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October 2024 #38

Additional newsletter photos by Jesse Pretorius aka @goofy_jpegs

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

EDITORIAL

 

I'm getting ready to travel. XYZ is doing its last show of the year. It is stunning and i encourage you to have a look. We have the best of 20th Century Monochrome from the stockroom. I'm hoping to get one more newsletter out this year but depends. Before we leave we are doing a talk on collecting photographs to help you get started.

 

The goal of this newsletter is to let us know what is happening so that we can be more engaged and create community of people excited by this media.

 

This newsletter is produced by a team of one. We have a few readers who help alert us to things we have missed. We encourage crowd sourcing! I go through 200+ webpages to put this together over days per month. We have set up the appreciation link below to ease my coffee spending while putting out this for you all.

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BIG THINGS

 

Yellow Dot Fundraiser for BIFF

24 October 2024

RACV Melbourne

 

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.

Details

 

Same Page Art Book Fair: From 19 October 2024

Gertrude Contemporary

 

Public programme and storeholders announced

Details

Additional newsletter photos by Jesse Pretorius aka @goofy_jpegs

LEARN LINK

XYZ Photo Gallery - Docklands

 

An Introduction to Collecting Photographs.

Sunday 6 October 2024, 12:00-1:30 pm

garrie maguire

FREE. Bookings required.

 

Join our Director for An Introduction to Collecting Photographs! Discover tips on how to identify common print processes, have the keys to understand the value of works , and help you start your collection. This talk is held in conjuction with the exhibition 20th Century Monochrome. See you there!

 

More information

 

 

Linden New Art - St Kilda

 

Design Fringe: How To Write An Artist Statement And Exhibition Proposal

3 October 2024, 6:00 pm

Hamish Sawyer

FREE. Bookings required.

 

Participants will be guided through the essentials of writing a compelling artist statement and proposal in this workshop led by Linden New Art's Curator, Hamish Sawyer.

This practical session is for artists and designers looking to develop their writing skills to assist with exhibition and funding opportunities.

 

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

 

Echo Darkroom - Collingwood Link Map 

C41 film development.

 

Kindred Cameras - 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

 

Wetlab - Burnswick East Link Map

A colour lab that has classes on colour printing, including mural workshops. 

Additional newsletter photos by Jesse Pretorius aka @goofy_jpegs

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

 

 

 

OCTOBER DEADLINE

 

Gomma Photography Grant 2024

Deadline:  1 October/7 November

Entry Fee: EUR15/20/25

Theme: We seek photographers with uncommon ideas, courage, and a distinct personality, artists, showing us their innermost thoughts, and their souls through their work.

Why Enter: Euro1000 + assistance with publishing and exhibition.

Link

 

 

Paris International Street Photo Awards

Who:  Open

Deadline:  1 October 2023 (opens 1 September)

Entry Fee:  EUR14-35

Theme: Street photography

Why enter: Money/iPhone, shown in Rome’s photo festival, Naples, and Nuits Photographique de Pierrevert in Paris.

Link

 

Guest Room: Ruben Lundgren & Yining He

Who: Worldwide

Deadline:  3 October 2023

Entry Fee: Euro8

Theme: Domestic Miracle

Why Enter: Exposure to the European art world.

Link

 

Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award 2024

Who: Worldwide

Deadline:  4 October 2023

Entry Fee: no cost

Theme: Health, natural disasters, humanitarian action, international cooperation, social exclusion, violation of human rights, armed conflicts, vulnerable groups, refugee and / or migrant populations.

Why Enter: Euro6000.

Link

 

Pride Photo Award 2025

Who:  Worldwide

Deadline:  8 October 2023

Entry Fee: no cost

Theme: represent the plurality and diversity of the LGBTQIA+ community

Why Enter: money and exhibition.

Link

 

W Eugene Smith Grant

Deadline:  8 October 2024

Entry: USD50

What: Concerned photography

Why Enter: USD30K+ and super prestige

Link

 

PhMuseum 2024 Women Photographers Grant

Deadline:  10 October 2024

Entry Fee: Euro36

Theme: Concerned photography

Why Enter: USD11K, Solo Exhibition, Interview with Vogue Italia, screening at Photo Vogue Festival 2025

Link

 

Linden Postcard Show 2024 – 2025

Who:  Worldwide

Deadline:  20 October 2024

Entry Fee: AUD 45 (for one discounts apply for up to 3 works)

Theme: Postcard size work

Why Enter: One of the big annual art events.

Link

 

 

W Eugene Smith Student Grant

Deadline:  9 October 2024

Entry: USD10

What: Concerned photography

Why Enter: USD5K+ and super prestige

Link

 

 

NOVEMBER DEADLINE

 

Getxophoto Open Call 2025

Deadline:  1 November 2024

Entry Fee: from Euro 22

Theme: Rec

Why Enter: Fully paid exhibition in Basque Country, Spain at the festival alongside some money to help get there.

Link

 

IV Barcelona Human Rights International Photo Festival

Deadline:  1 November 2024

Entry Fee: Euro 5

Theme: human rights photo projects

Why Enter: Euro3k plus images exhibited on the streets of Barcelona.

Link

 

 

WMA Commission 2025/26 Hope

Who: Open

Deadline:  1 November 2024

Entry Fee: No Cost

Theme: Hope

Why Enter: HKD250k to research, develop and produce the proposed artworks with personalised mentorship from the WMA team.

Link

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 #CreateCOP29 - an open call for climate-focused art

Who: 14-30 year olds

Deadline:  1 November 2024

Entry Fee: Euro15-35

Theme: climate justice

Why Enter: Money, USD2-10k and exposure to important buyers of photography.

Link

 

6th Chelsea International Photography Award

Deadline:  12 November 2024

Entry Fee: from USD 45

Theme: Open

Why Enter: Group exhibition in Chelsea NYC, some cash, media exposure.

Link

2023 LUCIE PHOTO BOOK PRIZE

Deadline:  15 October 2023

Entry Fee: USD 55/35

Theme: Book

Why Enter: diverse group of judges. Some money and exhibition at Los Angeles Centre of Photography.

Link

 

Monochrome Awards

Who: Worldwide

Deadline:  17 November 2024

Entry Fee: USD 22/27 (single)

Theme: Monochrome

Why Enter: Money, exposure and published in a book.

Link

 

The Chico Review - Photobook Retreat and Publishing Prize 2025

Who: Worldwide

Deadline:  22 November 2024

Entry Fee: Euro15-35

Theme: A cohesive bodies of work

Why Enter: Various prizes as part of a photobook workshop including full publication of a book and international distribution.

Link

 

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 Jesse Pretorius aka @goofy_jpegs

EXHIBITIONS LINK

Docklands/Southbank

XYZ Photo Gallery - Docklands 

Link Map

This is hard to find, Details on the website.

 

20th Century Monochrome

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Eve Arnold, Mary Ellen Mark, Marc Ribaud, Weegee and more.

to 13 October 2024 

1 - 5pm, Thursday to Sunday

 

With the rise of AI many photographers are feeling that control of the image is disappearing, further the ultimate insult is being delivered, images are made from text, bypassing visual literacy. This is leading to trend back to film and lately many young photographers are reevaluating the history of the media. They are finding the history and mythology around Leica and a rediscovery of view cameras with their sheet film to have total control over the final output. XYZ has explored its collection of images to bring out and inspire with a collection of important practitioners and some seminal works for the public to experience outside a major government funded gallery.

Inner City

Hillvale Gallery - Brunswick 

Link Map

 

Hillvale Presents:

Ben HattinghClem McNabbEJ Hassan & Kaede James TakamotoEd GorwellGabrielle Hall-LomaxHarley & HandenLina ZackariyaMert Berdilek Sarah CutbushSophie SmithWilhelm Philipp

to 6 October 2024

 

Hillvale Presents our major group exhibition for 2024.

Ben Hattingh’s work taps into this undercurrent of disillusionment. His stark, unpeopled landscapes reflect the eerie calm of a society where familiar structures no longer function as they once did, leaving behind an unsettling void.

Clem McNabb’s artful and intimate eye depicts a community of trans people they met just after turning 21.

Ed Gorwell’s selection of everyday moments mainly focuses on unplanned still life arrangements allowing the viewer to reconsider the relationships that exist between the spaces, objects and people.

Kaede James Takamoto and EJ Hassan present their collaborative project ‘Palaver’ is an on-going visual dialogue centered around female identity and their response to feeling seen.

Gabrielle Hall-Lomax’s collection of images are from an ongoing project exploring identity, memory, and intergenerational connections among women, with a focus on matrilineal heritage.

Harley & Händen’s practice showcases the life of sex workers through playful film photography.

Lina Zackariya maintains a deep connection to her Islamic faith and South-Asian culture, through a focus on the resilience and beauty in maintaining tradition while navigating and integrating a different cultural landscape.

Mert Berdilek, an Australian-Turkish filmmaker and photographer traversed 8000km+ on road across Türkiye, to explore how the country has changed, or hasn't since its formation 100 years ago.

Sarah Cutbush’s project Hidden Valley encapsulates her interest in speculative documentary photography, exploring how this way of working can be used to address silences within the community archive.

Sophie Smith is interested in the representation of feminine-presenting people in fashion and how this influences individual constructions of femininity.

Wilhelm Philipp’s delves into Australia’s thriving paleontology scene in ‘Dinosaur Dreaming’,  through documenting four digs spanning from 2019-2023.

 

Sol Gallery - Fitzroy 

Link Map

 

 

Window Room

Janine McGuinness

to 29 September 2024

Her photographic-based art practice usually concerns the intertwined relationship of people, place, space and time and works often serve as metaphors for emotional and psychological experiences and concern suburbia and the everyday. Most recently, works are printed on archival, Japanese paper and use gold leaf to create highly textured, images that are both painterly and dimensional.

 

Red Gallery - Fitzroy 

Link Map

 

Exodus 2024

JSteven Xiao

16 to 25 January 2025

 

Inspired by the biblical exodus, this series captures moments of personal and collective departure. These aer journeys across deserts of isolation, through shadows of uncertainly and into the light of transformation.

City

SA Pop Up Gallery

Link Map

 

Accidentally Wes Anderson: The Exhibition

Various

to 18 December 2024

Ever seen a dreamy place in real life and thought, ‘That totally belongs in a Wes Anderson film’? An Instagram sensation and best-selling book brought to life, Accidentally Wes Anderson: The Exhibition is an IRL exploration of real-life locations from all 7 continents through the lens of Wes Anderson’s iconic aesthetic.

 

Note: This is photography exhibition as spectacle and $29 entry.

 

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.

 

Searching for Sanctuary:

A journey of survival

Barat Ali Batoor

to 28 January 2025

 

Double Walkley Award winning documentary photographer Barat Ali Batoor takes us beyond the headlines to reveal his personal journey as a Hazara asylum seeker.

After publishing a piece in The Washington Post exposing child exploitation in his homeland of Afghanistan, Batoor became the target of death threats. Forced to flee his country, he began a perilous life in exile – but he never stopped taking photos.

 

From Pakistan and Thailand to Indonesia and Australia, Batoor spent one year enduring the impossible while capturing the untold stories of what it means to be an asylum seeker. Witness Batoor’s poignant, life-affirming documentation of searching for sanctuary.

NGV International - Melbourne 

Link Map

 

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.

FortyFive Downstairs - Melbourne

Link Map

 

Aftermath

Justin Ness

8 – 19 October 2024

 

Justin Ness’s latest collection, “Aftermath,” is a breathtaking photographic series capturing the raw, unfiltered beauty of Tyagarah Nature Reserve on the New South Wales’ North Coast, in the wake of the 2023 bushfire.

This body of work delves deep into the heart of a landscape that has experienced both devastation and renewal, offering a poignant visual narrative of resilience and transformation.

VOID_MELBOURNE 

Link Map

 

embedded bones

Eugenia Raskopoulos

03 to 26 October 2024

Throughout Raskopoulos’ forty-year career, the artist has maintained a deep interest in changing the present by challenging the ways in which we describe the past. She has woven her own image and experiences into a series of photographs, films and installations to articulate the constant negotiation that migrant bodies face in foreign cultures. She notes, ‘I am interrogating the concept of the fragmented body. As an immigrant – a Czech-born woman of Greek descent – my identity is made up of different parts that don’t always sit neatly together. And in the same breath, I want to defy all these labels and break apart traditional conceptions of the body, identity and art.’

(Words by Michael Do link)

 

South East

Museum of Australian Photography - Monash 

Link Map

 

Bowness Prize

Various

to 10 November 2024

The finalists from the most important prize in Australian photography.

 

Bad Sports

The Huxleys

to 10 November 2024

Bad sports reflects upon the ostracisation you can feel when growing up in a country that values sporting achievement above all else. It can be a real struggle especially for a creative, shy queer kid searching for kindred spirits. A love of music, art, fashion and the dark underworld is perceived to offer eventual artistic salvation.

 

Melbourne Camera Club - South Melbourne 

Link Map

 

 

Interesting Times

MCC members

17 October and 19/20 October 2024, 11am-3pm

26-27 October 2024, 11am-3pm

An exhibition of conceptual images looking to ask questions rather than just be pretty.

 

Come celebrate the thought-provoking work of 10 talented members of the Melbourne Camera Club's Conceptual Photography Group.

 

Victorian Price Centre - St Kilda 

Link Map

 

TransTrans: Transnational Trans* Histories

Various

to 3 November 2024

The exhibition delves into the interactions among German and European, North American, and Australian trans communities, as well as their collaboration with scientific researchers on gender diversity. These researchers include those associated with institutions such as Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin, and communities like the queer subcultures of Weimar German

 

 

You Looking At Me, Looking At You

Emma Armstrong-Porter

6 November to 8 January 2024

Memories of intimate shared experiences taken in moments of life, love and loss. These unrefined portraits by artist and educator Emma Armstrong Porter are technically inconsistent because they were shot at a decisive moment, guided by emotion, not photographic convention. These photos capture moments that lean towards the vernacular, but hold a striking private emotion within the returned gaze. Moments veiled through mirrors and glass and immortalised in silver.

 

Compendium Gallery - Armadale 

Link Map

 

Midnight Modern Series VI

Tom Blachford

to 5th October 2024

 

Midnight Modern explores the architecture of Modernism, Particularly in Palm Springs, California captured using ONLY the light of the Full Moon. Intended to act as the stage for an unspoken narrative the images invite the viewer to script the story going on behind the walls of these architectural masterpieces.

 

Heidi Museum of Modern Art - Bulleen 

Link Map

 

Portrait of an Artist

Michel Lawrence

to 30 October 2024

 

Portrait of an Artist takes as its starting point Michel Lawrence’s photographic series Framed, for which he documented Australian artists in their studios over a ten-year period during the 1980s and 90s, and recently expanded with three new images commissioned specifically for the exhibition. The portraits, many of which are held in the Heide Collection, offer not only a compelling visual record of the individual artists, but also a rare glimpse into their private creative spaces and processes. The photographs are contextualised in the exhibition by artworks of each practitioner.

 

South West

North

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre

Link Map

 

Water

Featured artists include: Aunty Gwen Garoni, Hayley Millar-Baker, Shannon Smiley, Darren Trewin, Charles Troedel and David Wadelton. (Not only photos)

to 23 November 2024

 

Water is life. This exhibition presents a selection of works from the Darebin Art Collection that talk to the ways in which water inhabits our lives and sustains our livelihoods. Water is also complex, the politics of water guides the way we move through the world. From Darebin’s surrounding creeks to the Pacific Ocean, these artworks tell the story of the ways in which water has shaped us.

Gold Street Gallery - Trentham East 

Link Map

 

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. 

 

Throught the Looking Glass

Danielle Edwards

10 November – 26 January 202r

 

Peering through the looking glass offers surprise and intrigue. When we look at things differently, we often see what was right in front of us in a new and exciting way. 

Inspired by nature, invisible radiation and visible light underpin this collection of handcrafted silver gelatin images.

Horsham Regional Gallery - Horsham 

Link Map

 

Leave only Footprints

Tamara Dean

to 24 November 2024

 

This first survey exhibition of the critically acclaimed photomedia artist Tamara Dean. Dean’s career began as a photojournalist for the Sydney Morning Herald (2001–2014). She was renowned for finding the quieter, more introspective moments between subject and photographer. Dean’s practice transitioned from documentary to conceptual photography after the arrival of her first child. It transformed her practice into one that explores the primacy of nature and our connectedness to it and to each other.

 

Neverlasting

Ian Kemp

to 24 November 2024

 

Neverlasting explores the timeless quality of the photogravure process, a technique renowned for its rich tonal depth and intricate detail, elevating fleeting moments into enduring visual narratives. Through each of Kemp’s meticulously crafted photogravure works, the exhibition invites viewers to engage with the tactile richness and historical resonance of the medium, appreciating how it can preserve the ephemeral with both precision and poignancy.

 

MAMA Murray Art Museum Albury - Albury 

Link Map

 

Ndayisaba: Now Seen

Kelly Mugisha

To 13 October 2024

 

Now Seen is an exhibition celebrating the vibrant dance culture of the Banyamulenge. Kelly Mugisha Ndayisaba’s body of work pays homage to her ancestral Mulenge culture and captures the essence of traditional dance through painting and photography.

 

Banyamulenge (which translates to people of Mulenge) are a pastoral community who have lived in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for over a century yet remain unrecognised by the Congolese government.

 

 

Additional newsletter photos by Jesse Pretorius aka @goofy_jpegs

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Additional newsletter photos by Jesse Pretorius aka @goofy_jpegs

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