Photography art Gallery Friday Round Up - 10th October, 2014|Photography Art Definition

This week on Friday Round Up - Q & A with National Geographic's Chris Rainier, exhibitions at LE BAL and Ballarat, more Tim Page unpublished photographs and WorkshopX in Thailand and India. Plus Getty Images and iStock launch a new photography competition to #RePicture the world.

Picture of the Week:

35,000 Walrus' on an Alaskan Beach

What's wrong with this picture? These walrus' should have been lying on sea ice as they usually do, only the ice has melted.

(C) Corey Accardo/AP

What their habitat should look like - from USFWS Alaska Flickr

Q&A:

National Geographic’s Chris Rainier talks about his life-long commitment to record indigenous cultures

(C) Chris Rainier

"I have dedicated my life to what is a race against time to photograph cultures from our past that live in the present and to document them for future generations," says Chris Rainier. "These photographs are ‘postcards to the future’ of what we are losing today"... (to read the full story click on the Q&A tab at the top of this blog)

Workshops:

WorkshopX – Bangkok and Kolkata

Polish documentary photographers Aleksander Bochenek and Grzegorz Ostrega have teamed up with Australian photographer Nick McGrath to run a series of intensive workshops – November in Bangkok and December in Kolkata – under the WorkshopX banner.

Bochenek and Ostrega initially formed WorkshopX in order to run a series of photo-editing classes for photographers. The concept has now expanded into workshops, meetings, documentary films screenings and exhibitions and McGrath, who is a photojournalist and photo-editor based in Bangkok, has come in as a workshop leader also.

McGrath says the upcoming workshops offer an intimate learning experience and the three workshop leaders will be supported by three local photographers “to help our participants with fixing, translating, general problem solving on the ground and making sure that each participant gets the necessary support during the workshop”.

Above (C) Nick McGrath

Plus there are some fantastic names as guest tutors – in Bangkok multi-award winning photojournalists Jack Picone, Nic Dunlop and Thai photographer Piyavit Thongsa-Ard will work with workshop participants.

(C) Jack Picone

(C) Jack Picone

(C) Nic Dunlop

(C) Nic Dunlop

(C) Piyavit Thongsa-Ard

(C) Piyavit Thongsa-Ard

In Kolkata, Italian photojournalist and documentary photographer Alex Masi, who was the winner of the 2012 FotoEvidence Book Award for his amazing work "Bhopal Second Disaster," is the guest tutor. The addition of these special guests means all participants have the opportunity for one-on-one discussions with some of the world’s most experienced documentary photographers.

(C) Alex Masi

(C) Alex Masi

It’s an exciting line up and if documentary photography is your thing, then these two workshops are really worth considering, not only for the opportunity to improve your visual storytelling and editing skills, but to also pick the brains of some truly erudite photojournalists.

Details:

Bangkok

Date: 16 – 22 November 2014

Deadline for applications: 2 Nov 2014

Kolkata

Date: 6 – 12 December 2014

Deadline for applications: 10 Nov 2014

Workshops are limited to 10 participants only.

Exhibitions:

Paris

Group Show - LE BAL

(C) Antoine d’Agata

In this group show five photographers - Sophie Calle, Julien Magre, Stéphane Couturier, Alain Bublex and Antoine d’Agata – were invited by LE BAL to explore the concept of the road. “Anonymous and yet so familiar, the highway became their creative land, their intimate playground. For all of them…an invitation to find themselves, to get lost... s’il y a lieu.”

(C) Julien Magre

(C) Sophie Calle

(C) Alain Bublex

LE BAL is a brilliant space - gallery, cafe and bookshop. I visited LE BAL last year to see Mark Cohen's Dark Knees exhibition. If you're lucky enough to be in Paris, put LE BAL on your list.

Until 26 October

LE BAL

6 Impasse de la Défense

75018 Paris

Exhibitions: Ballarat

Robert Imhoff: Retrospective

A Life in Grain and Pixels

With a career that spans five decades, Australian photographer Robert Imhoff has many stories that point to his ingenuity and knowing when to make the most of a situation. Even as a child he was always looking for an opportunity. At the Melbourne Olympic Games village in 1956 a 7-year-old Rob slid between the legs of the adults and under a barricade to take a snapshot of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, with his Kodak Brownie E-box camera (above). This photograph features alongside numerous images taken over his career in the retrospective exhibition and book, Imhoff: A Life of Grain and Pixels.

The boldness that led to his photograph of the Prince, combined with a well developed sense of timing, and the ability to make his subjects relax, are hallmarks of Rob’s long career that has spanned continents and seen him photograph many Australian icons. Such is his portfolio, in both photography and film - he’s directed more than 300 productions - that Rob is considered one of the elder statesmen of commercial photography in Australia.

One of the first portraits Imhoff took in 1969 - Sydney Charles Bromley

All images (C) Robert Imhoff

Opens tomorrow.

Imhoff: A Life of Grain and Pixels

BallaratArt Gallery

40 Lydiard Street North,

Ballarat

11 October to 7 December

Competition:

Getty launches #RePicture Competition

Launched at Cannes Lions this year, Getty's #RePicture is about challenging the stereotypical imagery that is used to illustrate particular concepts, customs, cultures and people. Now the #RePicture competition invites photographers - amateurs and pros - to break free from these stereotypes and #RePicture the world.

Competition closes 20 November, 2014.Visit the website here for all the details.

Tim Page Unseen

Continuing Photojournalism Now's exclusive series of unpublished photographs from legendary photojournalist Tim Page, this week features the last installation of Page's Sri Lanka images - click on the tab at the top of the blog to see more images.

Photography art Gallery Friday Round Up - 3rd October, 2014|Photography Art Definition

This week on Friday Round Up two new exhibitions for Melbourne, Ruth Orkin in Los Angeles and René Burri in Paris, 2014 Foam Talents, plus a panel discussion on war photography in Sydney, and Vlad Sokhin’s Crying Meri book review.

Exhibitions: Melbourne

Paul Blackmore – One

All images (C) Paul Blackmore

“One light source, one subject, one background,” that’s how Paul Blackmore explains his new series “One”. I wrote about this series earlier in the year when it was on at Blackeye Gallery Sydney. Now Melbournians can see it at Edmund Pearce Gallery opening tonight.

Until 25 October

Edmund Pearce

Level 2, Nicholas Building

37 Swanston Street

Melbourne

Chris Round - In Two Places

(C) Chris Round

English photographer Chris Round says the core of his photographic practice lies in "documenting post-natural, human influenced landscapes...these environments are dynamic and exciting because humans continually change their relationship with their surroundings serving up myriad new subject matter".

Round, who is now based in Sydney, held his first show in 2012 and has subsequently won various local and international awards. "In Two Places" he explores "the notion of place in the context of dual citizenship".

Until 1 November

Colour Factory

409-429 Gore Street

Fitzroy

Exhibitions: Los Angeles

Ruth Orkin - Retrospective

(C) American Girl in Italy (Florence), 1951

American photojournalist Ruth Orkin is considered one of the pioneers of the genre. Born in 1922, Orkin was taken with photography from the moment she was given her first camera at the age of 10. In 1939 she cycled across the USA from Los Angeles to New York for the World Fair, taking photographs of her unique “road trip”. In the 1950s she produced a series of photographs for a LIFE feature – Don’t Be Afraid to Travel Alone – a story about women travelling on their on in post-war Europe.

But Orkin is best known for her two bodies of work which became highly acclaimed books - A World Through My Window and More Pictures from My Window – featuring images she shot from the balcony of her New York apartment opposite Central Park, images of the passing parade of life that are now historical records of an era long past.

Refugees, Lydda Airport, Tel Aviv, Israel, 1951

Drunken Women, NYC, 1947

The Card Players, West Village, NYC, 1947

Duncan Miller Gallery in Los Angeles presents the Ruth Orkin Retrospective until 25th October.

Duncan Miller Gallery

2525 Michigan Ave, Unit A7

Santa Monica

Exhibitions: Paris

René Burri - Mouvement

A member of Magnum Photos since 1959, René Burri is known for his portraits of leading figures of the 20th Century including Pablo Picasso, Winston Churchill and Che Guevara. But Burri’s oeuvre is vast. In this new exhibition 100 of Burri’s images, many unpublished, explore “movement” in both black and white and colour. Burri’s work in cinema is also featured with unseen footage from documentaries and films.

All images (C) René Burri

Until 10 December

MEP

5/7 Rue de Fourcy

75 004 Paris

www.mep-fr.org

2014 Foam Talents

(C) Jonny Briggs

With almost 1500 submissions from 71 countries, this year’s Foam Talents jury had its work cut out in choosing the final number of artists named in the 2014 Foam Talents. For the first time 21 photographers were chosen and Photojournalism Now features six this week. To see all the winners and their portfolios visit theFoam site here.

(C) Alice Quaresma

(C) Charles Henry Bedue

(C) Jing Huang

(C) Lucas Foglia

(C) Yoshinori Mizutani

The Foam Talents issue of Foam magazine is out now.

War Photography

Panel Discussion - Sydney

As part of the activities for Don McCullin’s “The Impossible Peace” exhibition, Alison Stieven-Taylor is moderating a panel discussion on war photography with photojournalists Tim Page and Stephen Dupont in Sydney. Held at the Metcalfe Auditorium at the State Library of NSW you can find more details here.

When: Thursday 9th October 6pm

Book Review:

Vlad Sokhin – Crying Meri

If you missed the publication of Alison Stieven-Taylor’s review of Vlad Sokhin's Crying Meri on L'Oeil de la Photographie, you can read it here.

Published by FotoEvidence

Photography art Gallery Friday Round Up - 31st October, 2014|Photography Art Definition

On Friday Round Up this week it’s all about exhibitions. In London, New York, Berlin, and Sydney there’s a host of fantastic photographic exhibitions currently on and about to open. Plus check out the photo essay on the changing face of Harlem. More than 30 photos feature on this week's blog.

Exhibitions:

London

Constructing Worlds: Photography and Architecture in the Modern Age

(C) Andreas Gursky

This comprehensive exhibition at London's brilliant Barbican showcases the works of 18 photographers spanning the 1930s to today. With images from New York's soaring skyline to post-war California, contemporary Venezuela and the colonial era of the Congo, Constructing Worlds gives an extraordinary insight into the architectural designs that have shaped our cities.

Dutch photographer Iwan Baan's images (below) are among my favourites, but there are so many amazing images, and structures, in this exhibition. If you are in London this is a must-see exhibition, as the stories these images tell go far beyond the physical to make comment on the changes to our communities in the wake of progress.

(C) Iwan Baan

(C) Iwan Baan

(C) Iwan Baan

(C) Nadav Kander

(C) Berenice Abbott - New York City 1932

Until 11 January, 2015

Barbican

Silk Street

London

New York to Chattanooga

The New York Times Magazine Photographs

Curated by the magazine’s longtime photo editor Kathy Ryan and Aperture Foundation’s Lesley A. Martin

Gregory Crewdson, Julianne Moore, from “Dream House,” 2002

This traveling exhibition showcases photographic projects that have appeared in the New York Times Magazine spanning the past 15 years. The show closes this weekend in New York and its next stop is the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, Tennessee 24 November to 29 March 2015.

Lars Tunbjörk, 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue, published May 18, 1997

Ryan McGinley, Emily Cook, 2010 Olympic freestyle skier (aerials). From “Up!,” published February 7, 2010 (cover image)

Roger Ballen, Actress Selma Blair. From “The Selma Blair Witch Project: Fall’s Dark Silhouettes Have a Way of Creeping Up on You,” published October 30, 2005

Malick Sidibé, Assitan Sidibé in Marni and Christian Lacroix. From “Prints and the

Revolution,” published April 5, 2009

Berlin

Cordelia Beresford - Night Watchman

Cordelia Beresford, the daughter of Australian film director Bruce Beresford, has carved a reputation for herself as an accomplished director and award-winning cinematographer, and she is also a highly collectible photo-artist. This exhibition features her still photography, recent works that echo cinematic qualities and also draw on her work with leading choreographers. It's a curious collection, but shows her diversity as an artist.

Until 21 November

Michael Reid Berlin

Ackerstraße 163

D-10115 Berlin

Sydney

Steve Greenaway - A City Unpolarised

In this series, Sydney photographer Steve Greenaway layers images of mannequins and shopfronts over urban streetscapes to create a multidimensional look at iconic cities including London, New York and Sydney. By choosing to portray these photographs in black and white, Greenaway has managed to slow down what are busy, complex images and allow the eye to be drawn in.

November 11-30

Blackeye Gallery

3/138 Darlinghurst Road

Darlinghurst

Anne Ferran – Shadow Land

This 30-year retrospective features the largest collection of works by Australian photo-media artist Anne Ferran to be shown in Sydney. Ferran also currently has two works on show at Monash Gallery of Art as part of the Photography Meets Feminism group exhibition.

Opens 7 November

Australian Centre for Photography

257 Oxford Street

Paddington

Photo essay:

125th: Time in Harlem

Capturing the changing face of Harlem in New York, photographers Edward Hillel and Isaac Diggs walked the length of 125th Street from the Hudson to the Harlem River in 2009 to document the neighbourhood. Here are some of their images, which the pair hope to publish in a book in the near future.

This is important work. Our cities and suburbs are changing rapidly, not just physically, but socially as well. The gentrification of suburbs that were once deemed unfashionable, or unsavoury, has resulted in the homogenisation of the urban landscape. Photo essays like this will become visual time capsules, our only link to the past. Once the wrecking balls have done their work, and the multi-national brands have visually cloned our cities, these photographs will take on historical import and allow future generations to see what was lost. This may be a romantic view, but I firmly believe that in the rush for progress and the rapid evolution of technology, communities are losing their individuality and vibrancy to the hollow promises of the corporate dollar.

All images (C) Edward Hillel and Isaac Diggs