Kurt Sorensen’s eerie and cinematic work is a blend of photography, history and anthropology. 

His series Port of Call explores the direct descendants of those that lived in the Newcastle area including people from the Awabakal and Worimi groups as well as direct descendants from Europeans communities during the colonialisation era. 

Using a 19th Century wet plate collodion technique that was popular in the mid 1800’s, Sorensen produces portraits of these individuals with a historical nod to the city as he evokes both the Indigenous, and colonial histories of Newcastle’s past.

Sorensen is a photographic artist who lives in Sydney, Australia. He has been a finalist in the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography prize and in 2012 was awarded the Judges Prize at the Iris Awards at Perth Centre for Photography. He is a former recipient of the Australia Council for the Arts new work grant for emerging artists and his work has recently been acquired by Artbank. Sorenson is represented by Dickerson Gallery, Sydney.