This week on Friday Round Up a brand new e-book through Rennie Ellis, Paul Batt's exhibition opens in Melbourne, Ballarat International Foto Biennale's commencing weekend, Oculi Collective, new articles in Pro Photo and greater. Have a excellent weekend wherever you are.
Book:
Rennie Ellis ? DECADE 1970-1980
This lengthy awaited publication from one among Australia?S maximum celebrated social remark photographers become released in Melbourne final Tuesday at Mossgreen Gallery, South Yarra. Many of Ellis? Contemporaries packed the Gallery to hear filmmaker Paul Cox proportion tales of his friendship with Ellis. Susan van Wyk, Senior Curator of Photography, at the National Gallery of Victoria additionally said Ellis? Contribution to the genre.
(C) Rennie Ellis
The series of photos in DECADE captures the dichotomy of Nineteen Seventies Australia and the black and white snap shots replicate a duration of creative exploration and cultural anarchy. Published through Hardie Grant Books in affiliation with the State Library of Victoria, DECADE 1970-1980 is to be had in bookstores nationally and online.
Festival
Ballarat International Foto Biennale
Last weekend the Ballarat International Foto Biennale (BIFB) kicked off its fifth installment amidst the wildest winter weather Victoria has seen this year. Yet the gale force winds and biting cold didn’t deter hundreds from turning out for the opening weekend where the red wine flowed and photography lovers feasted on a truly brilliant showcase of exhibitions. Here are a few photographs that encapsulate the opening weekend courtesy of Marty Williams.
Elisabeth Zeilon, Sweden with her exhibition Passion Paris
Erika Diettes, Colombia along with her exhibition Sudarios (Shrouds)
Festival Director Jeff Moorfoot
Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser and Alison Stieven-Taylor
Photographers Michael Coyne (L) and Philip Quirk
Filmmaker Paul Cox launches the John Cato Retrospective
Youngho Kang with on of his self-images from 99 Variations
Congratulations to Festival Director Jeff Moorfoot and his top notch group for pulling together a diverse collection of exhibitions. There are middle programme and fringe exhibitions to revel in. Download the programme here. On until 15 September.
Articles:
Pro Photo Magazine – Head On & Reportage
My reviews on Sydney's Head On Photo Festival and Reportage Documentary Photography Festival feature in the current issue of Pro Photo magazine out now.
Exhibition:
Paul Batt – A Single Line
Melbourne photographer Paul Batt’s exhibition, A Single Line (Untitled China series 2012) is currently showing at Edmund Pearce Gallery in Melbourne. Batt says of his project, that it is “a photographic investigation of China's rapidly altering landscape. The intention of the series is to explore the Chinese people's tentative shift from a communist to a capitalist system, as seen through the resource hungry push to modernise the countries rural and urban environments”.
(C) All images Paul Batt
Until 7 September
Edmund Pearce
Level 2, Nicholas Building
37 Swanston Street
Melbourne
Wed-Sat 11am-5pm
Photographic Collective
Oculi - Australia
(C) Lee Grant Seoul, Korea
Oculi counts in its membership a number of contemporary Australian photographers including several whose work has featured on this blog -- Lee Grant, Claire Martin, Nick Moir and Andrew Quilty. You can check out the other members and view their work on the Oculi website. Each month Oculi features a slideshow of its members’ work. Check out August’s offering here.
Award
5th Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award
This is one of the richest awards in the industry with a grant of 50,000 Euro to fund a reportage project on a specific topic. This year the theme is Iran. Deadline is September 30. Click here for entry details.
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