Claire Martin wins Inge Morath Award July 5, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Australian photographers, Documentary, Edith Cowan University, Foto Freo, Photojournalism , add a commentPhotographing marginalised communities has paid off for Perth’s Claire Martin. Her striking photos from the series ‘Slab City’ in the Colorado Desert, California and from ‘The Downtown East Side’ in Vancouver Canada have combined to win her The Inge Morath Award for a female photographer under 30 from the prestigious Magnum Photo Cooperative. Coming on top of last years win in the Sony World Photography Up and Coming Portrait Photographer of the Year Awards and also being chosen as an ‘emerging talent’ by Reportage for Getty Images it is obvious that Claire Martin is striking chords with her photographs and touching us all. Her photos of ‘Slab City’ in the Moore’s Building for Foto Freo were powerful and quite unforgettable.
Claire Martin has recently joined Oculi and is available for assignments.
- Photograph of Tony copyright by Claire Martin
“Get A Real Job” West Australian Artists at Work April 14, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Australian photographers, Documentary, Foto Freo, exhibition , add a comment
- Clay Photo Gibson Nolte
Gibson Nolte has posted images on Metaphor Online before, namely graffiti images from Yogyakarta in Indonesia. A Sydney based actor who has appeared in Ghost Rider and Mao’s Last Dancer who takes his photography very seriously, Gibson has melded his talents into a wonderful exhibition at Perth’s Blue Room. In Perth with his wife Hayley McEhinney for Kate Mulvaney’s Deckchair Theatre Production of The Danger Age Gibson is showing his images of household Australian artists such as Claire Hooper, Kate Mulvaney, Iain Grandage, and Tim Minchin at the Blue Room Theatre in Perth. The photos have been shot by Nolte over a period of 18 months in Sydney, Perth and New York.
“Sometimes in jest, sometimes in offence, this cliche is one most artists will admit to having had levelled at them throughout their careers.
Selected from documentary photo essays shot … by Gibson Nolte, the images in this exhibition feature West Australians who have turned the cliche on its head, choosing to make the creation of art – be it visual, performance, musical, or literary – their real job.”
There is a review of the exhibition by Katherine Mountain in The West Australian, April 15, 2010
- Dancers Photo Gibson Nolte
Exhibition runs from April 17-25 at the Blue Room Theatre, 53 James St, Northbridge. 11-4pm daily
Blind Boys April 5, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Blindboys, Foto Freo, India, New Media, Publishing , add a commentKapil Das is a photographer from Mumbai. He has a penchant for the Yashica T4, a point and shoot that is perhaps his favourite camera. He has an incredible sense of humour and a quick enquiring mind. He has been a great addition to the INCITE programme at FotoFreo where he was part of the panel of Aaron Rose (Think the film ‘Beautiful Losers’), Jack Pam, the magazine ‘eleventhirty’, with Art Gallery of WA curator Robert Cook chairing the discussion.
‘Blindboys.org is a magazine exploring Photography and Shared Territories in and from a new ever-changing Asia. In addition to being a platform for new visual perspectives from the continent, Blindboys.org also dreams of creating a community for a better synthesis of art, media, and Asian cultures leading to a holism of new Asian visual identities.
In its current form you can discover photography from Asia and various points of view: documentary, fine art, photojournalism, poetic, personal, abstract, human, and street photography. We gear ourselves to be a free platform for inclusion, collecting perspectives that otherwise would have been left under told. Taking these perspectives on to the streets to foster better dialogue and taking the photographic medium into communities to galvanize and curate a visual self expression.
Had a quick look at the photographers exhibiting their work on Blind Boys and rediscovered the work of Adrian Fisk, a British photographer who has been based in Delhi for some years and who I first met in Perpignan France. Small world. Keep an eye on this photo commune and its blog.
- Kapil Das Blind Boys Photo Commune Mumbai India Photo Bohdan Warchomij
Year of the Book March 31, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Australian photographers, Degree South, Documentary, Foto Freo, Photography Festivals, Photojournalism, Publishing, War , add a comment
- Michael Coyne Degree South Collective Book Launch
- James Brickwood, Dean Sewell OCULI and David Dare Parker Degree South
- Dean Sewell Photo Oculi Museum Perth
2010 has been a great year for the photograph in book form at Foto Freo. Max Pam’s Atlas Chronicles launched prior to the festival opening and then in rapid succession Brad Rimmer launched Silence at the Fremantle Prison, Oculi, the respected Australian East Coast photo collective launched its massive first tome, and Degree South launched WAR, an impressively seminal work at Central Gallery in Perth. Gianni Frinzi from T & G Publishing is to be commended for his huge contribution to Australian photography.
Degree South formed in 2006 at Foto Freo as a cooperative that has an established archive that cover’s Australia’s involvement in the world’s conflicts since Vietnam in the 60’s. Individually Tim Page, David Dare Parker, Ben Bohane, Stephen Dupont, Jack Picone, Michael Coyne, Ashley Gilbertson, and Sean Flynn have strong reputations that have been hammered out in the world’s conflicts. Collectively those reputations are significantly enhanced. The book is a collector’s item and their show is not to be missed.
Foto Freo Festival Photos March 25, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Australian photographers, Foto Freo, Fremantle Arts Centre, PCP, Philip Blenkinsop, Photography Festivals, Photojournalism , 1 comment so far
- Sohrab Hura Foto Freo launch of Life is Elsewhere PCP
- Jean Chung Tears in the Congo Moore’s Building
- Graham Miller and Amy Stein Foto Freo launch of Stranded
- David Blenkinsop and Jude Savage atFoto Freo at Launch
- Philip Blenkinsop at Growing Pains Timor Leste
- Curator Julian Tennent and Photographer Zesopol Carlito Caminha
- Bernadino Soares Growing Pains Timor Leste
- Martine Perret Growing Pains Timor Leste
- Storm Maritime Museum Fremantle photo Bohdan Warchomij
- Photos Bohdan Warchomij
Foto Freo Launch March 24, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Foto Freo, Fremantle Arts Centre, PCP, Philip Blenkinsop, Photography Festivals, Photojournalism , add a comment
- Narelle Autio Maritime Museum Foto Freo : The Summer of Us”
Launch at the Fremantle Arts Centre Photo Bohdan Warchomij
Foto Freo has launched in galleries throughout Fremantle, Perth and Rottnest. The work of artists such as Narelle Autio, Carrie Levy, Pat Brassington at the Maritime Museum, Philip Blenkinsop, Dean Sewell, Glenn Campbell, Martine Perret and the three visiting Timorese photographers Zesopol Carlito Caminha, Bernardino Soares, and Antoniho Bernardino at the Moore’s Building is inspirational and humbling and a wonderful experience for any photographer. Jean Chung’s powerful work Tears in the Congo and Claire Martin’s Slab City and Vivien Dalles A Journey of Exile add so much to the experience.
Amy Stein’s ‘Stranded’ and Sohrab Hura’s ‘Life is Elsewhere’ at the Perth Centre for Photography are not to be missed. There are many jewels at the fringe of the Festival. Seng Mah’s Sons of Ganga at the Cracked Monkey in Mt Lawley gives us a mature insight into life in Varanasi, India.
- Photo Seng Mah “Airborne”
- Brad Rimmer Foto Freo “Silence” Launch
- Bob Hewitt Director Foto Freo at Launch Fremantle Arts Centre
- Carrie Levy Maritime Museum Foto Freo
Trent Parke March 17, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Australian photographers, Foto Freo, Fremantle Arts Centre, Magnum, Photojournalism , add a commentTrent Parke gave an inspired talk at Fremantle Arts Centre last night detailing his history from his cadetship at the Newcastle Herald to a move to Sydney where he covered Australian cricket for News Limited for over five years. Questioning his lifestyle at the paper he bought a Leica and was introduced to Rodinal and a high contrast and personal way of processing and printing his images. His mother’s death from asthma turned him into a questioning sentient being who makes a point of never wasting a moment in life. His mistake of putting a battery incorrectly into his Nikonos and developing the underexposed film for an inordinately long time led to a two year brush with the the sea that led to the The Seventh Wave and further experiments with chance and experiment and serendipity and contrast and technique.
His Eugene Smith award helped fund the rest of his and Narelle Autio’s trip around Australia that became Minutes to Midnight. What he wanted to do with Minutes to Midnight was to do something really personal and connect his work to Narelle Autio’s and his shared family experiences and the changes happening in Australia and internationally. His feelings and emotions on the trip impose themselves on the landscape and influence his photography and apocalyptic vision. Photography for Trent Parke is about magic and illusion and a love of life and the story that is being told.
Rebirth was the next stage of his journey, and his son’s birth was an important part of his exhibition at ACP. His photos always have a fictional element that is a part of something bigger. Working wih Alisdair Foster from ACP has been an important part of the journey and Trent Parke’s search and journey toward a personal vision.
Pushing boundaries constantly is important for Trent and he switched to medium format and colour and a Mamiya rangefinder from the Leica and worked in a documentary sense as a street photographer again. His photos were now about time and life and became the next phase in his work.
A move back to Adelaide led to an exploration of family and suburbia from a personal point of view and exhibitions and a new body of work.
His new photography Black Rose has returned to black and white and medium and large format and he is exploring new directions and questioning past and present, the future, chance and fate and is a journey back to his sense of childhood. It is a circular return to an understanding of what is important for him in an Australia that is his source of inspiration and reward.
Trent Parke was raised in Newcastle, New South Wales. Using his mother’s Pentax Spotmatic and the family laundry as a darkroom, he began taking pictures when he was around 12 years old. Today, Parke, the only Australian photographer to be represented by Magnum Photos, works primarily as a street photographer. In 2003, with wife and fellow photographer Narelle Autio, Parke drove almost 90,000 km around Australia. Minutes to Midnight, the collection of photographs from this journey, offers an occasionally disturbing portrait of twenty-first century Australia, from the desiccated outback to the chaotic, melancholic vitality of life in remote Aboriginal towns. For this project Parke was awarded the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography. Parke won World Press Photo Awards in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005, and in 2006 was granted the ABN AMRO Emerging Artist Award. He was selected to be part of the World Press Photo Masterclass in 1999. Parke has published two books, Dream/Life in 1999, and The Seventh Wave with Narelle Autio in 2000. His work has been exhibited widely. In 2006 the National Gallery of Australia acquired Parke’s entire Minutes to Midnight exhibition.
- Trent Parke talk at Fremantle Arts Centre Photo Bohdan Warchomij
Bruno Barbey March 16, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : ACMP, Foto Freo, Kulcha, Magnum , add a commentLast night at Kulcha in Fremantle ACMP hosted Bruno Barbey, a Frenchman born in Morocco and a long time member of Magnum. He studied photography and graphic arts at the École des Arts et Métiers in Vevey, Switzerland. Between 1961 and 1964 he photographed the Italians, treating them as protagonists of a small ‘theatrical world’, with the aim of capturing the spirit of a nation. During the 1960s, he was commissioned by Éditions Rencontre in Lausanne to report from European and African countries. He also contributed regularly to Vogue. Barbey began his relationship with Magnum Photos in 1964, becoming a full member in 1968, the year he documented the political unrest and student riots in Paris. A decade later, between 1979 and 1981, he photographed Poland at a turning point in its history, publishing his work in the widely acclaimed book Poland. He served as Magnum vice president for Europe in 1978 and 1979 and as President of Magnum International from 1992 – 1995. Over four decades Barbey has journeyed across five continents and into numerous military conflicts. Although he rejects the label of ‘war photographer’, he has covered civil wars in Nigeria, Vietnam, the Middle East, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Northern Ireland, Iraq and Kuwait. His work has appeared in most of the world’s major magazines. Barbey is known particularly for his free and harmonious use of colour. He has frequently worked in Morocco, the country of his childhood. In 1999 the Petit Palais, Paris, organized a large exhibition of photographs that Barbey had taken in Morocco during the previous three decades. He has received many awards for his work, including the French National Order of Merit; his photographs have been exhibited internationally and are in numerous museum collections.”
Bruno Barbey showed his images and talked about his experiences in photography and the way that the industry has changed and his excitement about working and printing digitally. After a short question and answer session the photographers retired to Little Creatures where Trent Park and Chien-Chi Chang and Bruno Barbey mixed with students from Europe and Australia who they are working with in the Magnum Workshops.
Images from the Magnum Workshops will be projected on Friday night at the Foto Freo opening at the Fremantle Arts Centre.
- Bruno Barbey at Kulcha in Fremantle for Foto Freo and ACMP photo Bohdan Warchomij
Bruno Barbey Magnum Photographer March 9, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : ACMP, Foto Freo, Magnum , add a commentACMP presents an evening with Magnum Photographer Bruno Barbey at Kulcha 13 first floor South Terrace in Fremantle.
The evening, a projection of Bruno Barbey’s images and a discussion with the photographer is on Monday 15th March and runs from 6.30 pm to 8.30pm. Cost of the evening is $20 for non members of ACMP and $15 for members of ACMP.
Bar drinks are cash only.
Photo Credit Bruno Barbey Magnum
Cyrus Cornut March 2, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Foto Freo, Photojournalism , add a commentCyrus Cornut, Cities are Like Oceans
FotoFreo 2010 Fringe Exhibition
Exhibition Opening March 2, 2010 6pm Wolfe Lane Rear 321 Murray Street Perth
Cities are Like Oceans shows the place of human beings in cities that are increasingly chaotic, and where modernity, dictated by the rule of economics tends to irrevocably take over traditions that have been established over time. Man as a social being no longer has a place here. Human scale has been reduced to nothing. Man, with an individualistic future is lost like a drop in the urban ocean. Houses crumble, skyscrapers grow, the ground is filled with urban communication networks. The world marches on.
French of Iraqui-Iranian descent, Cyrus Cornut first lived in Baghdad, then Cairo and finally Paris. Having studied architecture at university, today he is a professional photographer. His work revolves around the city, its evolution, framework, empty spaces and the human behaviour that it leads to. In 2006, his work on Chinese megacities was shown at the Rencontres Internationales de la photographie in Arles under Raymond Depardon. He joined the photography collective Dolce Vita in the same year, and became a member of the Picturetank photography cooperative in 2007.
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Cyrus Cornut image
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