Chelsea Hopper: Dead Tired

Date
7 November 2011

In Chelsea Hopper’s photographic series Dead Tired, the connotations are as a immediate as they are poetic. The elderly sun-bathers pictured on the idyllic swathes of Perth coastline evoke the “quaint illusion of death” as they bake them selves into a hedonistic irreverence, smelling like coconuts. Strange and lovely.

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Bryony Quinn

Bryony was It’s Nice That’s first ever intern and worked her way up to assistant online editor before moving on to pursue other interests in the summer of 2012.

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