Australian Centre for Photography


The Australian Centre for Photography is a not-for-profit photography gallery in Darlinghurst, Sydney, Australia that was established in 1973. ACP also provides part-time courses and community programs. It is one of the longest running contemporary art spaces in Australia.
The Australian Centre for Photography has published Photofile, a biannual photography journal, since 1983.
The ACP is a charity.

Function

The Australian Centre for Photography provides a photography gallery and also part-time courses and community programs.

History

The Australian Centre for Photography was founded in 1973 by David Moore and Wes Stacey, with support from Laurie Le Guay and Craig McGregor. It opened its first gallery in Paddington Street, Sydney, in 1974. In 1981 it moved to 257 Oxford Street, Paddington and in 2015 it moved again to 72 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst, Sydney.
The ACP produced the first major retrospectives of Max Dupain, Olive Cotton and Mervin Bishop. It has also held exhibitions by Stephen Dupont, Elif Suyabatmaz and Markus Andersen, Bill Henson, Tracey Moffatt, William Yang, Trent Parke, as well as other exhibitions by Cotton and Dupain.

''Photofile''

The ACP has published Photofile, a photography journal, since 1983.
Photofile was relaunched in 2017 under the new editorship of Daniel Boetker-Smith.