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Philip Blenkinsop WORKSHOP June 2, 2011

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Sortir du Cadre (Think Outside the Box) Gerald Holubowicz January 11, 2011

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An examination of photojournalism through an E Book on the Issuu platform.  Amazing questions, insights and understandings by  seasoned French photojournalist Gerald Holubowicz who is based in New York.  Essential reading!!!!!

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Photography Industry Night TAFE Graduates December 7, 2010

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Photography graduates from TAFE Central showed off their work to industry professionals during a brief exhibition that ran from December 1-4, 2010 in Perth. Natalie Blom’s photograph, featured here, won Best Print in the show.

Photo Composite Natalie Blom
Photo Composite Natalie Blom

Ben Walton from Team Digital, photojournalist David Dare Parker
Ben Walton from Team Digital, photojournalist David Dare Parker

Meditations November 6, 2010

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I have just come across the work of Aline Smithson and her thoughts on photography and had to share them. She is a photographer and educator who writes about photography thoughtfully and intelligently. There is a series on her website taken with a Diana camera twhere she deconstructs her images, cuts negatives, overlaps them, adds text,  adds oil washes and ignores the idea of the perfect print. In the process she connects us with the quandary between analogue and digital, between the historic and the contemporary and makes sense of it in a remarkably logical way.

“Shadows and Stains, Notes From A Darkroom

I’ve been thinking about photography non- stop this past year- its pursuit, the business of it, the idea of selling an image, the artist’s viewpoint, the MFA school of imagery, the death of the wet darkroom, iconic photography, toy cameras and digital cameras, editions and print sizes, old rules, new challenges- all the currents we photographers have to navigate in today’s photographic waters. As a darkroom printer I have found the meditative and creative state that I experience so important to my work- it’s where I make my mark, it’s where much of the thinking about the image takes place. Losing that experience as part of the process is not an option I want to face.”

http://www.alinesmithson.com/

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Shared Visions November 6, 2010

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Shared Visions at Perth Centre for Photography  is a powerful collaboration between students of Pathshala-South Asian Institute of Photography and the School of Communications and Arts, Edith Cowan University, Perth.  During January 2010 students of both institutions, after a week of workshops led by Tina Ahrens, Picture Editor, GEO,  New York dispersed throughout Bangladesh, from Jaflong in the North to Bandarban in the South, and shaped stories  of daily life that are rich and powerful collectively and sophisticated individually. This semester ending show is well worth a visit to PCP.

Olivia Davies at PCP Opening Shared Visions
Olivia Davies at PCP Opening “Shared Visions”

PCP opening "Shared Visions"
PCP opening “Shared Visions”

PCP opening of Shared "Visions". Dee Dee Noon with friends
PCP opening of Shared “Visions”. Dee Dee Noon with friends

"Shared Visions" opening PCP
“Shared Visions” opening PCP

Bangladesh in the Piazza May 7, 2010

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A long awaited collaboration between Photo Media students at Edith Cowan University and the Pathshala: South Asian Media Institute is screening publicly in the Northbridge Piazza from Monday 10th May 2010 from 6.30 pm to 8.30 pm.  Participating photographers are Jacinta Buick, Olivia Davies, Mahani Del Borrello, Anni Fordham, Emma Gianotti, Alex Hong, Sarah Landro, Rebecca Mansell, Belinda Minogue, Nagvelu Nagabushnam, Deidre Noon, James Simmons, Janina Snowsill, Jacquie Warrwick.                        Norm Leslie Photomedia Coordinater and Duncan Barnes Photo Media Lecturer were instrumental in the organisation of the exchange and this is a great opportunity to share the experiences of these photographers in Bangladesh.                                                                                                                                   piazza_invite textBangladesh in the Piazza

Bangladesh in the Piazza

John Pilger January 19, 2010

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THE MEDIA AND PROPAGANDA

Nigel Dolan from UWA Extension Service was instrumental in attracting John Pilger, Journalist, Author and Film-maker to a lecture at the Social Sciences Theatre University of West Australia on the 12th January 2010 to talk and answer questions on the subject of “The Media and Propaganda”. Interestingly main stream media were conspicuous by their absence. John Pilger, who was the winner of the Sydney Peace Prize in 2009 answered questions from the floor. The theatre was packed.

‘It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere
messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the
message and myths that surround it’ – John Pilger. In this question
and answer session John  examined the role and power of the
media and its responsibilities in a world of seemingly endless crises,
growing instability and inequality.

John Pilger Photograph Bohdan Warchomij
John Pilger Photograph Bohdan Warchomij

John Pilger, renowned investigative journalist and documentary film-maker, is one of only two journalists to have twice won British journalism’s top award; his documentaries have won academy awards in both the UK and the US. In a New Statesman survey of the 50 heroes of our time, Pilger came fourth behind Aung San Suu Kyi and Nelson Mandela. “John Pilger,” wrote Harold Pinter, “unearths, with steely attention facts, the filthy truth. I salute him.”

Photojournalist Students to Bangladesh January 17, 2010

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Bangladesh photography has been in the news recently. The growth of Chobi Mela, a festival of photography in Asia, images of work from Bangladeshi photographers in Andy Levin’s 100 Eyes Magazine, the winning portfolio Living Stone by Bangladeshi photographer Khaled Hasan that was announced as the Centre For Documentary Photography Award Winner have opened up our eyes to the talent and potential within Bangladesh.

The growing connection between the Edith Cowan University Photomedia Faculty and Pathshala, the South East Institute of Photography is an important  link between Austalian and Bangladeshi tertiary institutions and exemplifies the growth of photography in both countries.

Following the success of the initial first link project between the Edith Cowan University Photomedia Faculty and the Pathshala: South East Asian Institute of Photography for the 2008 Summer School, this year, fourteen top ranking ECU Photomedia students are going to Dhaka in Bangladesh from 7 January to 8 February. The ECU students will attend classes and conduct in-field work in collaboration with Pathshala students. New York based Picture Editor Tina Ahrens will supervise the first week of learning before students are sent out to cover their individual projects. The project culminates with an exhibition at the Drik Gallery in Dhaka and there will be another in Perth in April at Spectrum Gallery. At this stage it looks that the focus topic will be the rivers of Bangladesh.

Lecturers Duncan Barnes and Norm Leslie with students heading to Daka, Bangladesh
Lecturers Duncan Barnes and Norm Leslie with students heading to Daka, Bangladesh

Tina Ahrens

Tina Ahrens

Born in Germany. Studied film and photography at London Guildhall University in London, UK. Organised “snap ’n roll” photo exhibition in Cape Town, South Africa, and curated parts of the “Portrait Africa” exhibition at Haus der Kulturen, Berlin, Germany. Worked as a photo editor for GEO magazine in Hamburg since 2000. Travelled extensively in Asia and parts of Africa. She now lives in NYC, working as a photo editor at GEO’s New York office. She is a member of the photography board of the National Geographic AllRoads program.
Was guest photo editor for the new issue of OJO DE PEZ #8 “The fall of nature” (published in October 2006).
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War is only Half the Story:The Aftermath Project December 27, 2009

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The Aftermath Project Volume 2 is out:

Published September 2009: "War is Only Half the Story, Vol Two" features the work of 2008 grant winner Kathryn Cook ("Memory Denied: Turkey and the Armenian Genocide") as well as special first finalist Natela Grigalashvili and finalists Tinka Dietz, Christine Fenzl and Pep Bonet.
Published September 2009: “War is Only Half the Story, Vol Two” features the work of 2008 grant winner Kathryn Cook (“Memory Denied: Turkey and the Armenian Genocide”) as well as special first finalist Natela Grigalashvili and finalists Tinka Dietz, Christine Fenzl and Pep Bonet.

I first met Sara Terry at Visa Pour l’Image in Perpignan, France in 2006 where she was promoting The Aftermath Project to photojournalists whose cachet was the war machine in action.  She set up the Aftermath Project out of the exasperation she felt after the Bosnian crisis as that country tried to move beyond the “shadow of war”.  Her aim was to start a new media dialogue  about war which could lead to conflict prevention instead of conflict resolution.

I applied for the Aftermath Project Grant hoping to cover the resettlement issues of the Crimean Tartars who  had been expelled from their homelands in Ukraine by Josef Stalin for “collaboration” post World War Two. Needless to say I didn’t get to the final selection process but on Christmas Eve I was delighted to buy War is only Half the Story Volume 1 from The Aftermath Project/ Aperture. The book had made it to the shelves of my favourite book store Planet Books in Mt Lawley, Perth, West Australia. The first two grant winners were Jim Goldberg, an authentic innovator in the documentary  field for his work The New Europeans, and Wolf Boewig, a photographer who had covered the Sierra Leone conflict.

http://www.wolfboewig.de/

The other photographers represented in this book are Andrew Stanbridge (post war reconstruction in Laos), Asim Rafiqui (Haiti’s ongoing political violence), and Paula Luttringer ( a survey of sites in Argentina where the abduction of women and their children was part of the process of violence).

War Is Only Half The Story: The Aftermath Project, Volume 1
War Is Only Half The Story: The Aftermath Project, Volume 1

Mus Mus December 13, 2009

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Mus Mus is a digital salon and collaboration that explores photography in a deeply philosophical way:

“mus-mus is a collaborative photography space that yokes ideas and images together in an experimental and playful way that seems most appropriate for an internet based salon of an increasingly post-consumer world. In keeping with this ethic we prefer a mildly anonymous position and ‘authorlessness’. Keeping mouths shut about who we are, we hope you will better know the pictures, projects and ideas.”

It incudes two important essays, one by Darius Himes and one by Ulrich Baer, that travel from the invention of photography through to the digital revolution, which is changing our perception of the world as we travel.

“The Digital Revolution

Fast forward 150 years. Photography has been theorized and debated within the parameters described above: as a melancholic medium that harbors news of our own mortality. But finally the history of photography is freed from the shackles of this restrictive understanding. Thanks to the digital revolution in the media, photography can finally unfold its true potential. “The digital environment allows image-makers to veer from a conventional, Newtonian view of the world to one that considers countless views,” as Fred Ritchen points out in After Photography (New York: Norton 2009, 1). The ease of digital photography allows us to invent new realities – just as previous photographers, from Marville and Atget to Cartier-Bresson invented a certain view of Paris that has stuck with us until today.”

Ulrich Baer “Paris and Photography as the Prospect of Possibility”

In 1908, the Young Turks of the Committee of Union and Progress revolted against the despotic Sultan Abdu’l-Hamid. This brought to an end the centuries-old Ottoman Empire and paved the way for a semi-secular government based in the ancient city of Constantinople. With that singular, revolutionary act, all political and religious prisoners throughout the Empire were freed. Abdu’l-Baha Abbas, the man in a white turban pictured in the middle of this photograph, tasted freedom for the first time since childhood. He was 65 years old.
In 1908, the Young Turks of the Committee of Union and Progress revolted against the despotic Sultan Abdu’l-Hamid. This brought to an end the centuries-old Ottoman Empire and paved the way for a semi-secular government based in the ancient city of Constantinople. With that singular, revolutionary act, all political and religious prisoners throughout the Empire were freed. Abdu’l-Baha Abbas, the man in a white turban pictured in the middle of this photograph, tasted freedom for the first time since childhood. He was 65 years old.

Abdu’l-Baha in Paris

Darius Himes

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