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Toying with Photography: F-Stop Troop by DeeDee Noon simulates identity and marketing tropes typically used in toy positioning and packaging. Inverting consumerist expectations, Toying with Photography: F-Stop Troop presents pseudo-merchandising for a non-existent toy-line in a fake news era.

While toys are a highly visible feature of daily life, their significance can often hide in plain sight. Disrupting toy boundaries, Noon toys with toy forms, language, and contexts attempting to locate where 鈥榯oy鈥� blurs into miniature, model, doll, figurine, collectible, art sculpture, or statue. Packed with fun and out-of-the box contradictions, Toying with Photography: F-Stop Troop raises serious questions about broader marketing manoeuvring that increasingly stretches the term 鈥榯oy鈥� far beyond child-related contexts. Shopfront Gallery with its prior history as a retail site and street presence, brings rich conceptual loading for commodity critique.

Photographic portraiture is both Noon鈥檚 research topic and primary research method. Her creative enquiry aims to explore photographically the sociocultural roles and functions of toys. Playfully co-mingling fictitious branding, toy-related rhetorics and dominant photographic histories with 3-D printing processes and vibrant, high-chroma pink, Noon subversively explores the aspirational masculinity myths historically, and still commonly, embodied in toys. Using her toy forms to displace exclusionary photography histories, Noon whimsically minumentalises well-known, Perth-based male photographers, toyfiying them to challenge accepted readings, meanings and relationships.