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

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THIS MONTH'S BIG THING

HEADON Photo Festival - Sydney

4 November to 4 December 2022

Melbourne is the centre of Australian photography but Sydney does have some interesting events and spaces. This is the big one. For a month photography goes public! Like Photo2022, exhibitions go into the public spaces, like Paddington and Bondi Beach. It is worth the trip! The editor of this newsletter will be on a panel talking about his practice on 6 November!

PHOTO EXHIBITIONS

Docklands

Docklands has three regular venues to show photography.

XYZ Photo Gallery - Docklands Link Map

TALAMITAM INTIMACY

//Dansk Santos // Raul Policarpio// Zairene Yeoh  // Miguel de Quiros

to 24 November 2022

2:00 - 6:00pm, Wed - Fri and Sunday

Four photographers who make work that looks at aspects of talamitam/intimacy. Each approach and style being unique to their vision. They express the longing for intimacy, and that of self, the photographer's significant others and one's own child. The gallery is very proud to show these artists for the first time. Two make their homes in Melbourne two are based in the Philippines.   

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

Gallery at Library at The Dock - Docklands Link Map

Iron Women

Anna Madden

to 3 November 2022

What better way is there to cut through a stereotype than with an angle grinder? That’s what the women of the Australian Blacksmiths Association (Victorian branch) are doing, as this photographic project illustrates. The image of a blacksmith as a muscular male with a hammer is now a dated stereotype.

Melbourne: Our Creative Heart

Creative Cluster

9 November to 1 December 2022

Developed by seven women artists working in different mediums, this exhibition depicts how Melbourne supports the arts community and nurtures creativity. 

With four distinct themes – people, place, culture and vitality – the exhibition comprises a central group of 3D forms, suggesting the creative heart or spirit, as well as artworks clustered in frames. Some frames overlap, partially obscuring the images, and allude to the significant contribution of workers ‘behind the scenes’.

Magnet Gallery - Docklands Link Map

Grad Show 2022

to 6 November 2022

2022 marks the final year for Melbourne Polytechnic’s Photography & Digital Imaging courses. The Students,Teachers and Friends Of Melbourne Polytechnic Present

The Grad Show Grand Finale!

Here is the easy way to walk the Docklands precinct: XYZ, Lib@Docs and Magnet. Note check what time the spaces are open before leaving.

Inner North - Fitzroy Collingwood Brunswick

One of the hearts of art in Melbourne, there are three dedicated photo galleries and many more that show photography.

CCP - Fitzroy Link Map

2022 CCP Fundraiser

Hoda Afshar, Brook Andrew, Ying Ang, Atong Atem, Georgia Banks, Anita Beaney, Lyndell Brown and Charles Green, Su Cassiano, Danica Chappell, Peta Clancy, Zoë Croggon, J Davies, Christopher Day, Mathias Depardon, Jo Duck, Lauren Dunn, Juno Gemes, Janina Green, Kristian Häggblom, Hootan Heydari, Eliza Hutchison, Rohan Hutchison, Will and Garrett Huxley, Shea Kirk, Katrin Koenning, Christopher Koller, Anouk Kruithof, Anu Kumar, Erin Lee, Honey Long and Prue Stent, Kirsten Lyttle, Ruth Maddison, Jesse Marlow, Ali McCann, Mia Mala McDonald, Ross McDonnell, Tracey Moffatt, Pietro Paolini, Debra Phillips, Gareth Phillips, Izabela Pluta, Patrick Pound, Shannon May Powell, Clare Rae, Steven Rhall, Lynne Roberts-Goodwin, David Rosetzky, Julie Rrap, Matthew Sleeth, Simon Terrill, James Tylor, Emmaline Zanelli, and Anne Zahalka

to 30 October 2022

Works from more than 40 prominent Australian and international artists will be available for purchase online and in the gallery, with proceeds going to support CCP’s exhibition program and ongoing mission, and artists directly.

2022 CCP Summer Salon

All work by all artists entered.

25 November to 18 December 2022

This exhibition continues to be one of the most significant surveys of contemporary photography in Australia, presented in the famous ‘floor-to-ceiling’ Salon hang that has become a signature of this community-focused event.

Wolfhound Photographic Gallery - Fitzroy Link Map

October

Nic Kocher, Mark Harper, Luke David, Kim James, Jasmine Evans & Joanna Wilson.

to 6 November, 2022

October is the month the Stock Market hates.

It’s unpredictable and usually unpleasant.

Luckily the rest of us have so much more to worry about.

But great artwork is intractable. It just keeps coming.

Tacit - Collingwood Link Map

Bukimi

Keiko Goto

to 12 November 2022

The photographs featured in the exhibition Bukimi are of Australian native plants and fruits that the artist finds locally in Brisbane. The images are taken with an 8 x 10" large format camera using black & white films, developed and printed by Keiko Goto herself. Using a large format camera helps direct the attention to a deeper, under the surface, shape or texture of the objects to what lies under and beyond. One thing Keiko admires in Australian culture is the strength of lives in sometimes harsh environment but still able to see the humorous side to it.  

Portrait Gallery For Fine Ladies

Kerrilee Ninnis

to 12 November 2022

Portrait Gallery For Fine Ladies is an exploration into melding together the genres of still life and portraiture, choosing for the sitters a selection of antique dolls over 100 years old. These little ladies are indeed fine, made from fine bisque porcelain or refined wax over papier-mâché. Each little madam fulfills her chosen role or story to represent female portraiture in an art historical period. Running through these images are themes of portrayal and the gaze, of femininity and female family lineage, and of finding beauty in aged surfaces.

ACAE Gallery - Collingwood Link Map

Imperfect Beauty of the Sublime

Bronek Kozka

to 11 November 2022

For artist and photographer Bronek Kozka, the hand-held recording device is an integral part of his adventures trekking into remote parts of the natural world. As others have done before him, such as the Tasmanian photographer Peter Dombrovskis (1945-1996), whose striking photograph ‘Rock Island Bend’ became an icon of the environmental movement, Kozka locates the contents of his images within the strenuous and challenging journeys that are required to obtain them.

This Map links the Collingwood, Fitzroy and Carlton area including Hillvale, CCP, Wolfhound and OffTheKerb for great walk. Note check what time the spaces are open before leaving.

Melbourne - East, North, South & City

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

Leica Gallery - Melbourne Link Map

Annica   

Knox Bertie

to 10 November 2022

The word ‘Annica’ is used to describe impermanence. In a city that has experienced many transitions throughout its history, Knox Bertie documents the latest incarnation of life in Sydney by capturing moments of reflection shared by commuters struggling with their daily routines.

The Gallery, Intercontinental - Melbourne Link Map

Melbourne Landmark Exhibition   

Steve Young and Glen Percival

until it is replaced

Brought to life inside the 1890’s Rialto building, InterContinental Melbourne The Rialto has released “The Gallery”, a space which showcases some of Melbourne’s most iconic landmarks, icons and seascapes by current artists in residence, award winning photographers Steve Young and Glen Percival, the creative duo behind Young & Percival.

Hellenic Museum link

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

until 2023
See links for times/days

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.

Archives Centre - North Melbourne Link Map

Tech School Exhibition

until 2023

To celebrate 150 years of public education in Victoria, we're shining a spotlight on the institutions that have provided young people with vocational training and hands-on learning since the late 19th century.

From bootmaking to cyborg physiology, we delve into the fascinating history of technical education across Melbourne and the regions. The stories include an architect on a mission to banish darkness from the classroom, the domestic studies college seeking to elevate the art of folding laundry and love letters thrown across the divide known as 'no man's land' at Preston Tech.

Tech School brings together stunning archival photographs, sourced from Public Record Office Victoria’s collection, alongside original documents and hand-painted building plans.

Melbourne Camera Club - South Melbourne Link Map

Upstairs Gallery.  

Zeitgeist

Work by the club's Conceptual Group

29-30 October 2022

Sun Studios Gallery - South Melbourne Link Map

Upstairs Gallery.  

Guy Bourdin 1928 - 1991

to 31 October 2022

Guy Bourdin is considered one of the most influential fashion photographers of the twentieth century. Alongside peers including Helmut Newton, he both pushed and defined the boundaries of fashion photography as an art form in the late seventies and early eighties in the knowledge that it is not fashion itself that seduces people but the fantasy it represents.

1Shot22 - DEFINING MOMENTS IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

Image Makers Association Australia

10 November to 16 December 2022

All contributing artists are members of the newly founded Image Makers Association Australia, and the exhibition features an extensive collection of work by many of Australia's leading Architectural and Interiors photographers. The theme has asked contributors to consider what that ‘one shot’ is that defines a place, a building, or their practice. Reflecting its diversely talented membership it has been interpreted in numerous ways. 1 SHOT 22 is a rare opportunity to not only view a stunning collection of photography but the opportunity to purchase prints by some of the top photographers working in Australia today.

This Map links up all the Melbourne North, South, East and City for you for great walk (you might like to PT some of it). Note check what time the spaces are open before leaving.

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 Monash Gallery of Art the most important council gallery for photography.

Stranger Gallery - St Kilda Link Map

Other Self

Masa Hoss

10 to 26 November 2022

The collection presents minimalist photographic art with form, space and movement applied by design to evoke calm and presence.

A considered application of compassion science invites us to a conversation of equals that expands our self-other overlap, awakening compassion and our sense of belonging.

See website for supporting programme.

Jewish Museum of Australia - St Kilda Link Map

Helmut Newton - In Focus

to 29 January 2023

This is an expansive collection of the trailblazing image-maker’s most recognisable and quintessential works, including 78 original Newton photographs – the same daring and often controversial images that revolutionised the fashion world and established Newton as one of the most sought-after photographers of the 20th century.

Featuring items on loan from the State Library of Victoria, State Library of New South Wales, the Powerhouse Museum, National Archives Australia, RMIT Design Archives and private lenders, among many others, the exhibition delves into Newton’s early life and career, shining a light on his Jewish roots and youth in Berlin, his flight from Germany at the outbreak of WWII and his eventual internment at Tatura in regional Victoria as an enemy alien.

Pride Centre - St Kilda Link Map

Impossible Dance

Matto Lucas

to 30 October 2022

As a photographer, Matto Lucas interrogates systems of power, focuses on GASD (Gender and Sexually Diverse) and LGBTIQ+ identities, and aims to authentically document communities on the fringes of mainstream culture, with heavy influences from Rennie Ellis, Susan Sontag, Nan Goldin, William Yang and Joan E. Biren. 

Titled after an influential essay written by Fiona Buckland, Impossible Dance is the fifth iteration in a broader series of performance-based photography, bringing together images exhibited throughout the series.  

Monash Gallery of Art - Monash Link Map

Bowness Prize

to 13 November 2022

Over the last 16 years, the Bowness Photography Prize has emerged as an important annual survey of contemporary photographic practice in Australia and one of the most prestigious prizes in the country. In 2005 the MGA Foundation was established with the aim of supporting MGA and its significant collection, as well as its unique commitment to photographic art and in 2006 initiated the inaugural William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize to promote excellence in photography and support contemporary artists working in the medium.

This landscape holds grief

Paula Mahoney

to 13 November 2022

MGA and the MGA Foundation are proud to introduce the inaugural Wai Tang Commissioning Award exhibition. Paula Mahoney is the first artist to be awarded the $10,000 commission who was selected from the 2021 Bowness Photography Prize. The award has been established by Wai Tang’s husband, Kee Wong, to recognise and honour her significant impact on the arts and preserve her legacy within MGA’s collection and exhibition history.

Compendium Art Gallery Link

Deborah Paauwe

to 29 October 2022

At first glance, Paauwe's hyer-feminine living dolls appear to be unconscious automata, unaware of the reality beyond the codes they are fed to make them dance.

Bayside Gallery Link Map

Threshold

Dirk de Bruyn, Guy Grabowsky, Mat Hughes

29 October to 18 December 2022

From Grabowsky’s scratched and textured abstract photographs and Hughes’ cyanotypes toned with botanical materials, to de Bruyn’s impactful animations featuring drawn and ascribed negative reels, the exhibition presents three different approaches to image making within the genre of photography and film that reveals the artists’ encounter with the materiality of process.

Somewhere to Someone

Mark Forbes and Rowena Meadows

29 October to 18 December 2022

Somewhere to someone brings the works of these two artists together in a visual conversation around presence and absence, and the beautiful moments of our lived experience that give us pause and reflection.

This Map links up all the St Kilda and other southern galleries for you for great drive. Note check what time the spaces are open before leaving.

South West

Focal Point Studio Darkroom and Gallery Link  Map

Masters of Australian Photojournalism

7 October to 4 December 2022

Our third MoAP exhibition promises to be everything the first two were, with another new line-up of some of Australia's best press photographers. A must-see exhibition for anyone with an interest in sport, news, portraiture and current affairs photography. This exhibition features work by some of Australia's best photojournalists from the 1970s to today and includes many famous and award-winning photos. From the rich and famous to the unsung heroes of daily life, there is something of interest for everyone. 

North

Gold Street Gallery - Trentham East Link Map

Bone Women: Remembering the Journey Home

Kaye Dixon

to 20 November 2022

Here I have combined sculpture, painting, digital photography and alternative printing technique cyanotype to re-member my journey home; the long journey to find true feminine power buried in the depth of one’s soul; to remember the magic and medicine that lies hidden deep inside.

Harlequinade

Ellie Young

Late November 2022 to February 2023

This exhibition of opalotypes uses opal glass as the base to the images. The white glass enhances the porcelain white faces while the rest of the image falls into shadows. Simultaneously capturing bold, graphic qualities of the figures, their nuances of colour, the unique surface relief and tonality.

Hunt Club Community & Arts Centre - Deer Park Link Map

Thanks Pandemic

Stuart Murdoch

to 4 December 2022

Dealing with the Pandemic he was forced to find other ways to flex his creative muscle. He did this by visiting his analogue archive. This archive spans more than 30 years of walking and exploring his home town of Melbourne, using a variety of cameras. The last 20 or so years here in the West and Sunshine. He managed to distil his archive to this handful of images. He hopes these picture can offer some insights into how he has watched this city grow and change. 

Horsham Regional Gallery - Horsham Link Map

Picture This

Works from the Collection

to 6 November 2022

Inspired by Blondie’s iconic 1978 song, this exhibition looks at portraiture within the Horsham Regional Art Gallery collection, from our earliest collecting activities in the 1970s through to our most recent acquisitions. Picture this features paintings, works on paper and photography including works by Carol Jerrems, Bill Henson, Polly Borland, Christian Thompson, Richard Beck, Dagmar Cyrulla, Dacchi Dang, Charles Bush, Max Meldrum, and A.M.E Bale.

Ready for a day trip? Here is a map to find the Northern venues.

Out of State but Important

Head On Photo Festival

4 - 20 November 2022

Sydney's big photo festival, this year featuring a huge number of exhibitions, showings of prize finalists, panels workshops.

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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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EVENTS/TALKS/WORKSHOPS

Regularly:

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.

Focal Point Studio, Darkroom & Gallery Link

One-on-one Darkroom Training

Introduction to Film Photography

Introduction to Car Portraiture

Check link for others. 

Melbourne Camera Club 

There is a lot see listings!

Courses Link

Very full calendar of events Link

Australian Association of Street Photographers Link

TBA

Work In Progress Link

Black & White Darkroom Printing

Colour C-Type Printing

B&W Refresher Course

see link for dates. 

One off:

Head On Photo Festival

Check the website for details they intend to broadcast the panels. These feature 3-4 artists with a high profile moderator, like Alasdair Foster. Yours truely the editor of this publication will be speaking on Sunday night. Link

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L&D Photo

422 Smith St Collingwood

It is with great sadness that this institution is to close. Joe the owner recently had a car accident and was injured and is not able to continue the business. This store has been around for so long and was the stalwart of film photography during the dark years of the digital take over. It is very sad to see them go. At the moment they are having a half price sale to clear the stock. 

PRINTING FINE ART

(We are making a start to this list as it will be quite long if we have not made it to your printing house or your favourite, please email us).

FRAMERS

This is our next list, please email us with those you would recommend.

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