Concrete Playground

You know what’s better than other people’s weird obsessions? A whole slide-show night dedicated to perving at other peoples weird obsessions. Thanks to our social-media-soaked society, I dare say we've all developed a taste for such voyeuristic pursuits. But long before we had the facilities to upload visual snapshots of our most intimate moments with the click of a button, humankind has been interested in marking the moments that make up a life: We need only peek inside an ancient Egyptian tomb to discover our early obsession with the symbols and paraphernalia that denote the human experience. The humble hieroglyphic was simply a primitive Facebook status update.

The Australian Centre for Photography will be providing the proverbial keyhole for a good old ogle at the curious obsessions of 12 Australian photographers. In a slide display of cats, cars and collectibles; empty shops and interrogation rooms; lost loves, self-love and love-for-sale; and an entire year's worth of breakfasts, lunches and dinners, Captured, Collected, Categorised embraces our strange need to express and examine life through visual and tangible symbols and in doing so exposes us all for the dirty pervs that we are.

Image: this is what I ate by Patrick Boland.