Additional newsletter photos by Steven Xiao @uzzlzzlzzl

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

Welcome to issue #28.

The newsletter is early as the editor is traveling on Tuesday to meet artist and visit galleries in China. The next newsletter will be around the last week of November.

The newsletter has become very large as the scene in Melbourne continues to grow. We now have an instagram for things that we miss or come up after publication @photoscenevic We are considering putting more on the reframe-refocus.xyz website to make the newsletter more compact and manageable.

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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BIG THING

Print Sales for Gallery Fundraising a boon for collectors

CCP has 10x8 prints of 60+ artists including Pixy Liao, Shea Kirk, Kurt Tong, Ayman Kaake / unsigned - AUD100 (uneditioned) AUD250 (editioned to 20) depending on the artistwith letter of authenticity until 31 Oct. Link

Blindside prints on A3 paper artists J Davies, Amos Gebhardt & Shea Kirk, edition of 25 avail, with letter of authenticity signed by the artist. until 30 Nov - AUD390 Link

Magnum square print, 15x15cm 70+ artists / SIGNED / This year the World Press Foundation photographers are joining. will be announced on 16 Oct you have one week to order - USD110 Link

Lightworks 243 artists including Mark Klett, Pixy Liao printed / on 10x12 paper / unsigned / Ends 20 Oct - AUD239 Link

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PHOTO EXHIBITIONS

Docklands

Docklands has two dedicated galleries and now two other spaces that regularly has photography exhibitions.

XYZ Photo Gallery - Docklands Link Map

This is hard to find, Details on the website.

Is it You or Me? - a Portrait Show

Sionainne Costello, Sameed Khan  &  Steven Xiao

to 22 October 2023 1:00 - 5:00pm, Wed - Fri and Sunday

Just who is a portrait about, the sitter or the shooter? Part of Melbourne Fringe

Note that the Gallery will be closed to mid January after this show to be a studio to make portraits for the director's solo show.

Magnet Gallery - Docklands Link Map

The Hand Made Photograph

Mike Ware UK – New Cyanotype/ Argyrotype /Platinum Palladium/ New Chrysotype
Tim Rudman UK –  Lith Prints
Elizabeth Opalenik USA – Mordançage  – Demonstration/ floor talk 
Ellie Young VIC AUS  – Salt/ Albumen/ Carbon  – Demonstration/ floor talk 
Kaye Dixon VIC AUS  Ziatype Over Cyanotype  – Floor talk 
Keiko Goto QLD AUS/Japan – Zoukin Gake 
Danielle Edwards VIC AUS  – Platinum Palladium Infrared 
Diana Bloomfield USA  – Gum over Cyanotype
David Tatnall VIC AUS  – Silver Gelatin Demonstration/ floor talk 
Craig Tuffin NSW AUS  – Daguerreotype

Curated by Ellie Young

14 October - 13 November 2023
 

An acknowledged expert in the field of ancient photographic processes, Ellie has put together a collection of works by photographers from the UK, USA and various parts of Australia who specialise in this area.

The exhibition will include talks and demonstrations by some of the participants – an opportunity to enjoy the beautiful art of photography long before digital.

Inner North - Fitzroy Collingwood Carlton Brunswick

Wolfhound Photographic Gallery - Fitzroy Link Map

Tales of Disembodiment

OJair García, Omaira Abadía, Adélaïde Bernard, Jean Baulch and Claire Anezka.

27 October - 18 November 2023

Jair García – Photographer and printmaker. His work uses silver crystals, gelatine and salts to bend the linear passing of time into a continuum where past and present co-exist.

Omaira Abadía – Is a Multimedia artist working with experimental photography. Associated Professor, School of Fine Arts, Colombia National University.

Adélaïde Bernard – Is a visual story teller who travels to capture the beauty of our planet and pictures humans reconnecting to the environment and to themselves through art.

Jean Baulch – Curious about the ghosts we lose and create as we translate sensations into memory and memories into materials.

Claire Anezka – Photographer working with analogue in outdoor settings. Explores the depth of the relationship between the mind and body.

Dramatic Chromatic Ecstatic

Eddy Burger, DIna Mittas, John Burger, Lea Beggs, Lulu Lala

1 - 22 October

Dramatic chromatic ecstatic is an exhibition of diverse photographic works, many inhabiting less-conventional niches of the genre, from collages of human-animal hybrids, to lurid manipulated landscapes, photos of anthropomorphic fruit, photos printed on costumes, and fractalized images of nature.

CCP - Fitzroy Link Map

Walking Turrangka…in the shadows

James Tylor

to 12 November 2023

‘Turrangka…in the shadows’ surveys a decade of Tylor’s practice and, for the first time, brings together the most comprehensive selection of his unique daguerreotypes, expansive digital photographic series, hand-made Kaurna cultural objects, and furniture. The exhibition title is drawn from a Kaurna word, highlighting a significant ongoing aspect of Tylor’s practice: the learning and sharing of his Indigenous language. As well as shadow, turra also translates to reflection, image, and mirror.

Hillvale Gallery - Brunswick Link Map

The days get longer, the winds get warmer, and the world goes green again

Lakshan Dharmapriya

to 1 October 2023

The days get longer, the winds get warmer, and the world goes green again presents two discrete bodies of work from photographers Lakshan Dharmapriya and Pearce Leal, examining the complex ecology and web of multi-species coexistence.

Although created in vastly different geographical locations, Dharmapriya’s and Leal’s respective works intertwine through a shared thematic thread - namely, the profound interconnection between humans and the natural world, how we simultaneously form, and are formed, by our surroundings.

Be Angry At The Sun

Lakshan Dharmapriya

6 - 29 October 2023

Be Angry at The Sun investigates the concept of slow violence in Australia’s river landscape. The project traces Australia’s Murray Darling Basin, a landscape charged with a dark, violent history of colonisation, the implementation of water politics and the ongoing influence of industry. It examines the degradation of the river landscape as a trace of what it once was—under layers of historical intervention, water management and climate change.

Melbourne - City, East, North & South

Tucked around Melbourne and are many galleries and govt institutions. Much to see, though photography is central to only one.

NGV Ian Potter Centre - Melbourne Link Map

Photography Real and Imagined

Various from the collection

From 13 October 2023

Photography: Real and Imagined examines two perspectives on photography; photography grounded in the real world, as a record, a document, a reflection of the world around us; and photography as the product of imagination, storytelling and illusion. On occasion, photography operates in both realms of the real and the imagined.

Arc One - Melbourne Link Map

Set of Keys

Pat Brassingto, Guo Jian, Janet Laurence, Robert Owen, Imants Tillers, John Young and Anne Zahalka

to 21 October 2023

For every ridged lock, there’s a golden key. Showing 2023 highlights from ARC ONE Gallery artists, SET OF KEYS presents major works in a star-studded line-up. To
unlock the most important issues facing contemporary society, we look to a council of Australia’s most esteemed, established artists. Institutions and private collectors have confirmed that these giants will stand the test of time. Masters who are capable of saying the unsayable, their work projects an undeniable authority. Daring, powerful and substantial, the exhibition presents ideas and expresses emotions that are closed off from the everyday world.

Very long exhibitions in museums.

We will include a photo in the month we find them, then list.

East Melbourne Library - East Melbourne Link Map

Newsworthy: Melbourne in photographs 1933 to 1936

Various

to 10 December 2023

In the 1990s, renowned architectural photographer Ian McKenzie (1939 to 2014) picked up a collection of 240 glass plate negatives at a market. Believed to be from a Victorian news archive, they dated back to the 1930s. The slides lay dormant in a garage until 2020 when Ian’s wife Louise decided it was time to bring them back out into the light.

Working with City of Melbourne Libraries’ local history librarians, Louise and two other history-loving volunteers devoted more than three years to unlocking the mysteries of the collection. 

State Library of Victoria - Melbourne Link Map

Mirror: New view on photography   

From the Collection

to 28 January 2024

Great photography can hold up a mirror to the world and reflect our innermost thoughts and feelings. ​ MIRROR: New views on photography showcases over 140 photographs from the State Collection, alongside creative responses from emerging and established Victorian storytellers to tell fascinating tales of Victoria through a contemporary lens. 

Blindside  - Melbourne Link Map

Odd fragments, ad infinitum

Elena Misso, Kaijern Koo, Michael McCafferty, Skye Malu Baker

11 October – 4 November

Odd fragments, ad infinitum collects the work of four Naarm-based artists who adopt a diaristic approach in their practices, transforming the everyday and domestic into an aesthetic experience that expresses the peculiarity of urban banality.

Immigration Museum - Melbourne Link Map

Fam by Where are you from?

26 August to 28 January 2023

Fam (meaning family) is the latest exhibition in the photojournalistic project Where are you from? - exploring Australian cultural identities – created by writer and curator Sabina McKenna.

Fam addresses the complexities of familial relationships, specifically to do with identity, and seeks to redefine the conventional so-called Australian family portrait.

This series of portraits and stories celebrates, educates, and raises awareness about the black and Indigenous people of colour (BIPOC) identity through thought-provoking art and storytelling.

Archives Centre - North Melbourne Link Map

Collective City

Cathrin Plunkett, Francesca Donnoli, Gonzzalo Palta, Shiang Liew, Sally Coggle, Mark Davidson, Mike Reed, Nathan Coote, Andrew Wilson, Adam Sinclair, Jane Hinwood and Ilana Rose

This exhibition showcases historic photographs of Melbourne from the state and federal government archives, alongside images representing our city today, curated from submissions by contemporary street photographers. The exhibition explores the moments of joy and connection that happen in our public spaces, between friends, family and strangers. It also highlights the ways people can feel disconnected or lonely in a crowd, and the divisions created by inequity of access to services and public spaces.

Shrine of Remembrance  - Melbourne Link Map

Trenches to Runway

23 October to October 2024

At first glance, the world of fashion and the gravity of military service may appear distant, even disparate. Yet, they share a tapestry of connections that reveal themselves in profound ways.

Our latest exhibition explores the rich connections between the uniforms that once graced the battlefield and the iconic fashion staples we embrace today.
Trenches to Runway delves into the profound impact of military clothing design and wartime conditions on popular fashion, tracing these influences from the 1870s to the present day. Discover how wartime led to innovative design solutions and how the fashion industry reinterpreted these styles, giving them new meaning and expression in civilian life..

Hellenic Museum 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. 

Old Treasury Building - Melbourne Link Map

Lost Jobs: The Changing World of Work

to 12 November 2023

The world of work is always changing and here is an odd history. This is not an exhibition of photography but an exhibition that has very interesting photography to illustrate the points it is making.

South East

St Kilda has been a hub of arts for as long as it has been. It has a dedicated gallery and others that show photography. Further down there is The Museum of Australian Photography, the most important local government gallery for photography.

Pride Centre - St Kilda Link Map

If the World Was Just

Various

As part of resident organisation Thorne Harbour Health‘s 40th anniversary, ‘If the World Was Just’ is a photographic exhibition exploring LGBTIQ+ human rights around the world through a series of portraits of local LGBTIQ+ community members.

In this portraiture exhibition, personal narratives intertwine with the global struggle for LGBTIQ+ rights. Drawing from Thorne Harbour’s 2016/17 annual report, the photo series has been revisited to consider the contemporary consequences of LGBTIQ+ people living in various countries around the world.

Museum of Australian Photography - Monash Link Map

William and Winifred Bowness Photography prize

Short listed artists

21 September - 12 November 2023

The annual prize for contemporary photographic art practice, this is exhibition includes the short listed artists.

LOOK! MAPh Members' Photography Prize

Jahkarli Romanis

to 27 November 2023

LOOK! is an exclusive annual photographic award and exhibition that celebrates recent work produced by MAPh Members.

Members were invited to submit up to three photographic works with no thematic restrictions. A selection of works, chosen by MAPh’s curatorial team, will be exhibited in MAPh’s Atrium Gallery.

The curatorial team will also award prizes for the following categories: portraiture, still-life, architecture, documentary, experimental, fashion, landscape, monochrome, nature, photojournalism, and street. The winner of each category will receive a $50 Camera House voucher, generously donated by Croydon Camera House.

Monash University Museum of Art - Monash Link Map

L’ombre de ton ombre

Paul Knight

7 October – 9 December 2023

Knight’s ongoing photographic project, Chamber Music, records the life he shares with his partner Peter. Since they met in 2009, the series has accumulated glimpses into the domestic space of their relationship, with its images created through varying degrees of pre-meditation and chance; often the camera timer is set so that it simply captures what it sees. Printed in a range of scales, the exhibition at MUMA brings together several works from this series in the Monash University Collection along with more recent additions..

Heidi Museum of Modern Art - Bulleen Link Map

Beneath The Surface – Behind the Scenes

Participating artists include: Alexander Apóstol (Venezuela), Tatiana Blass (Brazil), Lauren Brincat (Australia), Christian Capurro (Australia), Elena Damiani (Peru), Marlon de Azambuja (Brazil), Matías Duville (Argentina), Gloria Sebastián Fierro (Colombia), Ximena Garrido-Lecca (Peru), Arturo Hernández Alcázar (Mexico) Nadia Hernández (Venezuela/Australia), André Komatsu (Brazil), Liliana Porter (Argentina), Marilá Dardot, (Brazil), Nicholas Mangan (Australia), Jorge Magyaroff (Colombia), Hayley Millar Baker, Gunditjmara/Djabwurrung (Australia) Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza (Ecuador/France), Berna Reale (Brazil) and Steven Rendall (Australia).

to 22 October 2023

Beneath the Surface, Behind the Scenes brings into dialogue a selection of significant works by contemporary Latin American and Australian artists. It explores the ways that art can take our imaginations beyond the limitations of the known world and the veil of visual appearances.

The exhibition considers art as a generative force and as a complex form of language, investigation and theatre. Ideas unfold simultaneously in real and imagined space and time unearthing and giving rise to deeper forms of knowledge and prompting alternative insights and perceptions. Artists in the exhibition embrace instability, forms of erasure and new realms of possibility, critically engaging with unacknowledged or difficult histories, as well as impacts on our changing society and natural environments.

Surrealist

Lee Miller

4 November 2023 – 25 February 2024

Shining a light on a ground-breaking woman artist, Heide will present the first Australian survey of photographer Lee Miller. A surrealist before she even knew of the movement, Lee Miller was one of the most original photographic artists of the twentieth century. Defying the expectations placed on her as a woman and an artist, she was as unconventional in her life as in her work and captured the intensity of her experiences in unforgettable images.

The exhibition has been curated by Miller’s son, Antony Penrose, and includes 100 photographs from across the artist’s remarkable career. Surrealist Lee Miller spans her early portrait and fashion photography in New York and Paris, landscape and architecture, her coverage of the horrors of the Second World War, and her extraordinary creative circle—which included Man Ray, Picasso, Max Ernst, Dora Maar and many others—revealing Miller’s surrealist eye and deep involvement in the world around her.

Bayside Gallery - Brighton Link Map

Returning

Jane Burton

to 5 November 2023

Commissioned to produce three works for the Billilla Mansion Lightbox project, Burton’s engagement with the Council-owned site has yielded a major new series of works that communicates with a sense of drama the richness of the homestead’s lived history. This series will feature in the exhibition alongside recent figurative works from the A phantom lover series (2020) and the complete series of ambrotypes from her 2022 series Kingdom of pleasure which explored childhood recollections of St Kilda’s Luna Park..

North

Mostly out of town and a great day trip or more.

Gold Street Gallery - Trentham East Link Map

The Briny Deep

Bianca Conwell 

to 1 October 2023

An observation of the recurring shapes and forms in nature. Throughout the natural world we find repeating shapes; meandering patterns, symmetries, spirals and waves. We see the shapes of grand landscapes and mountain ranges, flowing bodies of water, plant and animal life, prehistoric forms, celestial bodies and galaxies all reflected in each other. This is my first solo exhibition, all of the photographs in it are made using large format cameras, hand made emulsions and negatives, and hand made printing methods. This exhibition includes salt and carbon prints from wet plate glass negatives, and ambrotypes. I am inspired by time spent in nature along the Otway coast in Victoria, and in this work especially by objects from the sea. 

Scapes

Ben Healley

4 October to 26 November 2023

Photographer Benjamin Healley is compelled to capture the power of time. It is an endless pursuit—a search for the perfect moment that combines the elements of light, texture, and form. With SCAPES Benjamin takes you on a monochromatic odyssey that celebrates anthropogenic and natural environments alike.

SCAPES is a story of contrast and the ephemeral nature of our world. Benjamin plays with time scales across disparate landscapes, juxtaposing the industrial and natural in a manner that is both familiar and otherworldly. The amalgamation of these opposing forces conjures layers of thought-provoking interpretation, unique to the individual viewer.

Castlemaine Art Museum - Castlemaine Link Map

Nelson's Descendants – the Saunders family from Mooroopna

James Henry with Henry Harmony

to 10 December 2023

18 Families recognises the 18 ancestors whose descendants make up the thriving Jaara community who live in, around and beyond Castlemaine on Dja Dja Wurrung Country today.

We are grateful to the community for their participation and shared desire to create a contemporary representation of the Jaara community in all their humanity and diversity.

This Terrace Projection series of photographs follows Henry's previous exhibitionand interviews with the Jaara community of four families on Country, commissioned by Castlemaine Art Museum in 2021.

Art Gallery of Ballarat - Ballarat Link Map

DIGITAL ANTIROPOCENE

Serwah Attafuah & Jonathan Zawada

26 August to 22 October 2023

Search beyond the algorithm and witness new cyber landscapes, with the works of Serwah Attafuah and Jonathan Zawada who merge the worlds of science and art at the virtual forefront. 

Attafuah is a multidisciplinary artist and musician whose surreal digital dreamscapes and futuristic humanoids challenge traditional narratives and perspectives. Zawada works across design, digital rendering, video and more to create virtual artefacts that are both natural and artificial, exploring ideas of digital culture, nature, and data. 

INSTANT WARHOL

Andy Warhol

to 22 October 2023

Instant Warhol takes us straight to Andy Warhol’s point of view, famous, fleeting, commercialised, constructed, in a series of his Polaroid photographs of people in the spotlight in the 1970s and 80s.

This amazing collection from the Brant Foundation in New York shows us Warhol’s understanding of the superficial nature of celebrity in American society, his obsession with the people behind the personas, and the fleeting nature of fame. Many of the more than 50 images show the line and expression of famous faces including Mick Jagger, Liza Minelli, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton, many of which would later be translated into Warhol’s iconic screen prints. 

PEOPLE POWER

Platon

to 22 October 2023

Arresting portraits of some of the most significant people of our time, from the cool gaze of Vladimir Putin to the art and expression of Vivienne Westwood, Michelle Obama and Adele and the rebellion of Pussy Riot. 

Platon’s artistry captures a soulfulness, a narrative, an essence in a single frame. His iconic work is featured in global magazines, both as covers and editorial documentation, including The New York Times, Vanity Fair, George, GQ and Sunday Times Magazine. He has produced over 20 covers for Time magazine including Putin for their Person of the Year cover in 2007. 

Platon captures the narrative of our contemporary world and reminds us that in spite of our differences, or our diversity, what we have in common is the capacity to be human. In 2013, he founded the not-for-profit organisation The People’s Portfolio to document humanitarian efforts around the world. His portfolios include photographs of Burmese victims and exiles, Egyptian revolutionaries and those fighting against oppression in Russia. 

PRO FEMINA

Ramak Bamzar

to 22 October 2023

The deep digital footprints made by this generation of victims of the Islamic Republic have left behind a haunting reminder of the power of protests and individual action. So far, dozens of women protestors have been arrested, kidnapped, and subjected to torture, rape, and execution.

Ramak Bamzar is a Melbourne-based Iranian photographer. Her work explores how cultural and religious norms can shape women's beliefs, values, and behaviours and can influence their sense of self-worth and agency.

In these striking works, the Moustachioed Women and Rhinoplastic Girls from Bamzar’s 2022 series burst out of their imprisoning frames to capture a moment in the ongoing struggle, intertwining with the essence of Iranian culture and heritage. Through the integration of poetic motifs, epic themes, and historical allusions, the images go beyond mere documentation, offering a profound insight into the resilience and determination of Iranian women.

THE STEPHANIE COLLECTION

Yvonne Todd

to 22 October 2023

Yvonne Todd is a New Zealand-based photographer known for her unique and unconventional approach to portraiture. Her work challenges traditional photographic clichés by manipulating styles to create unexpected and provocative relationships. Her unsettling images often feature strikingly costumed characters with unnatural poses, unaccountably glossy complexions, and a hint of ghoulishness: wigs, fake teeth, prosthetics and outdated costumes that are highly styled and manipulated. 

Todd's distinctive approach to photography has earned her a reputation as a standout figure in the New Zealand art scene and a significant contributor to contemporary art. Todd's work is not a commentary on beauty, but an exploration of the irreverent and obscure.

EFFACEMENT

Karenne Ann & Heather Horrocks

to 22 October 2023

This exhibition is about identity. Masks can change everything. Photographic images by Karenne Anne loom from the walls and distort the identity of the maker, Heather Horrocks, who wears them. Redundant VHS tape that once held stories is manipulated with a crochet hook to tell new ones – about the war on a virus, the war on climate change and the war on women.

Tape leaks into and around the recreated sitting room belonging to the Lindsay family of artists from Creswick, disturbing its tranquillity.

Karenne Ann and Heather Horrocks, who live and work on Wadawurrung Country, have formed a post-pandemic collaboration called ISOyoh.

NEVERLASTING

Ian Kemp

22 October 2023

For Ballarat-based photographer Ian Kemp, images of the natural world are a metaphor for the transience of human life – its permanence and impermanence. The works in this exhibition capture a changing world where beauty is ephemeral and temporary.

He uses the tonal and textural properties of etching and other traditional printing processes to imbue these works with an otherworldliness. He highlights the beauty of line, form, and composition within the images to convey the impending change that will come with the seasons, a metaphor for the transitions within ourselves as we progress through our lives.

Horsham Regional Gallery - Horsham Link Map

CREATION
Deborah Kelly

to 05 November 2023

Deborah Kelly’s CREATION is a multi-venue, multi-disciplinary collaborative artwork about human connection, learning exchange, belief and hope that takes the form of a queer insurrectionary science fiction climate change religion.

THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS

Various artists from the collection

to 26 November 2023

Flowers have been depicted by cultures across the world in art since the start of recorded history. Although values for their aesthetic qualities, for most of this time, they have been utilised for their symbolism.

The Secret Language of Flowers looks at how flowers have been used to symbolically represent subjects in the still life and human portraiture genres.

Bendigo Art Gallery - Bendigo Link Map

First Nations Photography
Artists include Michael Cook (Bidjara), Peta Clancy (Bangerang), and Naomi Hobson (Kaantju, Umpila). 

28 October 2023 - 4 February 2014

This exhibition of selected works from the Bendigo Art Gallery collection brings contemporary First Nations photography into dialogue with historic photographic images. Together, the works offer an exploration of the history and legacy of photography in relation to First Nations people, and how contemporary Aboriginal artists are turning the tide on the medium in the pursuit of self-representation and truth-telling.

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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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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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LEARN MORE

Artist/Curator Talks

Museum of Australian Photography - Wheelers Hill Link Map

29 October 2023 Artist talks: Clare Rae, Alison Bennett and Pia Johnson with MAPh Senior Curator Angela Connor

5 November 2023 In Conversation: Anouska Phizacklea in Conversation with Wai Tang Commission artist Janelle Low

12 November 2023 In Conversation: Scotty So, The Huxleys and Ayman Kaake with Anouska Phizacklea

Magnet Gallery Link

Sunday 22nd October Floor Talks

11:00 am Keiko Goto QLD AUS/Japan - Zoukin Gake

11:30 am Danielle Edwards VIC AUS - Platinum Palladium/Infrared

12:00 pm Kaye Dixon VIC AUS Ziatype Over Cyanotype

1:30 pm Ellie Young VIC AUS - Salt/ Albumen/ Carbon

2:00 pm Elizabeth Opalenik USA - Mordançage - Demonstration/Floor talk

Sunday 5 November Floor Talk

2:00 pm David Tatnall VIC AUS - Silver Gelatin

Register at EVENTBRITE - Admission free (donation to MAGNET welcomed!)

Gold Street Studios

Sunday 8th October 2023 2pm to 4.30 pm

Opening Speech by Elizabeth Opalenik (San Francisco) at 2.30 pm

Followed by Artist floor talk by Benjamin Healley

Bendigo Link

11:00am - 12:00pm Sat 04 Nov 2023
Curator Lorraine Brigdale in conversation with artist Dr Peta Clancy
La Trobe Art Institute, 121 View Street , Bendigo VIC 3550

Members $10 General public $15

A discusion how contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists are turning the tide on the medium of photography in the pursuit of self-representation and truth-telling. 

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 

There is a lot see listings!

Courses Link

Very full calendar of events Link

Australian Association of Street Photographers Link
Monthly talk by guest speaker

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