Daniela Rodriguez Photography

Día de la Mujer ✊🏽

Echoes of Elsewhere is a project I have been working on for the Master of Photography at RMIT. It explores how belonging takes shape within the Latin American diaspora in Australia. Through photography, and video, the project traces how memory, cultural inheritance, and everyday gestures form identity across distance. It’s on show at First Site Gallery in Melbourne from 2 - 7 December.

If you are around tomorrow join me for the opening night celebrations. I’ll also be in the gallery Wednesday to Friday from 11am to 1pm - come and say hi!
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Echoes of Elsewhere es un proyecto en el que he estado trabajando para la Maestría en Fotografía en RMIT. Explora cómo se configura el sentido de pertenencia dentro de la diáspora latinoamericana en Australia. A través de la fotografía y el video, el proyecto rastrea cómo la memoria, la herencia cultural y los gestos cotidianos forman la identidad a pesar de la distancia.
Se exhibe en First Site Gallery en Melbourne del 2 al 7 de diciembre.

Si están por la zona mañana, acompáñenme a la inauguración. También estaré en la galería de miércoles a viernes de 11 am a 1 pm — ¡pasen a saludar!

If your in Melbourne n 2 December come to the RMIT Master of Photography Grad Show! Would love to see you there and celebrate. My work Echoes of Elsewhere will be at First Site Gallery.

She excited to be part of this year. My work Echoes of Elsewhere is up in the laneway.

Echoes of Elsewhere is a long term photographic project exploring Latinx identity, belonging, and cultural memory within contemporary Australia. Drawing on her perspective as a first-generation Chilean-Australian, Daniela Rodriguez uses portraiture and still life to examine how migrant communities preserve and perform cultural identity across distance and time.
The work focuses on themes of matriarchy, homemaking, and intergenerational cultural transmission. Women—mothers, daughters, grandmothers—are photographed in everyday domestic environments, emphasising their roles as cultural custodians. Still life images of food, textiles, botanicals, and symbolic objects deepen this narrative, offering visual metaphors for home, heritage, and resistance.
By weaving together past and present, Echoes of Elsewhere foregrounds the importance of visibility for migrant communities and asserts the complexity of transcultural identity. This exhibition invites viewers to engage with the layered experiences of diaspora and to consider how photography can be used as both testimony and resistance in the ongoing negotiation of belonging.

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