Spontaneous moments

When Tamara Voninski was young, her anthropologist father would bring home ethnographic films which he’d show on one of those slightly rickety pull-up projection screens so familiar to anyone growing up in the 1960’s and 70’s.

‘That was sort of my window to the world,’ Tamara said. ‘And I think that early visualisation of the world outside of my home and school, had a profound impact on me.’

At the age of 14, Tamara discovered photography. ‘I enrolled in an extracurricular High School photography course. My teacher was actually a filmmaker and my school had a fully equipped darkroom. I spent my high school years, either out taking photographs, or in the darkroom, developing the film and making prints,’ she said.

‘I was very lucky to discover something that I could throw myself into – mind, body and spirit, so