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	Ricky talks about his work
Artist's Name:	Ricky MAYNARD
	Ricky Maynard was born in Launceston, Tasmania in 1953. He is a self-taught photographer who initially began work in the industry as a darkroom technician at the age of sixteen. In 1981 he undertook a photography course at Hobart Technical College, Tasmania to further his knowledge of chemistry and optics. Maynard worked as trainee photographer at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), Canberra from 1983, and studied photographic optics at Reid TAFE College, Canberra in 1984. He was selected as one of the photographers of the After 200 Years project in 1985 and worked as the Aboriginal Arts Development Officer at the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre, Hobart in 1987. Maynard was employed as a contract photographer for AIATSIS from 1989 and first exhibited his photographs in Narragunnawali at the Canberra Contemporary Art Space that same year. In 1990 he was the recipient of an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board Grant from the Australia Council, which enabled him to undertake a year's full-time study as part of the degree program in Documentary Photography at the International Centre of Photography, New York. Maynard's photographs were included in Balance 1990: Views, Visions, Influences at Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane that same year. In 1992 he established a freelance business, Jollygood Productions Studio, in Adelaide. Maynard participated in Urban Focus: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art from the Urban Areas of Australia at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra in 1994. That same year he was awarded the Mother Jones International Fund for Documentary Photography for his black deaths in custody series No More Than What You See (1993), which was later exhibited at Stills Gallery, Sydney. Maynard returned to Sydney in 1995 as artist-in-residence at the University of New South Wales. In 1997 he held the solo exhibition Urban Diary at Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney. Maynard's photographs were included in the exhibitions Endangered Species at Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Victoria and Off Shore-On Site (part of the Festival of the Dreaming, Olympic Arts Festival) at the Casula Powerhouse, Sydney that same year. Maynard received the Australian Human Rights Award for photography in 1997. He is a founding member of M.33 Photoagency, Melbourne. Artist statement — Ricky MAYNARD This body of work embraces all of what the endeavour of photography is. In giving compassionate understanding for black deaths in custody it required a truthful accuracy with insight. They carry messages of our survival, not only of man's inhumanity to man, but a feeling of what it's like to be born black. These pictures will live on in history, showing the moment to itself, showing what needs to be changed and hoping some day we can look back and see how far we have progressed as a society. June 1998