Book:
Peter McConchie ? Fire and the Story of Burning Country 
Australia is a continent beset by way of climate extremes. In summer season our towns, which can be fringed via dense bushland, turn out to be tinderboxes. As the scrub dries out the hearth season starts offevolved and residents in heavily treed areas live with the steady fear of bush fires.
Each 12 months we watch for the subsequent bush hearth catastrophe. In February 2009 Black Saturday took the lives of 173 people in the nation of Victoria. Last month in New South Wales bush fires ripped thru the Blue Mountains destroying numerous homes.
But even as fire is met with fear in present day society, Australia?S indigenous human beings have lived in harmony with fire and used it to manipulate the land for millennia. The use of hearth on this vein is the relevant consciousness of a brand new book ?Fire and the Story of Burning Country? By photographer and author Peter McConchie.
In Fire and the Story of Burning Country McConchie objectives to dispel the parable that fireplace is to be feared and is most effective negative. Through tales instructed by the indigenous elders and network leaders of Cape York in Australia?S some distance north, McConchie presents a completely unique view that suggests how fireplace can be used to the advantage of the land and its humans.
(C) All snap shots Peter McConchie
Dr. Don Hankins, a expert in fire ecology/pyrogeography, Indigenous land control practices and conservation of Indigenous cultural practices supports this concept declaring, ?Where Indigenous hearth is carried out to the landscape it yields a mosaic of high quality effects from resilience to boom. Where Indigenous fires were removed from the landscape devastating bushfires are more commonplace, as are their influences on humans and entire groups?.
McConchie has a long records of working with Australia?S indigenous populace with the rationale of not simplest documenting their particular lifestyle, however of taking their tale to a much wider target audience. It is through the change of knowledge that we will create more information of ways one of the oldest cultures in the international has survived in one of the most harsh continents. Fire and the Story of Burning Country is a great addition to that frame of information.
Published by way of Cyclops Press
To purchase the book click here
Talking Photobooks:
Melinda Gibson
Last night at Edmund Pearce Gallery in Melbourne UK photographic artist Melinda Gibson spoke approximately the evolution of the photobook. Gibson has posted books, which have received huge acclaim ? The Photograph as Contemporary Art, a deconstruction and reimagining in photomontage of Charlotte Cotton?S 2009 e book of the equal name, and her trendy Miss Titus Becomes A Regular Army Mac released at this 12 months?S Unseen Photo Fair in Amsterdam.
L-R: Daniel Boetker-Smith from the Asia Pacific Photobook Archive (the hosts of the speak), Dan Rule, Melinda Gibson and Heidi Romano.
In a discussion led through writer and bookstore owner Dan Rule, and photographic artist Heidi Romano, Gibson spoke to a small, but committed target audience approximately possibilities that self-booklet have introduced the photo-artist. Gibson talked of performative characteristics, constrained versions and hand-crafted creations. She stated that inviting the reader to have interaction with the ebook, whether or not via the requirement to reduce open pages, unwrap covers or reassemble content material, takes the photobook beyond the bookshelf or the coffee table. It is on this area that the photobook itself become the piece of artwork.
Gibson, who was one of the jurors at the Unseen Photo Fair photobook awards this yr, says the democratisation of photobooks has resulted in greater photobooks being published than ever. ?Everyone can make a e book, however due to that there is a lot of garbage available,? Says Gibson. ?Photographers need to think about the first-rate context for his or her paintings and it isn?T always a book. Narrative and modifying are essential to making a photobook that works. You actually need to reflect onconsideration on the book and what you want to do because books final for all time and if it?S shit?.? Nicely you get the idea.
Visit Melinda's blog here
Award:
2014 FotoEvidence Book Award ? Open Now
Applications at the moment are open for the 2014 FotoEvidence Book Award. This year the jurors are Ed Kashi, Marcel Saba, Mikko Takkunen, Regina Monfort and Svetlana Bachevanova.
The 2013 FotoEvidence Book Award winner become Robin Hammond for his work, Condemned, which exposes the atrocious conditions that those with intellectual fitness illnesses in Africa go through.
Robin Hammond
From the FotoEvidence internet site:
"The annual FotoEvidence Book Award will apprehend a documentary photographer whose undertaking demonstrates braveness and commitment in addressing a violation of human rights, a enormous injustice or an attack on human dignity. The decided on mission may be published in a e book, as a part of a series of FotoEvidence books committed to the paintings of photographers whose commitment and courage create an attention of social injustice.
The Book Award winner and as much as 4 other selected finalists can be exhibited at the FotoEvidence net website online and at a gallery exhibition in New York City all through the fall of 2014.
FotoEvidence is based to continue the subculture of the usage of pictures to draw attention to human rights violations, injustice, oppression and attacks on sovereignty or human dignity anywhere they may arise.?
Applications near 15 January, 2014. For more records click here
Festival:
Angkor Photo Festival 
Now in it?S 9th Edition Angkor Photo Festival is the longest running event of its kind in Asia. This year the Festival attracted more than 1000 submissions from seventy five nations. Curated by means of Fran?Oise Callier, Program Coordinator, this year?S software capabilities extra than a hundred thirty photographers, the majority of which might be from Asia. Exhibitions are hooked up indoors and outdoors in venues in the course of the town and there is an night projections software additionally.
(C) Kosuke Okahara Fukushima Japan
(C) Vlad Sokhin Restavek
Each year two of the night projections are within the hands of visitor curators. The 2013 guest curators are Shahidul Alam, Director of Chobi Mela Bangladesh and Jean-Fran?Ois Leroy, Director of Visa pour l'Image.
Shahidul Alam with the aid of Alison Stieven-Taylor
In curating his night projection software Alam changed into seeking out the ?Fun? In photography. Entitled ?Seeking Humour Seriously,? Alam says ?We sit up whilst being photographed. Make sure our hair is calling proper. In selecting ?Topics? For images, my college students choose from subject matters ranging from ?Drug dependancy? ?Prostitution? Or ?Baby labour?. The greater adventurous ones visit conflict zones. Photography is a extreme business. What we photo are ?Subjects of consequence?. We may collectively put up V symptoms, or smile when being photographed. Even our frivolity is guided by using norms of behavior. In our justified attempts to be taken critically, we region barriers upon our craft, that critically limit our ability to discover the social area. Once the photography is over, each photographer and subject can get returned to being everyday. Our imperfect global with all its unpredictability, its serendipity, its quirks and most importantly its humour surrounds us once more. We breathe. We permit go. We live.
There is every other greater ?Critical? Factor to this behavior. Humour, satire and irony are exquisite gadgets to now not handiest specific mirth, however also to critique, dissect and tease out subtleties of human emotion. Its playfulness lets in a proximity that is difficult to obtain in any other case. Being less ?Extreme? It's far able to making statements a ways more provocative than could be tolerated in traditional spaces. It places us off protect making us extra receptive. Being ?Amusing? Offers it a license that may be both effective and powerful. Like the kid speakme approximately the emperor?S garments, the obvious however unspoken may be tabled, where in any other case one would possibly stay silent. ?It was only in jest? Find cracks in our armoury that heavier weaponry would locate impenetrable.
In the end it makes us laugh, reflect, perhaps ponder. A profitable act in itself? - Shahidul Alam.
In addition to the exhibitions and screenings is the workshop program. This year the expert workshop leaders are Andrea Star Reese, Antoine D?Agata, Kosuke Okahara, Patrick De Noirmont, Sohrab Hura and Suthep Kritsanavarin. They will lead a collection of 30 young Asian photographers. There is also the yearly ?Amusing-stuffed? Anjali Children's Workshop for kids of Anjali House, an NGO in Siem Reap supplying food, refuge and schooling to underneath-privileged kids.
Angkor Photo Festival
9th Edition
23-30 November
Siem Reap Cambodia
For extra records visit the website
Exhibition Competition:
Sophot.Com
Sophot.Com is a website focused on promoting social documentary photography. The Sophot.Com 2014 exhibition contest is now open for submissions. Two winners willb e afforded an exhibition at Fait & Cause Gallery in Paris in June and July next year. For extra records visit the website
Screenings:
Cross Projections - Sydney 
(C) John Ogden
“Now in its 10th year, Cross Projections is a multi-media, cinematic screening of personal works by photographers. Work practices encompass social documentary and fine art photography, photojournalism, teaching, critique and exhibition.
Cross Projections grew out of the desire of photographers to maintain control over the presentation of their work and to showcase their stories to peers and the wider community. As a group we aim to give voice to unheard stories and promote ethics and social commentary in contemporary photographic culture.” Roslyn Sharp and Amanda James, Cross Projections Producers.
(C) Alexander Sharp
(C) Garry Trinh
(C) Kate Disher-Quill
(C) Tom Williams
(C) Marco Bok
Cross Projections 2013
November 28, 29 and 30
Doors open 6:30pm for a 7pm start
Tusculum House
3 Manning Street
Potts Point
Limited seats. To book click here.
Cross Projections Program:
Alexander Sharp
Amanda James
Angela Stretch
Garry Trinh
Jim Anderson
Glenn Lockitch
John Ogden
Kate Disher-Quill
Kerry Pryor
Lyndal Irons
Marco Bok
Peter Kingston
Roslyn Sharp
Torsten
Saha Jones & Maya Newell
Susie Hagon
Tom Williams
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