This week on Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up ? Part of the Head On Photo Festival capabilities my interview with Markus Klinko about his Bowie Unseen exhibition, plus a sneak peek at exhibitions by way of Rennie Ellis (Kings Cross 1970-1971), Younes Mohammad (In the Name of Religion) and Stephen Dupont (The Australians).
Special Feature:
Head On Photo Festival - Part Two
On Saturday 6th May the annual Head On Photo Festival will officially kick off in Sydney with the announcement of this year's Head On Photo Festival Awards winners. The Festival features an eclectic array of photography exhibitions spanning all genres plus special events. Many of the featured exhibitions are showing in and around Paddington and the CBD making it easy to gorge on this visual feast. Check out the Festival's website for daily happenings.
Don't forget to register for the debate with photographers from around the globe, and moderated by myself, on the question "Does photojournalism facilitate or counteract 'fake news'? Click here to register. It's free! This Sunday 7.30pm, Beauchamp Hotel, 265-267 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst.
Exhibitions:
A reminder of a number of last week's top picks:
Juli Balla
Dina Litovsky
Maggie Steber
If you neglected Head On Photo Festival characteristic element one, you could see more pictures right here.
Interview:
Bowie Unseen - Markus Klinko
through Alison Stieven-Taylor
(First published in the Australian Financial Review Weekend)
?When Iman came to the studio to select the picture for the quilt of her book I Am Iman, she introduced her husband along with her, which became a first-rate wonder,? Says Swiss-born photographer Markus Klinko recalling his first stumble upon with David Bowie returned in 2001.
At the time Klinko, who were a exquisite international harp soloist earlier than an injury cut brief his profession, changed into trying to break into the extraordinarily competitive subject of superstar pictures. Working out of a small studio in New York, he says he turned into blown away while the musician walked in. ?He become each bit as charismatic and awesome as one can imagine, however truly type and lovely to speak to?.
Impressed with the snap shots of his model wife, Bowie recommended that Klinko work with him on the quilt for his album Heathen. ?That became one of the fine reviews I?Ve ever had?David was so collaborative. He came with a whole lot of ideas, however became also inquisitive about my thoughts?.
?Iman and David opened a whole lot of doors,? Says Klinko who has when you consider that photographed a procession of modern-day musicians from Beyonce and Lady Gaga to Kanye West and Mariah Carey. He?S also an A-listing photographer for celebrities consisting of Kate Winslet, Will Smith and Eva Mendes.
Now primarily based in Los Angeles, Klinko is in Sydney for the debut of his exhibition Bowie Unseen, one of the headline suggests for this 12 months?S Head On Photo Festival. The display capabilities 22 pics of Bowie along side two of Iman, which were shot for the quilt of Vanity Fair on the model?S sixtieth birthday. The photographs of Iman had been taken with his photographic accomplice, Koala, who has also curated the display.
Bowie Unseen includes pix from the Heathen shoot as well as a series of complex composite images used inside the 2002 GQ Men of the Year difficulty. In those images Bowie is pictured conserving wild wolves on a leash. Or is he? In reality those pix are a combination of shoots, as Klinko explains.
?GQ wanted to feature David on the duvet, however he wasn?T to be had. I had this idea of David with those wild wolves and talked it via with him. I advised David I may want to extract elements from the Heathen shoot and combine them. He changed into intrigued and relied on me. When he saw the pics he cherished them, joking that he?D in no way should do every other picture shoot!?
(C) All images Markus Klinko
Klinko employed a ?Very courageous? Model to behave as a body double. The wolves have been smuggled into his Soho studio, as it became unlawful at the time to have wild animals in the town. The wolves? Teacher stored them placated with uncooked meat treats, at the same time as Klinko set up. ?It was an adventure,? Laughs Klinko including that even as he become anxious about having those tremendous creatures in his studio, he wasn?T scared. ?It become severe, but I wasn?T shaking like I become once I turned into operating with Janet Jackson and had two wild black panthers within the studio!?
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Until three June
Blender Gallery
16 Elizabeth St
Paddington
More exhibitions to add to your 'must see' listing (there is a black and white issue taking place):
Kings Cross 1970-1971: Rennie Ellis
Head On Photo Festival, Rennie Ellis Photographic Archive, and Mossgreen Gallery gift this collection of pictures by means of one in all Australia?S maximum iconic photographers, the past due Rennie Ellis (1940 ? 2003).
This exhibition features photos taken via Ellis over the summer of 1970-1971 in Sydney?S notorious purple mild district of Kings Cross, wherein Aussie rock, social protest and the freedom of kids rubbed in opposition to the underbelly of the city. Ellis? Snap shots unmask the subculture of the Cross, as it is recognised domestically, in all its out-there glory taking pictures an area that Ellis said ?Has a pulse price and a life-style unlike everywhere else in Australia?.
(C) All snap shots Rennie Ellis Archive
Until 2 June
Mossgreen
36-forty Queen Street,
Woollahra
Younes Mohammad
In the Name of Religion
Kurdish freelance photographer Younes Mohammad provides a chain of photographs taking pictures the devastation of wars made inside the name of religion. Younes took up pictures in 2011 and when you consider that that time his work has been proven in extra than 50 exhibitions and published with the aid of AP, Getty Images, CNN, The Guardian and the Daily Mail amongst others.
(C) Younes Mohammad
Venue: Lower Town Hall - Sydney -->
Out of town:
Stephen Dupont - The Australians
(C) All snap shots Stephen Dupont
One of the world's most awarded photojournalists, Australian Stephen Dupont presents images from his ongoing series The Australians in which he focuses his camera on local artists and community figures from Wollongong and its surrounding regions (south of Sydney). This exhibition is part of Ambush Gallery’s Here There & Everywhere program and is being held in Wollongong.
Venue: The Gateway Building
Wollongong Central
200 Crown Street
Wollongong
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