Foto Freo Festival Photos March 25, 2010
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- 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
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- 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
Justin Spiers January 28, 2010
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Art, Australian photographers, Fremantle Arts Centre, exhibition , add a commentJUSTIN SPIERS:
The Detour
30 January – 14 March 2010
Fremantle Arts Centre
Everybody loves a fun park – even a derelict one. In his first solo exhibition, Justin Spiers produces a record of what remained after the crowds dissipated.
The Detour was shot on location at the Castle Fun Park on the outskirts of
Mandurah. A collection of images on medium format film, Spiers presents a record of the Park’s demise into its current state of disuse.
Where once stood a fantastic Disney neighborhood, Spiers captures the disquietbetween the dizzying structures and their bush setting, suddenly realized once left A meting pot of Bavarian castles and tudor villages, these European architectural styles appear alien on the harsh Australian landscape. In reality, though, Spiers’ uneasy imagery documents the all-too-familiar marks of bushfire on the fantastic.
At once seductive and repellant, Spiers’ photographs create a somewhat tragic montage of the Park’s history – in which the unnatural collision of castle and country has occured, and has been left behind with consequences of bushfires and encroaching suburbia emblazoned on its eerie horizon.
Justin Spiers is a Western Australian photographer currently based at Red Gate Gallery in Beijing, China. He has participated in numerous exhibitions Australia-wide, and has previously endeared himself to pets and their owners as co-presenter of Pet Photo Booth.
Image Caption: Justin Spiers, All the loud colours of the world, 2007, giclee print on Hahnemuhle paper, 60 x 60 cm, courtesy and © the artist.
- Acid Mandurah Photo Justin Spiers
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