Guy Grabowsky believes that to negotiate photography is to navigate what it is to be human. Whether it is via social media, propaganda, politics, pop culture, religion or advertising, we understand the world through photographic images. Grabowsky is a Melbourne based artist who’s interests stem from post-conceptual photography and minimalism. He utilises a hybrid and expanded field of photography and image making — manipulating the photographic print’s intrinsic surface to alter the expectations and perceptions associated with the constructs of ‘photograph' and ‘image’. Grabowsky’s photographs are created with, and sometimes without the camera, also combining unconventional with digital and traditional analogue chemical, light-based modes of production. The outcomes are the result of an exploration to de-code, de-construct and re-interpret the “image”. With material and alchemical processes informing the poetics of his work. Grabowsky uses his coded language of identity to pose questions, mediated through his images, around agency and personal freedom within an image-saturated world. Grabowsky’s practice thus examines our psychological and perceptual relationships to a ‘post-photographic’ and ‘hypernormalised’ modernity.