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May 26, 2017

Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up - 26 May, 2017

This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up - the 14th Auckland Festival of Photography, farewell to Stills Gallery in Sydney, and last days to see #dysturb's exhibition in Melbourne.

Festival:
Auckland Festival of Photography
1-24 June

Next week I'll be blogging live from the 14th annual Auckland Festival of Photography. This week a few images from two feature exhibitions, one curated by noted Bangladeshi photojournalist and activist Shahidul Alam on this year's theme, Identity.

The other, a group show Ata Te Tangata curated by Rosanna Raymond and featuring works by indigenous Aoteroa New Zealand photographers including two of the past recipients of the Festival's annual commission, Russ Flatt and Tanu Gago. The Festival opens Thursday 1st June. See the Festival website for all the details.

Group Show curated by Shahidul Alam.
Featuring: J.D. Okhai Ojeikere, Dina Goldstein, Pushpamala N, Kim Hak, Çağdaş Erdoğan and Shahria Sharmin.

Silo 6, Silo Park, Auckland City

Ata Te Tangata

Farewell: Sydney
Curtain Call - Stills Gallery,

After 16 years Stills Gallery in Paddington (Sydney) is to close its doors. It's a sad day for photography, another nail in the coffin, and perhaps indicative of the maturity of the photography collector market in this country. I have enjoyed many shows at Stills, a marvellous space and one I hope may continue as an art space. Congratulations to the team at Stills for flying the flag for so long.

In the gallery's final exhibition Curtain Call, "we are taking the opportunity to look back over the history of the gallery to present the mother of all salon hangs featuring over 70 artists from over the 26 years of exhibitions. Here is a selection of the works on show.

Michael Light, The Moon Seen From 1000 Miles, Showing Farside Highlands; Photographed by Kenneth Mattingly, Apollo 16, April 16-27, 1972, 1972/1999, digital type C print, 100 x 100cm. Courtesy of the artist and STILLS Gallery, Sydney.

Pat Brassington, Going, 2010, pigment print, 100 x 72cm. Courtesy of the artist and STILLS Gallery, Sydney.

Brenda L Croft, full/blood, pigment print, 111.2 x 90.5cm. Courtesy of the artist and STILLS Gallery, Sydney.

Justine Varga, Carry-on, type C hand print, 97 x 78cm. Courtesy of the artist and STILLS Gallery, Sydney.

Mark Kimber They never, never wake again who sleep upon your bed!, 2012, pigment print, 40 x 40cm. Courtesy of the artist and STILLS Gallery, Sydney.

Robyn Stacey, Surrender (blue), 2001, type C print, 183 x 123cm. Courtesy of the artist and STILLS Gallery, Sydney.
Until 30 June
Stills Gallery
36 Gosbell Street
Paddington

Exhibition: Melbourne

#whereilaymyhead - #dysturb
Last Days

This exhibition features the work of nine photojournalists, in paste-ups on the street and on the walls of Hillvale Gallery in the inner Melbourne suburb of Brunswick: Ismail Ferdous, Malin Fezehai, Barat Ali Batoor, Daro Sulakauri, Emin Ozmen, Ashley Gilbertson, Jane Hahn, Laura Boushnak and Alexandra Rose Howland. (Below: photos from the opening night)

And at McKinnon Secondary College (below)

Ends 28 May

Hillvale Gallery
342D Albert Street
Brunswick

Check out Dysturb's new website for more information on what this innovative group is doing.

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

July 03, 2015

Friday Round Up - 3 July, 2015

This week on Friday Round Up - photo essays by David Guttenfelder and Charles Ommanney, exhibitions in Melbourne and Sydney and Photography Visionaries in review.

Photo Essays:

Both the New York Times and Washington Post are investing in original photojournalism and creating dynamic, interactive online stories. Check out two recent stories featuring the work of National Geographic's David Guttenfelder and Reportage by Getty Images' Charles Ommanney.

Illuminating North Korea
New York Times

Photographs and Video by David Guttenfelder

One family’s journey from Aleppo to Austria
Washington Post

Photographs by Charles Ommanney

Book Review:
Photography Visionaries
Mary Warner Marien

“The enemy of photography is convention, the fixed rules of ‘how it’s done’ - László Moholy-Nagy 1895-1946

This is one of the many quotes in this wonderful edition that has fast become one of the most important reference books on my shelf. Beginning with Eugéne Atget and ending with Liu Zheng, Photography Visionaries features 75 of the most influential photographers throughout the medium’s history.

Photography Visionaries is a book of revelations, as one cannot know all the works, even of the masters. That’s what’s so exciting about this book, the fact that you learn something new, even if it is a small detail, like Berenice Abbott took Atget’s portrait in 1927. Or that Imogen Cunningham's pregnant nude, which evokes feminist values was taken in 1946. Or that Margaret Bourke-White’s photographs of the Louisville Flood of 1937 speak of racial issues as much as economic and environmental. The book encompasses the breadth of photographic genres from documentary, street photography, and photojournalism to fine art.

Ernest Cole

Frances Benjamin Johnston

Geraldine Krull

Gordon Parks

European and American photographers dominate, but there is also representation from Japan, China, India, Russia, Latin America and Mexico as well as South Africa. Each chapter features an individual photographer, with a short overview, career timeline and a handful of pictures. My only wish is that there could have been more photographs from each, but then the book would have taken on encyclopaedic proportions.

The production values of the publication are first class and photographs in both colour and black and white have been exquisitely reproduced. The design layout makes it easy to navigate. There is also a valuable ‘further reading’ section at the rear.

Graciela Iturbide

Josef Koudelka

Mario Giacomelli

Peter Magubane

Standouts include Alexander Rodchenko (Russia), Lisette Model (Austria), Walker Evans (US), Nacho López (Mexico), Mario Giacomelli (Italy), Daidõ Moriyama (Japan), Frances Benjamin Johnston (US), Carrie Mae Weems (US), Santu Mofokeng, Ernest Cole (South Africa) and Lui Zheng (China). But in all honesty every photographer included has produced some truly brilliant work and getting to know a little of their story is enlightening.

“All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.” Richard Avedon (1923-2004)

Photography Visionaries
Laurence King Publishing

Exhibitions in Brief:

Melbourne

Buddha's Robes
Tobi Wilkinson

2 July - 1 August
Colour Factory Gallery
409-429 Gore St

Fitzroy

Sydney
Aquaticus - Group Show
Photographic artists Annabelle Gaspar, Graham Shearer, Toby Burrows and Michaela Skovranova come together in this group exhibition through a shared interest in water.