Submission Period: 20 July 2026 to 21 September 2026.
This exhibition runs from 4 December 2026 through 9 December 2026 at Shivers Gallery in Melbourne.
Capture a moment that reflects the people, places, traditions, relationships, and memories that help the community flourish.
We invite photographs inspired by one or more of the exhibition themes:
Show us how people connect, preserve traditions, celebrate culture, draw strength from faith and memory, and contribute to an empowered future across generations.
Through your lens, reveal the strengths and values of Australia’s Armenian community through culture, faith, unity, and memory.
We welcome a wide range of photographic styles, including portraits, documentary photography, landscapes, still life, community events, family moments, and creative interpretations of the themes.
Applicants are encouraged to include a short description explaining the story behind their photograph and how it relates to the exhibition theme or themes.
How do you see strength in Australia’s Armenian community?
Capture a moment that reflects the people, places, traditions, relationships, and memories that help the community flourish.
We invite photographs inspired by one or more of the exhibition themes:
Show us how people connect, preserve traditions, celebrate culture, draw strength from faith and memory, and contribute to an empowered future across generations.
Through your lens, reveal the strengths and values of Australia’s Armenian community through culture, faith, unity, and memory.
We welcome a wide range of photographic styles, including portraits, documentary photography, landscapes, still life, community events, family moments, and creative interpretations of the themes.
Applicants are encouraged to include a short description explaining the story behind their photograph and how it relates to the exhibition theme or themes.
Weaving Narratives of Strength is part of a larger initiative supported by the Hansen Little Public Humanities Grant.
The project explores the strengths, values, challenges, and aspirations of Melbourne’s Armenian diaspora, asking how the community can build on what is already working well.
In the first stage of the project, Kaitzak facilitated two community storytelling workshops involving 22 participants aged between 20 and 80. Participants represented a wide range of experiences and levels of community involvement.
Through stories of migration from Armenia, Ethiopia, Iran, and elsewhere, participants reflected on identity, belonging, cultural preservation, community life, and their hopes for the future.
Four central themes emerged from the workshops:
These themes now form the foundation of the photography exhibition, inviting members of Australia’s Armenian community to interpret them visually through their own experiences and perspectives.
This exhibition is presented through a collaboration between Seeing Happy, a global nonprofit that promotes positivity and wellbeing through photography, and Kaitzak, an Australian charity working to build connected and thriving diaspora communities.
Together, the organisations aim to bring ideas from wellbeing research into everyday life through photography, storytelling, and the arts.
The exhibition will bring together Armenian-Australian photographers, artists, and community members to celebrate the strengths and resilience of the diaspora while promoting belonging, understanding, and connection.
Photographers of all experience levels are welcome to submit.
Please note that this showcase is open to residents of Australia who are of Armenian descent.
