Photography art Gallery Friday Round Up - 24th October, 2014|Photography Art Definition

Picture of the Week:

In the Shadow of Ebola - Daily Life Goes On In Liberia

(C) Michaeleen Doucleff/NPR

Photo Essay:

William Daniels - Train for the Forgotten

Panos Pictures' photographer William Daniels' photo essay on the Russian medical train that services communities in remote parts of that vast country draws focus on what many who live in urban environments take for granted - easy access to medical support. For those residents in isolated towns across Siberia, medical conditions that are routine procedures in the city, like appendicitis, can be death sentences. This government funded train has around 15 doctors who treat a range of conditions as best they can given their resources and the frequency of visits.

Above: 31 year old Elena Shershova suffers from severe psoriasis. Here she sweeps up her skin flakes in her tiny apartment. “I’m losing my skin on my body, everywhere, everywhere!” laments the 31-year-old."

You can see the full story on National Geographic here. All images (C) William Daniels.

Book Review:

Majid Saeedi - Life in War

I met Iranian photojournalist Majid Saeedi at Visa pour l’Image last year when his exhibition, Life in War, was featured in the core program. Since then Saeedi has gone on to win the 2014 FotoEvidence Book Award for the same work, with the official launch of his book, Life in War, in New York earlier this month.

Saeedi has covered the Afghanistan conflict for more than a decade. But his interest in that country and its people extends beyond the news headlines and since 2009 he has lived amongst that country’s inhabitants and focused on telling the story of daily life in a war zone....(to read the full review and see more images please click on the Book Reviews tab at the top of the blog).

Exhibitions:

Melbourne

PHOTOGRAPHY MEETS FEMINISM:

Australian women photographers 1970s–80s

(C) Anne Ferran - Scenes on the death of nature 1986

With the resurgence in interest in feminism, not only because of Emma Watson’s landmark speech, but also other movements around the world where women are speaking up for their rights, it seems timely to look back at the feminist era of the 70s and 80s.

A new exhibition at Monash Gallery of Art opening tomorrow – Photography meets feminism: Australian women photographers 1970s–80s - revisits the work of 16 female photo-artists to explore themes that are still relevant today – the objectification of women in advertising; concepts of beauty; struggling for balance between career and nurture.

(C) Micky Allan 1980

(C) Christine Godden 1976

Until 7 December

Monash Gallery of Art

860 Ferntree Gully Road

Wheelers Hill

Australian comedienne Hannah Gadsby will open this group show at 2pm on Saturday 25th October.

Artists: Micky Allan, Pat Brassington, Virginia Coventry, Sandy Edwards, Anne Ferran, Sue Ford, Christine Godden, Helen Grace, Janina Green, Fiona Hall, Ponch Hawkes, Carol Jerrems, Merryle Johnson, Ruth Maddison, Julie Rrap, and Robyn Stacey.

Sydney:

Gary Steer - Ghost Lakes

Australia's interior provides a rich palette for documentary photographer Gary Steer whose images have a painterly quality. In this exhibition Steer presents a series of aerial landscapes that turn the natural beauty of windswept salt pans, rivers and lakes into works of art.

Until 9 November

Black Eye Gallery

3/138 Darlinghurst Road

Darlinghurst

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Photography art Gallery Friday Round Up - 5 August, 2016|Photography Art Definition

This week on Friday Round Up it's all about black and white images. Morganna Magee takes a in the back of-the-badge have a look at police girls, Markus Andersen's Rage Against the Light launches in Sydney, Andrew Chapman's Giving Life Special Event this Saturday and Diane Arbus: The Early Years in New York.

Exhibition: Melbourne

Behind the Badge: Women of Victoria Police

Above: Michelle

Melbourne photographer Morganna Magee has created this engaging series which depicts the women in their professional roles and “off-duty”. Shot over a 4 week period, Morganna says, “I was initially granted access to meet the women within their homes with the idea that the informal environment would allow me to create an engaging portrait. After speaking with my first subject I realised that rather than feel uncomfortable within their workspace, these women thrived on the work they did and the chance to make a difference within the community”.

Above: Sam

?Photographing these ladies at domestic and in the administrative center permits the viewer to not simplest feel a sense of connection with the girls within the photographs however additionally to start to apprehend how being a Police member is extra than just a vocation. The reasons those women joined the Police Force are varied, but a feel of satisfaction and self assurance of their paintings unites them.?

Above: Carlee

Victoria Police Museum

World Trade Centre

Mezzanine Level

637 Flinders Street

Melbourne

Check out extra of Morganna's paintings right here.

Exhibition: Sydney

Rage Against the Light - Markus Andersen

The official Australian book launch and exhibition of 'Rage Against The Light' by Sydney-based photographic artist Markus Andersen opens next week at Sydney's Black Eye Gallery and is definitely worth checking out. These images have multiple layers that draw you in and invite you to linger in the shadows. The longer you look the more you see.

Markus says the work "explores my intoxication with natural mild and the darkness/dark corners comprised of this mild. Subjects stuck in the dual forces of light and shadow continue to be on the coronary heart of the work, the interplay of those elements within the architecture or panorama create order from discordance. 'Rage Against The Light' emphasises the dramatic nature of extreme or subdued mild and my persevered courting and fascination with the challenge".

9 - 21 August

Black Eye Gallery

three/138 Darlinghurst Road

Darlinghurst

Check out greater of Markus' work right here.

Talk:

Giving Life - Magnet Galleries Melbourne

This Saturday Professor Bob Jones (who's one of the accurate men) particularly intelligent, however also excellent approachable, is giving a speak approximately how organ transplant works. Get alongside to Magnet Galleries at 2pm for this rare possibility and at the identical time test out Andrew Chapman's terrific pix from his Giving Life collection. There's true coffee to be had too!

Magnet Galleries Melbourne

640 Bourke Street

Melbourne

Exhibition: New York

Diane Arbus: In the Beginning

In this expansive exhibition more than one hundred pics of Diane Arbus? Early career (the primary seven years from 1956-1962) are on show, many for the first time. Jeff Rosenheim, Curator in Charge of the Department of Photographs at The Met says, ?Arbus?S early images are wonderfully rich in success and possibly as quietly riveting and ultimately controversial as the enduring pics for which she is so widely known?.

Until 27 November

The Met Breuer

2d Floor

1000 Fifth Avenue

New York

Click to watch the Diane Arbus exhibition video from The Met