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April 10, 2015

Friday Round Up - 10 April, 2015

This week on Friday Round Up new exhibitions in Melbourne and Sydney, plus the 2015 Getty Grants for Editorial Photography round is now open.

Photos of the Week:

Lynsey Addario -  India's Insurgency


Coal worker Ajay Marijan carries a load from an open-pit mine to a waiting 
truck in Bokapahari, Jharkhand state (C) Lynsey Addario
At an ad hoc restaurant, men prepare breakfast for workers clocking in for the 
morning shift at the coal-based Jindal Tamnar thermal power plant, in the 
Raigarh district, Chhattisgarh (C) Lynsey Addario


Exhibitions:

Melbourne


Polaroid Resurrection
by FilmNeverDie
(C) Luigi Sposa Berbera

This group show at Melbourne’s Photonet is part of the global ExPolaroid Exhibition Festival being held in 40 cites around the world. ExPolaroid began in France and is held annually in April. This year there are 57 events. Melbourne’s FilmNeverDie is run by a group of film enthusiasts who sell a range of photographic film types and hosts forums for those who are keen to know more about the medium. Polaroid Resurrection is the first exhibition by FilmNeverDie. 


(C) Amanda Mason

(C) Francis Danesi

(C) Gary Wong

(C) Pei Wen

(C) Rachael Baez

Photonet Gallery
15a Railway Place
Fairfield
Until 22 April

Rob Love - Timeless


Melbourne based Rob Love uses extended shutter speeds to capture these painterly images of water. Made in camera without the aid of computer manipulation, Love’s images are both abstract and documentary in their capacity to at once demonstrate the power of nature and its ethereal beauty. Love produces single prints rather than limited editions and his work is held in collections in Australia and the USA.




(C) All images Rob Love

Colour Factory
409-429 Gore Street
Fitzroy
Until 2 May
Artist Talk; Saturday 18 April, 2pm

Sydney:

Jane Brown - Black Ships 

(C) Jane Brown, Reception Centre, Kyoto, 2015, Silver gelatin FB print 
hand print,17 x 21cm courtesy of the artist and Stills Gallery, Sydney 

Australian photographic artist Jane Brown’s latest series, Black Ships, is named after the term used by the Japanese in reference to Western water crafts approaching Japan’s shores and dates back to the 16th Century when Portugese fleets painted the hulls of their ships with pitch. Black Ships became symbolic of the opening of borders.

Black Ships is Brown's first exhibition at Stills Gallery and draws on this symbolism through the use of various visual tropes – “pathways and bridges to reflect the idea of a journey, bandaging and wrapping symbolic of past wounds, walls and fences figurative of boundaries and cultural isolation, nature and decay referencing the Japanese concept of mono no aware (mortality and a pathos for the transience of things)”.

“Ultimately, Black Ships is a travelogue that looks to the strange machinations of history, and at the same time, a reflection on contemporary Japan...More broadly it is an articulation of curiosity, seeking out points of difference from home – the peculiar, the beautiful and the unfamiliar.” 


(C) Jane Brown, Wisteria, Miyajima, 2015. Silver gelatin FB print 
hand printed, 17 x 21cm courtesy of the artist and Stills Gallery, Sydney 


(C) Jane Brown, Silver Pavilion, Kyoto, 2015. Silver gelatin FB print 
hand printed, 17 x 21cm courtesy of the artist and Stills Gallery, Sydney 

(C) Jane Brown, Hiroshima, 2015, silver gelatin FB print
hand print, 17 x 21cm courtesy of the artist and Stills Gallery, Sydney

Stills Gallery
36 Gosbell Street
Paddington
Until 2 May


Grants:
Getty Grants for Editorial Photography

(C) William Daniels

In 2015 there are five Getty Grants for Editorial Photography on offer valued at $10,000 each. The Grants are designed to celebrate and support independent photojournalism. Applications are open until 13 May and winners will be announced in September, 2015.

Judges for this year are photojournalist Lynsey Addario, Jon Jones Director of Photography Sunday Times Magazine, Matthias Krug, International Director of Photography Der Spiegel, Romain Lacroix, Director of Photography Paris Match and Jean Francois Leroy, Director General Visa pour l’Image. 

 (C) Jordi Busqué 

(C) Giulio di Sturco

Last year’s winners were Giulio di Sturco for his body of work titled Ganges: Death of a River; Juan Arredondo for Born in Conflict; Jordi Busqué for his award-winning portfolio, The Mennonites of Bolivia; Krisanne Johnson, for South Africa's Post-Apartheid Youth and; French photojournalist, William Daniels for his CAR in Chaos body of work. 

(C) Juan Arredondo

(C)Krisanne Johnson

In Brief:

Defending Gallipoli: A Turkish Standpoint



Until 3 May
Monash Gallery of Art
860 Ferntree Gully Road
Wheelers Hill

January 30, 2015

Friday Round Up - 30 January, 2015

This week on Friday Round Up Australia's largest photography festival Head On calls for entries for the 2015 awards, exhibitions in London, New York and Melbourne, and links to some interesting articles on photography.


Awards:
Head On 2015
Entries open for the Head On photo awards on 1st February and close 1st March. In addition to the Head On Portrait, Landscape, Mobile and Multi-Media Awards, this year there will be a fifth award category, but just what that might encompass is currently under wraps. Visit the website here for more information and updates. Head On runs 1-31 May in Sydney.


Exhibitions:

London:
Drawn by Light: The Royal Photographic Society Collection

More than 200 photographs, some dating back to the 1820’s, feature in this exhibition which, if nothing else, shows little change in human nature and the subjects photographers are drawn to. The exhibition is cleverly hung to depict images taken decades apart that evoke similar sentiments. Many of these photographs are taken by doctors, soldiers and other non-professionals - nothing's changed there either. The Guardian has published a series of articles on the exhibition (oh for a newspaper in Australia that finds photography that important!). Start here and work your way through each posting. It’s definitely worthwhile especially if you can’t get to the physical show.


Portrait of Christina, c1913 by Lieutenant Colonel Mervyn O’Gorman
Photograph: Royal Photographic Society © National Media Museum, Bradford



Daguerreotype St. Paul’s Cathedral, c. 1840s


Hippopotamus at Zoo, 1852, Juan Carlos Maria Isidro


Nude c.1855 

The Gate of Goodbye c.1916 Francis James Mortimer 

Movement Study, 1926 Rudolf Koppitz 

Refugees from East Pakistan on the Indian Border, 1971 Don McCullin 

Until 1 March
Science Museum London

New York:
Ken Schles - Invisible City/Night Walk 1983-1989

Invisible City

Forty black and white images from Ken Schles will be on show in celebration of the republication by Steidl of Invisible City and the newly released companion Night Walk. My interview with Ken will be published in the coming weeks, but to whet your appetite, check out these images.


Invisible City


Invisible City

Night Walk


Night Walk


Night Walk


Night Walk

Until 14 March
Howard Greenberg Gallery
41 East 57th Street, suite 1406
New York

Melbourne:
Wouter van de Voorde
(Hume) sunrise

This exhibition is part of the inaugural Photobook Melbourne festival which opens on 12 February. Look out for next week’s festival feature.

Of this body of work, Wouter van de Voorde says: “Early morning fog is one of the features of the Canberran winter rendering non-places into mystical wastelands. Wandering through these paddocks while shooting this series I imagined soldiers running through the fog, bombs, grenades, WWI… The photographer as a lone soldier wandering zig zag across the front-line in a brief instant of cease-fire. Until the sun breaks through the fog”.







5-28 February
Colour Factory
409/429 Gore Street, Fitzroy
Opening night: 12 February 6pm

Interesting Articles:

What can a pregnant photojournalist do? Everything 
Lynsey Addario 


Lynsey's book "It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War" will be released next week (5 February). To get a glimpse of what this book has in store read Lynsey's article in the New York Times here

The costa del concrete: the Mediterranean coastline then and now in pictures by photographer Pedro Armestre for Greenpeace - The Guardian 




Award-winning Dutch advertisement shows how guide dogs are being used to help those suffering from the nightmares of war - Daily Mail 


How photography’s ‘decisive moment’ often depicts an incomplete view of reality by Fred Ritchin

The death of Fabienne Cherisma, from the series Haiti, 2010, © Nathan Weber/NBW Photo