Friday Round Up - 20 March, 2015

This week on Friday Round Up an interview with Russian photographer Evgenia Arbugaeva, Asher Milgate's Survivors, the Photograph and Australia (AGNSW), Earthmatters (MGA), Inspiration by Design (SLV) and Derryn Tal at Stanley Street.

Interview:
Evgenia Arbugaeva 

(C) Evgenia Arbugaeva - Weather Man

The remote reaches of our planet hold fascination for many. From the comfort of our heated homes we harbour romanticised views of explorers and scientists working in fantastical locations like the Arctic. With the Northern Lights dancing across the sky, endless plains of snow and ice and darkness descending for half the year, nature paints a thrilling canvas that allows the imagination to soar.


(C) Evgenia Arbugaeva - Weather Man



(C) Evgenia Arbugaeva - Weather Man

Photographer Evgenia Arbugaeva knows this canvas well. She grew up in Tiksi in the Republic of Yakutia, a northern Russian seaport located on the coast of the Laptev Sea. Her father, a breeder of rare Eastern Siberian Huskies, invested in his children a love of nature and adventure, a spirit that today informs her choices on what to photograph...(to read the full interview and see more pictures please click on the Feature Articles link at the top of the blog).

Evgenia Arbugaeva's Weather Man is currently showing in Paris at In Camera Gallery until 14 April, 2015 and will also feature in this year's Photo de Mer Festival in France 3 April to 3 May. 

Exhibitions:

Dubbo:

Asher Milgate - SURVIVORS

Aunty Joyce
This exhibition of recorded oral histories and black and white portraits features the Elders and Elders-in-waiting who grew up on the Nanima Mission in Wellington, 350km west from Sydney at the junction of the Macquarie and Bell Rivers.

Photographer Asher Milgate, who was born in Wellington,  says he returned to his home town after living in Sydney with a new perspective on his local community. Turning his focus to the importance of documenting the history of the area's Indigenous people, Milgate has created an invaluable resource that will serve generations to come. 

Milgate says, “This project has humbled me a lot. I am a white Australian and I grew up amongst these people and in this place. I couldn’t see things clearly as a child, but now as an adult I have more perspective. I went to school and played football with many of the grandsons and sons of the people I interviewed. They are my friends. This gave me some confidence to contact the people I interviewed for this project. I wanted to record and share their stories”.

“Being a local non-Indigenous person and being granted the permission and acceptance to work so closely with the community to produce a work of this kind, I believe is the start of reconciliation in our community. A grass roots development that I hope will bring together our whole community by creating understanding, respect and acceptance.”

Denise Kelly

Neville Brown

Paul West

Uncle Billy Lou

Wayne Carr

Milgate hopes Survivors will “help retain Indigenous oral history…My work seeks to preserve the beliefs of these great people, their legends and traditions”.

Until 10 May 2015

Western Plains Cultural Centre

Dubbo, NSW (393km west of Sydney)
(C) All images Asher Milgate

Sydney:

The Photograph and Australia

Olive Cotton, Only to taste the warmth, the light, the wind c1939

At a time when photography is ubiquitous, a new exhibition The Photograph and Australia at the Art Gallery of NSW, gives us an opportunity to look at the medium’s evolution in this country and how photography has shaped our historical narrative. Images date from 1840s to now, with 400 photographs, and more than 120 artists including Morton Allport, Richard Daintree, Paul Foelsche, Samuel Sweet, JJ Dwyer, Charles Bayliss, Frank Hurley, Harold Cazneaux, Olive Cotton, Max Dupain, Sue Ford, Carol Jerrems, Tracey Moffatt, Robyn Stacey, Ricky Maynard, Anne Ferran and Patrick Pound.

David Moore, Migrants arriving in Sydney 1966

Nicholas Claire, Fairy Scene at the Landslip Black's Spur, c1878

Mervyn Bishop, Prime Minister Gough Whitlam pours soil into the  

hands of traditional land owner Vincent Lingiari, Northern Territory 1975

Anne Zahalka, artist #13 (Rosemary Laing) 1990 from the series Artists

The Photograph and Australia
21 March - 8 June, 2015
Art Gallery of NSW

Melbourne:

Earthmatters

(C) Tony Hewitt

Part of Art+Climate=Change 2015, Earth matters: contemporary photographers in the landscape is an exhibition that features landscape photography by the likes of Anne Ferran, Silvi Glattauer, Siri Hayes, Harry Nankin, David Tatnall and Christian Thompson. There is also a new installation by Ninety Degrees Five, a collective of five Australian artists including Tony Hewitt, Peter Eastway and Les Walking.

(C) Les Walkling

(C) Peter Eastway

(C) Chris Laing

(C) ChristianThompson

Art+Climate=Change 2015 is a Melbourne-wide Festival comprising various art exhibitions, forums, and talks designed to engage the public in action on climate change. www.artclimatechange.org

On until 3 May, 2015
Monash Gallery of Art

Inspiration by Design: Word and Image

French photograph of Quant models 

This exhibition from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London celebrates five centuries of artistry in print and includes a selection of photography, graphic design, fashion, magazines and rare illustrated books. For the first time in Australia.

Fentons Hardships in the Camp

Yohji Yamamoto

China Pictorial magazine 1971

20 Mach to 15 June, 2015
State Library of Victoria

Sydney:

Derryn Tal - Reactions

Chemical Cocktail

Sydney abstract contemporary artist Derryn Tal’s latest exhibition Reactions is on at Stanley Street Gallery. Featuring mixed media works with photography and video, Tal says her focus is on the “discovery and orchestration of reactions between mediums”.


Orchestra of Alchemy 

Molecular Magic

Melting Moment

Until 11th April
Stanley Street Gallery
1/52-54 Stanley Street
Darlinghurst

Friday Round Up - 13th March, 2015

This week on Friday Round Up Trent Parke's new show The Black Rose opens in Adelaide, two new workshops - Maggie Steber and James Whitlow Delano in Vietnam and Gerd Ludwig in Los Angeles. Plus Bradley Scott's LOLA launches in Sydney.

Exhibition:

Adelaide
Trent Parke – The Black Rose

In his new exhibition “The Black Rose” Australian photographic artist Trent Parke (above) showcases several hundred photographs and moving image works that explore universal themes of birth, death, pain, loss and memory from a uniquely personal perspective.

“My photography has always been about asking questions. I am on an endless quest to find out why,” says Parke, who is the only Australian member of Magnum Photos. 

The Black Rose is Parke’s most ambitious project to date and has taken him seven years to complete. It represents Parke’s attempt to reclaim his own memories and delve into the bigger issues affecting us all.

“By stripping himself bare to reveal his own imperfections, Parke pursues the bigger meaning of life and in doing so he challenges us, to reflect on our own lives,” says Nick Mitzevich, Director, Art Gallery of South Australia.

14 March to 10 May, 2015
Art Gallery of South Australia


Workshops:
Los Angeles

Gerd Ludwig 

Learn the art of storytelling with a master. National Geographic photographer Gerd Ludwig is running a 5 1/2 day workshop in Los Angeles and Salton Sea May 28 - June 2. This is a workshop for those who are committed to taking their photography to the next level and focuses on aesthetic, technical and logistical aspects. Its goal is to assist photographers in developing a personal vision and eye. It’s a brilliant opportunity to learn from one of the most experienced and insightful long-form visual storytellers. This will be an awesome experience.

Vietnam: 

Over 16 days 11-26 June, Maggie Steber and James Whitlow Delano will lead a workshop that begins in Hanoi and ends with a three-day cruise along Halong Bay.This workshop is designed to encourage participants to discover the art of creating images beyond the travel photograph. Focusing on documentary style principles, this workshop will offer personalised instruction on how to create a project and bring it to fruition while exploring the cultural diversity of Vietnam. This is a brilliant opportunity to learn from two of the best in the business.

Maggie Steber is renowned for her humanitarian, cultural, and social work and has photographed in 64 countries over a career that spans more than 30 years. Her work has appeared in National Geographic Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, and Geo Magazine amongst other titles and she is the recipient of numerous awards. 

James Whitlow Delano has been based in Asia for 20 years. His most recent book Black Tsunami, published by FotoEvidence, documents the horror of the Japanese tsunami in 2011 (you can read the review on this blog under Book Reviews). He is a multi- award winner and his work has appeared in publications around the world including The New York Times, Vanity Fair, National Geographic and Newsweek. He is also a Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting photographer and the co-founder of #everydayclimatechange. 

 

Book & Exhibition:
Bradley Scott – LOLA

LOLA is an exploration of Bradley Scott’s youth and generation and no moment is too outrageous, sacred, absurd or banal. This work won’t appeal to everyone, but it is one of the most honest attempts to capture life as the photographer experiences it.

All images (C) Bradley Scott

Until 22 March
Blackeye Gallery

3/138 Darlinghurst Road

Darlinghurst 

Friday Round Up - 27th February, 2015

This week on Friday Round Up new exhibitions in Melbourne and Sydney, a big shout out to Daniel Berehulak and his win in POYi Awards and Alexia Foundation announces its 2015 grant winners. Also 2015 Head On Photo Festival extends the closing date for award entries until 8 March.


Exhibitions:
Melbourne

Peter Milne -Juvenilia

 

Boys Next Door first photo session after Rowland joined, Nick’s bedroom, Caulfield, c1978
For those who lived it and for those who wished they had, Peter Milne’s Juvenilia celebrates many of the artists who were part of the vibrant, zany and ridiculously creative alternative music scene in Melbourne from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s.

“Warm, intimate, surprising and already displaying the great compositional skills, originality and humour for which Milne is known, these images offer an unprecedented peep… at a milieu of people who went on to play pivotal roles in Melbourne’s burgeoning cultural scene,” says co-curator Linsey Gosper of Strange Neighbour Gallery. 

Anita Lane


Rowland S Howard and Genevieve McGuckin, St Kilda rooftop, 1977 

Polly Borland


Rowland S Howard

Milne’s black and white images portray the intimacy that only comes with the trust of friendship. Photographs in this exhibition include early shots of Nick Cave’s band Boys Next Door, hanging out in Cave’s bedroom at his parents house. There are also a number of images of the late Rowland S. Howard, along with Mick Harvey, Polly Borland, Tony Clark, Anita Lane and Blixa Bargeld amongst others.

27 February to March 28
Q&A with journalist Michael Dwyer and Peter Milne
Thursday 5 March, 5.30 - 8pm.

Strange Neighbour
395 Gore Street
Fitzroy

(C) All photos Peter Milne

Michael Williams - Chromophobia 

“Since the early 1980s I have been fixated with the dynamic and often intrusive presence of colour within public and personal environments,” says Australian photographer Michael Williams who uses flash to “isolate elements, accentuate colour and forge a direct momentary relationship with my subjects”. 

Colour Factory Gallery

March 5-28
409-429 Gore St
Fitzroy

(C) All images Michael Williams

Sydney
Bookmarked - Stills Gallery

Diedre Brollo

Celebrating the photobook in all its forms, Bookmarked features everything from hand made books to slick, offset publications from a diverse group of artists including Diedre Brollo / Danny Digby / Stephen Dupont / Anne Ferran / Chris Fortescue / Nicholas Jones / Sarah McConnell / Trent Parke / Louis Porter / Madeleine Preston / Kurt Schranzer/ Teo Treloar as well as a selection of books from the Asia-Pacific Photobook Archive. 

Danny Digby

Nicholas Jones

Trent Parke

Exhibition: 4-28 March

Stills Photobook Fair - Saturday 7 March, 11am to 5pm

Artist Talk with Stephen Dupont Saturday 7 March, 3pm

Stills Gallery
36 Gosbell Street 

Paddington

Congratulations:

Daniel Berehulak wins Photographer of the Year, again!

Daniel Berehulak/ Getty Images Reportage

This week the POYi Awards were announced and Australian freelance photojournalist Daniel Berehulak took out top honours (again) this time for the amazing work he did on the Ebola outbreak. Daniel is one of the most inspiring, hard working and compassionate photographers I know. Absolutely thrilled that he has been recognised for this important body of work. I'm interviewing Daniel about his POYi win, so look out for my story in the coming weeks.  

Alexia Foundation 

2015 Grant Recipients Announced

Paolo Marchetti - The Price of Vanity - Professional Grant

Italy, Milan in September 2014, caiman skins exposed during the most important showroom in the world, called "LINEAPELLE." Thousands of workers are coming to this event from all over the world. Paolo Marchetti

Poland, Village of "Biala Wies" close to Grodzisk Wlkp. Here inside the company “Nutrex” one of the most important intensive breeding of minks in all Poland. Here the conveyor belt where the mink are transported from one building to another. In the background the bodies without mantles are stacked in a large container, after being processed. Paolo Marchett

Italian freelance photojournalist Paolo Marchetti is this year’s recipient of the 2015 Professional Grant from the Alexia Foundation. He will receive $20,000 to pursue his long-term project, The Price of Vanity, an exploration into the brutal world of intensive breeding farms that are used to produce skins and furs for the high-end fashion industry. Paolo, who is incredibly passionate about this project, was stunned with the news of his success. “This is terrific news for me, this is incredible. I am so grateful to the judges,” he said.

This is powerful and important visual storytelling. Next time you are looking to buy an animal skin or fur garment, remember the brutal methods in which these skins are obtained and the horrible ending to these animals' lives. Is it worth it?

Colombia, Puerto Giraldo, two hours from Barranquilla.The puppies are moved to larger tanks and with different characteristics, depending on the size and health emergencies caimans. Here in the photo, some caimans of about 70 cm. inside a tank where it is regularly paid an antibiotic estimate (the blue liquid), to ensure the occurrence of serious infections. Paolo Marchetti

Colombia, Puerto Giraldo, two hours from Barranquilla.Thousands of caiman skins stretched out in the open after the first cleaning process and salting on the farm.The skins of breeding "Repticosta" are intended to Eastern Market, the skins will be exhibited here in Singapore within 20 days. Paolo Marchetti

Michael Santiago - Stolen Land, Stolen Future - Student Grant

The recipient of the 2015 Student Grant is Michael Santiago for his project Stolen Land, Stolen Future. The grant will further his documentation of the lives of African-American farmers who have fought to acquire and maintain land across the USA, despite facing extreme difficulties. Michael will receive full tuition to study at the Syracuse University London Program amongst other prizes. 

Farmer James McGill’s Duroc and Bluebutt show pigs need to have daily exercise to keep their physique looking strong so they will please the judges at the annual Kern County Fair. Michael Santiago