Visual instincts Max Pam Max Pam.

Streaming video - 2014

Each series explores the works of Australia's contemporary photographers. It also includes 'After two hundred years' which documents the diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander life in the late 1980's.The series features talented photographers Fiona Hall, Emmanuel Angelicas, Jon Lewis, Max Pam and Grant Mudford. Episode 5 - Max Pam. Max Pam was born in Melbourne in 1949. First drawn to Asia by the ideological movements of the 1960's, Max Pam was 19 when he took the road to Katmandu. Through the following two turbulent decades, he has travelled and photographed main street Asia. Since 1984, Pam has worked on body of New Australian photographs which scrutinises and re-defines life on the move. 'Finally..., it comes back to the question of what does photography mean to me. About 99.9 per cent of photography is about that moment of taking the picture and that means everything to me.' -- Max Pam. more