Photojournalism Now - Friday Round Up 20 January, 2017

This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up,  it's all about Circulation(s) a festival in Paris designed to promote young European photographers. 

Special Feature:
Circulation(s) - Festival of Young European Photography

Le Damas des autres © Poline Harbali

Now in its seventh year, the 2017 jury for Circulation(s) received more than 800 entries from which 25 artists were selected. There is also a program of invited artists. The Festival is held at the CENTQUATRE-PARIS, a residency and production space for artists from around the world. This vibrant cultural centre attracts more than 500,000 visitors a year.

I think it's interesting to look at the styles young photographers are engaging with and while I don't personally like all of these images, they do demonstrate the diversity in subject matter and approach.

Following the Paris showing, Circulation(s) will hit the festival circuit with projections shown in Ireland, Belgium, Portugal, UK, Italy and Poland. It’s great exposure for these young artists. Circulation(s) is a project by Fetart, a nonprofit created in 2005 to promote young photographers.

Circulation(s)
CENTQUATRE-PARIS
Opens 21st January until 5th March

Ibaba © Marie Moroni


Sparks © Wiktoria Wojciechowska


In your place © Ludovica Bastianini


Kwei Yih © Zhen Shi 

Lingering Ghosts © Sam Ivin


Even This will pass © Aida Silvestri


Home Again © Thodoris Papadakis


A couple of them © Johanna Benaïnous & Elsa Parra


Skateboarding Tehran © Mathias Zwick


Nothing Personal © Yiannis Pantelidis


Veteran © Sasha Maslov


Je suis morte à Auschwitz et personne ne le voit © Brétin Frédérique


Oxymoron © Kostis Argyriadis

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Friday Round Up - 2nd December, 2016

This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up the 12th edition of Angkor Photo opens in Siem Reap, Cambodia and two new exhibitions for Sydney and Melbourne - in Sydney check out Markus Andersen's exhibition 'Cabramatta' and in Melbourne Magnet Galleries presents DESIVOLUTION.

Tonight is the gala event for the 2016 Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism in Brisbane. Am currently frocking up in oppressive humidity and the temperature's soaring into the mid-30's C which is approaching 95 degrees F! That is making this Melbourne girl's hair go super curly! Despite the impending hair crisis, it is set to be a great night when Australia's leading lights in journalism come together to celebrate. I was thrilled to be a judge this year for the photography categories and to be part of the jury that awarded Andrew Quilty Photo of the Year. Am eager to see who the final winners are tonight in the remaining categories.


(C) Andrew Quilty

Feature:
Angkor Photo Festival & Workshops
Angkor Photo is the longest running photographic festival in Southeast Asia and provides emerging photographers in the region with an unprecedented opportunity to engage, learn and network with professionals from all over the world.

The 12th edition features over 130 photographers from 45 countries. Exhibitions run throughout the festival week and there are evening projections also. This year Claudia Hinterseer is the guest curator for the Festival’s environmental-themed ‘GreenLight Exhibition Series’ which this year is titled ‘We Alter Nature’. Hinterseer was a founder of NOOR agency and is currently the Senior Multimedia Director at China Daily Asia in Hong Kong.

Hinterseer says, “Documentary photography is a powerful medium to both celebrate nature and scrutinise the massive human impact on our environment. This showcase of 15 documentary photo projects for the 2016 Angkor Photo Festival makes the large-scale degradation of our natural habitat and the endangerment of its species visible while juxtaposing it with close-ups and zoom-outs of intact nature and photo projects about human needs and habits.

“By bringing together the work of some world-renowned documentary photographers including Ingo Arndt, Daniel Beltrá, Edward Burtynsky, Alejandro Durán, Chris Jordan, Daesung Lee, Kadir van Lohuizen, Maskbook project, Paolo Marchetti, Peter Menzel, Simon Norfolk, Joel Sartore, Henk Wildschut and Li Zhiguo my point is to show that the way and the speed at which we’re altering the world’s flora and fauna is stunning and unsustainable.”

A selection from ‘We Alter Nature':

©Daesung Lee

©Daesung Lee

©Kadir van Lohuizen

©Kadir van Lohuizen

©Peter Menzel

©Peter Menzel

All events are free, including the professional workshops which aim to provide emerging photographers with the opportunity to learn from international professionals. This year the six tutors are Antoine D’Agata, Sohrab Hura, Kosuke Okahara, Sim Chi Yin, Newsha Tavakolian and Ian Teh.

2016 marks the tenth anniversary for Françoise Callier the programme coordinator for the Festival an the curator of the projections. Here is a sample of the work featured in the evening projections:

Aun Raza, Pakistan - Cuba

 

Jodi Bieber, South Africa   - Between Dogs and Wolves

Vlad Sokhin, Russia - The Two Faces of the Thunder Dragon

Matilde Gattoni , Italy/France - Ocean Rage

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Zalmai, Afghanistan/Switzerland - The End of Mirage

Ingetje Tadros, Australia - This is My Country

Exhibition: Sydney

Markus Andersen - Cabramatta

Curated by Claire Monneraye from the Australian Centre for Photography (ACP), this exhibition features images from Sydney photographic artist Markus Andersen's book Cabramatta: A Moment In Time. 

I'm used to seeing Andersen's constrasty black and white images on social media so to see these colour photographs and get another insight into his work is gratifying. Andersen's signature use of light is present here too, and I really enjoy the way he uses the surrounds and found objects to frame his subjects. If you miss the show at Fairfield, it will be moving to ACP before touring nationally next year. 

December 3, 2016 to January 7, 2017
Fairfield City Gallery & Museum
Cnr. Oxford Street & The Horsley Drive
Smithfield


Melbourne:
Magnet Galleries - DESIVOLUTION









DESIVOLUTION is part of Multicultural Arts Victoria's MAPPING MELBOURNE Asian-Australian cultural festival. The exhibition showcases the cultural importance of the Indian restaurant in the world of the Desi diaspora. (DESI - the word used by Indians in the diaspora for self-identify).

Magnet Galleries Melbourne
Level 2
640 Bourke Street

Melbourne

Friday Round Up - 30 September, 2016

This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up it's all about the second edition of the Indian Photography Festival in Hyderabad.

Feature:

Indian Photography Festival Hyderabad

(C) Dina Oganova

Spread across the city of Hyderabad, the capital of the southern Indian state of Telangana, the Indian Photography Festival (IPF) presents a comprehensive programme. This year's festival is curated by leading Indian Photographer Amit Mehra, and features panel discussions, artists talks, workshops, open studios, book launches and portfolio reviews. 

Founder and Director of the Festival Aquin Mathews says, "We live in a world of visual clutter as millions of images are taken and uploaded into the internet every day; people should know what is good and bad photography and IPF is the best place to learn and see what is good and bad. Photography has been democratized with the advent of digital technology and mobile phone cameras and more people have access to photography and enjoy it these days. We have made the event free to the public as photography has got a wider reach."

The exhibition programme features a host of photographers including legendary Indian photojournalist Raghu Rai, as well as Prashant Panjiar, Mahesh Bhat and Swapan Parekh. The international contingent includes photojournalists Ron Haviv (VII) and Michael Robinson Chavez (Washington Post), Australian Nick Moir, and fine art photographer Claire Rosen. Plus the Asia Pacific Phonebook Archive from Melbourne will also have a range of books from the region on display.

A Selection of Key Exhibitions:

State Art Gallery: 
The Lost Rolls by Ron Haviv

The Alexia Foundation/ Aaron Vincent Elkaim's 'Where The River Runs Through: Life in the Amazon Dam Boom'

Birds of a Feather - Claire Rosen

Stories of her Own - Smita Sharma, Anushree Fadnavis & Saumya Khandelwal

(C) Anushree Fadnavis

(C) Saumya Khandelwal

Drought in Telangana - Satyanarayana Gola

Awaiting the Rain - Michael Robinson Chavez 

Fragments of a spinning rock - Kaushal Parikh

Weather - Nick Moir  

Sebastian Cortes 

Belief - Natan Divr

Selected exhibitions at various venues:

The Longing of the Others - Sandra Hoyn 

At Goethe Zentrum

Head On Landscape & Portrait Prize from Australia

(C) KristianTaylor-Wood - Portrait Winner

On show: JNAFAU, Masabtank

Dialect & Dialogue - in the bylanes of Hyderabad - a group show of 29 photographers from Hyderabad

On show: Sardar Mahal , in the lanes and by lanes of Laad Bazar around Charminar, Chowmohalla Palace

About The IPF: a Not-For-Profit initiative of Light Craft Foundation and Telangana Tourism, IPF is an international photography festival, showcasing a wide range of photography across all genres from portraits and landscape through to photojournalism to fine art by emerging and leading photographers from India and around the globe. 

For more information on the IPF programme visit the links:

Speakers, Workshops, Programme and Exhibitions

Until 9 October

Various venues