with photographie féminine her methodology, which unites feminist theory and postmodern documentary methods and uses irony and dialectical framing to challenge and critically reframe. It is a dynamic, ethical visual photographic response to the environment that attempts to subvert dominant representations and draws attention to binaries. Familiar landscapes are transformed into sites of tension and ambiguity, through strategies of doubling, where the familiar appear strange and the strange unsettling familiar, oscillating between the natural and constructed, presence and absence, reality and artifice. Panizza’s photography presents a series of works that convey the politics of the uncanny as an aesthetic practice, by challenging dominant visual narratives of people and place, exposing hidden vistas, and reclaiming vision as a space of resistance to the mundane..

The series of works includes street documentary such as ‘Petals and Pavements’, ‘Double Visions: Double Entendre, to a variety of photojournalistic practice on humanitarian issues that spans from Maesot, Thailand, to Venezia, Italy. 

About Panizza Allmark

Panizza Allmark is a visualista, born in Perth/Boorloo, Western Australia. Her PhD was the first in Australia to explore feminist photographic practices as a street photographer, developing the concept of photographie féminine. Panizza has spent time working across Asia, Europe, North and South America utilizing the techniques of photographie féminine that she has developed. Drawing on écriture féminine, which traces an embodied writing practice, Panizza has refocused this as photographie féminine which engages in a self-reflexive ethical photographic practice that subverts dominant representations through drawing attention to unacknowledged binaries. The uniting of disparate elements is a motif in Panizza’s work, expressive of the mixed ethnic hybridity that she embodies.

For over thirty years Panizza’s photography has been exhibited in group and ten solo exhibitions across London, New York, Frankfurt, Shanghai, Italy and Australia. Panizza has published extensively on photography, gender, representation, and visual storytelling, as well as given several international keynotes on photography.

Panizza Allmark is Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies at Edith Cowan University, Perth Australia.

Further information: https://panizzaallmark.com/upcoming-exhibition-reframed-horizons