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 - 21 October, 2016

This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up the finalists in the Nikon-Walkley Awards for Excellence in Photojournalism, Melbourne's Strange Neighbour hosts its last exhibition and never before seen photographs from E.O. Hoppé on show in California.

Awards:
2016 Nikon-Walkley Awards for Excellence in Photojournalism

Photo of the Year: The Man on the operating table. Picture: Andrew Quilty

This year I was honoured to be a judge for the photojournalism awards. The Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism are Australia’s most prestigious journalism awards.

On 13th October the finalists for Nikon-Walkley Awards for Excellence in Photojournalism were announced along with the 2016 Nikon-Walkley Photo of the Year, which was won by Andrew Quilty for “The Man on The Operating Table” pictured above.

The image was shot by Quilty inside the Médecins Sans Frontières Kunduz Trauma Center in Afghanistan, following the October 3, 2015, attack by an American AC-130 gunship on the hospital in which 42 were killed, including MSF staff, patients and patient carers.

This arresting image was a clear standout for the judges.

Other winners announced so far are:

Nikon-Walkley Portrait Prize
Winner: Brian Cassey, News Corp Australia, “Beaten Refugee”

Nikon-Walkley Community/Regional Prize
Winner: Marc McCormack, The Cairns Post, “Body of Work”

This is one of the images in the winning body of work. 

The finalists’ photographs will be toured around the nation in a series of free public exhibitions and are currently on display at the State Library of New South Wales and the ABC in Brisbane.

Finalists are selected by eminent journalists and photographers and overall winners judged by the Walkley Advisory Board. The winners will be announced at a gala event in Brisbane on 2nd December.

You can see all the finalists here.

Farewell Exhibition:

Permanence - Strange Neighbour

The Grotesque

Melbourne's Strange Neighbour gallery is closing, which is another blow to the city's dwindling number of photography-dedicated galleries. The final show is currently on featuring work by the gallery's creator and curator, Linsey Gosper. 

If you have time, pop in to see PERMANENCE, a solo exhibition of hand printed silver gelatin photographs that were taken in Europe and explore the mythological symbolic sculptures and architecture that have protected European cities and remained for centuries.

Death Always Comes

Mortarium

Mutter

The Guardians

Until 12 November
Strange Neighbour
395 Gore Street
Fitzroy

Exhibition:
Pasadena, California

E.O. Hoppé's Amerika: The First Great American Road Trip

Rooftops and smoking chimneys, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1926

Curatorial Assistance presents an amazing collection of photographs in the exhibition E.O. Hoppé's Amerika: The First Great American Road Trip, which showcases masterworks that have recently been uncovered from the E.O. Hoppé Estate Collection archive.

E.O. Hoppé was a German-born British Photo-Modernist who is considered one of the most important art and documentary photographers of the modern era along with Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Walker Evans. Renowned as a portrait photographer, Hoppé also worked in the genres of landscape and travel.

In the 1926 he set off across America documenting his extraordinary transcontinental journey. The result is a collection of images that capture the many faces of America: urban New York, Pittsburgh’s “steel city”, Detroit's burgeoning industrial factories, Florida’s palms, the pueblos of Arizona and New Mexico, Yosemite’s majesty and Hollywood’s allure, are just some of the subjects that caught Hoppé’s eye.

Tahiti Beach, Coral Gables, Florida 1926

Towards the Evolution of the Modern Motor”, Ford Factory, Detroit, Michigan 1926

Pack yards, Chicago 1926 

Gas Station, “The Girl Behind the Pump” 1926

Signal Hill, Los Angeles 1926

Museum services company Curatorial Assistance, which manages the E.O. Hoppé archive, spent over a decade of organizing, cataloguing, conservation and digitizing Hoppé’s works. Now the public has a chance to see some of his amazing photographs.

“Hoppé’s insightful portrait of the United States is a revelation of diversity that ruminates on the country’s past, present, and future,” says Graham Howe of Curatorial Assistance. “This visionary work was the first to survey America at a unique time in its history, anticipating the road trips of other photographers such as Edward Weston and Walker Evans in the late 1930s, and Robert Frank in the mid-1950s.” 

Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado 1926

Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California 1926

The exhibition will feature a selection of vintage prints, modern prints from original negatives, and related ephemera, providing a rare glimpse into Hoppé’s archive.

Dick Matherck, rancher, Colorado 1926

Portrait of a man, Nassau 1926

21 October Until 31 December
Union Gallery at Curatorial Assistance
113 East Union Street,
Pasadena CA