Author(s): Philip Kuruvita (Photographer)

Tasmanian

Faces of Launceston is a project by Tasmania's only Grand Master of Photography, Philip Kuruvita. Celebrating 20 years of photographing the Launceston community, this book catalogues the major exhibition held at the Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery Inveresk in 2015. Beautiful black and white portraits of the people who live and work in this city.If cities were just building materials, they would be the same the world over. The individual life, character and flavour of a city comes from its people."Every town has it's characters, celebrities, villains and heroes - this collection has representatives of all of these groups but it's often the 'ordinary' people who turn out to be extraordinary.