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Thursday, July 30, 2020

Photography art Gallery Friday Round Up - 6 June, 2014|Photography Art Definition

This week on Friday Round Up four new exhibitions for Melbourne; more news from the Auckland Festival of Photography; and an interview with Italian photo-artist Valentina Vannicola in the new Q&A section above. Plus Head On Photo Festival closes this weekend in Sydney and Australian high-end photography book publisher T&G Publishing launches Jean-Marc Caimi’s new book Daily Bread in Sweden and Japan.

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Exhibition: - Melbourne

Three Shows at Edmund Pearce

Christian Pearson – Industrial Graffiti

Photographer Christian Pearson, who is from Melbourne, says the works that comprise "Industrial Graffiti" aim to convey an “unconscious aesthetic created by labourers, technicians and engineers during the construction of our urban built environment”.

Defining the concept of ‘industrial graffiti’ Pearson says his images capture what appear as random markings on industrial sites, squiggles, letters, numbers, scrawled in different colours on metal, wood, plastic and over paint.

“The marking is an ephemeral part of a process that ultimately leads to the creation of a new, functional and aesthetic objective,” Pearson states. Like some graffiti, these markings appear defacements when in fact they are codes that guide those erecting our cities. This exhibition is an interesting visual study on a form of communication known to few.

Also on show at Edmund Pearce:

Tim Gresham – Reflect

Shannon McGrath - Fraction

Edmund Pearce

Level 2, Nicholas Building

37 Swanston Street,

Melbourne

Until 28 June

Exhibition: Melbourne

Tom Williams – Portside

Often the most powerful photographic stories are those you find in your own backyard. Tom Williams has spent years abroad capturing other cultures and building a career in documentary portraiture. On returning to Australia and the town of Wollongong, (near Sydney) Williams turned his focus on the local population and how the failing industrial economy was impacting residents.

In his exhibition “Portside” are images taken in Port Kembla and Wollongong, both places that have made their mark through the mining and shipping industries. Williams says he found Wollongong a shadow of its former self with those formerly engaged in industrial jobs now joining the ranks of the unemployed.

“The postcard coastline parallels one of the highest youth unemployment rates in Australia,” he says. “As a photographer I’m always asking: what do surfaces say about what’s hidden behind them? What attracts me to making portraits is the brief and intense interaction that results in an image that speaks of the subject, the picture-taker; and sometimes, the place. In the end you can only try to guess at the magnificent complexity and consciousness beneath the outer layer – this is something that keeps us looking at photographs.”

Colour Factory

409-429 Gore Street

Fitzroy

Book Launch:

Jean-Marc Caimi – Daily Bread

I’ll say it upfront. I am biased as I was the editor on this new book by Jean-Marc Caimi “Daily Bread”, and of course I love it. Publisher Gianni Frinzi of T&G Publishing has once again done a brilliant job bringing this book to life. It launched in Sweden last week at Caimi’s exhibition of the same name. You can buy Daily Bread by following the link here.

Daily Bread also launches at the exhibition’s opening in Tokyo at Reminders Photography Stronghold (RPS) on June 14. Caimi is the fourth recipient of the RPS Grant, which he was awarded for Daily Bread.

Launch: Saturday, June 14 at 4:00pm

2-38-5

Higashi-mukojima

Sumida, Tokyo 131-0032

Festival:

Head On Photo Festival

Head On Photo Festival ends this weekend. Check out the website to see what shows are still on

Showing Now for Head On

Valentina Vannicola's Dante's Inferno - until 8 June

Click on the Feature Articles tab above to read Alison Stieven-Taylor's interview with Valentina about this meticulous and thought-provoking work.

Festival:

Selected Exhibitions – Part Two:

Auckland Festival of Photography

Signature Exhibitions - Alison Stieven-Taylor’s Selection

Last week Photojournalism Now previewed some of the exhibitions on show in the first week of the Auckland Festival of Photography. This week Photojournalism Now takes a look at two exhibitions – one showing now and the other opening 12 June. Both present very different approaches to this year’s Signature Series’ theme -memory. There is also a photo-gallery with images from Rob Gilhooly’s “Suicide Forest” and Emil McAvoy’s “Reflections on Lily Pond”.

Showing Now

Auschwitz Revisited

Melbourne-based photographer Bronek Kozka’s “Auschwitz Revisited” is a contemporary portrait of a landscape that will be remembered in the annals of history as the site of one of the darkest moments of humankind. "Standing in the bitter cold looking to a foggy horizon and seeing what looked like columns, but they were chimneystacks for as far as I could see. One chimney, one hut...the magnitude of the horror dawned on me at this moment. I didn’t want to take any photographs at first...however at some point I decided to shoot. It was here that the most frightening and daunting revelation occurred to me. How close my family was to Auschwitz...how all could have ended here." This is how Kozka describes his experience visiting Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland where he found himself on a personal exploration into his Polish heritage. His black and white images weave his own story with the somberness of the landscape and its open wounds.

Auschwitz Revisited

Bronek Kozka

4-21 June

Elam George Fraser Gallery

University of Auckland

25a Princes Street

Auckland

Opens 12 June

Unruly Memoirs: Nature Fights Back

In “Unruly Memoirs: Nature Fights Back” Christchurch-based artist Jane Zusters examines the aftermath of that city’s recent devastating earthquakes in a series of “geopolitical montages”. In this collection of digital images Zusters combines images of external and internal spaces to pose unlikely realms where the ceiling of a library may be blue sky and clouds, or the wall to a bedroom open to the street. These images while somewhat surreal are also situated in reality, reminders of the impermanence of structures and their perceived safety especially when faced by the power of Mother Nature.

12-28 June

Sanderson Contemporary Art

122 Jervois Road

Herne Bay

Suicide Forest

Rob Gilhooly

4-17 June

Hum Salon

123 Grafton Road

Grafton

(Read last week's blog post for the story on this exhibition)

Emil McAvoy

Reflections on Lily Pond

11 June - 21 June

ELAM Projectspace Gallery, Elam School of Fine Arts, The University of Auckland, 20 Whitaker Place

Photoforum: History in The Taking; 40 years (6-28 June)

Gus Fisher Gallery

74 Shortland Street

For details visit Auckland Festival of Photography

Saturday, July 25, 2020

Photography art Gallery Friday Round Up - 19th September, 2014|Photography Art Definition

This week on Friday Round Up the festivals continue - Pingyao International Photography Festival opens today in this ancient Chinese city with international and local exhibitions, symposiums, awards and one of the largest photography education programs. In Europe Noorderlicht Photofestival is in full swing in the northern town of Groningen, The Netherlands.

With more than 50 photos on today's blog there's a feast of imagery to enjoy this weekend no matter where you are in the world.

Festivals - China:

Pingyao International Photography Festival

Today the 14th edition of the Pingyao International Photography Festival opens in this UNESCO world heritage city in China’s Shanxi Province with 400 exhibitions featuring more than 2100 photographers and 20,000 images. Exhibitions are held throughout the ancient walled city, indoors and outdoors, bringing photography to an audience in excess of 100,000 and transforming unlikely spaces such as disused factories, into galleries.

This year there are several large international shows feature in the core program with two Australian group shows - The Wizards of Oz and Head On Portrait Prize (Australia) as well as exhibitions showcasing contemporary Baltic, Nordic and German Photography. Plus a group show from New Zealand and the Alexia Foundation grant winners from 2014.

The Wizards of Oz

Featuring ten Australian artists who have participated in the Core Program at the past three editions Ballarat International Foto Biennale held every second August in Australia (Ballarat is 90 minutes from Melbourne).

Exhibiting artists - Colin Page, Jackie Ranken, John Gollings, Judith Crispin, Kara Rasmanis, Meredith O'Shea, Samantha Everton, Sonia Macak, Tony Hewitt and Vikk Shayen.

Head On Portrait Prize

Also waiving the Australian flag is the Head On Portrait Prize exhibition featuring 40 works, winners and finalists, from the 2014 prize, which is a central feature of the annual Head On Photo Festival held in Sydney.

Finalist - Aldona Kmiec

Winner - Joe Wigdahl

Viewfinders: Contemporary Baltic and Nordic photography

A group show featuring 15 artists from eight countries. Curated by Inga Brūvere.

Viewfinders:

Sweden – Lars Tunbjörk, Thobias Fäldt & Klara Källström

Norway – Marie Sjøvold and Sarah Gerats

Denmark – Astrid Kruse Jensen and Joachim Fleinert

Iceland – Pétur Thomsen

Finland – Sara Bjarland

Estonia – Marge Monko and Paul Kuimet

Lithuania – Indrė Šerpytytė and Mindaugas Ažušilis

Latvia – Ieva Epnere and Ivars Grāvlejs.

To Save a Forest – New Zealand

Curated by John B. Turner and featuring the work of Craig Potton, Ian MacDonald and Martin Hill

To Save a Forest, is both a celebration of the majesty of the natural world and a cautionary tale of what we may well lose to the rapacious nature of a consumerist society.

Contemporary German Photography

Curated by internationally renowned photo-artist Thomas Kellner and featuring ten German artists.

Daniel Schumann - International Orange

Dirk Hanus - Inner Space

Jutta Schmidt - Freischwimmer

Katharina Mouratidi - Backstage Heroes – Alternative Nobel Prize Laureates

Roger Eberhard - Shanty Town Deluxe

Anna Katharina Zeitler - No Shoes to Dance With

Frank Rothe - No More Angels

Frauke Thielking - Ready, Steady, Go

Gesche Wuerfel - Basement Sanctuaries

Mehmet Ferit Kuyas - Everything you didn’t want to know about me:A Quintology of Diaries Part 5

The Alexia Foundation

For the seventh consecutive year the Alexia Foundation will present an exhibition of the winners of its 2014 Professional and Student Grants - Winner Professional: Sebastian Liste “The New Culture of Violence in Latin America” and winner student, Mehran Hamrahi “Iranian People – Ordinary or Criminals?”

Salvador de Bahia, Brazil – January 22, 2011: Ana celebrating her sixth birthday. She was born and has grown up inside the abandoned chocolate factory. This impoverished community took up residence here on the coast in Salvador de Bahia. Despite the lack of socio-economic support from the government, they have managed to make a safe place for themselves to live, and form a community of their own, which his safer than the alternatives available to them. However, they are currently being evicted by the government due to being there illegally. Sebastian Liste/Reportage for Getty Images.

(C) Mehran Hamrahi “Iranian People – Ordinary or Criminals?” Sheida, 18, is smoking a cigarette in a cafe. She says "I feel safe in the cafe". Smoking a cigarette is not restricted legally in Iran, however, girls are afraid of smoking in public places. The radical Muslims and traditional people consider this as a abominable act for girls and they might annoy them. Ahvaz (Southern Iran), July 1st 2013

Pingyao International Photography Festival

19-25 September

International exhibitions open until 10 October

To find out more visit the Festival’s website.

Festivals - Europe:

Noorderlicht Photofestival

"An Ocean of Possibilities"

Last year I was fortunate to travel to the northern town of Groningen in The Netherlands to meet with Wim Melis the director of the Noorderlicht Photofestival, which is now in its 21st year. This is, in my opinion, one of the most important festivals in photography, consistently breaking new ground and questioning the relationship between the photograph and its audience.

In 2013 the theme was To Have and Have Not, an exposition on the “causes and agents behind the current global economic and political crisis. An Ocean of Possibilities moves beyond dissecting what went wrong, and looks at the decisive potential of those who go against the tide and plot their own course". 31 photographers are included in An Ocean of Possibilities.

In addition, Noorderlicht this year features six other exhibitions most of which feature multiple artists - Solitude (Danila Tkachenko and Marrigje de Maar), Subcultures, Call of the Wild, Rise, Sustainability (Douglas Gayeton) and Tribute.

Solitude