Joachim Froese is a contemporary art photographer, teacher and academic who lives and works in Brisbane and Berlin.
Since the 1990s he has established his career creating highly constructed still life panels that investigate conceptual crossovers between art history, personal memory, and nature photography. He proceeds from the principal question, how photographic technologies have been used in the past, and how they are used today, to construct the world around us. His current work combines a wide range of analogue and digital techniques to respond to the issues arising from the environmental crisis in the Anthropocene.
Originally trained as a Graphic Reproducer in Germany, Froese went to art school in Australia in the 1990s. Since then, his work has been exhibited across Australia, Europe, Asia and North America. It is held in numerous public collections, including the National Gallery of Australia and the National Portrait Gallery of Australia.
Linking theory and practice, Froese has lectured in photography at universities in Australia and Germany. He received a PhD (Art) from RMIT University in Melbourne in 2017 and is an Honorary Lecturer in the School of Communication and Arts, University of Queensland in Brisbane.
