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PhotoSceneVictoria

August 2024 #36

Additional newsletter photos by Derek Nguyen link

A blog for people who are into making, displaying, discovering, finding, buying, collecting & considering photographs. 

EDITORIAL

 

It is winter and the number of photo shows has declined. there are some stunners still to see. If you've not seen the State Library's Rennie Ellis show get down there! Docklands has gone local with Magnet Gallery's Beyond MAP and XYZ's 60 Views of Melbourne and the NGV has accompanied the African fashion show with some stunning photographs!

 

We need some Crowd Sourcing help! We have been doing a directory of Victorian photography scene at https://reframe-refocus.xyz would love you to have a look and email me the businesses we have missed! We would like this to be the go to place!

 

Our goal is to reach as many people as we can and bring the photo community in Victoria together to know and experience all that we have. Each month our long term content moves to reframe-refocus.xyz for look, buy/fix, hire, labs and previous newsletters so that you can view a full list of what is here.

 

An interesting article on the photo market for prints link

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BIG THING

Melbourne Airport is reviewing transporting film

 

The gallery has been in communication with Melbourne Airport over hand inspection of film. They have replied telling us that they are in the process of making a film policy.

 

The new process is not yet finalised and is for 35mm film in canisters but can equally apply to 120. We have asked for clarification for sheet film and bulk rolls, at the time of publication we have not received a response.

 

Although this is not policy yet, the information I have is, take the film in the original packaging and it will be inspected for tampering, then you will be asked to remove it from the packaging and it will be explosives tested before being handed back after body scan without being put through the machine. I repeat this is forward information and may change and staff may not be aware of this proposed policy yet. When we have clarification we will post on insta @photoscenevic

 

 Photobook Weekend: 14 October 2024

Art Gallery of Ballarat

Celebrate photobooks with BIFB on World Photobook Day. Back by popular demand, connect with fans and makers across a series of events and talks Saturday 14–Sunday 15 October, including the

BIFB Photobook Fair

Saturday 14 October, 11am–4pm
FEATURING

  • Prominent Publishers

  • Artist Books & Zine Tables

  • Book signings & launches

  • Australia and New Zealand Photobook Award Archive. Courtesy of Photo Collective

  • Student Photobook Swap 3–4pm Connect with other students, share feedback and swap a book or zine at the Photobook Fair. You’ll be joined by special guests and photobook stalwarts Doug Spowart and Victoria Cooper. Open to VCE and tertiary student photobook makers.

     

Link for more information

Additional newsletter photos by Derek Nguyen link

LEARN LINK

 

Eureka Centre - Ballarat

 

Historical Photography and the 19thC Gold Rushes

5.30pm Thursday August 01, 2024

Anne Maxwell

Eureka Centre Auditorium

FREE. No bookings required.

 

Photography was still a novelty and topic of immense public interest during the 1850s goldrush. Richard Daintree and Antoine Fauchery both tried to make their fortunes in the gold fields near Ballarat before joining forces to open one of Australia’s most successful early photography studios. Photographs produced in the very early twentieth century reveal a sense of the social and environmental costs of an event that brought wealth and fortune to many, but misery to many others. Anne will explore goldrush photography of Australia, before comparing it to gold mining photography from California and New Zealand photographers.

 

Anne Maxwell is an Associate Professor in the English Program in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne.

More information

 

 

Art Gallery of Ballarat - Ballarat

 

Panel: Presenting Photobooks to an International Audience

Ying Ang, Tom Goldner and Meg Hewitt. Chaired by Doug Spowart.

Sunday 15 October, 2–3pm

 

Photobook makers in Australia and New Zealand make significant books, equal to the international scene. However, the tyranny of distance means that it can be very difficult to get the recognition that our books deserve. In this panel, you’ll hear from artists and curators who have experience sharing their work with international audiences.

 

Museum of Australian Photography

860 Ferntree Gully Road

Wheelers Hill Victoria 3150 Map Link

 

Develop | Meet the artists

27 July 2024 1-3pm

Free

 

Develop is MAPh’s annual showcase of work by emerging photographic artists, presenting a small selection of works produced by 2023 graduates of bachelor degrees in Melbourne. Join us to celebrate the launch of this year’s Develop season, meet the artists and learn about the inspiration, ideas and processes behind their work.

Book now

 

 

State Library of Victoria - Melbourne

 

Newspapers for Family History

22 August 2024

Research staff

 

In this special National Family History Month webinar, learn how to navigate the Library’s extensive newspaper collection to research your family history.

Whether you’re looking to debunk a family urban legend or find out if that aunt really cracked a world record, our librarians will teach you the tips and tricks you need to uncover your family story.

More information

 

 

Bright

 

Bright Festival of Photography   

11 to 13 October 2024

Cost for three day weekend $235

 

A learning and experience with some of the best photographers in the country.

 

With over 2500 photography workshop spots planned over 3 days and 35+ of Australia’s best photographers and instructors, BFOP 2024 is set to be bigger, better, crazier and more chaotic than EVER!

We’re delivering you workshops in nearly every genre of photography that you can think of alongside our presentations stage AND special events from our brand sponsors. If you’ve been to BFOP before you don’t need to read on, just hit the ‘checkout’ button and be done with it because you know this will be the weekend to define 2024!

 

For $235 an excellent way to spend a long weekend!

 

More information

 

Please, if you know other places that we should keep checking on let us know.

 

Regular Workshops

 

Kindred Cameras in Docklands Link Map 

From beginners, to alternative, to commercial know how and a few things in between as well as one on one for what you need to know.

 

Gold Street Studios - Trentham East Link

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

 

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.

 

Melbourne Camera Club (MCC)

There is a lot see listings!

Courses Link

Very full calendar of events Link

 

MCC Analogue Group

The most diverse group in the club. All have a take on film, alt processes or printing in darkrooms. A friendly group with so much knowledge.

 

Australian Association of Street Photographers Link
Monthly talk by guest speaker

 

FUNDING Events

Center of Contemporary Photography

 

Small Print sale: over 50 limited edition prints ENDS 28 JULY!

From Australian and international artists to purchase. Each print is 8 x10 inches and is in an edition of 20 prints only.

 

Works will be available for sale online from June 28 – July 28 2024. With an affordable price of; AUD$250 per print this is a great way to start your photography collection. Each print will come with a certificate of authenticity.All proceeds from this print sale will go directly to supporting CCPs exhibitions, artists, commissions, events, and education programs. Funds raised also help us keep exhibitions and entry to CCP free.

 

A preview of all the works will be available from 11am June 28 – and purchases can be made – via the link below.

 

Thanks to all the participating artists: Abigail Varney; Adam Ferguson; Adrian Jing Song; Amos Gebhardt; Anne Moffat; Ayman Kaake; Buzz Gardiner; Cecilia Sordi Campos; Chloe Dewe Mathews; Christopher Koller; Clare Rae; Clare Steele; Cyrus Tang; Danica Chappell; Darren Tanny Tan, EJ Hassan; Emmaline Zanelli; Erhan Tırlı; Finn Goldstraw; Genevieve Ginty; Honey Long & Prue Stent; Hootan Heydari; Isabella Capezio; Izabela Pluta; Janina Green; Kaede James Takamoto; Kelvin Lau; Kristian Häggblom; Liss Fenwick; Marta Bogdanska; Martin Parr; Meg De-Young & Gabrielle Hall-Lomax; Minami Ivory; Ming Liew; Morganna Magee; Nicholas Mahady; Oliver Foster; Phuong Nguyen Le; Pia Johnson; Ponch Hawkes; Renato Colangelo; Sean Davey; Shea Kirk; Simon Terrill; Stephanie Syjuco; Teva Cosic; The Huxleys; Tobias Titz; Wei Weng; Yask Desai; Youqine Lefèvre & Zoë Croggon.

 

Link for more information

 

 

Additional newsletter photos by Derek Nguyen link

OPPORTUNITIES LINK

 

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.

for PHOTOGRAPHERS

 

 

JULY DEADLINE

 

OD Photo Prize 2024

Deadline:  29 July 2024

Entry: GBP15

Theme: Series

Why Enter: £2,000, Grand Prize Winner | Shortlisted artists are exhibited in London, on the Open Doors Gallery website.

Link

 

Architecture Photography Masterprize

Deadline:  31 July 2024

Entry: USD 50

Theme: Architecture

Why Enter: Aimed at bringing photographers to the profession, via a book, press and industry press. This is a difficult area to break into.   

Link

 

2024 Birdlife Photography Awards

Deadline:  5 August 2024

Entry: AUD 10

Theme: Birds within tighter categories.

Why Enter: Birds! AUD1k prize.

Link

 

Comedy Wildlife Photographic Awards

Deadline:  31 July 2024

Entry: not sure

Theme: Humour in the animal world.

Why Enter: This one really does get major press! The prizes are not great but it is fun. Though the grand prize is a one week safari in Kenya for two.

Link

 

AUGUST DEADLINE

 

Photography 4 Humanity 2024

Deadline:  1 August 2024

Entry: no cost

Theme: Climate Justice

Why Enter: UN Human Rights are running the contest, USD5k and UN promotion.

Link

 

Look

Deadline:  5 August 2024

Entry: Membership

Theme: MAPh Members annual curated contest

Why Enter: Nice to be in a show at MAPh

Link

 

Graphis Photography Award

Deadline:  6 August 2024/10 September 2024

Entry: USD45-140

Theme: Published work by Professional Photographers

Why Enter: Published in Graphis Photography Annual, as seen in most advertising agencies, big design firms and anyone else commissioning photography. This is historically one of the most important books to get into and it is juried so it is respected.

Link

 

Daniele Tamagni Grant 2024/2025

Deadline:  11 August

Entry: no cost

Theme: a project must engage with the African continent or its diaspora

Why Enter: 1 year scholarship at The Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg and an exhibition at Africa Foto Fair 2025

Link

 

Polaroid x Magnum Open Call

Deadline:  13 August 2024

Entry: No Cost

Theme: Real life is not black and white: Analog, digital imagery or Polaroid

Why Enter: 3 online group critiques with Magnum-represented photographers (~ 2hrs each) with the other winners and Polaroid.

Link

 

 

2024 Australian Photography Awards

Deadline:  21 August 2024

Entry: AUD 28

Theme: Categories; People/Environment/Animal/Documentary/
Experimental/Student/Junior/People's Choice

Why Enter: This is the up and coming awards in this country.

Link

 

The Arnold Newman Prize

Deadline:  28 August 2024

Entry: USD 65

Theme: New directions in Portraiture

Why Enter: This is the man who invented the environmental portrait + USD20k

Link

 

 

Gemma Grant 2024 (1 Aug start)

Deadline:  Saturday 31st August = 14.99 eurosMonday 30th September = 19.99 euros

7th November = 24.99 euros

Entry: EUR 22/27

Theme: unconventional and daring works

Why Enter: They reward more interesting work. Prizes tba.

Link

 

 

SEPTEMBER DEADLINE

 

Format International Photography Festival

Deadline:  1 September 2024

Entry: EUR 22/27

Theme: Conflicted

Why Enter: Having your work shown in an international festival.

Link

 

Indian Photo Festival

Deadline:  1 September 2024

Entry: No Cost

Theme: Open

Why Enter: Having your work shown in an international festival.

Link

 

2024 PhotoBook Awards

Deadline:  6 September 2024 Entry: USD 30/60

Entry: USD30/60

Theme: Book

Why Enter: Organised by Paris Photo and aperture + USD10K

Link

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Open Call Solo Artists Copenhagen Photo Festival 2025

Deadline:  8 September 2024

Entry: No cost

Theme: Fremkaldelse / Into the Light’

Why Enter: They cover the costs of exhibition, a Euro530 fee paid, and 320 to help with travel.

Link

 

Vital Impacts Environmental Photography Grant 2024

Deadline:  15 September 2024

Entry: USD25

Theme: A long term documentary photography project with local communities, working to protect the environment and wildlife.

Why Enter: USD20k mentorship

Link

 

2024 Lucie Photo Book Prize

Deadline:  15 September 2024

Entry: EUR32-50

Theme: Books published/prototype/hand-made books

Why Enter: Chosen by an interesting jury. USD2-3000 and exhibition with the book at Los Angeles Centre for Photography.

Link

 

Dear Dave, 2024 Fellowship

Deadline:  19 September 2024

Entry: USD18

Theme: Books on the theme of Utopia: a perfect place or no place?

Why Enter: USD1000, and a portfolio in DEAR DAVE

Link

 

Neutral Density Photography Awards

Deadline:  22 September 2024

Entry: USD 24 (single) USD34 (series)

Theme: Regular photographic categories.

Why Enter: Residency to make your book with the publisher, have an exhibition and copies of your book.

Link

 

OCTOBER DEADLINE

 

W Eugene Smith Grant

Deadline:  8 October 2024

Entry: USD50

What: Concerned photography

Why Enter: USD30K+ and super prestige

Link

 

W Eugene Smith Student Grant

Deadline:  9 October 2024

Entry: USD10

What: Concerned photography

Why Enter: USD5K+ and super prestige

Link

 

 

NOVEMBER DEADLINE

 

Sony World Photography Awards

Who: Worldwide

Deadline:  Student competition closes 29 November 2024

Youth competition closes 3 January 2025

Open competition (including National & Regional Awards and Alpha Female Award) closes 3 January 2025, 13:00 (GMT)

Professional competition closes 10 January 2025

Entry: No cost

Theme: Various categories

Why Enter: its' Sony

Link

 

 

 

without DEADLINE

 

GRANTS

Ilford Community Photography Grant

Deadline:  quarterly

What is available: £500 of Ilford product.

Link

 

 

GALLERIES OPEN CALLS

 

XYZ Photo Gallery 

What: We would like to know about all considered photography in Victoria

Deadline: open

Cost: no initial costs (options if selected)

Theme: open 

Why Enter: This is a gallery set up to provide to local photographers/artists working in photo-media, a gallery experience that the director would have liked when he started out. 

Link

 

Off the Kerb

Open call . Link

 

HOTA - Gold Coast

Introduce your practice LInk

Exhibition proposals Link

 

 

 

RESIDENCIES

 

Presartis

Artist Residencies Around the world

Ongoing as opportunities happen.

Why: because living in another culture adds to your work.

Link

 

Additional newsletter photos by Derek Nguyen link

EXHIBITIONS LINK

Docklands/Southbank

XYZ Photo Gallery - Docklands 

Link Map

This is hard to find, Details on the website.

 

60 Views of Melbourne

Gerry Angelos, Harry Baker, Celeste de Clario Davis, EFP, Chip Elliott, Jacqui Elizabeth, Gil Gilmour, Gavin la Grange, Milly Haig, Derek Nguyen, Jesse Pretorius, Scott Ransley, Andrew Tan, Luke Tipping,, Santina Velo, Archie Vova, Ricardo Yamamoto, Frank Yuwono with prints by Cakeface & John Gollings from the gallery's stock room. 

to 18 August 2024 

1 - 5pm, Thursday to Sunday

 

Photographers of various backgrounds find the views of this ‘once was rich’ city and explore that which resinates with each them. This presents as many visions of the city as there are participants.    

Magnet Gallery - Docklands 

Link Map

This is hard to find, Details on the website.

 

Beyond Map

MAPGroup

31 July to 17 August 2024 

 

MAPGroup, the documentary photographers' collective, closes its doors with a spectacular Retrospective of its finest photography. After 20 years recording and interpreting the places, times, seasons, people and events of Australia this energetic group has documented Millennial Australia in so many ways. Make sure you don't miss this brilliant collection at MAGNET from 31 July to 17 August.

Magnet Gallery - Docklands 

Link Map

This is hard to find, Details on the website.

 

An Inconvenient Curve

Christine McFetridge

7 August to 1 September 2024

 

An Inconvenient Curve: Unlearning Settler Colonial Representations of the Birrarung is the exhibition outcome of Christine McFetridge’s practice-led PhD research. By combining media including archival material, photography, video and text, this project aims to attend to the violence of the ongoing colonial regime. In making the ways the Birrarung has been and continues to be used as a resource for colonial and economic expansion explicit, McFetridge, a settler coloniser from Aotearoa New Zealand, speculates on the role photography and video can have in reshaping settler perceptions of the river.

 

PSC Captured Gallery - South Bank 

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Connection: A Photography Exhibition

Dani Watson

10 August to 1 September 2024

 

Connection is a solo exhibition that is the outcome of Dani Watson’s Master of Arts Photography project undertaken at Photography Studies College, Melbourne.

The exhibition incorporates new technologies, serving as both a personal exploration and a broader commentary on the changing dynamics between humans and nature. Watson's innovative approach that involves experimental and dynamic drone methodologies invites audiences to experience a deeper, more meaningful connection with nature that encourages environmental responsibility and the impact of human activity on the earth.    

Inner City

Hillvale Gallery - Brunswick 

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Big Bug

Jake Nemirovsky

27 June to 18 August 2024

 

Jake Nemirovsky’s solo exhibition debut Big Bug opens at Hillvale Gallery on Saturday 27 July. To coincide with the opening, Jake’s first solo publication of the same title, published by Tall Poppy Press, will be launched. 

 

Try to remember a moment from when you were young. What did it feel like then? How does it feel now? Can you describe it?

 

Can you pinpoint a place or are we back where we started? 

 

The echoes of my memory fade and swell over time; they tell a story that I want to recall.  I can remember the taste, but I can’t quite taste it. 

These are closer to memories of a memory, 

like the pages of so many photo albums that were never made. Like the reflections of a world that I thought were real. I can remember the sound, but I can’t quite hear it.

 

The camera pricks the surface of the visual world to stir all that is dormant within us.

 

Sol Gallery - Fitzroy 

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Space 2:

Jakub Fabijanski

20 August - 1 September , 2024 

 

With an innate passion for capturing the essence of individuals through photography, Jakub's journey into the world of portraiture began as a personal exploration of human expression and connection. Through careful composition and an intuitive understanding of light, he creates portraits that resonate with depth and emotional authenticity. Often approaching his subjects on the streets, he establishes a quick rapport that enables him to capture genuine expressions, reflecting the true essence of individuals. His choice of using black and white film through medium and large format cameras allows for unparalleled detail and clarity but also imbue his subjects with a distinctive visual richness and depth, enhancing the immersive quality of his portraits.

 

Reverse Migration

Tersine Göç

20 August - 1 September , 2024 

 

After traversing 8000km+ on road  across Türkiye, a project was born by photographer Mert Berdilek, on how the country has changed, or hasn't since its formation 100 years ago. Shot solely on medium-format film, Tersine Göç ('Reverse Migration' in Turkish) is a journey into the heart of a country and its people. Where the lines of past and present are blurred. Where in some of the most remote locations, that elusive purity in humanity we're searching for as artists, is found, even if it were for just a fleeting moment.

 

Mert Berdilek, is a Melbourne based Australian-Turkish Photographer & Filmmaker. Mert's work focuses on returning to his roots, for artistic exploration on core themes experienced by many migrant children living in diaspora. Mert's two major projects in 2024 address the same concept of "Reverse Migration" in two different mediums. Tersine Göç ('Reverse Migration' in Turkish) is a documentary portrait photography project shot from West to East Türkiye, and Geride Kalanlar ('The Remains' in Turkish) is a debut feature film project, entering production in December 2024, during winter in Eastern Türkiye.

 

Centre for Contemporary Photography - Fitzroy  

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TBA

Online print sale closes 28 July.

 

 

Gertrude Street Gallery - Preston South

Link Map

 

Octopus 24: Ricochet

Destiny Deacon, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Chelsea Farquhar, Dominic Guerrera, Truc Truong, William Yang

to 4 August 2024

 

We respectfully advise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples that this exhibition contains names, footage and voices of deceased persons. 

Since 2001, the annual Octopus exhibition series has supported ambitious curatorial practice, inviting a curator to develop a project informed by their current research and providing a platform for new forms of exhibition making. This year, Gertrude welcomes Patrice Sharkey, who has drawn upon her ongoing interest in revisionist histories and intergenerational exchange, alongside a sustained engagement with artists she encountered and collaborated with during her time as the Artistic Director of Adelaide Contemporary Experimental. 

Ricochet is an exhibition conceived to honour those who have reckoned—and continue to reckon—with the power of representation to influence our social and political lives. Forming the foundation of Ricochet are multidisciplinary visual artist Destiny Deacon (KuKu and Erub/Mer, b.1957), electronic music pioneer and performance artist Cosey Fanni Tutti (b.1951), and social history photographer and gay rights activist William Yang (b.1943).

 

And He Said: This is Power? 

Ezz Monem

to 24 August 2024

 

And He Said: This is Power? explores the complex dynamics of authority, control and emotional expression. The exhibition brings together video installations and photographic works in which the artist investigates manifestations of power in both personal and societal contexts, framed by the interplay between individual identity and nationhood. 

 

City

State Library of Victoria - Melbourne 

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Melbourne Out Loud:
Life through the lens of Rennie Ellis

Rennie Ellis

to 28 January 2025

 

If there was ever a photographer to take Melbourne’s portrait, it was Rennie Ellis.

Rennie had an uncanny ability to slip into all kinds of social circles and his photographs are the ultimate story of life on the town.

He roamed our places: St Kilda Beach, the MCG, Swanston Street, Sidney Myer Music Bowl. He met superstars: Tina Turner, Mick Jagger, Grace Jones. He stood with crowds on the biggest days of the year: Melbourne Cup, the AFL Grand Final, the Boxing Day Test. He befriended people from all walks of life: athletes and celebrities, punks and protesters, beach goers and party lovers. And he captured it all on camera.

NGV International - Melbourne 

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African Fashion    

Various artists

To 6 October 2024

 

A landmark exhibition, Africa Fashion celebrates the creativity, ingenuity, and global impact of contemporary African fashions from the mid-twentieth century to the present day.  Featuring over 200 works – spanning fashion, textiles, adornment, photography, music and film – the exhibition illuminates a thriving fashion scene as dynamic and varied as the continent itself. Developed by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Shrine of Remembrance - Melbourne

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Recovering the Past

Ian Alderman

to 29 September 2024

 

This unique photographic exhibition unites two distinct groups of men separated by a century, connected by conflict and the art of photo montage. The first group comprises the men of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) who battled in Flanders during the Great War's most harrowing encounters. The second group consists of Belgian men engaged in ongoing bomb disposal efforts on those same former battlefields today.

 

Drawing inspiration from Australian cultural and artistic figures like photographer Frank Hurley and artist Will Longstaff, artist Ian Alderman embarks on a philosophical journey exploring the enduring repercussions of human conflict—legacies that persist long after the cessation of gunfire.

Hellenic Museum - Melbourne

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ONEIROI

Bill Henson

Indefinately

 

ONEIROI sets out to inspire discussion about what it means to be custodians of an ancient past and captures the way in which our history, culture and art shape the way in which we make sense of our own world.

South East

Melbourne Camera Club - South Melbourne 

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A One Light Stand – Romancing the Darkness

MCC members

28 July 2024 11-3pm

 

An exhibition of images created with a single source of light

 

Hand Made

MCC members

31 August and 1 September 2024, 11am-3pm

7-8 September 2024, 11am-3pm

An exhibition of analogue images by the members of this vibrant and very diverse group of practitioners, covering film, silver gel and many alt processes.

 

Museum of Australian Photography - Monash 

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Built photography

Trent Crawford, Jessica Curry, Lucas Davidson, Damian Dillon, Jacqueline Felstead, Janina Green, Luke Parker, Kiah Pullens, Jacky Redgate, Talia Smith, Katrina Stamatopoulos, Andrew Tetzlaff, Marian Tubbs, Skye Wagner & Grace Wood

8 June – 25 August 2024

 

Built photography proposes a conversation between photography’s material, its surface and form and especially its objectness, against which the flatness of the photographic plane is interrogated. Through processes of ‘inflation’, photographs disrupt the two-dimensional surface to complicate the spatial relationship between the content of an image and its physical form.

 

Develop

Graduates from Melbourne BA courses

25 July to 25 August 2024

 

Develop brings together a select showcase of 2023 Bachelor-degree graduates from Melbourne’s tertiary institutions, presenting work by emerging photographic artists. The annual exhibition provides a vital platform for each of the artists to exhibit their work as they develop their practice and move towards the next stage of their career. With artists chosen from a range of universities and showcasing a variety of styles and techniques, this is a celebration of the next generation of Australian photographers.

 

Gasworks - Albert Park

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Growing up in Port Melbourne 1920 - 1940

Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society

August 6–25, 2024

 

This exhibition uses images and documents from the collection of the Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society to build up a picture of what life was like for children and teenagers in the period between the two world wars. Seven themes are used to give a balanced picture: Housing, Family, Schooling, Community, Leisure, Sport, and Work.

 

Compendium Gallery - Armadale 

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HOMAGE

Andrew Farmer

to 3 August 2024

 

Though not strictly photography, it is never the less dealing with photographic ideas and is really interesting on that count.

 

Step into the enchanting world of ‘HOMAGE’ an enthralling solo exhibition unveiling Andrew Farmer’s evolution of abstract reverie, inspired by the groundbreaking work of the late geometric abstract artist Josef Albers and his iconic ‘HOMAGE TO THE SQUARE’ series. With profound admiration for Albers; legacy, Andrew propels the square form into new frontiers, using tinted resin on mirrored aluminium to orchestrate an ethereal symphony of light, colour and introspection

 

South West

Footscray Community Arts - Footscray

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Chinese Restaurant Playground

Steffie Yee 余淑婷

to 15 September 2024

 

Chinese Restaurant Playground by Steffie Yee 余淑婷, is an exhibition about childhood, imaginative play, and finding joy within the frenetic settings of her parents’ Chinese restaurant.

The exhibition presents a multimedia collection of finished works, and works in progress, exploring the artist’s experience growing up in the regional NSW town of Branxton. Through multilingual animations, videos, illustrations and photographs, Steffie seeks to humanise the people behind the ‘local Chinese restaurant’, whose stories risk being lost due to language barriers and a long record of cultural history that predominantly spotlights Anglo-Celtic and European migration – particularly in regional Australian narratives.

 

Sutures

Sophie Cassar

15 September 2024

Sutures emerges from Cassar’s research into online archives of disability-based fetish material. These works confront the often-blurred lines between medical intervention and non-consensual touch.  

 

In her artist books, Cassar places photographs from her personal archive alongside texts painted in chlorhexidine, a medical antiseptic used for preoperative skin disinfection. Pink-tinged and delicate, this pairing explores the idea of an “embodied perpetual girlhood”, underscoring the persistent intrusion of medical treatment in shaping one’s sexuality and self-perception.  

 

Throughout the exhibition, Sutures offers a reflection on desirability politics, and the subjective influence of both the medical and sexual gaze.

Substation - Newport

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Object of Projection

Kim Gordon

To 24 August 2024

 

While many would recognise Kim Gordon for her iconic work with Sonic Youth, she has maintained an exploratory art practice since the late 1970s. These works are the subject of a new exhibition at The Substation.

Object Of Projection presents a compelling survey of her works, including photographic and mixed media pieces. The exhibition also places focus on her video installations including the recently completed Picture Window and Los Angeles June 6, 2019, where Gordon utilises a guitar as a navigation device through public space in a thought-provoking commentary on performance, surveillance and urban life.

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In tandem with the exhibition is a special presentation of her triptych video installation Proposal For A Dance. This embodied and psychedelic audio visual work features two female performers wielding electric guitars and wearing Rodarte dresses. Their gestures are an experimental choreography; their movements operate as a gesture towards anti-pop ideals and their implications for the female body.

 

 

North

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre

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In a restless world like this is

Anni Hagberg, Katie Paine, Katrin Koenning, Leonie Brialey, Siri Hayes

22 June to 07 September 2024

 

How many worlds are within, or nested amongst, this one? Is it possible to traverse them, and what might act as the tethers or links between them?

In a restless world like this is emerges in response to two works held in the City of Darebin collection; Siri Hayes’ large-scale photographs, Lyric Theatre at Merri Creek and Crossing the Merri (both 2003). Inviting responses from Anni Hagberg, Katie Paine, Katrin Koenning and Leonie Brialey, this exhibition reverberates outwards from its sources—the Merri Creek as a physical space, but also the Merri Creek as presented within Hayes’ works—to consider what might reside in the generative spaces within and between worlds.

 

Gold Street Gallery - Trentham East 

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A Retrospective

Mike Ware

to 11 August 2024

 

Dr Mike Ware is an accomplished British photographer and with a doctorate in chemistry from Oxford . Mike has undertaken fundamental studies in historic photographic processes and preservation of photographs working with The National Science and Media Museum Bradford and The Victoria and Albert Museum London, and The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Mike brings real science to bear on alternative processes. He has written three books that are in-depth modern classics of alternative photographic processes along with numerous papers.

 

Flower Constancy

Jair Garcia

28 August – 20 October 2024

 

The Vykage montages, masterfully depicting flowers in this exhibition, use a combination of textures, elements, and materials to display the unique characteristics of each piece. The light-sensitive VanDyke solution creates an airy impression of each flower on a diaphanous silk surface, reminiscing the delicate texture of blooming flowers and offering a visual reward to approaching visitors. The silk’s shadow is then reflected on a polished gold leaf, re-imagining the flower and creating a mesmerising double image that dances in our eyes with a warm, flickering illusion that reconstructs the tridimensional volume of each flower, albeit briefly. 

Castlemaine Art Museum - Castlemaine 

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Portraits from the Collection

Various artists

to 15 September 2024

 

This is an exhibition of profiles, slanted light, shadowy forms and occasional smiles. Paintings by Polly Hurry, Arnold Shore, W D McInnes, Hugh Ramsay, Mary Cecil Allen, A M E Bale and May Vale, among many others, explore the play of light on skin and fabric. The 19th and 20th century works from the collection form a wall of painted ghosts. Traces of once-living subjects are caught in a moment of stillness. They are not relaxed, they are posed and composed, tense, cigarette in hand, faces taut with concentration.

The interest in light and composition is shared by photographers such as Randolph Buchner, Hugh Frankland and Richard Beck whose work features in a selection of black and white portraits of artists – from a brooding John Brack to Dorothy Braund, Olga Cohn and Danila Vassilieff.

Some portraits are not just of people. The living culture of the Jaara and Dja Dja Wurrung community is represented in the extraordinary series of photographs by James Henry from 2020/21. The project known as 18 Families shows the deep ongoing connection to country of the descendants of the eighteen known ancestors whose traditional lands include the Country around Castlemaine, Harcourt, Maldon and beyond.

 

Edge Galleries - Maldon 

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MEMENTO MORI / SHIMMER / 4 SQUARED

Simon Dow

End date TBA

 

The human is luminous. Encompassing mystery, darkness, and shocking light, we are liminal, poetic, dangerous, glorious, explosive, entwined with nature and brilliantly inexplicable.

 

Art Gallery of Ballarat - Ballarat 

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Lost in Palm Springs

Kate Ballis, Tom Blachford, Anna Carey, Sam Cranstoun, Paul Davies, Rosi Griffin, Vicki Stravrou, Robyn Sweaney and Gosia Wlodarczak. American artists in the exhibition are Darren Bradley, Jim Isermann, Troy Kudlac, Lance O’Donnell and Kim Stringfellow.

4 May to 1 September 2024

 

This interdisciplinary exhibition brings together 14 creative minds – including internationally recognised artists, photographers and thinkers from America and Australia – who respond to, capture, or reimagine the magical qualities of the landscape and the celebrated mid-century modern architecture found in the desert city.

 

Connections between Palm Springs and Australia are remarkably strong, particularly when viewed through the lens of the current renaissance of interest in modernist architecture. Place and home, desert atmospheres, landscapes (real and imagined), and Bauhaus sensibilities inform the works.

 

MAMA Murray Art Museum Albury - Albury 

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National Photography Prize 2024   

Alex Walker & Daniel O’Toole, Ali McCann, Ali Tahayori, Ellen Dahl, Ioulia Panoutsopoulos, Izabela Pluta, Kai Wasikowski, Nathan Beard, Olga Svyatova, Rebecca McCauley & Aaron Claringbold, Sammy Hawker, and Skye Wagner.

to 1 September 2024

 

In consideration of the medium's fluid history, the National Photography Prize encourages artists working across all areas of the photographic field to enter. This includes artists working in traditional forms of light based, chemical production through to those dealing with hybrid and expanded fields of photography and image making.

 

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