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TO SEE and DO

Magnet Gallery - Docklands Link

World Press Award

10 - 30 June 2022

AGNET GALLERIES MELBOURNE, the not-for-profit centre of photography, hosts the prestigious World Press Photo Exhibition 2022 in Melbourne’s Docklands in June.In its 67-year history, this is the first time the exhibition has come to Melbourne.This annual blockbuster showcases the best in photojournalism and reaches a global audience of over four million people each year.Now, Victorian audiences get to view the best and most important photojournalism and documentary photography from around the world. Winners include 24 photographers from 23 countries.

This is past awesome. 

Monash Gallery of Art - Monash Link

Return to Nature

8 July 2022 to 18 September 2022

Landscape as a subject has persisted through art history, but perspectives on it have shifted through time. Seeing through the lenses of over 40 photographers, from colonialists of the 1870s to contemporary artists working today, Return to nature considers the Australian landscape in its many forms. From nature as something to conquer, to something to protect, this exhibition encompasses a range of approaches to landscape, including an enduring sentiment held by First Nations people that there is no separation between humans and the natural world, rather there is interconnection and interdependence.

Return to nature includes key works from MGA’s significant collection of Australian photographs, as well as a new iteration of ‘Interference pattern’ (2018– ) by Rebecca Nadjowski and Vivian Cooper Smith, a vast and vibrant exploration of what it means to make photographs with the landscape rather than of it.

XYZ Photo Gallery - Docklands Link

Il Grande Giro グランドツアー The Grand Tour
C19th Tourist Photographs of Italy & Japan

1 - 5:30pm, Wed - Fri and Sunday
18 May - 15 July 2022

A short survey of commercialisation of photography and the photo album as experienced in the tourism of the Grand Tour adventures of the English and later other countries as expressed in the photographs of local studios.

This is hard to find, entry on Batman's Hills Drive. Follow the wall of the Nixon Hotel to the door marked entry on photo below. Buzz 312. 

Castlemaine Vintage Bazaar  Link

Women in Trades
Zo Damage

- 30 June 2022

HALT (Hope Assistance Local Tradies) is proud to partner with Women's Health Loddon Mallee and photographer Zo Damage to celebrate women working in traditionally male-dominated trades with two exhibitions featuring photographs of 12 women captured on location in the women’s workplaces by Zo Damage.

Wolfhound Photographic Gallery - Fitzroy Link

Body Performance

Laura Banfield, Kerry Herschell,  Mike Hubel,  Kaede James-Takamoto, Ellie Phan & Toshi Tanaka

June 17 - July 3

Opening Friday June 17, between 6 - 8 pm

In this show 6 photographers exhibit their artwork in the field of creative portraiture. This area shares features of classical portraiture as well as modern interpretation and fashion trends.

As our concerns with the pandemic recede  (even as the problem does not) and we turn our attention to more newsworthy issues like war in Europe, rising inflation & cost of living and the usual political aerobics, these images remind us that higher pursuits of aesthetic remain worthy.

Source Photographica - Sorrento Link

Extreme Exposure

Various Artists

11 June - 22 August 2022

This exhibition by various photographers explores Climate Change.From the Antarctic to contemporary fictional work by International Photographers, we will be exploring the natural world and what we have to lose.

Leica Gallery - Melbourne Link

Speed and Light   

Kristian Dowling and Alex Drewniak

12 May to 31 July 2022

A collection of works which visually communicates the artist's unique interpretations of McLaren's new Grand Tourer. Much like the car, the works explore a new paradigm - one that is driven by a sense of originality and ground breaking innovation.  

Focal Point Studio Darkroom and Gallery Link 

The Lothar Huber collection 

3 June to 31 July 2022

Lothar Huber is best known as the former managing director of Bond Colour Laboratories, later Bond Imaging, in Richmond, Victoria. On his time away from running arguably the largest professional film laboratory in Australia, Lothar travelled the world, photographing some beautiful and exotic locations, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Lothar also collected significant works by some of his customers, many of whom became life-long friends. Focal Point is honoured to have been entrusted with exhibiting and selling Lothar’s private collection of photographs. Naturally, there is a substantial array of Lothar's own work, but other highlights of the collection include a range of works from Australia’s most celebrated industrial photographer Wolfgang Sievers, photos from the Apollo 11 moon landing from NASA and numerous others. This exhibition features a small selection of these works and represents one of the most internationally important exhibitions ever shown in Geelong. All the photos will be for sale, but the exhibition also gives the public a chance to see many of these world-renowned large-format photographs up close. 

NGV Australia - Melbourne Link

Who Are You? Australian Portraiture

- 21 August 2022

WHO ARE YOU: Australian Portraiture is the first exhibition to comprehensively bring together the rich portrait holdings of both the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, and the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra. Revealing the artistic synergies and contrasts between the two institutions’ collections, this co-curated exhibition considers portraiture in Australia across time and media.

Through the examination of diverse and sometimes unconventional ways of representing likeness, WHO ARE YOU will question what actually constitutes portraiture – historically, today and into the future. 

NGV International - Melbourne Link

Queer

18 March to 7 August 2022

An exhibition finding the queer in the archive, six curators sift through the collection to find the sexually and gender diverse works. They acknowledge the gaps in the exhibition and collection.

Stranger Gallery - St Kilda Link

Utopia  

Peter Berzanskis

12-5pm Wed-Fri, 10-1pm Sat

Reimagining our modern urban environment

Horsham Regional Gallery - Horsham Link

NORMAN LINDSAY: PHOTOGRAPHS TO PAINTINGS

- 10 July 2022

In Australia during the 1930’s, sexually charged nude paintings and photography were taboo, Norman Lindsay’s work was often regarded as scandalous. Born into an artistic family he was a prolific artist, producing paintings, sculpture, watercolours and drawings. The success of Lindsay’s etchings where due to both Norman and wife Rose (ne Soady) Lindsay’s combined skills. Rose Lindsay was also widely considered as a master printmaker. This exhibition will explore Lindsay’s use of techniques across media in developing his unique vision.

CCP - Fitzroy Link

Queering the Frame: Community, Time, Photography

Brook Andrew, J Davies, Helen Grace, Samuel Hodge, Shannon May Powell, The Huxleys

- 3 July 2022

Presenting Australian LGBTQ+ artists across generations, this exhibition considers how the community narrate their histories—how voices are celebrated, how the queer community shift otherwise heteronormative readings of history and information.

Moving across generations, from the late 70s through to now, these artists come together in a celebration of queer community, and consider the ways in which stories are passed down, how lives are remembered.

Paul Mpagi Sepuya

- 3 July 2022

One of the most distinctive voices in 21st century visual culture, Paul Mpagi Sepuya reveals the dynamics and mechanics of portraiture and photography, positioning queerness and Blackness at the core of the medium. Following critically-acclaimed presentations at MoMA and the Whitney Biennial, PHOTO 2022 brings together recent works that foreground the elemental conditions of Sepuya’s practice, including the photographer’s tools and studio, mirrors and velvet backdrops, and the interrelationship of photographer and subject.

Internet Immigrant

Martine Gutierrez

- 3 July 2022

The work of American photographer and performance artist Martine Gutierrez subverts conventional ideals of beauty to reveal how deeply sexism, racism, transphobia and other biases are embedded in our culture. The exhibition moves from the chaotic and bombastic to the anthropological, including a large-scale wallpaper designed specifically for the exhibition, and Neo-Indian studio portraits incorporating indigenous textiles of Gutierrez’s Mayan heritage.

In other news Daniel Boetker-Smith has been announced as the new director starting in August 2022. 

Gold Street Gallery - Trentham East Link

Danielle Edwards – Convergence

to 26th June  2022

Danielle Edwards is an Australian photographer known for her images of plants, flowers and decaying items. Her formal photographic education was in both art and science. She was a practicing clinical photographer for 29 years and has always had a passion for Art and Science. Throughout the years Danielle’s photographic passions have oscillated between the two disciplines.

Tim Rudman - Lith Works

20th July to 25th September 2022

Lith printing can offer a special kind of magic. Images can be stark and graphic or soft and ethereal. Rudman’s trees can look majestic, statuesque, romantic and poetic, vulnerable or damaged, but always showing their own character. The seasons, environment, weather conditions and the time of day or night add to their beauty. 

Rudman’s combination of capturing images and his method of printing shows his work is not just about recording a photograph.  He has a message far beyond the negative. His techniques of printing and toning give an extraordinary delicacy and an unexpected colour palette throughout his images.

Tim is well known internationally for his pioneering work in Lith Printing and distinctive toning methods of Black & White silver gelatin prints. He has authored a number of ‘go to’ books and hundreds of articles in this field. He exhibits his work internationally and has taught widely around the globe.

Hillvale Gallery - Brunswick Link

Out of Bounds

Ammar Yonis
- 19 June 2022

Our leisure time is influenced by where we are and the spaces available to us. But what happens when facilities are limited and there’s not much to do in the first place? Out of Bounds is a homage to the determination of youth, that no matter how limited we are by locality, our imagination will always remain free.

Out of Bounds explores the relationship between geography and recreation — the good, the bad and the mundane. 

Void_Melbourne  Link

Josephine Mead: To the Sounds

Until the 30 June 2022

To the Sounds is an exhibition of new photographic and sonic works by Josephine Mead at Void_Melbourne that examine the nexus where sound, love, communication and possibility meet.

The Motley Bauhaus  Link

Queer As In…

Laura du Ve, Ryan Pola, Emily King, Kyle KM, Matto Lucas, Jonathon Harris, Marce King 

- 25 June 2022

We look to revel in the light of queer difference. To celebrate anti-authoritarian queerness that rebukes norms and draws you in to its deliciously ambiguity.

CONTESTS and OPPORTUNITIES

Contests are a little random, it depends on what that year's judges likes. Thus surprises happen all the time. Don't be intimidated, enter and only tell people when you get in! Raise your profile. Also check who the judges are.

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EVENTS/TALKS/WORKSHOPS

Magnet Gallery - Docklands Link

Sunday 19 JUNE 2022, 1-4pm

RE/DEFINING PHOTOJOURNALISM’S BOUNDARIES
Panel includes;

Alison Stieven-Taylor – Alison is an international photography commentator, journalist and educator. She’s the publisher of the widely-read weekly blog Photojournalism Now. Alisonhas been juror for various awards including the FotoEvidence Book Award with World Press Photo and the Walkley Awards. he’s currently writing her PhD on photojournalism and social change.

Associate Professor Fay Anderson - Co-Deputy Head of School of Media, Film and Journalism, Head of Journalism, Monash University,

Meredith O’Shea - Melbourne-based freelance photographer and finalist 2021 Bowness Prize for Photography

Instagram and challenging media representations

Alison Stieven-Taylor will examine how Instagram is being used by photojournalists. She examines the phenomenon of the “Everyday Projects”, which began with @Everydayafrica, as a means of challenging the representation of that continent by the mainstream media. In this presentation, Alison considers how one of the Everyday Projects, @everydayclimatechange, is using its Instagram feed, which has a following of more than 140,000, to present new ways of visually representing climate change and expanding the conversation. Followed by a Q&A.

Q&A with Fay Anderson

Fay will share insights from her latest book, co-authored with Sally Young - Shooting the Picture: Press Photography in Australia. Followed by Q&A

Panel discussion: What is Photojournalism? Moderated by Alison Stieven-Taylor, the discussion will consider what

photojournalism looks like in Australia through a contemporary lens.

Sunday 26 JUNE 2022 1-4pm

CHANGING TIMES IN PHOTOGRAPHY - PUBLIC CONVERSATION

Q&A with leading photographers Practising photographers in conversation with the audience

Andrew Chapman – Author/photographer who has photographed much of Australia’s social and political landscape over the last five decades. He creates visual records for the future and has published 8 highly-acclaimed books focusing on politics and rural life.

Rachel Mounsey – Mallacoota-based photojournalist records the everyday lives of people and socio-political issues of small-town Australia. Rachel works freelance for Australian national media outlets including The Age and The Guardian. She is a member of Oculi, a collective of award-winning photographers.

Chris Hopkins - Two-time Walkley Award winner for work covering humanitarian issues globally and nationally with the intent of bringing human rights issues to the forefront of public awareness.

Daniel Sprague - Picture editor “The Age” newspaper, Melbourne.

Thursday 23 June 2022 6.30 – 8.30pm

QUESTION THE IMAGE A Conversation with :

Alasdair Foster - Writer, curator, researcher, teacher, and travelling expert who has been involved with photography for decades. Besides his work across Europe and Australia, Foster has made concerted efforts to connect Asia and the Pacific to the Western world, serving as an ambassador for the Asia-Pacific PhotoForum and working with festivals in China, Bangladesh, and beyond.

Judith Nangala Crispin – Canberra-based poet and visual artist, with an background in music. Judith’s publications include a book of images and poems made while living with the Warlpiri, the people of the Tanami desert, while in search of her aboriginal ancestral forebears. She is a member of Oculi photographers’ collective and is the inventor of the Lumachrome photographic printing technique. She has directed two major social justice research projects.

Gold Street Studios - Trentham East Link

This is the centre for Alt photographic processes in the southern hemisphere, and some would say the world.

Salt and Albumen Printing - Ellie Young - 1 Day

July 11, 2022 8:30 am Sold Out

Carbon Transfer Advanced Four Colour - Ellie Young - 4 Days

July 15, 2022 9:30 am Register

Silver Gelatin Darkroom Black & White Printing - Ellie Young - 2 Days

July 22, 2022 9:30 am Sold Out

Opalotypes and Orotones - Ellie Young - 3 Days

July 25, 2022 9:30 am Register

Wet Plate: TinType, Ambrotype & Glass Plate Negatives - Ellie Young - 1 Day

July 28, 2022 9:30 am Register

New Chrysotype - Ellie Young - 1 Day

July 29, 2022 9:30 am Register

Combination Printing Gum Over Palladium/ Cyanotype/Ziatype - Ellie Young - 3 days

July 30, 2022 8:30 am Register

Platinotype - Platinum/Palladium Printing - Ellie Young -1 Day

August 12, 2022 9:30 am Register

Lith Printing - Ellie Young - 2 Day

August 14, 2022 9:30 am Register

Wet Plate: TinType Ambrotype & Glass Plate Negatives - Ellie Young - 1 Day

August 27, 2022 8:30 am Sold Out

New Cyanotype - Ellie Young - 1Day

September 2, 2022 9:30 am Sold Out

Cyanotype and Vandyke Brown on Fabric - Ellie Young-1 day

September 3, 2022 9:30 am Register

Cyanotype Traditional & Simple - Ellie Young - 1 Day

September 4, 2022 9:30 am Register

Opalotypes and Orotones- Ellie Young - 3 Days

September 9, 2022 9:30 am Sold Out

Liquid Emulsion-Handmade Silver gelatin - Ellie Young - 2 Days

September 17, 2022 9:30 am Sold Out

Carbon Transfer Printing - Ellie Young - 2 Days

October 7, 2022 9:30 am Register

Carbon Transfer Four Colour - Ellie Young - 3 Days

October 21, 2022 9:30 am Register

Gum Bichromate Printing - Ellie Young - 2 Days

November 8, 2022 9:30 am Register

Salt and Albumen Printing - Ellie Young - 1 Day

November 11, 2022 8:30 am Sold Out

Film - Printing Interpositives and Internegatives - Ellie Young - One Day

November 12, 2022 9:30 am Sold Out

Wet Plate: TinType Ambrotype & Glass Plate Negatives - Ellie Young - 1 Day

November 18, 2022 8:30 am Register

Film Capture Demystified - Ellie Young - 1 Day

November 20, 2022 9:30 am Register

Platinotype - Platinum/Palladium Printing - Ellie Young -1 Day

December 9, 2022 9:30 am Register

The Daguerreotype; A Contemporary Approach - Jerry Spagnoli - 3 Days

May 9, 2023 9:30 am Register

Alternative Photographic Process Symposium 2023

May 13, 2023 9:00 am Register

Wet Plate Collodion Master Class - Craig Tuffin - Two Days

May 15, 2023 9:30 am Register

Future newsletters will just link these but we feel it is good for our audience to know the scope that is on offer.  

District Darkroom - Coburg 

Link

The foundations of the black and white darkroom workshop. We’ll cover everything from the multi-step film development process to creating archival black and white prints. Working alongside our experienced lab technicians students will learn all aspects of film development, how to use the enlarger, basic printing steps, how contrast filters work, paper processing, and more advanced printing techniques like dodging and burning and toning for effect and archiving of prints.

Focal Point Studio, Darkroom & Gallery

Link

One-on-one Darkroom Training

Introduction to Film Photography

Introduction to Car Portraiture

Check link for others. 

Melbourne Camera Club 

There is a lot see listings!

Courses Link

Very full calendar of events Link

Australian Association of Street Photographers

Link

10th May - Brent Durrant

14th June - Lou Gilbert

12th July - tbc

9th August - SITHOM: Story behind the Image

8:00 PM  9:00 PM

Work In Progress

Link

Black & White Darkroom Printing

Colour C-Type Printing

B&W Refresher Course

see link for dates. 

PRACTITIONER

Anne Zahalka

Anne Zahalka introduced Australian art to a multicultural post modern Australia. Her first major body of work to enter the public domain was Bondi Playground of the Pacific (above). This image is included in the NGV Australia's Portrait show right now. This body of work was made and shown at Bondi Pavilion just meters from the beach, yet Anne used a painted backdrop, that echoed portraiture in the early years of photography. Each of the images is named after the activity rather than any age, ethnicity or gender. This was a first in Australian representation of itself. 

Two years prior to this she did Resemblance which was originally shown in Berlin then came to ACP. In this work she reconstructs sets and costumes reminiscent of Dutch masters but with moments of the modern. 

Wikipedia sums it up: Her artwork revolves around Australian culture, focusing on themes such as gender roles, leisure activities and the conventions of art. 

On her website you can see each of her major series.

Karra Rees interviews Anne for the major portrait show at CCP

Dumbo Feather Pass It On also interviewed her. 

Anne talks through her process of making a portrait. 

Isobel Parker Philip AGNSW talks through one of Annes works. 

She is represented by Arc One in Melbourne. 

Photo by @penguinical

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