Janina Green: Where the Heart Is

10 October - 15 November

Janina Green’s photographic exhibition honours the Ukrainian families who migrated to the Latrobe Valley area from the Displaced Persons’ Camps in Germany 60 years ago.  The seniors in the portraits are the survivors of approximately 150 families who arrived in the late 1940s.

The exhibition consists of portraits and landscapes that invite the viewer into the private worlds of people who chose to settle and build new lives here. We are welcomed with a sense of pride to enjoy the display of personal objects and photographs of extended families. These treasured mementos reflect different cultural and religious backgrounds, amalgamated into a new life within Australian society. Green’s mural-size photographs reflect the role of place as a setting for productive lives of human resilience and survival.

Image: Janina Green, Portrait of Mrs Naumenko from Newborough, C-type photograph, 2009, Courtesy of M.33