reframe-refocus.xyzPhotoSceneVictoriaJune 2024 #34 |
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A blog for people who are into making, displaying, discovering, finding, buying, collecting & considering photographs. |
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EDITORIAL Welcome to issue #34 which marks 3 years as we usually skip one at the end of the year! Please support the photographic community in Victoria by going along and seeing shows, taking up the opportunities and attend events and talks. PhotoSceneVictoria is the collation of everything we can find to let you know the best of photography in Victoria. 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. |
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John Gollings is having a studio print sale! Gollings' has been Australia's foremost photographer of buildings for the last 40 years. His work for big architectural, developers and construction firms has resulted in amazing work and financed him to do passion projects in India, Cambodia and Australia. This is worth going to to see a master's work. Lots of work for sale. The author purchased stunning b+w analogue prints for Less than AUD150. Huge wall prints are in the hundreds not thousands. This is a must see! Open this and next Sunday from 12-5pm. Link |
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National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne Art Book Fair To 2 June 2024 Various locations including NGV International The annual design week art book fair all over the state. More information Centre for Contemporary Photography Photographic materials and preservation:
an open forum and hands-on workshop Saturday, 15 June 2024 AUD50 with 10% discount for members. Following a presentation that provides background information, participants can apply their newly acquired knowledge to examine and identify example materials, trouble-shooting and discussing with workshop convenors. Following, an open forum invites participants to discuss their projects and raise any questions related to ongoing preservation of their work.
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 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. |
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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
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MAPh X Artists Photography Auction 6 June 2024 At James Makin Gallery, Collingwood. Join us for an auction with a difference. MAPh has joined forces with our artists to create a unique auction where we will share equally in the sale proceeds of their work, giving buyers the opportunity to have a direct impact on artists and their practice. Funds raised through the sale of artworks will help shape the future of photography in Australia by supporting MAPh's exhibition program, artists and their creative practice. Info Yellow Dot Fund raising 14 June 2024 6pm Unicorn Hotel, 131 Sturt Street, Ballarat Yellow Dot is a FUNdraising event where you get to take home photographic art from an exhibition of works on display for a limited time only. ALL works have been donated by participating artists. It’s a little like art bingo too, this is where the event becomes FUN for all as you won’t know which artist created your work until you’ve collected your print at the end of the evening! To get involved, purchase a Yellow Dot ticket and go home with a new artwork for your home. We warmly acknowledge the contributing artists and our event partners Over 60 national and international photographers have donated artwork for the Yellow Dot Collection 2022. All pieces will be exhibited without the artist’s name and printed on museum-quality archival paper. For each $200 Yellow Dot ticket you purchase, you’ll receive a number. When your number is randomly drawn, you can pick your favourite photograph to take home. Every dollar raised supports the 11th Ballarat International Foto Biennale, taking place in Ballarat in 2025. Info Center of Contemporary Photography Could use our help. Link |
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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. |
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OPPORTUNITIES for PHOTOGRAPHERS MAY DEADLINE MA-g Awards Deadline: 31May 2023 Entry: CHF50/100 single/series Theme: open Why Enter: Araki Nobuyoshi ii the judge! Shortlisted artworks will still feature in the Museum’s contemporary section and will become part of the permanent collection, comprising works from the greatest avant-garde artists, from Rodchenko to Man Ray. Link DongGang International Photo Festival Open Call Deadline: 31May 2023 Entry: no cost Theme: Silently Loud Why Enter: An exhibition in Korea at a photo festival. Link JUNE DEADLINE Magnum Submissions Deadline: 4 June 2024 Entry fee: Free Theme: Open Why Enter: Being a magnum member is the goal of so many photographers. Link Emerging Artist Award 2024 Deadline: 4 June 2024 Entry: Free Theme: Artist who have not been exhibited in an art prize, who best explore our engagement with the natural and built environment, interrogates familial relationships through sensory experiences, and challenges our very sense of identity. Why Enter: AUD3k for two people and contacts. This is organised by fortyfivedownstairs. Link Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize Deadline: 12 June 2024 Entry: AUD25 Theme: conceptual photographic works Why Enter: AUD30k for the acquisition of your work. Exhibition. Link Bowness Prize Deadline: 13 June 2024 Entry: AUD55 up to 3 entries Theme: Contemporary Photography. Why enter: Lots of money and lots of respect. Link Open FRAME photography competition Deadline: 13 June 2024 Entry: no cost Theme: Photography of sites on the Victorian Heritage Register Why Enter: Prizes and publicity Link Hariban Award 2024 Deadline: 15 June 2024 Entry fee: USD50 Theme: work that will look great at collotypes. Why Enter: Residency in Japan, work published as collotypes and book. Link Victorian Pride Centre - EOI for gallery Deadline: 17 June, 2024 Entry: no cost Theme: artwork/s by LGBTIQ+ artists and/or art that focuses on LGBTIQ+ issues Why Enter: Beautiful space dedicated to LGBTIQ+ Link Lensculture Street Photography Award Deadline: 19 June 2024 Entry: USD 0 - 45 depending on how many Theme: street photography Why Enter: Money, web publication, Photo London exhibition and other PR as well as Martin Parr seeing your work. Link
Deloitte's Photo Grant 2024 Deadline: 30 June 2024 Entry: no cost Theme: photographers under 35 Why Enter: €20,000 towards the execution of their project idea. The resulting work will become an exhibition when the next edition of the Award is held. Trip to Milan. Link JULY DEADLINE Preus Museum Open Call 2024 Deadline: 1 July 2024 Theme: Ruptures Who: Lens based artists What is available: cash prize of 15.000 NOK, be collected and have a solo show at the Norway national photography museum Link Deloitte's Photo Grant 2024 Deadline: 1 July 2024 Entry : no cost Theme: photographers under 35 Why Enter: €20,000 towards the execution of their project idea. The resulting work will become an exhibition when the next edition of the Award is held. Trip to Milan. Link Encontros da Imagem - Photobook Award 2024 Deadline: 1 July, 2024 Entry: Euro 20 Theme: Material for a book Why Enter: Money and your project exhibited. Link Abbey Road Studios Music Photography Awards Deadline: 18 July 2024 Entry: Free Theme: Music photography Why Enter: Interesting judging panel including performers. Cant find prizes except your work being used by Abbey Rd Studios and others. 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 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 |
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AUGUST DEADLINE 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 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 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 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 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 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 for exhibiting for the first 6 months of the new year. 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 |
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XYZ Photo Gallery - Docklands Link Map This is hard to find, Details on the website. Traveling the Portillo Way - Stories of Rail Scott Gould, Jonny Tanoto, Dept of Economics (Netherlands) and others to 23 June 2024 1 - 5pm, Thursday - Sunday The rail and trains were the great revolution in transport in the mid 19th century, rail holds nostalgia and now is coming back as a major transport system. This exhibition looks at rail from different angles. This is a fun relaxing show. |
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Library at the Dock- Docklands Link Map They Shoot Film Emma Armstrong-Porter, Natalie Blom, Angela Cornish, Keira Hudson and Jessica Schwientek to 7 July 2024 A collection of photographs by Collin Abbott of Anzac Day parades in Melbourne during the 1970s. Abbott's interest was to record the last of the World War I diggers, as well as their families and friends, for whom the parade was a way of commemorating those who served and fell.. |
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Hillvale Gallery - Brunswick Link Map Foreground: Portraits of Older Transgender and Gender Diverse People Marlo W 17 May to 17 June 2024 Foreground is a celebration of a group of people who are often overlooked. Sharing the stories of older transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people is integral to demythologising transgender people to the broader community. “I often think about my older self. Who will be with me when I am older? Will I be living in an aged care home? Will I be living with a lover as we take care of each other? Will I be living with friends? Wherever I end up, I want to be safe and know that the people around me are empathetic and understanding of me as a person, and of my transness. “There is a severe lack of representation of older transgender and gender diverse (TGD) individuals in the media. As a result, their intimate lives — their thoughts, passions, interests, hopes, struggles, regrets — become something of a mystery. It is important for people to see themselves reflected in society. It is how we experience belonging. As a young transgender person, where will I belong if I do not see mysel reflected in my elders? |
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Wolfhound Photographic Gallery - Fitzroy Link Map SITHOA Opening night Members of the Australian Association of Street Photographers. to 9th June 2024 Saturday and Sunday 11:30-4:30
Please check with venue for exhibition times and days. The Australian Association of Street Photographers is proud to bring the twelfth “Shot in the Heart of Australia” exhibition. Held in the Wolfhound Gallery in Fitzroy, the exhibition is focused on each photographer’s personal interpretation of street photography within the Australia. |
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Off the Kerb - Collingwood Link Map VESELKA AKAndii and Andii G to 6 June, 2024 VESELKA, meaning rainbow, is about liberating the Ukrainian LGBTQIA+ community through unapologetic gender and cultural expression. Showcasing multidisciplinary artwork with a Ukrainian and Queer flavour! Indulge in this comedic gender rebellion to juxtapose traditional societal norms. MOBILE REBELLION Various to 6 June, 2024 No matter how busy, artists continually find ways to express our creativity. While running for the tram, in the break room at work, or weeding the garden, we take time to capture moments and tableaus that speak to us. We practise these ‘small acts of rebellion’, refusing at least momentarily to let life's busywork take precedence. |
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Arc One - Melbourne Link Map (To be announced) Pat Brassington 19 June - 20 July More information to be released soon. |
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State Library of Victoria - Melbourne Link Map 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. Nikon-Walkley Press Photography Exhibition Various to 23 June 2024 See the winners and finalists selected from the Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism, celebrating the achievements of Australian photographers across a range of genres, from news and sports to portraiture and visual essays. The Walkley Awards have recognised excellence across all media since 1956, when the first awards were presented in five categories. As the news industry has evolved, they have kept pace, and the awards now comprise 30 categories, from the confronting to the joyous. All are striking examples of the power of visual storytelling. The 2023 finalists featured in this exhibition encompass a range of subjects – from politicians to everyday folk, from our backyards to the furthest corners of the globe. Such is the power of photojournalism: in a moment of stillness, each voice says, “This is my story. I am here." |
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Hellenic Museum - Melbourne Link map 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. |
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Pride Centre - St Kilda Link Map The Air is Electric David McDiamird to 30 June Having experienced the joy of belonging to an identifiable gay community in Sydney and buoyed by the potential that could be unleashed by the gay community, David wanted to experience gay life, community, and art in the USA. During his travels in the United States, David McDiarmid was constantly documenting his experiences in correspondence and photographs, and through these we can start to understand the excitement of the liberatory activism and emergent gay community of the late 1970s – ‘the air was electric’ with new possibilities and freedom. An Australian Queer Archives exhibition. SEEN/SCENE Bho Vé to 30 June Photographer BHO VÉ goes behind the scenes to spotlight trans and gender diverse creatives, crew and game changers working in Naarm. From multiple sets such as Neighbours, SEEN/SCENE exposes the often unseen artistry of cinematographers, intimacy coordinators, grips and producers working to bring Australia’s stories to the screen. |
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Museum of Australian Photography - Monash Link Map 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. Hollow Izabela Pluta and Kiron Robinson 8 June – 21 July 2024 In this exhibition both Pluta and Robinson explore their own and public archives which are then decontextualised and recontextualised to bring past ideas into a contemporary context. For the curators of Built photography, Hollow playfully capsizes the idea of being built and examines the emptiness that can lie underneath the surface of a photograph. |
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Gold Street Gallery - Trentham East Link Map 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. |
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Castlemaine Art Museum - Castlemaine Link Map Surrounding Julie Millowick to 16 June 2024 Millowick’s photographs show us the devastating effects of mining, drought, flood and invasive plants, but also remind us of the interconnectedness that links all parts of this ecosystem including its human occupants. This is a terrain which the artist loves, and which she sees with acute perception. It is a landscape full of complexity, a region with a terrible past, but in its capacity for renewal is also a place that offers a spark of hope for the future. |
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Art Gallery of Ballarat - Ballarat Link Map 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. The Ballad of Sexual Dependency Nan Goldin to 2 June 2024 The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a defining artwork of the 1980s. Nan Goldin’s extended photographic study of her chosen family – her ‘tribe’ – began life as a slide show screened in the clubs and bars of New York where Goldin and her friends worked and played. The slide show was then distilled to a series of 126 photographs, which has recently become part of the National Gallery’s collection. |
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Horsham Regional Gallery - Horsham Link Map AUSTRALIAN FEMALE PHOTOGRAPHERS
FROM THE COLLECTION Various to 16 June 2024 Women photographers in Australia have made significant contributions to visual storytelling through the camera lens. They capture diverse landscapes, insights into cultures and social dynamics; acquiring the essence of their subject matter from a unique perspective. DON’T DEFINE ME Various To 16 June 2024 I see you walk by; I hear you whisper. I can tell there’s questions in your eyes. You think you know but it’s on the surface. Don’t Define Me! I am the air that takes the breath away, the rain that washes your pain. I am the comfort you seek as shelter. Woven by the bloodlines of my ancestors. Come seek and you’ll find, there’s more to me than meets the eye. For centuries there has been Western views that have tried to define what the Aboriginal Woman is supposed to be. For years we’ve been overlooked as the decision makers, the providers, nurturers, and warriors. Always searching for ways to explain what many don’t understand Yet here we stand defiant, as pinnacles that tower above and beyond the reach of any definition. Don’t Define Me is an exhibition that celebrates women of the Wotjobaluk, Jaadwa, Jadwadjali, Wergaia and Jupagalk peoples. |
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Gallery Membership NGV Membership - Melbourne Link Museum of Australian Photography Membership - Monash Link Centre for Contemporary Photography Membership - Fitzroy Link Associations Australian Association of Street Photographers Link Australian Photographic Collector's Society Link Groups Pushing Film Link Melb SPC Link Melbourne Lens Masters Link Meet Up Link Camera Clubs List of Camera Clubs in Victoria Link Melbourne Camera Club Link |
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For those of you that have made it to here, a headsup! Vanbar has just had a shipment of FOMAPAN film at very competitive prices! |
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