21 × 29.7 cm

Cyanotype Photography on cotton paper

Framed in white timber with museum-quality glass

Horizon & Lagoon

These landscapes explore memory and place through the language of water and horizon. Horizon, photographed in Dee Why (2020), holds a sense of openness and collective movement, while Lagoon, captured on the north eastern coast of Venezuela (2011), connects my origins with my present life in Australia. Both works were reinterpreted as sun printed cyanotypes (2025). Together, these works reflect on migration, belonging and presence.

Gabby Villalba is a Venezuelan-born photographer whose work moves between self portraiture and experimental approaches. Based in Australia since 2013, her practice explores memory, transformation and the relationship between body and its surroundings.

Living between Venezuela and Australia deeply shapes her perspective, allowing her to reflect on place as both territory and emotional space. Her images often use the seascape as a metaphor for transition, while the body becomes a site of memory and change. Working with slow-crafted processes, she creates cyanotypes using sunlight as an essential part of her image-making.

Gabby was a finalist in the Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design Prize in 2024 and 2025. Alongside her artistic practice, she documents artists and cultural life while nurturing creative communities through La Crème Creative Inc. and the Brookvale Arts District (BAD).