Friday Round Up - 3rd October, 2014

This week on Friday Round Up two new exhibitions for Melbourne, Ruth Orkin in Los Angeles and René Burri in Paris, 2014 Foam Talents, plus a panel discussion on war photography in Sydney, and Vlad Sokhin’s Crying Meri book review.

Exhibitions: Melbourne

Paul Blackmore – One






All images (C) Paul Blackmore

“One light source, one subject, one background,” that’s how Paul Blackmore explains his new series “One”. I wrote about this series earlier in the year when it was on at Blackeye Gallery Sydney. Now Melbournians can see it at Edmund Pearce Gallery opening tonight.

Until 25 October
Edmund Pearce
Level 2, Nicholas Building
37 Swanston Street
Melbourne

Chris Round - In Two Places

(C) Chris Round

English photographer Chris Round says the core of his photographic practice lies in "documenting post-natural, human influenced landscapes...these environments are dynamic and exciting because humans continually change their relationship with their surroundings serving up myriad new subject matter".

Round, who is now based in Sydney, held his first show in 2012 and has subsequently won various local and international awards. "In Two Places" he explores "the notion of place in the context of dual citizenship".

Until 1 November

Colour Factory
409-429 Gore Street
Fitzroy

Exhibitions: Los Angeles

Ruth Orkin - Retrospective

(C) American Girl in Italy (Florence), 1951 

American photojournalist Ruth Orkin is considered one of the pioneers of the genre. Born in 1922, Orkin was taken with photography from the moment she was given her first camera at the age of 10. In 1939 she cycled across the USA from Los Angeles to New York for the World Fair, taking photographs of her unique “road trip”. In the 1950s she produced a series of photographs for a LIFE feature – Don’t Be Afraid to Travel Alone – a story about women travelling on their on in post-war Europe.

But Orkin is best known for her two bodies of work which became highly acclaimed books - A World Through My Window and More Pictures from My Window – featuring images she shot from the balcony of her New York apartment opposite Central Park, images of the passing parade of life that are now historical records of an era long past. 

Refugees, Lydda Airport, Tel Aviv, Israel, 1951


Drunken Women, NYC, 1947


The Card Players, West Village, NYC, 1947

Duncan Miller Gallery in Los Angeles presents the Ruth Orkin Retrospective until 25th October.

Duncan Miller Gallery
2525 Michigan Ave, Unit A7

Santa Monica

Exhibitions: Paris

René Burri - Mouvement

A member of Magnum Photos since 1959, René Burri is known for his portraits of leading figures of the 20th Century including Pablo Picasso, Winston Churchill and Che Guevara. But Burri’s oeuvre is vast. In this new exhibition 100 of Burri’s images, many unpublished, explore “movement” in both black and white and colour. Burri’s work in cinema is also featured with unseen footage from documentaries and films. 

All images (C) René Burri

Until 10 December
MEP
5/7 Rue de Fourcy
75 004 Paris
www.mep-fr.org

2014 Foam Talents

(C) Jonny Briggs

With almost 1500 submissions from 71 countries, this year’s Foam Talents jury had its work cut out in choosing the final number of artists named in the 2014 Foam Talents. For the first time 21 photographers were chosen and Photojournalism Now features six this week. To see all the winners and their portfolios visit the Foam site here.  

(C) Alice Quaresma


(C) Charles Henry Bedue


(C) Jing Huang


(C) Lucas Foglia


(C) Yoshinori Mizutani

The Foam Talents issue of Foam magazine is out now.

War Photography
Panel Discussion - Sydney

(C) Don McCullin Vietnam

As part of the activities for Don McCullin’s “The Impossible Peace” exhibition, Alison Stieven-Taylor is moderating a panel discussion on war photography with photojournalists Tim Page and Stephen Dupont in Sydney. Held at the Metcalfe Auditorium at the State Library of NSW you can find more details here. 

When: Thursday 9th October 6pm

Book Review:
Vlad Sokhin – Crying Meri

If you missed the publication of Alison Stieven-Taylor’s review of Vlad Sokhin's Crying Meri on L'Oeil de la Photographie, you can read it here.

Published by FotoEvidence

Friday Round Up - 15 August, 2014

This week on Friday Round Up the 25th Melbourne Art Fair, Daniel Berehulak, Ballarat International Foto Biennale fundraiser, exhibitions and more.

Picture of the Week:

By the light of the supermoon - Madrid 

(C) Andres Kudacki

Fair:
Melbourne Art Fair

(C) Marty Williams

The 25th Melbourne Art Fair opens today at the majestic Royal Exhibitions Building. More than 20,000 people are expected to view the 70 galleries that feature in this year’s Fair with solid representation from local curators as well as international galleries from Asia, Europe and South America. The Fair also features a bookshop and art making spaces. 

With a philosophy of public engagement, this year’s Art Fair is also spilling into the streets of Melbourne with day and night events and pop-up shows in the city’s major art spaces such as the National Gallery of Victoria and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) as well as other arts hubs including the Heide Museum of Modern Art in Bulleen and the Linden Centre for Contemporary Art in St. Kilda.

(C) Marty Williams

“Good art needs to be seen in the flesh to be appreciated, ” says Barry Keldoulis the Fair's director, who believes the Art Fair is the “physical manifestation” of the Internet – a twist on thoughts that tend to see the Internet as the interloper as opposed to the catalyst for driving people into galleries.

This year a number of galleries feature photo-media art as well as documentary photography including Galeria AFA from Santiago, Chile with an exhibition of black and white portraiture from renowned photographer Paz Errazuriz (below). (Photojournalism Now's interview with Galeria AFA director Camila Opazo will feature on next week’s Friday Round Up).

(C) Marty Williams

Keldoulis says that with the emergence of video art, collectors had initially “leap frogged” over photography, but he believes that photography is now most definitely on the radar of art collectors. However he doesn’t see “any merit or honesty in creating a distinction between photography as art and other visual art forms”.

 (C) Marty Williams

Fair Director Barry Keldoulis

(C) Marty Williams

To that end Keldoulis doesn’t see the need for photo curators either claiming that art curators who understand image making can curate photography also. Nor can he see the point of galleries specialising in the medium. His comments definitely provide food for thought and will hopefully spark some enlightened debate on the topic of photography as art.

15-17 August
Melbourne Art Fair
Royal Exhibition Buildings
Carlton

Stills Gallery at Melbourne Art Fair

(C) Trent Parke*

Sydney’s Stills Gallery, arguably Australia’s most respected photography-dedicated gallery, will feature a number of its artists works at the Fair including a selection from Trent Parke's The Camera is God series, Narelle Autio, Pat Brassington and Glen Sloggett. View the Stills Gallery catalogue here. 

*The above image is not in the catalogue, but representative of the work in The Camera is God.

Feature Article:
Daniel Berehulak

The latest issue of NZ Pro Photographer magazine features Alison Stieven-Taylor’s interview with award-winning Australian photographer, and really nice guy, Daniel Berehulak. Download the iPad App for the magazine to read the story, or lash out and subscribe to the print version - it's a sexy, full colour glossy magazine that does justice to the amazing photographers it features.

Fundraiser:
Ballarat International Foto Biennale

On Sunday 31st August the Ballarat International Foto Biennale (BIFB) will host a fundraising event at Eleven40 Gallery in Malvern where photography lovers will be able to view and purchase photographs donated by some of Australia’s leading photographers and photo-media artists.

More than 200 photographers were invited to submit an image for consideration in the BIFB 2015 Collection, which is curated by Festival Director Jeff Moorfoot. The final selection of around 125 photographs, including one of Alison Stieven-Taylor's photographs, will feature in the BIFB 2015 Collection book also and the “first edition” will be auctioned at the fundraiser around 3pm.

Photographs are displayed anonymously with collectors purchasing a red dot for $125. On the Sunday those holding red dots will be able to select the image of their choice in a “first drawn” basis in the Print Selection Lucky Dip.

Moorfoot says the event provides “a fantastic chance to purchase a one-off archival print for a price perhaps well under the value of what an artist might normally sell his or her work for.” All works are offered “anonymously” so purchasers won’t know whose work they have bought until the provenance on the back is revealed. 

Come along, enjoy the art, food and wine and help support BIFB.

Sponsors: Eleven40 Gallery, Kayell, Epson and Blurb.

Sunday 31 August
from 12noon
Eleven40 Gallery
1140 Malvern Road
Malvern

Check out the website for more information 

Round Up of Exhibitions closing soon:

Melbourne:

Until 23 August
Shara Henderson – London Edit
Edmund Pearce

Sydney:

Ends Sunday 17 August
Paul Blackmore – ONE
Blackeye Gallery

Your Daily Photograph

If you haven’t signed up already, check out Your Daily Photograph to see Alison’s curated selection of 30 photographers, which runs through until the end of August. Already a number of photographs have been sold, and it's fantastic to see Australian photographers getting some well deserved attention on the international photography market.  Today’s photograph is from Alexia Sinclair (above). Follow the link here to see more images.