The Damage Report
365 day live music photography project
25 Feb 2016 – 24 Feb 2017

Solo exhibition/Book launch:

Arts Centre Melbourne (Melb) 2017
Nanda\Hobbs Contemporary (Syd) 2017
Bib’n’Brace Collective (Bris) 2017

On 25 February 2016, Zo Damage committed to photograph at least one live music performance every day for a calendar year. Zo set some simple guidelines, the most crucial being that photographs of one or more live music performances must be taken on the day, every day, for the duration of her unprecedented undertaking. The Melbourne photographer completed her project on 24 February 2017. In August 2017, Zo launched her 365 day project book The Damage Report with an exhibition comprising over 500 photographs at Arts Centre Melbourne. The exhibition was then shown at Nanda\Hobbs Contemporary (Sydney), followed by Bib’n’Brace Collective (Brisbane). In November 2017, Zo was presented with The Age Music Victoria Awards “Outstanding Achievement Award” for her 365 day project and book The Damage Report. The exhibitions were generously supported by Ilford Australia, C.R. Kennedy & Co, Prism Imaging, Young Henery’s and Goatsound Studios.

The Damage Report is at once the testament to an incredible feat of endurance; a blinding anthology of live rock photography by one of the form’s greatest Australian practitioners; and Exhibit A in the case to be made for Melbourne as the Live Music Capital of the Southern Hemisphere” — (Gerard Elson, Readings Books, 2017)

The Damage Report

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