Tim Collins

A few months ago, I started developing The Stand, a portrait series on people who’ve taken a public stand on what philosopher Peter Slezak has called “one of the great moral tests of our time.” I’ve photographed academics, artists and athletes, Jews and Palestinians, people in media and business, and ordinary Australians who’ve been appalled by what they’ve seen unfolding in Gaza. One of my first subjects was Ethan Floyd, a community organiser, unionist and student living and working on Gadigal Country. Next month, Ethan will join the @globalsumudflotilla , a civilian mission carrying food, water and medicine to the besieged Gaza Strip. Fair winds, @3th4nfloyd #timcollinsstudio #portrait #documentaryphotographer

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book? —David Attenborough Six months on from Endling, the powerful @legsonthewall production that premiered at @vividsydney back in May. #timcollinsstudio

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Sara Saleh for The Stand. Chippendale, April 2026.

In November 2025, Jayden Kitchener-Waters was blocked from performing an unpaid gig at the NSW Premier’s Public Service Awards after department staff deemed the ‘No Pride in Genocide’ message on his guitar “too political.” The Gomeroi-Ngiyampaa musician, and former Community Engagement Officer with the NSW Aboriginal Languages Trust, was suspended and later fired by the Premier’s Department. @jaydenkitchenerwaters photographed for The Stand, March 2026 at The Wollotuka Institute, The University of Newcastle.

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Towards the end of last year, I was chasing Omar Sakr to sit for The Stand, unaware of the personal struggles he was navigating. At the time, the poet and novelist was caring for his young son, who’d been diagnosed with cancer. He agreed to sit if we could find a time, but cautioned that he’d need to be quick. Then, early in the New Year, I got an email: “Late notice but if you’re free today or tomorrow let me know.” Omar Sakr won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award in 2020. In 2023, he was awarded the Bess Hokin Prize by Poetry Magazine, which he later boycotted for its refusal to acknowledge the genocide in Gaza. Writing about the open letter calling for the boycott, which he co-signed with @noorkhindi and @bordersbookstore Sakr said: “This letter is not because of the weak silencing of anti-Zionist Jewish writing but because of the refusal to ‘take a side’, the desire to appear neutral in the face of genocide, which is not actually neutrality at all but complicity… It is not easy to walk away from finally being included, but as I have said before: for those afraid to ‘burn bridges’ ask yourselves what that bridge is connecting you to...” @omarsakrpoet photographed for The Stand, February 2026, Granville.

Feras Shaheen’s new work, ‘Blocked Duwar’, opens this week at Campbelltown Arts Centre as part of the Biennale of Sydney. Built from fragmented memories, family records and digital remnants, it asks viewers to confront their own complicity in global power structures. @fezshaheen photographed for The Stand, March 2026, Campbelltown.

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