Tammy Law, PhD

Tammy Law is a photographer, academic, curator and award-winning photographic book maker, whose images have been widely published and exhibited nationally and internationally between Myanmar, Greece and Japan. Through her documentary arts practice – which investigates experiences of presence and absence through migrating and displaced communities – Tammy has received various accolades and awards. In 2017 she was awarded an Australia Council for the Arts grant to establish Fragile Constellations, an online network between photographers from Myanmar and Australia. In 2018, her artist book Permission To Belong won the ANZ Photobook People's Choice Award. In 2021, Fractured Dreams & Indefinite Scars – Tammy's residency and exhibition for BrisAsia Festival, exhibited at the Museum of Brisbane – explored the ways in which immigration laws and processes impact family narratives and histories, specifically focusing on the lives of New Zealanders deported under the Section 501 character test of the Migration Act, and young asylum seekers from Iran and Sri Lanka on bridging visas. In the same year, Tammy was also the recipient of the Arts Queensland Individuals Fund for her artist's book project, Cancelled & Removed. Tammy's freelance photography has been widely published through NPR, Greenpeace, the Wall Street Journal, Broadsheet and the Saturday Paper. She has a PhD in Media and Communication from RMIT.