Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up - 22nd September, 2017

This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up - the Indian Photography Festival opens in Hyderabad and locally Press Dynasty opens at Magnet Galleries Melbourne.

Festival: 
Indian Photography Festival - Hyderabad


(C) Kate Geraghty

The third edition of the Indian Photography Festival (IPF) opened yesterday. I had the pleasure of playing a small role in the curation of IPF by participating in the selection of the open call entries. I enjoyed the opportunity to view work by many photographers I didn't know, surely one of the greatest attractions of festivals like this.

This year the program boasts more than 520 photographers from 40 countries showcasing a diverse range of work. It's great to see Australian photojournalist Kate Geraghty's work on the drug war in the Philippines (above) as one of the major exhibitions. Other photographers participating in various capacities (workshops, artist talks and presentations) include Natan Dvir, Andrea Bruce, Reza Deghati, Stuart Franklin, Sudharak Olwe, Q Sakamaki, Cecilia Paredes, Prashant Godbole, Manoj Jadhav and Gurinder Osan.

Plus there is a host of lesser known photographers from which selected works are featured here:

Helena Schätzle - Dharavi, Mumbai









Telaj Mewar
Indian Brick Workers









Camillo Pasquarelli - The Endless Winter of Kashmir
Student award of excellence, 2017 Alexia Foundation

Sabine Hartert - Absences

The IPF runs until 8 October. To find out more visit the festival website. 

Exhibition: Melbourne

Bruce & Cliff Postle - Press Dynasty

I don't know how many father and son press photographers there have been, but in Australia the Postle name has been synonymous with newspapers since the 1920s when Cliff Postle was shooting for the Brisbane Courier-Mail. His son Bruce followed in his father's footsteps, first with the Courier-Mail before making the move to Melbourne and carving a name for himself at The Age. 

This retrospective at Melbourne's Magnet Galleries brings together a selection of images never exhibited together, presenting a fascinating walk down memory lane for many, as well as insights into our recent history.

Until 14 October
Magnet Galleries Melbourne
Level 2
640 Bourke Street
Melbourne

Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up - 21st April, 2017

This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up - Australian photographic artist Murray Fredericks showcases his latest work in Melbourne and London, Greek artist Aris Georgiou's exhibition opens in Sydney and New Zealand photographer Thomas Slade makes his solo debut in Wellington. Plus grant rounds are open for Getty Grants and W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography and the Indian Photography Festival - Hyderabad calls for entries. Next week, a preview of the 2017 Head On Photo Festival, which promises to be fantastic!


Exhibition: Melbourne & London
Murray Fredericks - Vanity

Australian photographic artist Murray Fredericks has built an international reputation on his epic vistas of Australia’s Lake Eyre, his signature a dead flat horizon that conveys the vastness of space. It is this concept of space that Fredericks is chasing, the idea that in the landscape there is limitless discovery, the opportunity to shift to a different plane, to transcend the known and drift into possibility.

Fredericks keeps going back to Lake Eyre, which is 144km long and 77km wide, to find new ways to engage. He’s now made 17 trips and in his latest series, “Vanity,” he uses a large mirror as a device through which to further explore the vistas of this otherworldly landscape. “Rather than reflecting our own ‘surface’ image, the mirror is positioned to draw our gaze out and away from ourselves, into the environment, driving us towards an emotional engagement with light, colour and space,” he says.

Last night I attended the opening in Melbourne at Arc One Gallery. These are stunning images that when viewed in the gallery are just breathtaking. And no, they are not Photoshopped!

(C) All images Murray Fredericks

Murray Fredericks' 'Vanity' opens at Arc One

Currently showing in Melbourne until 27 May at Arc One Gallery 45 Flinders Lane
Opening in London at Hamiltons Gallery on 28 April, 13 Carlos Pl, Mayfair, London W1K 2EU

Exhibition: Sydney

Aris Georgiou - Circumstantial Evidence 

This exhibition is the first major survey of photographic works by Greek artist Aris Georgiou to be shown in Australia. Curated by Jack Pam (who is the son of Australian photographer Max Pam) Circumstantial Evidence includes photographs spanning a period of thirty years taken in Greece, USA, France, Germany, Israel and India. 

(C) Aris Georgiou

Pam says Georgiou’s body of work “explores the possibilities of human endeavour through a powerfully romantic, creative sensibility. Themes of repetition, memory, hope, dreams and love are consistently confronted in Georgiou’s work as they are warped and exploited by the passage of time”.

Georgiou will be in Australia for the show and will hold an artist’s talk at 2pm on 13th May. A limited edition publication will be produced for the exhibition by the Australian Museum of Contemporary Photography.

26 April to 21 May
Delmar Gallery
Trinity Grammar School
144 Victoria St, Ashfield (Sydney)

Exhibition: Wellington, New Zealand

Thomas Slade - What brings you here? & Translating a silent language


From: What brings you here?

Thomas Slade's first solo exhibition features two bodies of work: What brings you here? and Translating a silent language. 

Slade says, "What brings you here? is a comparative study that examines both the positive and negative changes in rural New Zealand. Why does one town decline while another prospers? Using photography, statistics and interviews this body of work explores differences and consequences of change for two towns (Waverley and Shannon)...These images of rural New Zealand highlight change. They remind us where we have come from as a country and of our identity as New Zealanders."

In contrast, Translating a silent language is a series of photographs made in 2016 in which the chosen subjects were photographed in urban environments under the direction of Slade and the constructed scenes were captured using a high-end digital camera. Both show the artist's versatility.

(C) All images Thomas Slade

Until 15 May
Photospace
1st floor, 37 Courtenay Place
Wellington New Zealand

Grants:

Getty Grants - 5 Grants of US$10,000

Past winner Kirsten Luce

Five photojournalists will be selected to receive grants that will aid in funding projects of personal and journalistic significance. This year the judges are: Alice Gabriner (TIME), Chelsea Matiash, (The Intercept), Thomas Simonetti (Washington Post), Damon Winter (New York Times) and Jean-Francois Leroy (Visa Pour l’Image). Applications close May 15. Apply here. 

W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography

2016 Recipient was Justyna Mielnikiewicz

Annually the W. Eugene Smith grant awards a photographer “who has demonstrated an exemplary commitment to documenting the human condition in the spirit of Smith’s concerned photography and dedicated compassion.” This year the grant has been increased to US$35,000 and entries close on May 31. Click here for details.

Last year’s recipient was Justyna Mielnikiewicz for her project A Diverging Frontier, which she says, “explores borders as ever-changing spheres of influence that overlap physical borders marked on the map. It documents life on the frontier of Europe, and delves into the symbolic meanings and reconstructed historical narratives of these borderlands, which contribute to the formation of national identity and shaping the images of the neighboring countries”. 

Festival:

Indian Photography Festival - Hyderabad

The Indian Photography Festival - Hyderabad invites photographers from all over the world to submit for the 2017 exhibition program. The festival runs from 21 September to 8 October. To find out more visit the website. 

Friday Round Up - 2nd December, 2016

This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up the 12th edition of Angkor Photo opens in Siem Reap, Cambodia and two new exhibitions for Sydney and Melbourne - in Sydney check out Markus Andersen's exhibition 'Cabramatta' and in Melbourne Magnet Galleries presents DESIVOLUTION.

Tonight is the gala event for the 2016 Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism in Brisbane. Am currently frocking up in oppressive humidity and the temperature's soaring into the mid-30's C which is approaching 95 degrees F! That is making this Melbourne girl's hair go super curly! Despite the impending hair crisis, it is set to be a great night when Australia's leading lights in journalism come together to celebrate. I was thrilled to be a judge this year for the photography categories and to be part of the jury that awarded Andrew Quilty Photo of the Year. Am eager to see who the final winners are tonight in the remaining categories.


(C) Andrew Quilty

Feature:
Angkor Photo Festival & Workshops
Angkor Photo is the longest running photographic festival in Southeast Asia and provides emerging photographers in the region with an unprecedented opportunity to engage, learn and network with professionals from all over the world.

The 12th edition features over 130 photographers from 45 countries. Exhibitions run throughout the festival week and there are evening projections also. This year Claudia Hinterseer is the guest curator for the Festival’s environmental-themed ‘GreenLight Exhibition Series’ which this year is titled ‘We Alter Nature’. Hinterseer was a founder of NOOR agency and is currently the Senior Multimedia Director at China Daily Asia in Hong Kong.

Hinterseer says, “Documentary photography is a powerful medium to both celebrate nature and scrutinise the massive human impact on our environment. This showcase of 15 documentary photo projects for the 2016 Angkor Photo Festival makes the large-scale degradation of our natural habitat and the endangerment of its species visible while juxtaposing it with close-ups and zoom-outs of intact nature and photo projects about human needs and habits.

“By bringing together the work of some world-renowned documentary photographers including Ingo Arndt, Daniel Beltrá, Edward Burtynsky, Alejandro Durán, Chris Jordan, Daesung Lee, Kadir van Lohuizen, Maskbook project, Paolo Marchetti, Peter Menzel, Simon Norfolk, Joel Sartore, Henk Wildschut and Li Zhiguo my point is to show that the way and the speed at which we’re altering the world’s flora and fauna is stunning and unsustainable.”

A selection from ‘We Alter Nature':

©Daesung Lee

©Daesung Lee

©Kadir van Lohuizen

©Kadir van Lohuizen

©Peter Menzel

©Peter Menzel

All events are free, including the professional workshops which aim to provide emerging photographers with the opportunity to learn from international professionals. This year the six tutors are Antoine D’Agata, Sohrab Hura, Kosuke Okahara, Sim Chi Yin, Newsha Tavakolian and Ian Teh.

2016 marks the tenth anniversary for Françoise Callier the programme coordinator for the Festival an the curator of the projections. Here is a sample of the work featured in the evening projections:

Aun Raza, Pakistan - Cuba

 

Jodi Bieber, South Africa   - Between Dogs and Wolves

Vlad Sokhin, Russia - The Two Faces of the Thunder Dragon

Matilde Gattoni , Italy/France - Ocean Rage

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Zalmai, Afghanistan/Switzerland - The End of Mirage

Ingetje Tadros, Australia - This is My Country

Exhibition: Sydney

Markus Andersen - Cabramatta

Curated by Claire Monneraye from the Australian Centre for Photography (ACP), this exhibition features images from Sydney photographic artist Markus Andersen's book Cabramatta: A Moment In Time. 

I'm used to seeing Andersen's constrasty black and white images on social media so to see these colour photographs and get another insight into his work is gratifying. Andersen's signature use of light is present here too, and I really enjoy the way he uses the surrounds and found objects to frame his subjects. If you miss the show at Fairfield, it will be moving to ACP before touring nationally next year. 

December 3, 2016 to January 7, 2017
Fairfield City Gallery & Museum
Cnr. Oxford Street & The Horsley Drive
Smithfield


Melbourne:
Magnet Galleries - DESIVOLUTION









DESIVOLUTION is part of Multicultural Arts Victoria's MAPPING MELBOURNE Asian-Australian cultural festival. The exhibition showcases the cultural importance of the Indian restaurant in the world of the Desi diaspora. (DESI - the word used by Indians in the diaspora for self-identify).

Magnet Galleries Melbourne
Level 2
640 Bourke Street

Melbourne