Seham Godoy b. 1964

Also known as Seham Abi-Elias
  • Artist (Photographer)
A photographer whose large gelatin silver photographs of girls (1984-1985)are held in the National Gallery of Australia.
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Photographer. Born in Lebanon in 1964. migrated to Australia in 1969 with her family. Studied at the Photography Studies College, Melbourne from 1982 to 1985. Included by Helen Ennis in the Australian National Gallery exhibition Australian Photography: The 1980s; also in 1988 joined Tony Beilby’s and curated by Maria Barbagallo’s Austausch exhibition, an exchange with West Berlin artists.

Seham’s large untitled gelatin silver photographs of a little girl in a chair and group of four girls, taken in 1984 and 1985 respectively (both National Gallery of Australia), were included in Helen Ennis’s exhibition Mirror with a Memory (Canberra: National Portrait Gallery, 2000).

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