Photographer Baha Mosa is giving the community a greater appreciation of its public art with his debut solo exhibition Around at the E3 Art Space at Wagga Art Gallery.

The statue of a woman and her dog on Baylis Street which is titled Mary and Muuj, the cast bronze man known as Victor in front of the Victoria Hotel and the bird statues found in the middle of roundabouts on Peter and Forsyth streets are among the art featured in the 15 coloured photographs in Around.

"I did not want to have an exhibition just for the sake of it ... I wanted it to have a theme and a purpose," said Baha, who works in the design studio at Riverina Media Group.

"With Around, public art is the theme and the purpose is for people to appreciate it."

Baha, who is originally from Dubai, fell into photography almost by accident after arriving at Wagga's Charles Sturt University.

"I was studying graphic design at university and I had a choice between drawing and photography for another course as an elective ," Baha said.

"I'd never taken a photograph before but the course made more appeal to me and it's turned out to be the best move I could have made."

Around opens at the E3 Art Space at the gallery on Friday, March 26.