Jake Nemirovsky
Big Bug

27.07.2024 - 18.08.2024

Exhibition opening: Saturday 27 July, 2024, 3-5pm

Jake Nemirovsky’s solo exhibition debut Big Bug opens at Hillvale Gallery on Saturday 27 July. To coincide with the opening, Jake’s first solo publication of the same title, published by Tall Poppy Press, will be launched. 

Try to remember a moment from when you were young. What did it feel like then? How does it feel now? Can you describe it?
Can you pinpoint a place or are we back where we started? 
The echoes of my memory fade and swell over time; they tell a story that I want to recall.  I can remember the taste, but I can’t quite taste it. 
These are closer to memories of a memory, 
like the pages of so many photo albums that were never made. Like the reflections of a world that I thought were real. I can remember the sound, but I can’t quite hear it.

The camera pricks the surface of the visual world to stir all that is dormant within us.

I'm interested in how a photograph affects the viewer by evoking familiarity, even if what they see isn’t a person, place or time they have known. When living memory fails, we reach for photographs to remind us. They satisfy our yearnings to return to the moments sweetened by passing time.

It has no theme or arc, but I hope the work can be likened to something we all share. It’s my version of the after-dinner ritual of thumbing through boxes of soft-cornered photos, attempting to surface the infinite stories we have stowed away.


Jake Nemirovsky (b. 1994, Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian photographer whose work sits at an intersection between documentary and personal narrative. He focuses on using people, place, objects and landscape to interact with the viewer, forging collaborative perspectives on the lived experience.

Jake’s photographic practice blurs the distinction between what’s real and fictional, reassessing documentary image making conventions in light of an unfolding, post-truth world. He's interested in pairing images to form visual cues in incidental moments of the everyday to connote feelings of familiarity. Jake received a BA Photography (Honours) from RMIT, Melbourne, Australia (2020).

Jake Nemirovsky
in conversation with
Morganna Magee

03.08.2024

Following on from the exhibition launch, we will be hosting an artist talk with Jake and fellow artist Morganna Magee of Tall Poppy Press on Saturday 3 August.