The Centre for Documentary Practice/ Emerging Photographer Award November 29, 2009
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Australian photographers, Competitions, Documentary, Griffith University, Photojournalism , add a commentThe Centre for Documentary Practice (CDP) seeks to support an emerging documentary photographer who submits the best-judged folio that aims to Seek Justice. The prize, a Canon EOS 5D Mark II Premium Kit, is designed to contribute to the continuation of, or an extension of the submitted project synopsis. The CDP Award is free to enter and open to anyone meeting the eligibility criteria.
The folio, of up to 12 images, may be on any subject but must have the intent to be used to make a positive difference to the subject or the context in which the subject exists.
Entries close 30 November 2009.
http://cdp.edu.au/cdp/cdp-award
Foto Freo Programme Launch Update November 29, 2009
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Australian photographers, Foto Freo, Photography Festivals, exhibition , add a commentFotoFreo 2010 Programme Launch Update
Eugene Richards The Blue Room
Eugene Richards was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, a neighborhood of Boston. After graduating from Northeastern University with a degree in English and journalism, he studied photography with Minor White at MIT. In 1968 he became a health care advocate in eastern Arkansas. Two years later, he helped found a social service organization and a community newspaper, Many Voices, that reported on black political action and the Ku Klux Klan. After publication of his first two books, Few Comforts or Surprises: The Arkansas Delta (1973) and Dorchester Days (self-published in 1978), Richards was invited to become a nominee at Magnum. He was a member until he departed in 1995, returned to the cooperative in 2002, and departed for a second time in 2005.
On Wednesday evening the 4th of November FotoFreo launched the Festival Programme for FotoFreo 2010: The City of Fremantle Festival of Photography. The event attracted over 200 guests to hear what is in store next year and see a pop-up exhibition giving a preview of the 100+ Fringe photographers who will show across Fremantle and Perth. Programme Manager June Moorhouse said, “There’s a lot to look forward to in FotoFreo 2010! We’re gathering in Fremantle over 40 of Australia’s and the world’s leading photographers and photography commentators for an event that will give you a chance to look at great work, debate the issues and learn from the photographers. “From the big names like Eugene Richards and Pat Brassington, to a host of exciting young international artists and curators, we’ve sought out those who are influencing photography today to come and share their skill with us for a packed five days at the start of the festival next March.
“An Australian first, and an exciting new dimension to the festival, are three five-day workshops being offered by Magnum Photos led by three world-class photographers including Trent Parke.Ms Moorhouse went on to outline the 2010 speakers’ program Incite: stirring discussion about photography, with four major forums looking at the changing ways that photographers distributing their bodies of work. Online Photography, Book Publishing, Journals and Do-It-Yourself Culture will explore in some depth the virtues and vagaries of various forms of photographic self expression.
FotoFreo founder and Chair, Bob Hewitt acknowledged the significant increase in support from the City of Fremantle and new funding from EventsCorp through the ACE scheme. He highlighted the steady growth in the Festival and its spread to new areas including Rottnest Island which will host a range of exhibitions.
Ingushetia November 29, 2009
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Olga Kravets
Nazran Police Station after suicide bomber attack
Ingushetia is a tiny enclave between North Ossetia, Chechnya, Russia and Georgia which is increasingly becoming a hot spot in the Caucusus. Formerly one of the Russian Autonomous Republics in the defunct USSR it is now experiencing the problems of a misguided system of political control that has exacerbated the endemic violence of the region.
- The funeral of Vaha Hamhoev, 31, a policemen killed in the Nazran explosion Tragically he had been in the police force for only three months.
Olga Kravets, a Moscow based photojournalist who has moved from print journalism to documenting with a camera believes that Ingushetia is an important focus for tension in the Caucusus region. She documented the consequences of an attack on the Nazran Police station in 2009 by a suicide bomber that killed 21 people.
- Makka Hamhoeva is attending the funeral of her cousin Vaha Hamhoev, 31, a policemen killed in Nazran explosion. Tragically Vaha had been employed for three months as a policeman.
Biography
Olga Kravets was born in Moscow, Russia, then the USSR, in 1984 and started working as a professional journalist in 2002 after studying at Moscow State University’s Department of Journalism. She realized that photography gave her a broader way of expressing herself not only as a journalist, but also as an artist and a human being. Although she was still working as a writer, she enrolled in the photography school of the Russian broadsheet Izvestiya in 2005 and started selling her pictures to various media.
In 2007, she left her staff position at the BBC Moscow bureau to become a freelance photojournalist. After graduating from Moscow State University in 2008 she spent half a year living in Sukhumi, Abkhazia, covering the Caucasus region as photojournalist and working on a personal project about this breakaway republic.
She has worked in Ingushetia and is currently working on a project in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch has been monitoring the political situation in Ingushetia. An article by Tanya Lokshina, deputy director of Human Rights Watch’s Moscow has been published in Newsweek Russia.
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/07/01/ingushetia-under-siege
Rashid Inalov is visiting a grave of his brother Uruskhan, 30, who was allegedly killed by security forces in August 2009
TAFE Photography Graduation Show November 29, 2009
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Graduating Photography Student Show
Perth’s educational institutions continue to introduce new raw talent to the pool of photographers working in the city. The TAFE photo graduate show is one of the highlights of the graduating calendar.
Contact Amy Vinicombe:
avinicombe@hotmail.com
Central TAFE Art Gallery
12 Aberdeen Street
Northbridge
Open 2-5 December 2009
Atlas Monographs MAX PAM November 19, 2009
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- Max Pam’s ATLAS MONOGRAPHS
Invitation to the launch of Atlas Chronicles at New Edition Bookstore in High Street, Fremantle
Max Pam is one of Australia’s most important contemporary photographers. Working as a professional since the early 1970s he is among a handful of Australians to make a substantial impact on the intensely competitive international photographic scene.
Atlas Monographs is a compression of nine travel journals, beginning with Pam’s most recent work (Karakoram 2006) and shifting back through the decades to his first journals begun in 1970. The journals map, through text, photo and marks on paper his engagement with the cultures he has travelled through. Just as importantly, the journals provided the engine room for his development as a photographer and a writer and an artist.
Altas Monographs continues the amazingly significant contribution of Gianni Frinzi from T&G Publishing to Australian Photomedia publications.
www.tgpublishing.com.au
Max Pam at New Edition launch of Atlas Monographs
- Dr Stefano Carboni Director WA Art Gallery Launches Atlas Monographs
Prix Pictet November 16, 2009
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Prix Pictet announced yesterday that the winner of this year’s photography prize for environmental sustainability goes to British based Israeli photographer Nadav Kander, whose project Yangtze, The Long River Series documents the changing landscape along China’s Yangtze River.
Chongqing IV (Sunday Picnic) Photo Nadav Kander
The Prix Pictet Vision
Food riots. Loss of forest cover. Desertification. The ecosystems we depend on appear to face resource demands already beyond their capacity. As governments try urgently to stimulate growth, a central question remains. Can the earth’s complex living systems sustain the future consumption patterns of another three billion people in the world’s population by 2050?
Or are we making the transition, as the Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen has suggested, to a point where the face of the earth – its soil, its waters, its groves, its hollows – is no longer natural, but bears the terminal scars of man’s intervention.
Impurity, excess, contamination, absence, control: these were the aspects of sustainability on the theme of Water covered by photographers nominated for last year’s Prix Pictet. This year the theme is Earth.
Sponsored by the Geneva private bank Pictet & Cie, the Prix Pictet is the world’s first prize dedicated to photography and sustainability. It has a unique mandate – to use the power of photography to communicate crucial messages to a global audience; and it has a unique goal – art of the highest order, applied to the immense social and environmental threats of the new millennium.
Kofi Annan is the Prix Pictet’s Honorary President and ‘Earth’ is the publication that documents this year’s artists work on sustainability,
The Australian Photojournalist November 16, 2009
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Australian photographers, Competitions, Documentary, Education, Griffith University, Photojournalism, Publications , add a commentThe Australian Photojournalist has a special subscription offer on that is great value for money. One of my favourite photography publications it continues to publish great themed essays on issues of significance to us all.
Picturing Human Rights is Now Available to Purchase Online:
Photo Lori Grinker
Lori Grinker (b. 1957) began her photographic career in 1981. Her work has earned international recognition, garnering a World Press Photo Foundation Prize, a W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund fellowship, the Ernst Hass Grant, The Santa Fe Center for Photography Project Grant, and a Hasselblad Foundation Grant, among others.
The issue features the work of Robin Hammond, Joakim Eneroth, Lori Grinker, Jodi Bieber, Kate Schermerhorn, Paolo Woods, Simon Norfolk, Alvaro Hoppe and Alejandro Bustos, Donald Weber, Janet Jarman, Gilles Sabrie, Henry Fair, Julian Medina, Shiho Fukada, Angela Blakely and David Lloyd, Peter Menzel, Lauren Greenfield, Karen Robinson, and, Alfredo D’Amato
On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. To commemorate this historic act the Australian PhotoJournalist has dedicated an entire issue to stories documenting global human rights abuses. Entitled Picturing Human Rights, this 272-page full-colour book features 19 stories from some of the world’s leading and most dedicated journalists.
Picturing Human Rights is now available to buy online for only AUD$30 (plus p&h). We also have a SPECIAL OFFER on purchasing Picturing Human Rights AND our two previous editions. While stocks last you can buy all three issues for only AUD$50 (plus p&h).
Picturing Human Rights is a landmark edition
http://cdp.edu.au/cdp/photojournalist
The Centre for Documentary Practice (Submission)
The Centre for Documentary Practice (CDP) seeks to support an emerging documentary photographer who submits the best-judged folio that aims to Seek Justice. The prize, a Canon EOS 5D Mark II Premium Kit, is designed to contribute to the continuation of, or an extension of the submitted project synopsis. The CDP Award is free to enter and open to anyone meeting the eligibility criteria.
Theme
The folio, of up to 12 images, may be on any subject but must have the intent to be used to make a positive difference to the subject or the context in which the subject exists.
Deadline
Entries close 30 November 2009.
http://cdp.edu.au/cdp/cdp-award
“Neighbourhood” Photos: Tom Williams Winner CCP Documentary Award 2009 November 14, 2009
Posted by bohdan.warchomij in : Australian photographers, Documentary, Photojournalism, exhibition , 1 comment so farCCP Documentary Award
Since 1997 the Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) has called for proposals from Australian photographers biennially, from which a panel of judges selects the best documentary work in series format, for exhibition and award.
Following the exhibition at CCP, the survey tours throughout Australia. Judged blind, the exhibition is open to established and emerging photographers.
Selecting this exhibition and the $5,000 Copyright Agency Limited Prize were Louise Adler AM, CEO and Publisher-in-Chief, Melbourne University Publishing; Stephen Dupont, Photographer and winner of the 2007 Award; and Naomi Cass, Director, CCP.
“Haunting, provocative or simply well observed, documentary photography has borne witness to contemporary life since its invention in the late nineteenth century. While capture technologies have vastly improved, essential elements remain the same: a device for recording light, something observed in the world and a passionate desire to influence and communicate rather than merely to record.
From the 1990s opportunities for traditional distribution and commissioning of documentary photography through print and electronic media have diminished, particularly since the advent of the citizen photojournalist. However, other forms of self-distribution have flourished, such as the art gallery and the internet.
Nourished by developments in art photography, documentary is a thriving and evolving practice. Against this changing professional landscape for documentary photography, more than ever events across the globe demand to be witnessed.
The CCP Documentary Photography Award celebrates the skill and craft of documentary, whether observations of global crisis or contemplative reflections on local events.”
CCP Website – http://www.ccp.org.au/
Tom Williams
These words from the CCP website definitively underscore the achievement of Tom Williams in sensitively documenting the inhabitants of the various high density towers and other public housing homes in Redfern-Waterloo.
The Turanga building has a large Pacific Islander population and is scheduled for demolition in the next few years. In Tom Williams’ words:
“The three portraits here are of people I ended up spending a lot of time with: Tony, Melissa and Cyndelle. Tony is a Vietnam vet and very sick at the moment, although he is a constant talker and usually in good spirits.
Tony Randall served in the Australian army in Vietnam for four years. He is now dying of emphysema. He lives on the 22nd floor of the Turanga highrise in Waterloo. September 2007.
Melissa, ‘Sissy,’ I met when her extended family was about to be relocated from their flat a week before Christmas. Several blocks in the street were being demolished and the family didn’t know where they would end up.
Melissa Logan at her Aunt Elma’s flat in Redfern. She lives in another public housing flat with her father around the corner but they have to vacate before Christmas. All the public housing blocks on the street are being demolished. November 2007.
Cyndelle was homeless and staying with her aunt while she got her life together. She now has a place to live in Waterloo, and a new partner. She gave birth to her second child in August this year.”
Cyndelle Georgetown on the phone to her mother, who has custody of her two year old daughter. Cyndelle is aboriginal and lives with her aunt in a public housing block in Redfern. She cannot regain custody of her daughter until she has her own residency in the area. October 2007.
The Redfern-Waterloo public housing estate is three kilometres from Sydney’s CBD. It is home to around 9,000 people from diverse cultural backgrounds, predominantly Aboriginal, Eastern European, Pacific Islander and Anglo-Australian. Incomes are typically very low, unemployment is high and drug use and family violence are ongoing problems. There is a large population of elderly people, many of whom have lived in the area since the first high-rise tenement blocks were built in the 1960s.
For years there has been debate about redeveloping the district: should more private housing be introduced into the area in an effort to ‘improve services and help lift the community out of poverty’.
Tom Williams is a Sydney-based photographer, who works freelance for several publications. In 2006 and 2008 he participated in FotoFreo Photography Festival in Fremantle and Reportage in Sydney. His work has been included in a number of awards and exhibitions across Australia.
http://www.tomwilliamsphotos.com
2009 Edith Cowan University Photomedia Grad Show: Would You Like Fries With That? November 12, 2009
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The 2009 Edith Cowan University Photomedia Graduation was opened by Max Pam, head of department at Edith Cowan University. It was sponsored by Team Digital and PRA Imaging, who offered prizes to Sky Sobejko and Michael Godwin. A huge crowd of students and supporters turned up for the Graduation Show.
Photographer Michael Godwin
Photomedia Grad Show photo Bohdan Warchomij
Lomo Exhibition at Chris Huzzard’s Studio/ Hannah McGrath November 12, 2009
Posted by admin in : Australian photographers, exhibition , add a commentPigeonhole, the indie arcade shop in Perth, and sellers of Lomo cameras, held a weekend exhibition for the Perth Charity Movember that was incredibly successful and attracted a swarm of Lomographers and supporters to the exhibition and silent auction.
Talking to Mark McPherson of ‘Hijacked” fame we both marvelled at the energy and the synergy of the Lomographers.
Whatever your opinion of this formerly unsuccessful Russian spy camera developed in St Petersburg and marketed by astute Austrian students it has generated an interest in film that is remarkable.
Story by Bohdan Warchomij
Hannah McGrath
Photos: Hannah McGrath
One of the exhibitors at the exhibition Hannah McGrath is inspired by beautiful photos shot on film. Her influences include the works of Juergen Teller, Tim Walker, and the polaroid photographer Julia Paul and this understanding is evident in the raw, overposed style and surrealist elements in her photographs.
She works with a Diana mini 35mm, making the most of the double exposures and overlapping framing abilities of the camera. These choices, along with the grainy look of the 800 ISO film, create a sensual, textural look to her images that give them substance. There is a short, fleeting moment when I study her photographs where I can imagine the sensations of the moving fabric and experience the slices of time that she has captured. Hannah McGrath is a third year student of Fashion and Textile Design.
Story by Darren Smith
