Claudia Caporn (b. 1997)
Claudia Caporn is a fine art documentary photographer based in Quairading, Australia. Her images contemplate the ethos of rural Australia, and the relationships between man and land.
Her creative practice is informed by her upbringing on her family’s wheat and sheep farm in the Wheatbelt of rural Western Australia, where she experienced both the freedom and harshness of Australia’s vast landscape. Growing up on a farm, and belonging to a small, isolated rural community instilled a deep sense of place and identity into her childhood, and from this her passion for capturing the human condition emerged. At age 13 she left her hometown of Quairading to attend boarding school in Perth, Australia.
The duopoly of this parallel existence in rural Australia and urban city is deeply ingrained in her practice, with her works exploring the vernacular aesthetics and human experiences in rural Australia, as well as examining the contemporary concepts and realities of place, legacy and notions of identity associated with Australian culture.
She has completed a Bachelor of Arts double majoring in Creative Advertising and Graphic Design, and Photography at Curtin University. At the beginning of 2021 Claudia commenced a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Photography at Curtin University which she completed at the end of the year, being awarded First Class Honours and becoming a member of the Vice-Chancellor’s List.
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AWARDS.
2021
Member of the Vice-Chancellor's List, Curtin University, Perth, Australia.
IRIS Award, finalist, Perth, Australia.
Minderoo Artist Fund Grant, Minderoo Foundation, Perth, Australia.
City of Belmont Art Award, finalist, Perth, Australia.
Magnum Photos X PHOTO2021 Student Intensive, sole selected attendee for Western Australia, Melbourne, Australia.
2020
Prix de la Photographie de Paris, honourable mention, Paris, France.
Lucie Foundation Portrait Project, finalist, Los Angeles, USA.
International Photography Awards, honourable mention, Los Angeles, USA.
The Photo Annual, student winner, New York, USA.
Australian Photography Awards 'Stories Award', finalist, Melbourne, Australia.
Independent Photographer Portraiture Award, finalist.
Cortona on the Move, finalist, Cortona, Italy.
2019
Top Graduating Student in Photography, Curtin University, Perth, Australia.
IRIS Award, finalist, Perth, Australia.
2018
CLIP Award, finalist, Perth, Australia.
EDUCATION.
2025 - PRESENT
Doctor of Philosophy (Media, Culture, and Creative Arts) Curtin University, Perth, Australia.
2021
Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Photography, awarded First Class Honours, Curtin University, Perth, Australia.
2015 - 2019
Bachelor of Arts double majoring in Creative Advertising and Graphic Design, and Photography and Illustration, Curtin University, Perth, Australia.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS.
2022
Western Australian Women of the Land, Royal Agricultural Society of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
IRIS Award, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth, Australia.
City of Belmont Art Award, The Glasshouse, Perth, Australia.
2021
Superposition, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth, Australia.
IRIS Award, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth, Australia.
City of Belmont Art Award, The Glasshouse, Perth, Australia.
2020
The Portrait Project, Lucie Foundation, online exhibition.
2019
Red Giant, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth, Australia.
IRIS Award (finalist), Perth Centre for Photography, Perth, Australia.
Rotterdam Photo, Rotterdam Photo Festival, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
2018
CLIP Award (finalist), Perth Centre for Photography, Perth, Australia.
Collective, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth, Australia.
2017
Collective, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth, Australia.
Places of Curtin, place activation, Curtin University, Perth, Australia.