The Face of the Melbourne Football Club compliments the major thrust of the project, to capture individuals who are connected either by occupation, a common activity or a geographic location.
The Melbourne Football Club was the only AFL club Facing Australia approached for a number of reasons. It is the one of the oldest football clubs in the world, the first in Australia. It, by its very name, is connected to the City of Melbourne - the home of Australian Rules. The creation of the image was another way of analyzing, understanding Melbourne's rich cultural identity. It also is a club that has worked hard at bringing into closer focus such social issues such as breast cancer, the tsunami and the disadvantaged. The project compliments the club's commitment to fostering a sense of community and identity.
 Melbourne Football Club |
In 2004 the project expanded its visual boundaries and began to analyze groups that do not share a common geographical location but who were connected either by occupation, gender, age or a common activity. The team were commissioned by Charles Sturt University to create a suite of faces that revealed the unique identity of four of its primary campuses; Wagga Wagga, Albury, Dubbo and Bathurst. ABS statistics were replaced with information generated by the university’s student records in order to produce the statistical profile of the student body.
 CSU - The Face of Bathurst |
During a national conference of the View Club of Australia-The Smith Family, an organization with more than 24,000 registered members, 300 delegates were photographed for 'The Face of the Female Volunteer', their details collected and then compared to national statistics on volunteers.
'The Face of the Female Volunteer' is the contemporary faceof the female volunteer welfare worker. Welfare volunteers are predominately female, Anglo-Saxon, have a median age of 64 and are retired. An ABS survey has established that women are the stalwarts of voluntary activity.
The Face of the Female Volunteer |
This is a challenging and stimulating aspect of the Facing Australia project and allows for the examination of myriad of groups of individuals. We are particularly interested in constructing other 'faces' and forming new partnerships to complement the existing rich visual archive already in place.