About

Karl Halliday is a Belfast-born photographer, curator and writer living and working in Naarm/Melbourne.

Karl is co-founder of Light Talk, a monthly photography community event program in Melbourne.

In 2024, Karl launched Helios Books, an online bookstore specialising in rare and interesting photobooks.

Contact

Photography services are available for commission.
Prints are available by request.


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Projects

• Selected photos
  
• Portraiture
  
• Subjects
  
• Retracer
  

Curatorial

• 2025
  Counter-sites
  (co-curated with Madeleine Sherburn)
  PhotoAccess, Canberra


• 2024
  Reality and its Double
  Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy


• 2022
  Michael Kluge: Left Behind
  Linden New Art, St. Kilda


• 2022
  Tamara Marrington: Beamers
  CASPA, Castlemaine


• 2022
  PHOTO 2022: The Portrait
  (co-curated with Josephine Mead)
  Blindside, Melbourne


• 2021
  Virtual Signalling
  Blindside MOBILE


• 2020
  Silences Between ticks of a clock
  (co-curated with Matt Siddall)
  George Paton Gallery, Melbourne


• 2019
  Co-ordinates: Perspectives on place in contemporary WA photography
  (co-curated with Henry King)
  Pig Melon, Perth