reframe-refocus.xyzPhotoSceneVictoriaJuly 2022 |
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Link NASA photo of part of the Universe. This is, most likely, going to be the most important photograph made this decade or perhaps this century. |
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A blog for people who are into making, displaying, discovering, finding, buying, collecting & considering photographs. |
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Welcome Next month we will change the timing of the newsletter to the last week of the month so that we can capture more exhibitions. We have also ended the practitioner of the month as it was not clicked on much. So now the newsletter is Photo Exhibitions, Opportunities to be noticed and Buy/Hire/Learn. We are about building community. Feedback is welcome! Likewise if you know of any upcoming exhibitions or things we have missed, please let me know! If anyone can make and store custom maps on Google, I'd love to put all this information as a map overlay so readers can find the closest services to them. Previous listings stored on reframe-refocus.xyz. 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 content moves to reframe-refocus.xyz for look buy, hire, labs and previous newsletters so that you can view a full list of what is here. |
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Monash Gallery of Art - Monash Link Return to Nature - 18 September 2022 Landscape as a subject has persisted through art history, but perspectives on it have shifted through time. Seeing through the lenses of over 40 photographers, from colonialists of the 1870s to contemporary artists working today, Return to nature considers the Australian landscape in its many forms. From nature as something to conquer, to something to protect, this exhibition encompasses a range of approaches to landscape, including an enduring sentiment held by First Nations people that there is no separation between humans and the natural world, rather there is interconnection and interdependence. Return to nature includes key works from MGA’s significant collection of Australian photographs, as well as a new iteration of ‘Interference pattern’ (2018– ) by Rebecca Nadjowski and Vivian Cooper Smith, a vast and vibrant exploration of what it means to make photographs with the landscape rather than of it. |
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Magnet Gallery - Docklands Link O'Malley and Kelly in Japan Glen O'Malley and Peter Kelly 9 - 30 July 2022 Both love the culture of Japan, which is complex and contains tradition and modernity, is both relaxed and formal, is familiar and alien to Australians, but always seemingly in relaxed contradiction. |
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XYZ Photo Gallery - Docklands Link A flower blossoms For its own joy Matthew Schiavello, Victoria Bilogan, Danny Tasmakis & Tran Minh Khoa 28 July - 15 September 2022 1 - 5:30pm, Wed - Fri and Sunday A group of Victorian based artists take the trope of the flower and find ways to personalise and play with the traditions to be both beautiful and thought provoking. 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. |
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Wolfhound Photographic Gallery - Fitzroy Link RAVEL Daniel A'Vard, Rory Daniel, Gorak, Anne McCallum and Andrew Wurster 8 - 24 July 2022 5 photographers from different backgrounds explore the boundaries of the art. |
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CCP - Fitzroy Link Site Unseen Ying Ang, Pier Carthew, Coco and Maximilian, Rory Gardiner,
John Gollings, Gavin Green, Morgan Hickinbotham, Brook Holm, Rohan Hutchinson, Annika Kafcaloudis, Mengzhu Jiang, Shannon McGrath, Veeral Patel, Tom Ross, Erieta Attali, and Ben Hosking. 15 - 31 July 2022 PSite Unseen aims to communicate the emotional experience of place, as well as the diversity that exists in architectural and built form photography, in medium, typology, and the photographic community itself. |
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Source Photographica - Sorrento Link Extreme Exposure Various Artists - 22 August 2022 This exhibition by various photographers explores Climate Change.From the Antarctic to contemporary fictional work by International Photographers, we will be exploring the natural world and what we have to lose. |
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Leica Gallery - Melbourne Link Speed and Light Kristian Dowling and Alex Drewniak - 31 July 2022 A collection of works which visually communicates the artist's unique interpretations of McLaren's new Grand Tourer. Much like the car, the works explore a new paradigm - one that is driven by a sense of originality and ground breaking innovation. |
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Focal Point Studio Darkroom and Gallery Link The Lothar Huber collection - 31 July 2022 Lothar Huber is best known as the former managing director of Bond Colour Laboratories, later Bond Imaging, in Richmond, Victoria. On his time away from running arguably the largest professional film laboratory in Australia, Lothar travelled the world, photographing some beautiful and exotic locations, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Lothar also collected significant works by some of his customers, many of whom became life-long friends. Focal Point is honoured to have been entrusted with exhibiting and selling Lothar’s private collection of photographs. Naturally, there is a substantial array of Lothar's own work, but other highlights of the collection include a range of works from Australia’s most celebrated industrial photographer Wolfgang Sievers, photos from the Apollo 11 moon landing from NASA and numerous others. This exhibition features a small selection of these works and represents one of the most internationally important exhibitions ever shown in Geelong. All the photos will be for sale, but the exhibition also gives the public a chance to see many of these world-renowned large-format photographs up close. Focal Point Members' Exhibition 5 August - 2 October 2022 Our annual members-only exhibition. Open to all our members, with no set theme. Any photographic works, colour or black-and-white, digital or analogue. No restriction on size or number of entries.r |
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NGV Australia - Melbourne Link Who Are You? Australian Portraiture - 21 August 2022 WHO ARE YOU: Australian Portraiture is the first exhibition to comprehensively bring together the rich portrait holdings of both the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, and the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra. Revealing the artistic synergies and contrasts between the two institutions’ collections, this co-curated exhibition considers portraiture in Australia across time and media. Through the examination of diverse and sometimes unconventional ways of representing likeness, WHO ARE YOU will question what actually constitutes portraiture – historically, today and into the future. REQUIEM TO NEW YORK link Ashley Gilbertson - 22 August 2022 Looking back over the photographs that he made of New York in 2020 Ashley Gilbertson wrote, ‘The resulting photo essay is my requiem to the New York that we knew before the pandemic, but also a love letter to the resilient people who never gave up.’ One of the leading photojournalists of his generation, Gilbertson has been recognised for his photographs in conflict zones, empathetic pictures of the global refugee crisis and his humanist approach to photography as a documentary medium. Born in Melbourne, Gilbertson has been based in New York City for more than twenty years, but the trajectory of his career has often taken him away from the city. One consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic was the shutting down of much of New York and the suspension of national and international travel, for Gilbertson, this enforced shift in his focus had a profound impact on his life and work. |
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NGV International - Melbourne Link Queer 18 March to 7 August 2022 An exhibition finding the queer in the archive, six curators sift through the collection to find the sexually and gender diverse works. They acknowledge the gaps in the exhibition and collection. |
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Stranger Gallery - St Kilda Link Submissions welcome. |
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Horsham Regional Gallery - Horsham Link MALI MARRNG MALLEE SKY Gail Harradine and Belinda Eckermann - 28 August 2022 For some of us, the connection to nature is almost tangible, it influences who we are, how we connect to others and how we connect to ourselves. Mali marrng Mallee sky by Gail Harradine and Belinda Eckermann gives form to the invisible and unseen personal, familial, community narrative of connection to landscape. The artists’ first time collaboration merges digital photography, entomological research, electron microscopic imaging and First Nations cultural practices, to explore a shared knowledge and connection to the landscape around Lake Albacutya –Ngalukgutya in Victoria Mallee region. Their alliance manifests in new cultural ways of thinking through practice, in a desire to experiment and entangle these spheres- as they seek a greater understanding of the human experience of connection to Country. AINT NO BODY Amrita Hepi - 31 July 2022 FFirst Nations artist Amrita Hepi, in partnership with Horsham Regional Art Gallery, presents a dynamic roadside encounter titled Aint no body. Featuring tiled images of her body in motion, the work responds to the “commercial idealisation of the black body” by appropriating the aesthetics of a typical sports or dance advertisement. The promises that such advertisements sell – promises of perfectionism and success as liberation – are, as Hepi puts it, ultimately a myth. |
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Gold Street Gallery - Trentham East Link Tim Rudman - Lith Works 20th July to 25th September 2022 Lith printing can offer a special kind of magic. Images can be stark and graphic or soft and ethereal. Rudman’s trees can look majestic, statuesque, romantic and poetic, vulnerable or damaged, but always showing their own character. The seasons, environment, weather conditions and the time of day or night add to their beauty. Rudman’s combination of capturing images and his method of printing shows his work is not just about recording a photograph. He has a message far beyond the negative. His techniques of printing and toning give an extraordinary delicacy and an unexpected colour palette throughout his images. Tim is well known internationally for his pioneering work in Lith Printing and distinctive toning methods of Black & White silver gelatin prints. He has authored a number of ‘go to’ books and hundreds of articles in this field. He exhibits his work internationally and has taught widely around the globe. |
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Hillvale Gallery - Brunswick Link Huon Noah Thompson
- 31 July 2022 After the sudden death of my grandmother, my grandfather left his family temporarily to work in the mines on the south-west coast of lutruwita/Tasmania. I never met him. He once told my mother he would ‘run over you myself’ if she stood in front of bulldozers in protest against the construction of the major and controversial dam project, the Gordon-below-the-Franklin Dam. The dam would flood a world heritage listed rainforest in the south-west and after ongoing protests and legal challenges, it was announced that the dam would not be allowed to proceed. |
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Level One Galleries - Melbourne Link Victorian Artists Society, 430 Albert St, East Melbourne Shot in the Heart of Australia 28 July - 3 August 2022 The Australian Association of Street Photographers' annual exhibition captures the streets of Australia, and explores the special moments that occur in cities across the country and beyond. The exhibition is an artistic and candid homage to the people that breathe life into the streets of Australia's cities and towns. |
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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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CONTESTS/AWARDS Photographs/Books The 2022 Arnold Newman Prize For New Directions in Photographic Portraiture Deadline: 18 July 2022 Entry fee: USD55 Theme: Portraiture Why Enter: One of the Worlds most important portrait prizes for photography Link Le Prix de la Photographie de Paris ( PX3 ) 2022 Deadline: 25 July 2022 Entry: USD30/50 Theme: Open Why enter: Connection with Paris arts scene, money and publicity Link UNSTUCK Deadline: 11 August 2022 Entry: CAD20 Theme: Projects in development needing funds. Why enter: CAD10000 grants Link Photography 4 Humanity 2022 Deadline: 8 September 2022 Entry: Free Theme: Climate Justice Why enter: Helping create awareness of climate change and Link Materials Matter Deadline: 10 September 2022 Entry: Free Theme: Trace everyday textiles back to their roots, reframing their significance in our lives Why enter: 1st prize; 8K English Pounds to document members stories with mentorship from a Magnum and education team. 2nd Prize; 4K English Pounds to document members stories with coaching from a Magnum. photographer and the education team. Link Paris Photo/Aperture PhotoBook Awards Deadline: 10 September 2022 Entry: until July 15 USD20-50 after USD30-60 Theme: Open within book format Why enter: USD10k and all the worlds most important publishers seeing your book and come to the attention of Paris Photo (the most important photographic art fair) and Aperture (the most important periodical) . Link 2022 CPA International Juried Exhibition Deadline: 15 September 2022 Entry fee: USD45 Theme: Open Why Enter: Money and an exhibition at CPA in Carmel, California. Link Neutral Density Photography Awards Deadline: 18 September 2022 Entry fee: USD 15/20 (single) USD20/25 (series) Theme: Open Why Enter: Money and exposure Link Portrait of Humanity, 5th edition Deadline: 12 December 2022 Entry fee: USD15-45 Theme: People Why Enter: Orginised by the British Journal of Photography, exhibited and the director of CCP is on the selection committee. Link |
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SUBMISSIONSGrants/Calls/Opportunities FORMAT23: OPEN Call Deadline: 31 August 2022 Entry fee: Euro18-23 Theme: Open Why Enter: Exhibition in the FORMAT festival. Selection by a diverse group of industry people. Link Leica Global Brand Campaign Deadline: 1 October 2022 Entry fee: Free Theme: Joy and Hope Why Enter: Open to 'photographers of all ages using any equipment', used internationally for Leica PR and published in their magazine. Link resartis Artist Residencies Around the world Ongoing as opportunities happen. Why: because living in another culture adds to your work. Link XYZ Photo Gallery New gallery opened in January 2022 by the same team that brings you this newsletter. What: Expressions of interest to be consideration for an exhibition 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 |
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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 10th May - Brent Durrant 14th June - Lou Gilbert 12th July - tbc 9th August - SITHOM: Story behind the Image 8:00 PM 9:00 PM Work In Progress Link Black & White Darkroom Printing Colour C-Type Printing B&W Refresher Course see link for dates. |
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UPDATES: See reframe-refocus.xyz for all listings BOOKSHOPS link STUDIO HIRE link Dragon Image Link Shop A / 328 Johnston Street, Abbotsford Three studios, one is chroma key. All expected facilities. PHOTO HARDWARE link Retro Mama Link Shop 12 String Bean Alley
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Melbourne 3000 The images range includes fully tested vintage cameras (plus film) and thousands of original (1860-1980) images. Individually selected vintage (1950-80) 35mm slides fill two huge dump bins and they can be quality checked using high-quality, hand-held viewers. ARAHAN PHOTO Link Shop A / 328 Johnston Street, Abbotsford Godox specialist, light shapers, bags, stands, tripods, lenses etc. Dragon Image Link Shop A / 328 Johnston Street, Abbotsford Canon cameras, Various lenses, studio, Video etc Videocraft Link 148 Highbury Road, Burwood Cameras that do video well. Studio equipment though the concentration is on video. Video Guys Link Shop A / 328 Johnston Street, Abbotsford Despite the name they cater to the stills photography market too. Cameras, lenses, lighting, accessories etc. Sun Studios Link 95 Buckhurst St, South Melbourne The store sells, Canon, Broncolor, F-Stop, Lupo, Arri, Aputure, Astera, DJI, Sunbounce and Manfrotto. Elliott's Photographic Centre Link 116 Glenferrie Road, Malvern This is a general suburban photographic store. FILM and PROCESSING link DARKROOMS for HIRE link FILM SCANNING link REPAIRS of PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT link EQUIPMENT HIRE link Dragon Image Link Shop A / 328 Johnston Street, Abbotsford Lighting (flash and continuous), 360 degree cameras, sound recorders, light shapers, general studio gear. PUBLISHERS link If we have missed any business around photography please tell us g@reframe-refocus.xyz we do save some more categories to go. |
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