Friday Round Up celebrates its first anniversaryand what a whirlwind year it's been. More than 250 photographers have been featured on Photojournalism Now's weekly blog - you can see the list on the blog home page. We've presented stories on the industry's greats - Sebastiao Salgado, Don McCullin, Paula Bronstein and Paolo Pellegrin have all featured amongst other, lesser known photographers whose work is no less important or intuitive. The intention for Friday Round Up is to bring readers a range of stories each week that inspire, and challenge perceptions through the presentation of cutting edge photo essays, exhibitions, books and feature interviews. We also want to stimulate debate and continue the discussion on the future of photojournalism.
This week on Friday Round Up new exhibitions in Melbourne - Murray Fredericks and Henri van Noordenberg; Max Pam's in Paris, and new works are hung in Berlin. Plus Paula Bronstein launches her Afghanistan e-book challenge, and the yearly Life Force Fundraiser is on in Sydney. Also an interview with John Casamento on his retrospective Out of the Darkroom now showing in Melbourne and Head On Photo Festival Sydney calls for artists for its 2014 program.
Exhibitions: Melbourne
Murray Fredericks - Topophilia
Photographer Murray Fredericks? Particular visible language transforms remote or hostile natural environments into ethereal vistas that appear to be from worlds past our own.
His ultra-modern series is Topophilia. Shot over a period of 4 years, Fredericks supplies a view of the Greenland Ice Sheet in which horizon melts into sky, and mild performs with atmospheric anomalies that create epic scenes that stand to sweep the viewer into every other universe. This is a incredible collection to comply with his impressive Salt collection.
(C) All Images Murray Fredericks
Opening Saturday nine November 4pm
Showing until 7 December
Arc One Gallery
forty five Flinders Lane
Melbourne
Exhibition:
Henri van Noordenburg ? Efface
The brand new exhibition from Queensland photomedia artist Henri van Noordenburg combines images with hand etching. Each work begins with a nude self-portrait on a black canvas on which van Noordenburg etches the surface to show the panorama underneath.
Until 23 November
Edmund Pearce
Nicholas Building
2/37 Swanston St, Melbourne
Fundraiser:
Images for Life Force 2013
(C) Bob Kersey
22 photographic artists have donated works to be auctioned on Sunday 17 november in Paddington in this year?S Images for Life Force. This annual event increases price range
For Life Force Cancer Foundation, a no longer-for-profit charity imparting emotional and psycho-social support to people coping with the experience of cancer.
(C) Luke Hardy
(C) Pat Brassington
(C) Peter Solness
This is a extremely good possibility to start, or upload to, your photographic collection with works by using Pat Brassington, Bob Kersey, Peter Solness, Niobe Syme, William Yang, Belinda Mason and Luke Hardy amongst others.
To discover greater go to Life Force
Sunday 17 november three-6pm
Stills Gallery
36 Gosbell Street
Paddington
Fundraiser:
Paula Bronstein ? Kickstarter Project
(C) Paula Bronstein
Photojournalist Paula Bronstein has released her Kickstarter project to fund a e-book on her work in Afghanistan. Bronstein, who works with Getty Images, is one of the hardest running photojournalists having clocked up more than 30 years within the business.
Bronstein (above centre) first visited Afghanistan in 2001 on challenge with Getty Images. She says for the reason that that point she?S been ?Captivated via the people and locations of Afghanistan?. Her e-book, Afghanistan: Between Life and War ?Is my try to provide something back. It is my wish that my snap shots offer those in the out of doors global with a distinct way of seeing the Afghan human beings. As we pass towards 2014, the Afghan Presidential election will coincide with the persevering with withdrawal of US military troops and new demanding situations for this us of a. With your aid now is the time to make this picture e book a reality. After this mission is funded the very last stage of ebook production will start?.
(C) Paula Bronstein
Check out the project here
Exhibitions: Paris
Erwin Olaf ? Berlin
(C) Erwin Olaf
Dutch photographic artist Erwin Olaf began his career ?Beneath the scandalous patronage of Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton and Joel-Peter Witkin.? Today Olaf works in that delicate area wherein his massive scale, pretty theatrical photographic shoots draw comparisons with the likes of Gregory Crewdson. Olaf?S intricately choreographed pix are concentrated in subject matters of ?Mourning, loss and solitude? Providing a dramatic backdrops for his really unsettling snap shots.
(C) Erwin Olaf
(C) Erwin Olaf
Erwin Olaf?S works from his Berlin collection are on display in Paris this month.
Until 23 November
Galerie Rabouan Moussion
121 rue Vieille du Temple
75003 Paris
Max Pam ? Signatures
(C) Max Pam
Max Pam is a god in France so it is no wonder that he's once again taking centre degree at some point of the month of pictures this is November with a display at Camera Obscura. His today's e book, Super Tourist, is also doing brisk business with French publisher Pierre Bessard confirming that the restrained trouble of 500 copies is selling very rapid. Numbered and signed with an man or woman print.
Galerie Camera Obscura
Until 30 November
Saturday 9 November 4pm meet Max Pam and Bernard Plossu on the Gallery
268 Boulevard Raspail
75014 Paris
Super Tourist to be had from Editions Bessard click on here for facts
Exhibition - Berlin:
Neue Schule für Fotografie 
(C) Laura Muthesius
Berlin’s Neue Schule für Fotographie (New School for Photography) has an exciting exhibition programme along with workshops. A privately run college with an amazing exhibition space, the Neue Schule’s latest show features work from upcoming photographers including Laura Muthesius, Linus Dessecker and Sascha Bausch.
(C) Linus Dessecker
(C) Sascha Bausch
Until 1 December
Neue Schule f?R Fotografie Berlin,
Brunnenstr. 188 ? One hundred ninety, 10119 Berlin
I nterview:
John Casamento - Out of the Darkroom
John Casamento and Pope John Paul II
John Casamento commenced his photojournalism career at The Sun News Pictorial in Melbourne in 1955 at the age of 16 years. ?I spent the primary 9 months because the images department messenger before being given a 4 year cadetship,? Says Casamento who spent 36 years with the newspaper.
During the ones decades with The Sun, which become Melbourne?S leading every day paper for lots of that time, Casamento covered the whole lot from murders and criminal trials, to exquisite carrying occasions which includes the Melbourne Cup. But he says it turned into the go to of Pope John Paul II that stands as one of the fantastic non-public moments in an extended profession.
(C) John Casamento
?I used to do a little seasoned-bono work for the Catholic Archdiocese and turned into asked to cover the go to of the Pope for them, but I didn?T have any holidays arising so I spoke to my editor and we got here to an association ? I ought to take weeks leave to cowl the Pope?S go to at the situation that I were given on the papal tour from Rome and included the 5 international locations on this unique tour!? And that?S exactly what Casamento did.
This become one of the few global assignments for Casamento, however Melbourne added a wealth of challenge count and he changed into in no way bored. ?You have to be very diverse as a newspaper photographer as you are handling humans from all walks of existence, from the best echelons all the way down to the very poor. For me that became the most thrilling part of the process, the people, famous and infamous, saints and sinners, all throughout the board and I enjoyed most of my assignments?.
There have been, of course, tragic cases that needed to be covered and Casamento discovered these difficult. ?I take into account simply after Easter 365 days I needed to picture this little boy with inoperable cancer for a tale at the Make a Wish Foundation. He changed into approximately ten years vintage and I idea he turned into ingesting an Easter egg, however it turned into this very big brown tumor coming out of his mouth. I wasn?T allowed to image him immediately, so I photographed him with his mother?S fingers round him and his back to the digital camera?. All those years later that image comes speedy in recollection.
(C) John Casamento
In talking approximately his information Casamento says, ?The handiest motive I have a group from my paintings at the Sun is that in the ones days it was very uncommon, whilst you were printing, to get a good print first time, a print that turned into good sufficient for reproduction within the paper. I did plenty of jobs that I determined interesting enough to keep the first reproduction, a print that become pretty k, and so I took lots of prints home as opposed to discarding them?.
His fascination with photography started out when he become 12 years vintage and these days Casamento nevertheless shoots. ?When I started out we used to increase our personal film in a lavatory that we?D blacked out. Now you can see pics right away. Digital is superb, I want we?D had it fifty years ago it would have made life a good deal easier?.
Official commencing by way of cartoonist Geoff "Jeff" Hook on Sunday 10 November 4-6pm
Until November
Photonet Gallery
15a Railway Place
Fairfield
The e-book of the identical name is likewise available.
Festival:
Head On Sydney ? Call for Artists Next year?S Head On Photo Festival is looking for expressions of hobby from photograph artists and venues. Deadlines are 12 November for photographers and nine December for venues. Visit the internet site for all of the information. Head On is the largest photographic pageant in Australia and is held annually. Click right here for info.
Head On Photo Festival
12 May ? 8 June, 2014
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