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IRIS AWARD Winners July 20, 2013

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And the winner is … Jackson Eaton.

Jackson Eaton_Melfies (series view) 600 IRIS AWARD WINNER

Jackson Eaton,  Melfies - Iris Award Winner 2013 (WA, Australia)
(install demo view) Hanging rack, digital print on cotton t-shirts (15), 130 x 200cm

The Judges commendation Award

Maria Cecilia Sauri_juana 600 IRIS JUDGES COMMENDATION

Student Award

 

 

Joshua Rampling_untitled IRIS STUDENT WINNER

CLIP AWARDS Winners Announced at PCP May 12, 2013

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Winner Apache Clip Award Sonya Payes

Arno Blax aka Kevin Ballentine Judges

Commendation

Joshua Rampling Student Awar

Judges comments

Sonia Payes’ winning photograph, Ice Scape Series #13, intrigued the judges

with its clouded, indefinite landscape, with mist floating over a body of water.

What seem to be three dimensional boxes float in the air, seeming to project

from and recede into the image.

This spatial play, between the surface depicted and the apparent depth

of the photograph, makes explicit the process of looking and interpreting.

The viewer moves from the scene shown to the actual photograph as

an object displayed on a wall.

The work borrows from surrealist strategies and reminded the

judges of the paintings or René Magritte, the great 20th century

Belgian artist. He likewise played with reality and illusion, disrupting

 

the familiar and creating compelling dreamscapes.Payes’ photograph

appears at once to be of a real place and time, and to be a landscape

of the mind.

The judges’ commendation winner, Arno Blax’s Untitled 

two part photograph, or diptych, also leads one to look very closely

and to compare the two images. Both are simple, stark and show scenes

in the desert outside Kalgoorlie, with scrub and rock receding to a horizon

and a bleached blue sky. The only real difference between them is the

forlorn surveyor’s peg which can just be seen in one, but not the other.

It sets up a dialogue between nature—the wide expanse of the desert—

and human presence—the marker peg signposting our exploration and

ownership of even this remote and inhospitable place.

Joshua Rampling’s Untitled, which won the student prize, is of a

dilapidated group of stuffed birds displayed against a painted

backdrop in a museum. This painting, or diorama, supposedly

represents their natural environment yet is eerily contrived and

awkward—just like the bedraggled birds themselves. For the judges,

Rampling’s image pointed to the distance and sometimes discordance

between how we represent the world—as seen in the museum’s diorama

—and the actual, natural world of which this is a mere shadow. 

All three winners connect the natural world and human made
visions of it in rich and compelling ways.

John Barrett-Lennard
(CLIP AWARD judge, on behalf of all CLIP judges)

 

Exhibition continues

9 May – 9 June 2012

 

Perth Centre for Photography New Exhibitions April 4, 2013 April 2, 2013

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Perth Centre For Photography has three new exciting exhibitions opening on Thursday April 4.

Alice Blanch is exhibiting NO FIXED TIME OR SPACE, Ingvar Kenne is exhibiting CITIZEN and Ashley Porter is exhibiting COASTERS.

A reminder also that there are just two more days to enter the CLIP AWARDS.

Using alternative analogue film processes, Alice Blanch’s images are influenced by the
relationship between the sky and the landscape beneath it.
‘No Fixed Time or Space’ expresses the mystery surrounding Blanch’s landscape photographs;
they are timeless, allowing the audience to bring their own story to the images.
Sublime and highly emotive, her work is separated into two series ‘You and Me’ and ‘Untitled Stills’.
Recently awarded the Fleurieu Youth Arts Scholarship for one of her images from ‘You and Me’.

Swedish born, Kenne’s ongoing series of portraits, shot from 1997 to 2011
explore the idea of humanity as a shared experience. Shot in Australia, Laos, China,
the USA and Papua New Guinea, Kenne treats all his subjects equally regardless of
nationality or occupation. This creates an egalitarian collection of portraits representing nuns,
prostitutes, factory workers, tribal members and other individuals who are part of
what Kenne calls ‘His fellow man’.
Kenne was the winner of the National Photographic Prize
for 2009 and has been named a finalist in 2007, 2010 and 2012.

Photo Ingvar Kenne

Perth Centre for Photography February 5, 2013

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Photo Rachel Papo

 

Opening
Thursday, 14 February, 6pm Rachel Papo

Serial No. 3817131 After serving in the Israeli air force at age eighteen,
Rachel Papo re-enters the military world via photography.
The exhibition explores the interrupted lives of eighteen-year-old Israeli
women who are plucked from their home surroundings and
are placed in a rigorous institution where individuality
is temporarily forced aside in the name of nationalism.

Preview/Artist talk by visiting artist Sonal Kantaria  5pm .

See the PCP website for more information.

Exhibitions will continue  15 February – 31 March 2013)

Perth Centre for Photography
100 Aberdeen Street
Northbridge, Western Australia
Thurs + Fri 12-5pm
Sat + Sun 12-4pm
www.pcp.org.au

 

Pop Up Productions August 15, 2012

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The Perth Centre for Photography has collaborated with the City of Perth’s Winter Arts Season in the Co-Op Pop-Up gallery project.
PCP has exhibited a cross section of work by photographers associated with the gallery, revisiting exceptional pieces from past exhibitions while showcasing a selection of new.
Kevin Ballantine

Photo Kevin Ballantine

Aaron Bradbrook
David Jo Bradley
Jesse Burke
Christopher Canato
Sarah Landro
Matthew Christopher Saville
Justin Spiers

Photo Justin Spiers


Geneviève Thauvette
Christine Tomás

Photo Christine Tomas


Juha Tolonen

Photo Yuha Tolonen


Bo Wong

The gallery on William Street adjacent to the State Theatre is beautiful and I have been a little tardy in letting people know about this photography space being shared with artists from KURB Gallery. Tomorrow is the last day of the show and it is well worth visiting from 12pm before it becomes a speak easy on Friday night. The view from inside out is as interesting as it from outside in.

Photo Bohdan Warchomij

Philip Toledano: Perth Centre for Photography March 20, 2012

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Philip Toledano is  interested by what we define as beauty, when we choose to create it ourselves. His confronting portraits at The Perth Centre for Photography throw questions for us rather than answers but htey are always serious questions.

Beauty has always been a currency, and now that we finally have the technological means to mint our own, what choices do we make?

Is beauty informed by contemporary culture? By history? Or is it defined by the surgeon’s hand?

When we re-make ourselves, are we revealing our true character, or are we stripping away our very identity or are we creating a new identity?

Perhaps we are creating a new kind of beauty. An amalgam of surgery, art, and popular culture? And if so, are the results the vanguard of human induced evolution?

Having the artist in Perth is a special experience.  Philip Toledano discusses his art projects in detail under a  self proclaimed title:

“A BRIEF

(AND SLIGHTLY TEDIOUS)

OVERVIEW OF

MY

ENTIRE LIFE”

It is anything but tedious. He discusses his projects ‘BANKRUPT 2001-2004′,  ‘VIDEO GAMERS 2002′, ‘HOPE AND FEAR 2004′, ‘THE UNITED STATES OF ENTERTAINMENT 2004-2001′, ‘PHONESEX 2005-2006, ‘AMERICA THE GIFT SHOP 2008′, ‘DAYS WITH MY FATHER 2007-2009′, ‘A NEW KIND OF BEAUTY’,'KIM JONG PHIL 2011′, MAYBE, MAYBE NOT 2011-2012.

He talks about portraiture, about his projects (with a brief look at his latest project, a multi ended look at his own mortality, about photography and methodology for an hour and the audience hangs about and throws questions at him. He answers them all with verve and energy before heading into the city for a burger and a look at  what he calls ‘the genius ideas’ behind HIJACKED at PICA.

Thanks for coming to Perth Mr Toledano.

Christine Tomás and Philip Toledano Phot Bohdan Warchomij
Christine Tomás and Philip Toledano Photo Bohdan Warchomij

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY IN PHOTOGRAPHY March 14, 2012

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The Bureau of Ideas and Mark McPherson at Big City Press are presenting a discussion on the topic SENSE AND SENSIBILITY IN PHOTOGRAPHY at the Perth Centre for Photography 100 Aberdeen Street Northbridge on Sunday 18 March from 10.30 to 12.30.

Bureau Ideas Big City Press

Avatars at Perth Centre for Photography February 7, 2012

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Photo Robbie Cooper
Photo Robbie Cooper

Perth Centre for Photography

With Foto Freo coming up and the Perth Centre for Photography reopening in a new city space Perth will be awash with exciting new exhibitions. Robbie Cooper’s Alter Ego’s dyptychs of subject and avatar is one.

As a part of the core programme the Perth Centre for Photography (PCP) has two exhibitions, Alter Ego, by Robbie Cooper and, A New Kind of Beauty, by Phillip Tolenado.

Robbie Cooper’s Alter Ego exhibition explores personal and social identities being shaped in the meta verse at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Portraits of online gamers and virtual-world participants from America, Asia and Europe are paired with images of their avatars, with profiles of their real-world and virtual self-created characters.

For Phillip Tolenado’s exhibition he explains, “I’m interested in what we define as beauty, when we choose to create it ourselves. Beauty has always been a currency, and now that we finally have the technological means to mint our own, what choices do we make? Is beauty informed by contemporary culture? By history? Or is it defined by the surgeon’s hand?”

Just a reminder that the PCP has moved and is now located at 100 Aberdeen Street Northbridge. And if you are in Perth this week the PCP is celebrating the opening of its new gallery on Wednesday the 8th of February at 6pm.

Photo Robbie Cooper
Photo Robbie Cooper

IRIS AWARD WINNERS August 6, 2011

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Flavia Shuster, currently living in Argentina, won this year’s IRIS AWARD with a powerful, almost biblical portrait. But there were many other winners, including Melbourne’s Warwick Baker who is exhibiting concurrently with Todd Anderson-Kunert, Linsey Gosper and Michelle Tran in CHARMWOOD at the Perth Centre For Photography. Claire Martin announced the winners and Mark McPherson from the Hijacked Project accepted Flavia’s award on her behalf.

Composite by Bohdan Warchomij
Composite by Bohdan Warchomij

Perth Centre for Photography CLIP AWARDS June 13, 2011

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Winner of 2011 CLIP AWARD Daniel Stephen Miller

Winner of 2011 CLIP AWARD Daniel Stephen Miller

The CLIP Award is an international prize recognising contemporary landscapes in photo-based media. The criteria for selection focuses on images that are original and stimulating whilst challenging traditional notions of landscape photography. This year’s winner is Daniel Stephen Miller.