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Friday, July 31, 2020

Photography art Gallery Friday Round Up - 25 April, 2014|Photography Art Definition

This week on Friday Round Up three very different, but equally wonderful books by photographers at different points in their careers – Australians Paul Blackmore and Kristian Laemmle-Ruff and American Joel Meyerowicz – plus a photo essay on the Bangladesh Rana Plaza Garment Factory disaster victims a year after their lives were irrevocably shattered.

Book:

Paul Blackmore – At Water’s Edge

Shot in black and white, the images in Paul Blackmore’s “At Water’s Edge” create dramatic contrasts of dark and light that undulate across the paper, rippling like water itself, lapping at the edges of thought. Blackmore’s photographs are both lyrical and documentary in their composition. He has shared what he has learned, not only what he has seen, in the thoughtful framing of each scene…(Read the full review here or click on the Book Reviews tab at the top of this blog).

Book Launch:

Kristian Laemmle-Ruff- In The Folds of Hills

Within the covers of this beautifully crafted book live the stories of the inhabitants of a tiny Victorian town – Swanpool. What is so evocative about this publication is not the individual stories themselves, but the way photographer Kristian Laemmle-Ruff has focused on what most would overlook, to capture a way of life that has virtually disappeared. There is such honesty and emotion in the simplicity of life “In the Folds of Hills” that you can’t help, but be swept up in the nostalgia of a time when life was slower, less complicated and perhaps more grounded. While not wanting to romanticise the lives of those depicted in this book, in these stories, told in both words and pictures, can be found the core values that are the hallmark of rural Australia.

Laemmle-Ruff has a clear vision for someone so young. Yet this digital native has not only discovered a way of life that he says “is quietly going unnoticed” but captured it with humility, respect and a generous spirit that celebrates what has gone before with trivialising. His strong black and white images, which are interwoven with interviews conducted by his mother Charlotte Laemmle, transport the reader to another time; an impressive feat given this project was shot from 2009-2013.

Book Launch and Exhibition Opening

Launch: Thursday 1 May 6.00pm

Exhibition: 1 – 8 May

The Compound Interest

15-25 Keele St, Collingwood

For more information visit the website here

Published by Pearce Press, Australia

Book:

Joel Meyerowicz by Colin Westerbeck

“Photographers learn to accept the gifts that come their way because surely life produces moments crazier than we can conceive.” Joel Meyerowitz

In 1962 Joel Meyerowitz was working in New York as an art director when he was given the opportunity to sit in on an advertising photo shoot with Robert Frank. At the time he had no idea who Frank was, but the way the older man worked with his camera seamlessly integrating himself into the scene sparked something in Meyerowitz’s imagination...(Read the full review here or click on the Book Reviews tab at the top of this blog).

Photo Essay:

GMB Akash – Lifelong Scars

Many will remember the photograph above taken by Taslima Akhter, which spoke of the horrific loss of life in the Rana Plaza garment factory collapse in Bangladesh on 24 April, 2013.

A year after the disaster photographer GMB Akash has published his photo essay on the victims who are still suffering physical and psychological trauma. In a world where news is in sound-bytes and there are billions of images that "live" in cyber space for seconds only, this is important work.

Those photojournalists who revisit stories after they have fallen from the media headlines not only remind us of those who are suffering. These photo stories document history as it unfolds, the timeframes of which are not dictated to by mass media priorities.

To see more images and read the stories visit the website here.

Thursday, July 30, 2020

Photography art Gallery Friday Round Up - 16 May, 2014|Photography Art Definition

OUR PREVIEW - THE INTERNATIONALS

This week on Friday Round Up we take a look at some of the international photographers' exhibitions at this year’s Head On Photo Festival in Sydney, which opens today – Erika Diettes, Chris Rainier, Valentina Vannicola, Ilona Stanska, Sara Lewkowicz and the group show Genesis Project.

Panel Discussion:

Do we still photograph with passion?

Join James Dooley, Erika Diettes, Johan Willner, Jonny Lewis, Alison Stieven-Taylor and Sally Brownbill for this panel discussion on whether photography today is conducted with ‘passion’ or whether the focus is on gadgets and technical wizardry. Each panelist will present a selection of images they feel represents passion in photography. It should be a lively, interesting discussion. Open to all, but space is limited.

Sunday 18 May 3pm

Berkelouw Books, 19 Oxford St

Sydney

Interview:

Erika Diettes, Colombia – Sudarios (Shrouds)

This moving exhibition by Colombian photographic artist, and social anthropologist, Erika Diettes features large-scale portraits printed in black and white on swathes of silk fabric. The portraits are of women who have witnessed unimaginable horror having been forced to watch their loved ones murdered by guerillas and paramilitaries.

Diettes tells me that she purposefully chose to present these portraits on fabric to create “shrouds” which in various religions are used to cover a person after death. The evocation of the shroud in this instance is to convey that while these women are still alive, the trauma they live with is like death.

“That’s the contradiction that I want to portray,” says Diettes. “In these portraits they are remembering the moment of the killings and that was the moment when their lives stopped being as they knew it and started being something else. I think being tortured by witnessing the killing of your son, I mean there is nothing beyond that, you wish you were dead, but you are not and that’s the conflict.”

All images (C) Erika Diettes

In these portraits the majority of women have their eyes closed as they recall the dreadful moments when their lives were irrevocably changed. But there is one striking image where the subject’s eyes are wide open. This image forms the centrepiece of the exhibition as Diettes explains.

“When I was working with this particular woman, when she was telling me her story, she didn’t close her eyes. While I was photographing her I noticed that she was literally staring at what she was telling me. So if you see it as I do, her eyes are open, but it is like she is looking at something beyond. She is like the anchor of the whole exhibition, she is always at the level of the spectator, she is confronting you, but she is beyond you, beyond the pain, and for me it is a very strong portrait”.

For Head On Sudarios is hung in the St. Canice Church in Elizabeth Bay, a brilliant venue for this hauntingly beautiful series of portraits.

Artist Talk: Sunday, 18 May 2014 - 12:00pm

Exhibition until 8 June

St Canice Church

28 Roslyn Street

2011 Elizabeth Bay

Exhibition:

Chris Rainier – People on the Edge

For more than 30 years US photographer Chris Rainier has traversed the globe to capture some of the world’s oldest cultures before their traditions are lost forever in the advance of civilisation. Rainier who shoots predominantly for National Geographic is also part of the National Geographic program “ Last Mile Technology”. In this capacity he works with indigenous groups around the world teaching them how to use digital communications (cameras, computers and social media) to have a voice. These communities, such as the Sherpas who live on the high Tibetan plains, are marginalised by their lack of access to digital technology. Where invited the Last Mile Technology program aids in helping these communities draw attention to issues, such as the melting glaciers in Tibet.

All images (C) Chris Rainier

Until 8 June

Paddington Reservoir

251-255 Oxford Street

Paddington

Exhibition:

Valentina Vannicola – Dante’s Inferno

01 - Canto III, Ante-Inferno - The Gates of Hell Valentina Vannicola/OnOff Picture

Italian photo-artist Valentina Vannicola has attracted international attention for her surreal works of art that draw on literary themes, both classical and contemporary. In her series Dante’s Inferno Vannicola has once again enlisted the support of locals in her hometown of Tolfa, north of Rome, to act as characters as she recreates Dante’s journey into hell.

02 - Canto III, Ante-Inferno - Slothful Valentina Vannicola/OnOff Picture

04 - Canto IV, Circle I - Limbo Valentina Vannicola/OnOff Picture

Until 8 June

Istituto Italiano di Cultura

Level 4, 125 York Street

Sydney

Exhibition:

Mary Ellen Mark

US photographer Mary Ellen Mark has been shooting since the 1960s and her passion for documenting humanity in all its forms continues to drive her to create new bodies of work. In her first solo exhibition in Australia Mark presents some of her most iconic images, which she describes as “full of ironies, often humorous and sometimes sad, beautiful and ugly, loving and at times cruel, but always human”.

All images (C) Mary Ellen Mark

Until 7 June

Stills Gallery

36 Gosbell Street

Paddington

Exhibition:

Ilona Stanska – A Nation Fading Away

Polish photographer Ilona Stanska has created a series of portraits of European Union labour emigrants. Of her artwork, which aims to capture the social, political and cultural issues of these people she says, “My vision is to do something new in a world of photography, that is why I turn my photographic paper the wrong way, print, and then paint my photographs. I call this process prating”.

All images (C) Ilona Stanska

Until 2 June

Wedge Gallery, Kinokuniya Books

Level 2, 500 George Street

Sydney

Exhibition:

Genesis Project – Group Show

“Genesis Project” is a group exhibition that is premised on showcasing “that Eureka moment for working photographers, the moment when they thought ‘I am going to be a photographer when I grow up’ or the photograph that changed their career,” says Festival Director Moshe Rosenzveig, who also has a photo in this show. “This is going to be a really exciting show that gets into the headspace of the photographer”.

19 photographers are featured in Genesis Project, Australians and International Guests including Ben Lowy, Roger Ballen, Murray Fredericks, Chris Rainier, Brian Cassey, David Dare Parker, Fiona Wolf, Jackie Ranken, Katrin Koenning, Martine Perret, Sam Harris, Glenn Campbell, Jon Lewis, Peter Eastway, Craig Golding, John Donegan, Peter Solness, Phil Hillyard, Moshe Rosenzveig.

20 May to 8 June

M Contemporary

37 Ocean Street

Woollahra

Exhibition:

Sara Lewkowicz – Shane and Maggie:

An Intimate Look at Domestic Violence

US photographer Sara Lewkowicz shot to prominence in the world of photojournalism last year after Donna Ferrato, a photojournalist of international standing and a veteran in the industry, drew attention to Lewkowicz’s images of domestic violence. Ferrato said Lewkowicz’ photographs depicted in her essay “Shane and Maggie” were shocking in the way that good photojournalism should be.

I met Lewkowicz at Visa pour L’Image where she won the 2013 Rémi Ochlik Award and was also a newly appointed member of Getty Images Emerging Talent pool. Since then she’s gone on to win other awards. When we were chatting at Visa she was pragmatic about all the attention and the notion she was a newcomer. Lewkowicz has worked steadily at her craft for years and with good humour assured me she was not “an overnight success”.

Of her project “Shane and Maggie,” she says she was seeking “to portray domestic abuse as a process, as opposed to a single incident, examining how a pattern of abuse develops and eventually crests, as well as its short- and long-term effects on victims, their families, and their abusers”. These are powerful images that deserve our attention.

Until 26 May

Gaffa Creative Precinct

281 Clarence Street

Sydney

Head On Awards - Finalists

Exhibition Venues

Head On Portrait Prize – 40 Finalists

Until 8 June

Paddington Reservoir

251-255 Oxford Street

Paddington

Head On Landscape Prize – 40 Finalists

Until 8 June

NSW Parliament House, Fountain Court Gallery

6 Macquarie Street

Sydney

Head On Multimedia Prize – Finalists

Until 7 June

Brenda May Gallery

2 Danks Street

Waterloo

Head On Mobile Prize – Finalists

Until 7 June

Depot II Gallery

2 Danks Street

Waterloo

For more information on the above shows and to view the Festival program visit the Head On Photo Festival site here.

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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.