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September 11, 2015

Friday Round Up - 11 September, 2015

This week on Friday Round Up Melbourne celebrates the opening of a new gallery space - Magnet Galleries - with an exhibition by renowned Australian photojournalist Michael Coyne; two other award-winning Australian photojournalists, Stephen Dupont and Jack Picone head to Cuba for their next workshop; Getty Images announces the winners of the inaugural Getty Images Instagram Grant and Patricia Casey's new work goes on show in Sydney.

This Week:

I had the great pleasure to interview American entertainment photographer Frank Ockenfels for an upcoming feature article. Frank's all about pushing the boundaries and as far as he's concerned, there are no rules! Here's a peek at some of his photographs. More information on the feature and his Sydney exhibition coming soon.

Shirley Manson, Garbage

David Bowie

Adrian Brody

New Photography Gallery: Melbourne
It's exciting to announce the opening of a new gallery dedicated to photography in Melbourne. Magnet Galleries, the brainchild of photographer Michael Silver and curator Suzanne Silver opens this Sunday 6th September in the heart of the city. The Silvers successfully ran PhotoNet Gallery before outgrowing the space and relocating to Bourke Street. Billed as ‘a new social enterprise living centre of photography’ Magnet Galleries Melbourne is intended as a hub of photography where exhibitions, workshops and gatherings will be held throughout the year.

2/640 Bourke Street
Melbourne City

Exhibition: Melbourne
Michael Coyne - The Weather is Different a Few Miles Away
Yi People, China

13 September to 3 October
Magnet Galleries Melbourne

Workshop: Reportage
Havana, Cuba with Stephen Dupont and Jack Picone

L-R:Jack Picone and Stephen Dupont

In this intimate, intensive workshop, participants have the unique opportunity to work with world-renowned photojournalists Stephen Dupont and Jack Picone and guest writer Jacques Menasche to hone their photographic storytelling skills.

(C) Stephen Dupont

This dawn-to-dusk 6-day workshop involves challenging fieldwork, formal and informal critiques, editing sessions, evening projections and open discussion. In a stunning Cuban setting, participants fully engage with the local culture and environment, and learn how to create photographic reportage to the highest standard.

Places are limited. Register here

Awards:
Getty Images Instagram Grant

Getty Images, in collaboration with Instagram, announces the winners of the inaugural Getty Images Instagram Grant, a program founded to reward photographers documenting stories from underrepresented communities around the world using Instagram.

More than 1200 entries were received from 109 countries. The three recipients were chosen based on their respective bodies of work on Instagram. Their work was judged by an esteemed panel of photographic experts, including National Geographic Photography Fellow David Guttenfelder, Director of Photography & Visual Enterprise for TIME Kira Pollack, documentary photographer Maggie Steber, documentary photographer Malin Fezehai, and co-founder of @EverydayIran and documentary photographer Ramin Talaie who focused on the quality of imagery, photographic technique, as well as storytelling ability. Each recipient will receive a grant of US $10,000 and mentorship from one of Getty Images' award-winning photojournalists.

And the winners are:

Ismail Ferdous (@afterranaplaza), a Bangladeshi documentary photographer using Instagram to cover social humanitarian issues, receives a grant for his project titled After Rana Plaza, which centers around the surviving relatives of those killed in the 2013 collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory.

Adriana Zehbrauskas (@adrianazehbrauskas), a Brazilian-born photographer currently residing in Mexico City, has been awarded for her Instagram portfolio of work which covers topics such as climate change and the documentation of the everyday lives of Latin Americans. Adriana intends to use the grant to fund her project “Next of Kin: Family Matters”, shooting portraits of the families of 43 missing students who went missing from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers School last year. Adriana is also a contributor to the Instagram collective @everydayclimatechange.

Dmitry Markov (@dcim.ru), resides in Pskov, Russia, and volunteers for multiple children’s charities. By sharing his work on Instagram, Dmitry hopes to spotlight the plight of orphaned children and encourage society to “look at the problems of such children in a humane way.”

Exhibition: Sydney
Patricia Casey - Murmur

In this series Patricia has intricately woven landscape and portrait photography with detailed embroidery to create images that are not only physically multi-layered, but also allegorically. Within each frame Casey invokes a world where memory, nature and fantasy reside in a harmonious coming together that invites the viewer to drift into the realm of imagination.

The images in “Murmur” are printed on fabric and then embroidered making each a unique piece of art. “There are a lot of meditative qualities with working with your hands. When you work with photography your hand is quite removed from your art practice, particularly with the switch to digital. I wanted the self to be more inserted into the work and stitching does that. It slows you down,” she says.

Patricia will also be exhibiting at PhotoVisa 2015 in Krasnodar, Russia later in the year as part of a curated show by Alasdair Foster.

13 - 27 September
Janet Clayton Gallery
406 Oxford Street
Paddington

May 08, 2015

Friday Round Up - 8 May, 2015

This week Friday Round Up features the last of this year's Head On Photo Festival coverage with the opening of Timeframes, an exhibition by two German photographers - Daniel Schumann and Thomas Kellner, and group show, 4, featuring Australian photographers Paul Blackmore, Murray Fredericks, Gary Heery and New Zealander Derek Henderson. Plus in Melbourne Silk Road Stories opens and Peta Clancy shows her series Puncture.

Photos of the Week:

Australian photojournalist Daniel Berehulak, who recently won the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage on the Ebola crisis, is in Nepal covering the tragic aftermath of the earthquake that has devastated this nation. Berehulak continues to produce outstanding work that is insightful, intelligent and compassionate. Images (C) Daniel Berehulak for the New York Times.

Head On Photo Festival:

Last weekend I attended the opening of the Head On Photo Festival in Sydney and interviewed a host of fantastic photographers for stories that will be published internationally in various magazines. In the coming weeks I'll also post some interviews here. This week's post is the last on the actual festival and I want to highlight two shows that opened this week which are definitely worth seeing. If you missed my other picks, see my posts from 30 April and 1 May for a rundown on the International and Australian exhibitions.

Thomas Kellner & Daniel Schumann
Timeframes

These two German photographers share their visions on the concept of time. Kellner’s work is based in deconstruction and reconstruction, where he takes multiple images of a single building and recreates the perspective presenting an image of a building, usually a well known landmark, that appears to move before our eyes.

Schumann uses the passage of time to tell the story of those living out their final days in a hospice. The work, ‘Purple Brown Grey White Black – Living While Dying Today,’ gives a deeply personal insight into the final days of these individuals with dignity and compassion.

(C) Daniel Schumann

Until 31 May
Conny Dietzschold Gallery
99 Crown Street
Darlinghurst
Head On Photo Festival

4
Group Show

(C) Paul Blackmore

Photographers Paul Blackmore, Murray Fredericks, Gary Heery and Derek Henderson join in this group exhibition, which features work ranging from landscape and portraiture, to documentary and fine art. Some of photographs in this show have never been exhibited before, others are familiar, but all are representative of the great photography being created in this country.

(C) Paul Blackmore

Blackmore, who works in both the fine art and documentary genres, presents new work shot last summer on Sydney’s beaches (above). Fredericks, known for his epic, surreal landscapes includes two photographs from his Greenland series. Heery, who has worked in the music industry for decades, includes his portrait of a young Madonna, and Henderson presents a selection of B&W and colour landscapes. It's a beautifully executed exhibition.

presented by Cohen Handler
114 Brougham Street
Potts Point
Head On Photo Festival

Exhibitions: Melbourne

Guy Vinciguerra – Silk Road Stories

Shot over a decade, Western Australian photographer Guy Vinciguerra presents a selection of his works from the series Silk Road Stories shot in Pakistan.

All images (C) Guy Vinciguerra

Until 30 May
Colour Factory
409/429 Gore Street
Fitzroy

Peta Clancy - Puncture

All images (C) Peta Clancy

As part of the group show "Paper," Melbourne photographic artist Peta Clancy showcases her series Puncture, comprising four large-scale, intimate self-portraits. Clancy’s artistic practice explores themes of ‘transience, temporality, mutability and the corporeal and subjective limits of the human body’. In this series Clancy uses a fine needle to carefully apply thousands of tiny pinpricks through the surface of photographic paper. These markings rupture the surface of her self-portraits to form beautiful embroidered patterns that are visible on the surface of the paper.

Until 12 July
Linden New Art
26 Acland St

St Kilda

May 01, 2015

Friday Round Up - 1st May, 2015

This week on Friday Round Up - Head On Photo Festival Preview Part 2: The Australians.

Feature:
Head On Photo Festival

Today Head On Photo Festival opens in Sydney for a month of photography madness. Come on down to the Hub to check out a host of exhibitions, artist talks, projections and more. Or visit the numerous galleries around the harbour city that are participating in this year's Festival.

This week the spotlight is on some of the Australian photographers exhibiting at Head On. While not a definitive list, this preview will give you a taste of what's in store. A veritable feast of photography awaits. Check out the Head On Photo Festival website for the full program.

Above L-R: Pamela Jennings, Patrick Boland, George Fetting, Matthew Smith, Emmanuel Angelicas and Jill Crossley

Head On Photo Festival Awards...and the Winners are:
Later tonight the winners of the Head On Photo Awards - Portrait, Landscape, Mobile, Moving Image and Student - will be announced. Check back here for all the news.

Exhibitions:

Emmanuel Angelicas – Silent Agreements Marrickville 45

From the time he was given a plastic Diana camera at the age of seven years Emmanuel Angelicas has taken photographs. That was in 1970. Since then he's used his suburb of Marrickville, in Sydney’s inner-west, as his canvas. For 45 years he’s documented his family, neighbours and strangers, capturing images of Marrickville, its humanity and its dark secrets, without censorship.

1-17 May
aMBUSH Gallery
Level 3, Central Park, 28 Broadway
Chippendale

Nocturnes in a Lapse – Filippo Rivetti

Italian-born photographer Filippo Rivetti, who now resides in Sydney, is a master of motion controlled time lapse and hyper lapse photography. In his exhibition Nocturnes in a Lapse, Rivetti uses these platforms to record the night’s sky creating a series of surreal landscapes that show an active and enveloping sky against a static earth.

1-31 May
Customs House
Ground Floor & Level 1
31 Alfred St
Circular Quay, Sydney

Portrait Work – George Fetting

Over the past 25 years Australian photographer George Fetting has worked as a features photographer for various newspapers and magazines both here and internationally. But personal work has always played an important part in Fetting's photographic education and it is this work that’s on show at Head On’s Hub.

1-10 May
Sydney Lower Town Hall
Head On Festival Hub
483 George Street
Sydney

Matthew Smith – A Parallel Universe

Originally from the UK, Matthew Smith moved to Australia in 2007 to indulge his love of over and under water photography. While most people avoid the subjects that fall under Smith's gaze, such as the Blue Bottle jellyfish in ‘A Parallel Universe’ Smith gets up close to capture what he sees as "the beautiful and fascinating creatures that inhabit our oceans".

4-31 May
Customs House
Ground Floor
31 Alfred St
Circular Quay, Sydney

Iranian Wedding – Ramak Bamzar

Ramak Bamzar's exhibition Iranian Wedding was shot between 2005 and 2008 in the small Iranian town of Karaj. "I've chosen to exhibit this work to illustrate the impact that tradition and religion has on the ritual of marriage and how dissimilar it is to Australian traditions," says Ramak who was born in Tehran and now lives in Melbourne where she works as a freelance photographer.

1-10 May
Sydney Lower Town Hall
Head On Festival Hub
483 George Street
Sydney

Craig Wetjen - Men’s Sheds

‘Men’s Sheds’ enters into a very male domain where the shed is both a place for its owner to indulge in his hobbies and also a refuge. Wetjen says the messaging in this project runs far deeper than a series of portraits of men with their bikes, cars and gardening tools. Men’s Sheds is designed to draw focus on mental health issues that face men in our community, issues that are rarely spoken of and issues which many men believe carry the stigma of being too soft, of not being a real bloke.