Emmanuel Angelicas (1963) grew up in Marrickville, Sydney. On his seventh birthday in 1970, he was given a plastic Diana camera by his father. Photography would then and there become his friend and his way to communicate with people and document the environment he lived in.  With a spontaneous and straightforward approach, he wandered around his native Marrickville and recorded the migrant communities and street life. For almost half a century, Angelicas has been capturing images of Marrickville without avoiding its darkest facets. His square black and white work is documenting his family, friends and neighborhood. He graduated from the University of New South Wales with a Bachelor of Visual Communication in 1984, and a Post Graduate diploma in Professional Art Studies in 1985. In 1993 he graduated from the University of Sydney with a diploma in Secondary School Education – Visual Art. Managing a chronic illness for more than twenty-five years, he is still working in Australia and Bali. His work has been widely collected and exhibited.

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