Friday Round Up - 5 August, 2016

This week on Friday Round Up it's all about black and white photography. Morganna Magee takes a behind-the-badge look at police women, Markus Andersen's Rage Against the Light launches in Sydney, Andrew Chapman's Giving Life Special Event this Saturday and Diane Arbus: The Early Years in New York.

Exhibition: Melbourne
Behind the Badge: Women of Victoria Police

Above: Michelle

Currently on show at the Victoria Police Museum is "Behind the Badge", a series of portraits of ten women currently serving in Victoria Police. 

Melbourne photographer Morganna Magee has created this engaging series which depicts the women in their professional roles and “off-duty”. Shot over a 4 week period, Morganna says, “I was initially granted access to meet the women within their homes with the idea that the informal environment would allow me to create an engaging portrait. After speaking with my first subject I realised that rather than feel uncomfortable within their workspace, these women thrived on the work they did and the chance to make a difference within the community”.

Above: Sam

“Photographing these women at home and in the workplace enables the viewer to not only feel a sense of connection with the women in the images but also to begin to understand how being a Police member is more than just a vocation. The reasons these women joined the Police Force are varied, but a sense of pride and confidence in their work unites them.”

Above: Carlee

Victoria Police Museum
World Trade Centre
Mezzanine Level
637 Flinders Street
Melbourne

Check out more of Morganna's work here.


Exhibition: Sydney
Rage Against the Light - Markus Andersen

The official Australian book launch and exhibition of 'Rage Against The Light' by Sydney-based photographic artist Markus Andersen opens next week at Sydney's Black Eye Gallery and is definitely worth checking out. These images have multiple layers that draw you in and invite you to linger in the shadows. The longer you look the more you see.  

Markus says the work "explores my intoxication with natural light and the darkness/dark corners created from this light. Subjects caught in the dual forces of light and shadow remain at the heart of the work, the interplay of these elements within the architecture or landscape create order from discordance. 'Rage Against The Light' emphasises the dramatic nature of intense or subdued light and my continued relationship and fascination with the subject". 

9 - 21 August
Black Eye Gallery
3/138 Darlinghurst Road
Darlinghurst 

Check out more of Markus' work here.

Talk:

Giving Life - Magnet Galleries Melbourne

This Saturday Professor Bob Jones (who is one of the good guys) incredibly intelligent, but also super approachable, is giving a talk about how organ transplant works. Get along to Magnet Galleries at 2pm for this rare opportunity and at the same time check out Andrew Chapman's amazing images from his Giving Life series. There's good coffee to be had too! 

Magnet Galleries Melbourne

640 Bourke Street

Melbourne

Exhibition: New York

Diane Arbus: In the Beginning

In this expansive exhibition more than 100 photographs of Diane Arbus’ early career (the first seven years from 1956-1962) are on show, many for the first time. Jeff Rosenheim, Curator in Charge of the Department of Photographs at The Met says, “Arbus’s early photographs are wonderfully rich in achievement and perhaps as quietly riveting and ultimately controversial as the iconic images for which she is so widely known”.  

Until 27 November

The Met Breuer

2nd Floor

1000 Fifth Avenue

New York

Click to watch the Diane Arbus exhibition video from The Met 

Friday Round Up - 18 July, 2014

This week on Friday Round Up new exhibitions for Edmund Pearce and Blackeye Gallery, Awards and Finalists and the Picture of the Week. Plus photographs from three iconic documentary photographers – Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand and William Eggleston. And check out the Danube Revisited: Inge Morath Truck Project, which is currently underway.

Picture of the Week:
In Beijing the parents of Internet addicts are sending their children to military style boot camps to try to combat their online obsessions. There are more than 250 of these boot camp programs in China. Photo: Kim Kyung-Hoon

Exhibition: Melbourne
Out of the Closets, Into the Streets
Gay Liberation Photography 1971-1973

(C) Phillip Potter

This group show presents works that document the early rising of the gay liberation movement in Australia. These photographs not only record the societal shifts of the time acted out in public rallies and protests, but also capture private moments as seen in the intimate portraits of photographer Barbara Creed. The show features a number of photographs by John Englart that capture 1973’s Gay Pride Week in Sydney. 

 Anon
 (C) Barbara Creed

(C) John Englart

At a time when Australia is debating the issue of gay marriage, this exhibition demonstrates that many of the phobias around sexuality and gender that existed in the 1970s are still present now. Yet it also shows the power of a united voice, and reminds us that the protests of the 1970s, and the courage of those who were prepared to stand up for their rights, directly impacted the lives of many who identify as GLBTI.

Out of the Closets, Into the Streets features work from Barbara Creed, John Englart, Phillip Potter, Ponch Hawkes and Rennie Ellis.

Edmund Pearce Gallery
Level 2 Nicholas Building
37 Swanston Street
Melbourne

Exhibition: Sydney
Stephen Dupont – White Sheet Series

(C) Stephen Dupont

This week photojournalist Stephen Dupont’s “The white sheet series No. 01” exhibition opens in Sydney at Blackeye Gallery. This exhibition, which was shown earlier in the year at Edmund Pearce, Melbourne, features a series of portraits Dupont took of visitors and pilgrims to Kumbh Mela, the most important Hindu Festival held in India four times every 12 years.

With this series Dupont, who is best known for his hard-nosed photojournalism work, has used Indian textile stamps to decorate the borders of the images, creating intricate patterns that frame the portraits in rich reds.

Until 3rd August
Black Eye Gallery
3/138 Darlinghurst Road
Darlinghurst (Sydney)

Looking Back
Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand and William Eggleston
As I dive into research for my PhD I’ll be sharing snippets of information on the world of photography, both past and present. This week while we look at the new work that is being showcased in galleries and competitions, I thought it pertinent to share images from three iconic photographers who challenged documentary tradition in the 1950s and 1960s - Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand and William Eggleston.

(C) Diane Arbus

(C) Diane Arbus


(C) Garry Winogrand


(C) Garry Winogrand


(C) William Eggleston


(C) William Eggleston

Prizes:
Melbourne
The Bowness Photography Prize – Finalists

Forty-eight photographers have been named as finalists in the 9th annual Bowness Photography Prize valued at $25,000.

Both emerging and established photographers can enter this competition, which is considered one of Australia’s “most open prizes for photography” as it has no thematic restrictions either. As such the finalists’ works are truly diverse with classic portraiture styles up against conceptual and abstract work.

Some of the finalists’ works are from larger series or bodies of work. In my opinion, often single images do not translate when they are removed from context and there are several images in this collection that fall into that category. But hats off to the judges – artist Siri Hayes, MGA Director Shaune Laikin and National Portrait Gallery Director Angus Trumble - for being able to whittle the entries down to only 48 – having been a judge this year for Head On Photo Festival I know what an enormous task it is to critically assess thousands of images.

This week images from four of the finalists are featured to give readers an indication of the breadth of work submitted for this coveted prize. 

(C) Lee Grant

(C) Georgia Metaxas

 (C) Matthew Newton

(C) Darren Sylvester

The winner will be announced on 4th September. In the meantime you can check out the finalists’ images at the Monash Gallery of Art website – www.mga.org.au/bowness-prize

Finalists for the 2014 $25 000 Bowness Photography Prize:

Todd Anderson-Kunert, John Bodin, Jessica Brent, Ross Calia, Andrew Chapman, Danica Chappell, Rowan Conroy, Nici Cumpston, Tamara Dean, Shoufay Derz, Marian Drew, Lesley Duxbury, Cherine Fahd, Sean Fennessy, Gerrit Fokkema, John Gollings, Lee Grant, Mike Gray, Janina Green, Kristian Häggblom, Petrina Hicks, Shane Hulbert, Ingvar Kenne, Mark Kimber, Aldona Kmiec, Katrin Koenning, Christopher Köller, Annika Koops, Agata Krajewska, Ashlee Laing, Owen Leong, Georgia Metaxas, Graham Miller, Sarah Mosca, Harry Nankin, Matthew Newton, Zorica Purlija, Clare Rae, Kate Robertson, Julie Rrap, Emily Sandrussi, Vivian Cooper Smith, Darren Sylvester, Salote Tawale, Claudia Terstappen, Justine Varga, Anne Wilson and Yiorgo Yiannopoulos.

San Francisco:
Kellicut International Photography Show
2014 Winner – Goran Jovic

The Kellicut prize was established in 2008 on an open call basis. This year more than 1200 entries were received from across 15 countries with the winner Croatian photographer Goran Jovic for his work “Home Alone” (below). 

Started by photographers Jeff and Kirsten Klagenberg, the Kellicut International Photography Show prize and exhibition are designed to promote the concept of photography as art to new audiences and to introduce new artists. To date the Kellicut trophy and cash prize ($US2000) has been awarded to photographers from Australia, Italy, Spain, Croatia and the US.

Kellicut International Photography Show
Exhibition Until 31 July
Coastal Arts League
300 Main Street
Half Moon Bay
San Francisco

To find out more about the prize and exhibition visit the website here

Other Exhibitions worth seeing:
Melbourne:

Michael Prideaux
Sea & Sky
Fortyfivedownstairs

Until 2 August
45 Flinders Lane
Melbourne

The Sievers Project
Group Show
Centre for Contemporary Photography

(C)  Zoe Croggon    

Until 31 August
404 George St
Fitzroy

Project Update:
Danube Revisited
Inge Morath Truck Project

Last month Friday Round Up featured an interview with Australian photographer Claire Martin, one of the winners of the Inge Morath Award, about the Danube Revisited project. To quickly recap, this project involves the nine recipients of the Inge Morath Award who are now travelling along the Danube River from the Black Forest to the Black Sea in a large truck that has been converted into a mobile photography gallery. Along the route they will host artist talks, photo forums and cultural exchanges with local institutions and organisations. Following the tour they will embark on the creation of new works to be exhibited in 2015. 

(C) Inge Morath 

To follow the progress of these nine inspirational women photographers visit their blog here