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on Friday Round Up - Q & A with National Geographic's Chris Rainier, exhibitions at LE BAL and Ballarat, more Tim Page unpublished photographs and WorkshopX in Thailand and India.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 - 27th May, 2016|Photography Art Definition

Exclusive to Photojournalism Now:

This week mythical photojournalist Tim Page returns to Photojournalism Now with "Afghanistan from the Air" a series of unpublished photos followed with the aid of a story written by using Tim about his time in that usa.

In distinct monthly installations, Tim will exhibit pictures from his significant archive and share his studies with Photojournalism Now's readers.

This is a fantastic opportunity for Tim to publish paintings that is past the scope of struggle photojournalism, the style wherein he made his call.

I'm overjoyed in order to function those photographs and enthusiastic about the installations to come.

Tim's archive is terrific.

Just wait and see!

Alison Stieven-Taylor

May 2016

Special Feature:

AFGHANISTAN FROM THE AIR

Words and Pictures: Tim Page

Afghanistan is a brutal vicinity, the panorama as rugged because the folk that stay on a land that is only 12% arable.

It is the collision and collusion of east and west and its mountains, the Hindu Kush upward thrust up throughout its entirety.

In between are sparse bits of inexperienced clinging to riversides in gorges or dusty plains.

Now after which a large lush valley seems among levels in which warfare has ravaged lots of the countryside during the last forty years.

This magical land is difficult to peer from its beauteous thing, you are obliged to see devastation and dislocation, the results of a chain of big wars that have reached this frontier twixt east and west.

Where Alexander and Buddhism coursed the equal valleys.

Diverse is a desultory word.

After multiple months at the UN project in Kabul teaching 6 young Afghan photographers, I had were given to understand the assignment brass who invited me along on their weekly inspection trips to far flung locations out of reach on dodgy roads.

District and provincial capitals that few people visited a great deal less have been capable of photo.

The Chief of Mission had his own MI 18 on permanent stand via.

Both crew and chopper had been vintage the Soviet war of the eighty?S, both having the vibe of being fuelled on vodka.

At least they knew this desolate land.

You had to presume the antique patched white painted former war fowl turned into airworthy.

Luckily, there commonly were no greater than 10 people, so lots of room for gas.

Even so we stopped off to top up in Bamiyan, Kandahar and points in between.

How this 40-yr-old lump of obsolete era turned into able to claw its manner as much as 5,000 metres I do no longer know.

We crossed mountain saddles at 4k, below a panorama similar to the moon.

Landing out or auto-rotating would have been fatal.

Neither crew or UN employees regarded to give it a second idea.

After a bit I got locked into the door seat with the exceptional piece of plexiglass inside the chicken.

Every vista can be composed into a body, past the abstract, a dreamscape of shade and geomorphology.

Impossible pastiches fluttered into view and receded.

Mountains so vintage and complete of assets, they appeared as though they have been rusting.

The horizon changed into jagged, a number of it snow capped; the better we climbed you may see to Kyrgyzstan, almost Pakistan.

Ethereal and beyond captivating.

I couldn?T wait for destiny expeditions to shoot thru the winter and the spring.

Then the Taliban assaulted a U.N. Guesthouse killing 8 humans (5 UN personnel participants, 2 Afghan protection personnel, 1 Afghan civilian - 3 attackers also died) and thereby curtailing all the texture desirable in-us of a missions, such as the mentoring programmes.

My gig became up.

I will bear in mind the splendor of this exceptional region thru those images.

The humans are a separate homage - another essay.

Photography art Gallery Friday Round Up - 22 July, 2016|Photography Art Definition

This week legendary photojournalist Tim Page is again with any other collection of unpublished pics and an essay, this time from the Vietnam War protest in New York City in 1967.

In exceptional month-to-month installations, Tim will show off images from his tremendous archive and percentage his reviews with Photojournalism Now's readers.

Special Feature:

Tim Page Archive - Protest New York City 1967

"New York City is usually a peculiar blast whilst you first alight there. So massive, so tall, so extreme - insanity is a few form of organised mayhem. The inhabitants almost a separate race with a wonderful argot, past intriguing, beguiling, seductive. For a photographer it changed into entrancing and that became after a protracted summer time in France and Paris - a pay back for 2 years within the ?Nam. It turned into the autumn of ?Sixty seven and the conflict had critically escalated inflicting the first waves of the anti-battle motion.

It began mid-city outdoor the Hilton wherein Dean Rusk, Secretary of State was in house for his daughter's marriage to a black dude; double contentious. The anti-conflict folk blockaded the NYPD cavalry that blocked get admission to to the foyer. So clean to cowl, it became three blocks from TIME/LIFE wherein that they had thrust a brick of Tri-X at me and a ?Cross get?.

It remained non violent till fledgling mobs broke off to prevent visitors and climb on vehicles. The police gloves got here off and the cavalry started breaking up the demonstrators. Billy clubs and police vehicles followed, people went home, the message nicely broadcast as virtually all of the networks and papers have been inside blocks of the motion.

Daybreak located the whole contingent back on the streets, this time downtown across the military induction centre on Canal Street. There become a turnout of thousands, often older folk. Concerned mothers, antique veterans, business kinds. The more youthful a part of the crowd contained the identical radical factors that went feral the preceding night time. For an hour or so there has been a jogging skirmish in decrease Manhattan as the majority peacefully blockaded the draft centre preventing its starting and the next lot of cannon fodder from joining the armed forces.

The energy of the anti-struggle motion escalated parallel to that of the battle, a movement that the North Vietnamese and Liberation Front played to: the swell in opposition to the war now took in blacks, gays, hippies as well as having the sympathies of greater than half of the population. It would be a key factor in Johnson now not running again, Robert Kennedy?S assassination and Nixon?S death. Public opinion plus other worldwide protests contributed closely to the cessation of that inaccurate adventure in neo-colonialism." Words and pix with the aid of Tim Page