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| The White Horse at Whitehorse Art Space © Barbara Oehring 2012 |
On Saturday 21 April 2012 Paul Cox discussed his work with the MGA curator Stephen Zagala.
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| Paul Cox and Stephen Zagala © Barbara Oehring 2012 |
Paul Cox is best known as an internationally acclaimed filmmaker.
Age of Aquarius: the Photography of Paul Cox celebrates his photography. Cox started out as a photographer in the 1960s and taught photography at Prahran College during the early 1970s where his students included Carol Jerrems.
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| Paul Cox studying his 1972 image "The Earth is warm (Queensland)" and pondering its title © Barbara Oehring 2012
Paul Cox told the audience that he dismissed and gave up photography to make films.
Since his illness in 2009 Cox took up and embraced photography again. He also wrote a book
Paul Cox Tales from the Cancer Ward about his journey from the start of his ill health to receiving a liver transplant and beyond.
A signature trait of Cox's work is a deep humanism which is already apparent in his early
photographs taken throughout Asia and the Pacific in the 1960s.
During his floor talk Paul Cox met up with former fellow Prahran College lecturer Derrick
Lee and two of their students John (Wynn) Tweg and Graeme Horner. 
Derrick Lee, photography lecturer Prahran College 1969- 1993 (VCA)
John (Wynn) Tweg, Paul Cox and Graeme Horner
© Barbara Oehring 2012
Age of Aquarius: the photography of Paul Cox, Whitehorse Art Space, Box Hill Town Hall
19 April - 26 May 2012
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