Kristian Haggblom

Dr. Kristian Häggblom is an artist, curator and academic whose interests include expanded documentary practices, experimental image capture methodologies, relationships between photography and text and manipulation of archival image depositories. He has delivered conference papers internationally on suicide landscapes, expanded documentary and new forms of tourism. His research and own practice is largely driven by journeying and he is presently working on a project that connects the search for both aliens and gold. In 2010 he was the inaugural artist-in-residence at the Australia Council for Arts Finland Studio. Häggblom completed his PhD at Monash University in 2014 and he is the founder and co-curator at Wallflower Photomedia Gallery. Häggblom has exhibited work in Australia, Japan, American, Finland, Malaysia and Switzerland.