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My name is Ryan Dandelion. I am a photographic artist working in traditional mediums of film photography, photochemistry, silver gelatin, alternative process and hybrid digital inkjet printing techniques. In 2025 I moved from Sydney to Lismore to setup a home studio and chemistry space.

My work explores themes of vulnerability, personality, sexuality, and the photographer & subject relationship. I have been practicing photography for 10 years, self-taught from the internet and my peers. In 2023 I joined a darkroom and began my printing journey creating silver gelatin prints, starting to teach, and experimenting with large format cameras.

I am neurodivergent, likely with undiagnosed ADHD and a highly sensitive person (someone with sensory processing sensitivity). I utilise my sensitivity to hold space and encourage presence within myself and the subject through music, movement and the breath.

I make my art on the stolen lands of the Bundjalung people, who are the rightful owners and custodians of the land. I acknowledge and pay respect to Elders past and present, and to the generations of families who have gathered on this land for over 65,000 years. Sovereignty has never been ceded. This always was and always will be, Aboriginal land.

All images © 2015-2025 Ryan Dandelion.
Dandelion logo by Presley Joy Paget

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EXHIBITIONS

2025 Finalist, National Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, Parkes, ACT

2025 Nimbin Art Fair, Nimbin Artists Gallery, Nimbin, NSW

2024    Finalist, Canberra Contemporary Photographic Prize, PhotoAccess, Griffith, ACT

2023    Portraits 2021-23, Do Film Lab, Darlinghurst, NSW

2023    Parts of a Flower, Goodspace Gallery, Chippendale, NSW

2016     Nudes On Tap, Tap Gallery, Surry Hills, NSW