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

New Articles by Alison Stieven-Taylor:

Pro Photo magazine

NZ Pro Photographer

Don McCullin - No Rest for the Weary

Available in print and on iPad

Imhoff: A Life of Grain and Pixels

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Photography art Gallery Friday Round Up - 27th February, 2015|Photography Art Definition

This week on Friday Round Up new exhibitions in Melbourne and Sydney, a big shout out to Daniel Berehulak and his win in POYi Awards and Alexia Foundation announces its 2015 grant winners. Also 2015 Head On Photo Festival extends the closing date for award entries until 8 March.

Exhibitions:

Melbourne

Peter Milne -Juvenilia

Boys Next Door first photo session after Rowland joined, Nick’s bedroom, Caulfield, c1978

For those who lived it and for those who wished they had, Peter Milne’s Juvenilia celebrates many of the artists who were part of the vibrant, zany and ridiculously creative alternative music scene in Melbourne from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s.

“Warm, intimate, surprising and already displaying the great compositional skills, originality and humour for which Milne is known, these images offer an unprecedented peep… at a milieu of people who went on to play pivotal roles in Melbourne’s burgeoning cultural scene,” says co-curator Linsey Gosper of Strange Neighbour Gallery.

Anita Lane

Rowland S Howard and Genevieve McGuckin, St Kilda rooftop, 1977

Polly Borland

Rowland S Howard

Milne’s black and white images portray the intimacy that only comes with the trust of friendship. Photographs in this exhibition include early shots of Nick Cave’s band Boys Next Door, hanging out in Cave’s bedroom at his parents house. There are also a number of images of the late Rowland S. Howard, along with Mick Harvey, Polly Borland, Tony Clark, Anita Lane and Blixa Bargeld amongst others.

27 February to March 28

Q&A with journalist Michael Dwyer and Peter Milne

Thursday 5 March, 5.30 - 8pm.

Strange Neighbour

395 Gore Street

Fitzroy

(C) All photos Peter Milne

Michael Williams - Chromophobia

“Since the early 1980s I have been fixated with the dynamic and often intrusive presence of colour within public and personal environments,” says Australian photographer Michael Williams who uses flash to “isolate elements, accentuate colour and forge a direct momentary relationship with my subjects”.

Colour Factory Gallery

March 5-28

409-429 Gore St

Fitzroy

(C) All images Michael Williams

Sydney

Bookmarked - Stills Gallery

Diedre Brollo

Celebrating the photobook in all its forms, Bookmarked features everything from hand made books to slick, offset publications from a diverse group of artists including Diedre Brollo / Danny Digby / Stephen Dupont / Anne Ferran / Chris Fortescue / Nicholas Jones / Sarah McConnell / Trent Parke / Louis Porter / Madeleine Preston / Kurt Schranzer/ Teo Treloar as well as a selection of books from the Asia-Pacific Photobook Archive.

Danny Digby

Nicholas Jones

Trent Parke

Exhibition: 4-28 March

Stills Photobook Fair - Saturday 7 March, 11am to 5pm

Artist Talk with Stephen Dupont Saturday 7 March, 3pm

Stills Gallery

36 Gosbell Street

Paddington

Congratulations:

Daniel Berehulak wins Photographer of the Year, again!

Daniel Berehulak/ Getty Images Reportage

This week the POYi Awards were announced and Australian freelance photojournalist Daniel Berehulak took out top honours (again) this time for the amazing work he did on the Ebola outbreak. Daniel is one of the most inspiring, hard working and compassionate photographers I know. Absolutely thrilled that he has been recognised for this important body of work. I'm interviewing Daniel about his POYi win, so look out for my story in the coming weeks.

Alexia Foundation

2015 Grant Recipients Announced

Paolo Marchetti - The Price of Vanity - Professional Grant

Italy, Milan in September 2014, caiman skins exposed during the most important showroom in the world, called "LINEAPELLE." Thousands of workers are coming to this event from all over the world. Paolo Marchetti

Poland, Village of "Biala Wies" close to Grodzisk Wlkp. Here inside the company “Nutrex” one of the most important intensive breeding of minks in all Poland. Here the conveyor belt where the mink are transported from one building to another. In the background the bodies without mantles are stacked in a large container, after being processed. Paolo Marchett

Italian freelance photojournalist Paolo Marchetti is this year’s recipient of the 2015 Professional Grant from the Alexia Foundation. He will receive $20,000 to pursue his long-term project, The Price of Vanity, an exploration into the brutal world of intensive breeding farms that are used to produce skins and furs for the high-end fashion industry. Paolo, who is incredibly passionate about this project, was stunned with the news of his success. “This is terrific news for me, this is incredible. I am so grateful to the judges,” he said.

This is powerful and important visual storytelling. Next time you are looking to buy an animal skin or fur garment, remember the brutal methods in which these skins are obtained and the horrible ending to these animals' lives. Is it worth it?

Colombia, Puerto Giraldo, two hours from Barranquilla.The puppies are moved to larger tanks and with different characteristics, depending on the size and health emergencies caimans. Here in the photo, some caimans of about 70 cm. inside a tank where it is regularly paid an antibiotic estimate (the blue liquid), to ensure the occurrence of serious infections. Paolo Marchetti

Colombia, Puerto Giraldo, two hours from Barranquilla.Thousands of caiman skins stretched out in the open after the first cleaning process and salting on the farm.The skins of breeding "Repticosta" are intended to Eastern Market, the skins will be exhibited here in Singapore within 20 days. Paolo Marchetti

Michael Santiago - Stolen Land, Stolen Future - Student Grant

The recipient of the 2015 Student Grant is Michael Santiago for his project Stolen Land, Stolen Future. The grant will further his documentation of the lives of African-American farmers who have fought to acquire and maintain land across the USA, despite facing extreme difficulties. Michael will receive full tuition to study at the Syracuse University London Program amongst other prizes.

Farmer James McGill’s Duroc and Bluebutt show pigs need to have daily exercise to keep their physique looking strong so they will please the judges at the annual Kern County Fair. Michael Santiago