click on images for title and larger view   Exhibited at Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, 1999, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, 2000, Manly Art Gallery and currently touring throughout regional NSW during 2000-2. "Anne Zahalka's series, Leisureland maps some of the co-ordinates of modern leisure in images that occupy a vantage point between the production and consumption of down time. Her photographs document the stuff we do; the myriad forms of gambling, sightseeing in the air, underwater, in the past, hardening our bodies in gyms, crowding a lecture by Derrida, chilling at the pool, catching a simulated war or a round of Aqua Golf, 'Golf, with a difference!' Through a series of large scale photographic images taken in real locations "Zahalka's images deploy conventions of photographic realism in tandem with contemporary technologies that facilitate a precision of colour and detail, an organisation of pictorial surface, and a scale hitherto associated with traditional history painting or the advertising billboard".2   2 SeeBlair French's paper 'The Photogenic Image on recent work by Rosemary Laing and Anne Zahalka' at Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne.