This week on Friday Round Up Sydney takes the spotlight with 3 new exhibitions on show. Also view element of the photo essay Stu Steps Up, check out the present day trends in photobooks, see what Sam Harris is posting to The Photographers? Gallery Instagram feed and have fun the launch of L?Oeil de l. A. Photographie (formerly Le Journal). Plus Sydney photographer and publisher John Ogden?S Saltwater People series takes out this 12 months?S National Maritime Museum Biennial Frank Broeze History Award.
Exhibitions: Sydney
Tim Page ? Diggers in the Nam
? Tim Page
This week Tim Page?S exhibition Diggers in the Nam opened in Sydney at Blanco Negro. The exhibition features 20 silver gelatin prints of pix taken among 1965-1969 when Page, then a younger man in his twenties, threw himself headfirst into lifestyles as a war photojournalist.
Page is referred to as one of the iconic photographers of the Vietnam War. His pictures have regarded in newspapers and magazines around the globe over a career that has spanned 5 a long time. Infamously reputed to be the inspiration for Dennis Hopper?S outlandish character in ?Apocalypse Now?, Page has had a lauded, and at instances, immensely risky career that has left him at death?S door on multiple event. Through his lens he has shown the world photos that define generations and his pictures can be visible in museums and galleries around the sector, and within the pages of books. And additionally on this blog with the Tim Page Unseen series presenting never before published snap shots.
All money raised from Diggers in the Nam goes to Soldier On an agency supporting veterans with bodily and mental wounds.
Pictured L-R: Tim Page, Stephen Dupont, Marianne Harris and Ben Bohane, all members of the collective Degree South (Photo John Odgen)
Until 14 January 2014
Blanco Negro
Shop 4, 44-fifty four Botany Road
Alexandria
By appointment sixty one 2 9698 4552
Jane Burton Taylor ? Grove
For 3 consecutive years Australian artist Jane Burton Taylor travelled to Puglia in Italy to picture that place?S olive groves thru their seasonal cycles - many of these groves had been planted within the Middle Ages and their toughness is testomony to the ardour and love given to nurturing them. Burton Taylor chose 12 groves in which nowadays the farmers nevertheless take care of the timber with the aid of hand.
The result of her exploration can be see in the exhibition Grove currently on in Sydney. Shot on film using a 50 12 months antique Hasselblad medium format digicam Burton Taylor has supplied her photographs as large-scale triptych panels. These works now not most effective seize the surprise of nature however also ?The non secular and physical courting human beings have with? Mother Earth.
? Jane Burton Taylor
Until 1 December
Barometer Gallery
thirteen Gurner Street (cnr Duxford St),
Paddington
Rennie Ellis - Kings Cross 1970 to 1971 
? Rennie Ellis
In August the book DECADE: 1970-1980 with the aid of Australian photographer Rennie Ellis become released. Featuring iconic photographs that capture the dichotomy of Seventies Australia in black and white DECADE reflects a length whilst creative exploration and cultural anarchy dominated.
Now the State Library of New South Wales is providing an exhibition of Ellis? Works shot throughout a year spent documenting Sydney?S infamous Kings Cross, images which might be additionally featured in DECADE.
16 November ? 16 February 2014
State Library of New South Wales
Photo Essay:
Ludovic Robert - Stu Steps Up Part Two 
? Ludovic Robert
In September we blogged about brave Stuart ?Stu? Nixon and his try to raise budget for MS through strolling 60 kilometres ? Besides Stu can?T stroll as he is an MS sufferer himself. London-based totally French photographer Ludovic Robert has been documenting Stu?S tale and you may see component two right here. And check out element one at this hyperlink in case you missed it before! Keep a container of tissues accessible.
Stu Steps UpPart One
Stu Steps Up Part Two
Paris Photo:
Photobook Fever
Later nowadays in Paris (1pm neighborhood time) the winners of the Paris Photo Aperture Foundation Photobooks Award might be announced. Leslie Martin become one in all this year?S judges and her interview with Wired is an thrilling examine. In ?Take It From a Publishing Pro: The Photobook Format Is Up for Grabs? Martin reveals that the photobook genre is extensive open and the best constant is exchange. Of the 20 books on the short list inside the Paris-Photo Aperture Foundation Awards First Book class 14 are self-posted.
(Photo Andrew White, Wired)
Martin says, ?Increasingly, these self-pub books are very state-of-the-art in their construction and the substances they use?People are manipulating bindings, making stunning cloth selection and doing matters which you don?T locate within the normal manufacturing unit strategies. I definitely appreciate the creativity within the self-pub international and the extent of manufacturing has genuinely extended dramatically...?
Read the whole article here - Wired
Check out the listing of finalists in Paris Photo Aperture Foundation Photobooks Award right here.
Instagram Takeover
The Photographers' Gallery London
If you haven?T already, take a look at out The Photographers? Gallery Instagram Feed which is currently in the hands of our very very own Sam Harris (till Revolutionary Organization 17 November). In parallel with the Gallery?S modern exhibition Home Truths: Motherhood, Photography and Identity, curated via Susan Bright, the Gallery has engaged photographers whose paintings sits on this stream.
? Sam Harris
Harris is thought for his paintings which is an ?Ongoing circle of relatives diary?. His book Postcards from Home has won a couple of awards. Of his awareness he says, ?As I witness my daughters? Transformation in what feels just like the briefest of moments, I?M compelled to try to maintain something of our time living together".
See Sam's Instagram Feed here
Celebration:
L?Oeil de l. A. Photographie Launches 
?Seventy-5 days after leaving Le Journal de l. A. Photographie, we?Re back with L'Oeil de los angeles Photographie (The Eye of Photography). The seventy-five days have been turbulent and full of passion, and we owe our go back to 10 sponsors who will support us as we broaden a greater sustainable commercial enterprise model. We will introduce them in the near future. We would love to thank them all. Our go back also owes itself to our team: of the 36 ordinary and low members to Le Journal, 34 are with us nowadays as The Eye. And in particular, we are right here nowadays due to you. The loads of messages we received inside the past weeks reinforced our determination to go back as quickly as feasible,? Jean-Jacques Naudet Editorial Director.
On a non-public word I am delighted to remain a part of a exceptional crew of writers who are enthusiastic about the photographic medium.
Subscribe to L'Oeil de los angeles Photographie today
Award:
Saltwater People
Cyclops Press aka John ?Oggy? Ogden?S Saltwater People collection ? Saltwater People of the Broken Bays and Saltwater People of the Fatal Shore - have won the 2013 National Maritime Museum Biennial Frank Broeze History Award.
?Sydney?S beaches are recognized as the birthplace of Australian beach lifestyle, but few realise that the coastal clans of the Dharug, Eora and Dharawal Nations, who lived alongside this shoreline for tens of lots of years earlier than the advent of Europeans, have been the custodians of the seashores and the various creatures who inhabited this interface between land and sea. Their rich culture and sustainable life-style holds many instructions for the current Saltwater People in addressing the environmental problems confronting the sea beaches? ? John Ogden, author, photographer and writer.
Check out the books at Cyclops Press
Have a outstanding weekend.
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