20 Questions with Hayley Millar Baker
Describe your practice in seven words?
Auto-fiction, multifaceted—conceptually and visually, retrospective, currently shifting!
Your first art love?
Paul Gauguin and Lin Onus.
Why do you shoot mostly monochromatic works rather than colour?
I actually shoot in colour and colour grade to a monochromatic palette. In saying that though, the images I have used from my grandfather’s photographic archive in my previous work, I’m the Captain Now, 2016, and Cook Book, 2017-2019, are shot in blackand-white.
I think there is a romantic quality to blackand-white photography and film. It’s nostalgic; it suggests robust narratives that require investigation through connection to film noir. It purposefully eludes any particular era,
