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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.

Until 31 May
Paddington Reservoir Gardens
251-255 Oxford St
Paddington

In Brief:

Jill Crossley - Unreliable Witness

20 May to 6 June
Stanley Street Gallery
1/52 - 54 Stanley Street
Darlinghurst

Nathan Miller - Somewhere in Jaffa

9 May to 6 June

Soho Galleries Sydney
104 Cathedral St, Corner Crown St

Sydney

Gary Grealy - Art - Maker, Patron, Lover

9 May to 12 July
Mosman Art Gallery
Cnr., Art Gallery Way and Myahgah Road

Mosman

Tanu Gago - 2014 Commission

Auckland Festival of Photography

Until 17 May
aMBUSH Gallery
Level 3, Central Park, 28 Broadway

Chippendale

Pamela Jennings and Debbie Fowler - Against the Tide

Above images (C) Pamela Jennings

Until 31 May
Darling Quarter
OPEN Public Art Space Civic Connector,

Commonwealth Bank Place

1 Harbour Street
Darling Harbour

Patrick Boland - My Inner Monologue is Analogue

Until 11 May
Gaffa Gallery
281 Clarence St

Sydney

September 19, 2014

Friday Round Up - 19th September, 2014

This week on Friday Round Up the festivals continue - Pingyao International Photography Festival opens today in this ancient Chinese city with international and local exhibitions, symposiums, awards and one of the largest photography education programs. In Europe Noorderlicht Photofestival is in full swing in the northern town of Groningen, The Netherlands.

With more than 50 photos on today's blog there's a feast of imagery to enjoy this weekend no matter where you are in the world.

Festivals - China:

Pingyao International Photography Festival

Today the 14th edition of the Pingyao International Photography Festival opens in this UNESCO world heritage city in China’s Shanxi Province with 400 exhibitions featuring more than 2100 photographers and 20,000 images. Exhibitions are held throughout the ancient walled city, indoors and outdoors, bringing photography to an audience in excess of 100,000 and transforming unlikely spaces such as disused factories, into galleries.

This year there are several large international shows feature in the core program with two Australian group shows - The Wizards of Oz and Head On Portrait Prize (Australia) as well as exhibitions showcasing contemporary Baltic, Nordic and German Photography. Plus a group show from New Zealand and the Alexia Foundation grant winners from 2014.

The Wizards of Oz
Featuring ten Australian artists who have participated in the Core Program at the past three editions Ballarat International Foto Biennale held every second August in Australia (Ballarat is 90 minutes from Melbourne).

(C) Meredith O'Shea

Exhibiting artists - Colin Page, Jackie Ranken, John Gollings, Judith Crispin, Kara Rasmanis, Meredith O'Shea, Samantha Everton, Sonia Macak, Tony Hewitt and Vikk Shayen.

Head On Portrait Prize
Also waiving the Australian flag is the Head On Portrait Prize exhibition featuring 40 works, winners and finalists, from the 2014 prize, which is a central feature of the annual Head On Photo Festival held in Sydney.

Finalist - Aldona Kmiec

Winner - Joe Wigdahl

Viewfinders: Contemporary Baltic and Nordic photography
A group show featuring 15 artists from eight countries. Curated by Inga Brūvere.

Viewfinders:
Sweden – Lars Tunbjörk, Thobias Fäldt & Klara Källström
Norway – Marie Sjøvold and Sarah Gerats
Denmark – Astrid Kruse Jensen and Joachim Fleinert
Iceland – Pétur Thomsen
Finland – Sara Bjarland
Estonia – Marge Monko and Paul Kuimet
Lithuania – Indrė Šerpytytė and Mindaugas Ažušilis
Latvia – Ieva Epnere and Ivars Grāvlejs.

To Save a Forest – New Zealand
Curated by John B. Turner and featuring the work of Craig Potton, Ian MacDonald and Martin Hill

(C) Martin Hill

To Save a Forest, is both a celebration of the majesty of the natural world and a cautionary tale of what we may well lose to the rapacious nature of a consumerist society.

Contemporary German Photography
Curated by internationally renowned photo-artist Thomas Kellner and featuring ten German artists.

Daniel Schumann - International Orange
Dirk Hanus - Inner Space
Jutta Schmidt - Freischwimmer
Katharina Mouratidi - Backstage Heroes – Alternative Nobel Prize Laureates
Roger Eberhard - Shanty Town Deluxe
Anna Katharina Zeitler - No Shoes to Dance With
Frank Rothe - No More Angels
Frauke Thielking - Ready, Steady, Go

Gesche Wuerfel - Basement Sanctuaries
Mehmet Ferit Kuyas - Everything you didn’t want to know about me:A Quintology of Diaries Part 5

The Alexia Foundation
For the seventh consecutive year the Alexia Foundation will present an exhibition of the winners of its 2014 Professional and Student Grants - Winner Professional: Sebastian Liste “The New Culture of Violence in Latin America” and winner student, Mehran Hamrahi “Iranian People – Ordinary or Criminals?”

(C) Sebastian Liste “The New Culture of Violence in Latin America”
Salvador de Bahia, Brazil – January 22, 2011: Ana celebrating her sixth birthday. She was born and has grown up inside the abandoned chocolate factory. This impoverished community took up residence here on the coast in Salvador de Bahia. Despite the lack of socio-economic support from the government, they have managed to make a safe place for themselves to live, and form a community of their own, which his safer than the alternatives available to them. However, they are currently being evicted by the government due to being there illegally. Sebastian Liste/Reportage for Getty Images.

(C) Mehran Hamrahi “Iranian People – Ordinary or Criminals?” Sheida, 18, is smoking a cigarette in a cafe. She says "I feel safe in the cafe". Smoking a cigarette is not restricted legally in Iran, however, girls are afraid of smoking in public places. The radical Muslims and traditional people consider this as a abominable act for girls and they might annoy them. Ahvaz (Southern Iran), July 1st 2013

Pingyao International Photography Festival

19-25 September

International exhibitions open until 10 October

To find out more visit the Festival’s website.

Festivals - Europe:

Noorderlicht Photofestival

"An Ocean of Possibilities"

Last year I was fortunate to travel to the northern town of Groningen in The Netherlands to meet with Wim Melis the director of the Noorderlicht Photofestival, which is now in its 21st year. This is, in my opinion, one of the most important festivals in photography, consistently breaking new ground and questioning the relationship between the photograph and its audience.

In 2013 the theme was To Have and Have Not, an exposition on the “causes and agents behind the current global economic and political crisis. An Ocean of Possibilities moves beyond dissecting what went wrong, and looks at the decisive potential of those who go against the tide and plot their own course". 31 photographers are included in An Ocean of Possibilities.

In addition, Noorderlicht this year features six other exhibitions most of which feature multiple artists - Solitude (Danila Tkachenko and Marrigje de Maar), Subcultures, Call of the Wild, Rise, Sustainability (Douglas Gayeton) and Tribute.

Solitude