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Culture Jammers

Dean Sewell
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Dean Sewell
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Location: Museum of Sydney 37 Phillip Street Sydney NSW 2000 Australia
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Culture jamming is a form of activism that involves subversively altering media or advertising messages to cast a critical spotlight on the activities of governments, corporations or individuals. It can take place in physical spaces or virtual realms: some activists amend billboards, others hijack websites.

Photographer Dean Sewell captured the activities of a small group of culture jammers in Sydney between 2003 and 2007. The group of three to six members, calling themselves ‘The Lonely Station’ after a line from a Midnight Oil song, were perhaps the city’s most audacious culture jammers. They scaled silos, highway billboards and buildings to rework images and draw public attention to social-justice and environmental issues, from the Iraq war to woodchipping and the plight of refugees.

Dean Sewell is co-founder of Oculi photo-agency and one of Australia’s most highly regarded photojournalists. He has won three World Press Photo Awards: for his coverage of East Timor’s transition to independence, Australian bushfires and the Tsunami aftermath in Aceh. Sewell has twice been awarded Australian Press Photographer of the Year.

This event has concluded
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Location: Museum of Sydney 37 Phillip Street Sydney NSW 2000 Australia
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Entry Fee: Free

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