Transferee Ail Cod #104 [aka a bunch of stuff]       #104     21/6/2009

Haiku stuff

[courtesy fr#275 Chris Holly]
Autumn rain is best
when my undies get damp from
excitement on line

editorial stuff

Shame shame! Nearly three months have passed since edition #103 hit the newsstands. I would put on a pointed cap and stand in the corner if I had the time. Unfortunately [or fortunately depending on your point of view] the morph and move of the Daylesford Foto Biennale into the Ballarat International Foto Biennale has meant a considerable rise in expectations and the amount of work involved as a result of the move, and it has meant that there just aren’t enough hours in the day to do everything that needs to be done. My plan was to have this edition winging its way through cyberspace over a month ago, but time and circumstances have worked against me. My apologies to those of you who had exhibitions and events for publication which have come and gone since #103. I’ll see if I can’t get edition #105 [with all the dirt on the PMA show] posted before the end of July

new members stuff

A big warm and fuzzy welcome to our newest free radical members, Tim Handfield, Ming Wong, Rodney Dekker, Sally Brownbill and Gary Trounson, all from Vic.

Of course I will have a bag of free radical badges available for anyone from anywhere who wants to become a life member of the free radicals at the PMA show at Darling Harbour next weekend.
So tell anyone who is not already a free radical [and there are still a few out there] pack an extra ten bucks and seek me out in Sydney and sign up for life – it’s the only level of free radical membership. And for the rest of you, don’t forget to pack your badge. In fact, if you go and put it in your case right now you won’t kick yourself when you are five minutes from the airport and Damn!! forgot my badge!!

more editorial stuff

Printing has become ever more complicated with the digital age. A degree of computer literacy is a given. Adequate knowledge of Photoshop essential. Choosing the best and most suitable paper from an ever greater range almost an art form. Then the little matter of the correct profile…
I am becoming tired of seeing ever larger prints in our galleries with photographers not shy of claiming for themselves all the credit. So, my partner’s and mine latest contribution to the National Portrait Gallery will carry also a credit to the printer. Tim Ainsworth in this instance. Perhaps others would like to follow suite [sic], after all, in days gone by Hogarth’s famous cartoons always credited the engraver. Francis Reiss fr#353

editors response.
Don’t know about others, but in my case, just about everything I produce is printed by me, and in the case where I have had prints made that are larger than the capacity of my printer, they have been made without any intervention to the file by the lab. I think that most labs nowadays output files as supplied – and those days are long since past where the photographer supplied the neg/file and the printers skills were called into play to interpret that neg/file. Fair enough if the work is a collaboration, but how about the framer? the camera manufacturer? the paper company? the tech who wrote the ICC profile? etc. etc. Interested to hear the opinions of others.

additional editorial stuff

Re the piece in FR notes #102 about the Danish photographer whose work was disqualified from a photographic competition because the judges deemed the images over-manipulated. The following response comes from fr#449 Andrew Chapman, who is also president of the MAP Group [Many Australian Photographers]

In the interest of pushing the debate along….. some thoughts………..
Lipstick on a Pig

The Debate over the use of Photoshop to enhance images by Danish photographer, Klavs Bo Christensen, (worldworldhttp://www.lightstalkers.org/klavs) in Denmark’s Picture of The Year, has struck a chord with many of MAP’s members.
http://www.pressefotografforbundet.dk/index.php?id=11708
http://www.PDNPulse.com/2009/04/photo-contest-wades-into-murky-waters-of-digital-mainpulation.html

His use of photoshop is being hotly debated around the world and again is highlighting one of the big questions that we all muse over, What is the correct amount of RAW image post production and Photoshop adjustments we should apply to our images?
Photographic competitions are littered with examples of overblown images that jump out at the viewer and in some cases give the exhibitors an edge over their competition. Slickly produced images, finely Layered, with Gaussian Blur subtly applied and other enhancements can be seen on most wedding portrait photographers websites and in annual reports from here to Timbuktu. And, of course, advertising photography takes everything to another level again. This is all fine with me, but where does that leave those of us who love to record?
As Photojournalists and Documentary photographers we all know the boundaries when it comes to digitally adding or subtracting items to our images. But enhancement, particularly contrast, saturation and colour, are more murky areas. The 1990’s Photoshop revolution gave all photographers greater power of control over their shots, particularly when it came to colour.
I am reminded of Obama’s words to the effect of, “You can put lipstick on a pig……………. but, it’s still a pig”, during the Obama Presidency run of the 2008 US Presidential Campaign.
There have always been fashions that have drifted in and out of photojournalism and documentary photography. Who can forget cross processing in the 90’s or today’s tendency for shift focus lenses with an attempt to say “look at me, look at me” (apologies to Kath Day Knight).
With B&W, photojournalists have always used contrast / brightness control to give their photo’s more impact. Photographic history is littered with examples of dark crevices and snappy highlights, devices used by photography’s superstars to get their images across. Try looking up W Eugene Smith, Salgado, Leibovitz and a host of others as references. Who amongst us have not used the same techniques?
What is at question here is not the use of……….. rather than the degree of use of colour / contrast / saturation in ones images. There is no definitive answer that cannot be argued against.
Every photographer needs to apply a fair and reasonable interpretation of light to their photographs. And, if the images are emotive enough, they will survive on their own. If they are pushing the boundaries, their colleagues will know. At the end of the day, each one of us needs to be at peace with ourselves and what we have produced.
I certainly don’t intend to set myself up as the arbiter of right and wrong and I’m sure there are others who would like to pick holes in my shooting and production style. But at the risk of building a glass house amongst a field of stones, I feel I need to fuel this debate a bit.
A truly great image will survive all of this debate because of what it is………………… a truly great image. It needs no more than fair and reasonable processing. True, there is a significant place for post production, but as an aid to a good photo, not as a crutch for a poor one. Great images by gifted artisans are what we should all be striving for. In social documentary and photojournalism, substance should always triumph over style. There are many other legitimate genres of photography for those who want to push the creative boundaries.

other stuff

From North Sullivan, fr#547
Since judging the Moran Photography prize last year I have become involved in Moran’s primary school workshop programme. Moran fund 100 day long workshops in primary schools around Australia each year under the banner of The Moran Arts Foundation. I wrote the programme and have helped source and train tutors from Sydney. Belinda Mason, Sally Mayman and Warwick Kent together with myself have been the main stays for the past year.
The programme needs to expand its interstate operation and we are looking for photographers interested and capable to present these workshops, particularly in Victoria and South Australia as well as other states.
These are paid engagements. Its not big money but better than regular teaching gigs and it is a nice thing to do. We have two kits that circulate around the tutors that include 33 compact Canon cameras and 6 Selphy printers as well as teaching materials. I provide extensive course notes and training. I wondered if I could enlist Free Radical’s help to find suitable photographers outside NSW to run some workshops?
North Sullivan
Photographer
The Photo Studio
5 Franklyn Street
Broadway (Glebe) 2037
Australia
+61 2 9571-9955
+61 (0)418 211 661

call for entry stuff

It’s always a good idea to thoroughly read and understand terms of entry for any photographic prize or competition.
If you don’t like what they say, or feel terms and conditions are not clearly spelled out, or appear exploitative, don’t enter!

content

The Murrurundi District Arts Council invites photographers to submit works in competition for the 2009 Murrurundi Keddie’s Pastoral Photographic Prize. This inaugural biannual prize, valued at $10,000, has been initiated by the Keddie family and aims to promote excellence in contemporary photography. Entrants to the prize are asked to interpret this year’s theme – WATER – in black and white, with a focus on the significance of water in the natural environment.All entries will be assessed and selected by a panel of judges. The selection of images will be done anonymously based on the quality of the photograph and the prize will be awarded to the most outstanding photographic work as determined by the final judge – photographer-author Trisha Dixon. Entries close June 26th. Murrundi Photographic Prize

Photography.Book.Now Your chance for worldwide recognition and great prizes. It is a celebration of the most creative, most innovative, and finest photography books – and the people behind them. Grand Prize $25,000.
Categories: (1) Fine Art, (2) Editorial or (3) Commercial. Deadline for entry is 12:00 PM PDT July 16, 2009. There is a non-refundable entry fee of $35 in US Dollars, €30 in Euros, or £25 in Great Britain Pounds (GBP).
We want to see your best work. Submit your photography book in one or all categories. And, enter as many books as you would like. Details http://pbn.blurb.com/

The MGA Foundation is pleased to announce the judging panel for the 2009 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize . The prize for 2009 will be $20,000 for a single photographic work by an Australian photographer. The prize is non-acquisitive. The judging panel comprises: Helen Ennis is currently Senior Lecturer in Art Theory and Associate Head, Undergraduate, at the Australian National University School of Art. Anne Ferran is one of Australia’s leading contemporary photographers and Shaune Lakin, Director of MGA.
Entries close 7 August 2009 Details www.mga.org.au

photography festival stuff

Interested in exposing your work to a panel of important and career influential persons? The Ballarat International Foto Biennale 2009 is offering 2 days of Portfolio Reviews as part of BIFB’09. Reviews will take place on Thursday Sept 3rd and Friday Sept 4th, and will give serious photographers the opportunity to present their folios – one on one – to a range of curators, publishers, agents, gallery and festival directors from all over Australia. Places will be limited and allocated on a first come first served basis. For more information email portfolioreviews@ballaratfoto.org The list of reviewers is now posted at the new bifb website www.ballaratfoto.org

Also, If you are a teacher of photography, BIFB’09 is putting together a program specially for school tour groups, which will include supervised visits to Core program exhibitions with special presentations by participating artists and curators. If you are interested in having your students participate, send an email to schools@ballaratfoto.org for more details. The Festival will run from Sept 4 to Oct 4 2009, with a Core Program of 20+ exhibitions of the best of Australian and International contemporary photography. The Fringe will grow with events in both Ballarat and Daylesford, as well as a comprehensive program of workshops, seminars, lectures, projections, special and affiliate events throughout the month. To keep abreast of all the news, go to www.ballaratfoto.org to get on the email list.

Foto Freo 2010 which runs March 20 – April 18 2010 is calling for proposals for the FF10 Fringe.
You can download a fringe application form from their website www.fotofreo.com

exhibition stuff stuff

Happy to list your show be it in Melbourne, Darwin, Hobart or wherever, but if it’s too much trouble to send me your exhibition details in a format that I can readily cut and paste, ie in the body of an email, then it’s too much trouble for me to transcribe details from a pdf or go chasing websites for the information that’s missing. Send the details to free radicaloz [at] gmail.com Include details of opening and closing dates, gallery address, opening hours, and if you like, a brief synopsis of the show.
Send information as text only, preferably pasted into the body of an email and not as an attachment. Sometimes it’s 4 – 6 weeks between editions of the notes, so if you want to be sure of getting a listing, get your details in early.

DRIED – an exhibition of images depicting an Australian rural industry in crisis by Sandy Edwards [fr#610] at the Barooga Hotel, 1 Vermont Street, Barooga, NSW. Showing until 30th June 2009. Sponsored by Fujifilm Professional. Info 0421 996 813

No Need of a Name an exhibition of rare Antarctic images by Chris Holly [fr#275] is at the Australian Defence Force Academy Library [Canberra] Show current to July 1st.Library hours, Monday through Thursday, 8.00am – 9.00pm, Friday, 8.00am – 5.00pm. Saturday and Sunday, 1.00pm – 5.00pm For more information contact: Jeff Doyle at Jeff Doyle (at) adfa.edu.au

The 2009 Head on Portrait Prize is at the Obscura Gallery in St Kilda current to 4 July.
Beller House, Suite 11, 285 Carlisle Street St Kilda, VIC, 3183. Hours Tues – Sat: 12pm – 6pm

Beyond visibility: light and dust by David Malin. Bringing together the work of Felicity Spear, David Malin and Gulumbu Yunupingu the exhibition creates an environment that explores human efforts to make pictures of whatever lies beyond Earth’s atmosphere.
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Vertigo: Artists include: Max DUPAIN, Wolfgang SIEVERS, David MOORE, John GOLLINGS, David STEPHENSON, Arthur WICKS, Simon TERRILL, Deborah PAAUWE. Looking at photographs that have been shot from high above the ground might make us feel dizzy, powerful or even otherworldly. Photographs that turn our gaze up to the sky can produce feelings of awe and disorientation.
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David Callow: 40 000 + 40: David has had 20 years experience as a documentary photographer and since 1997 has worked extensively in the Northern Territory in some of Australia’s most remote communities. Making up to 6 visits a year Callow has developed strong ties to the region and with this exhibition has produced a remarkable series of portraits that focus on the strength, humour and vitality of the individuals in these communities.
Shows current to June 28th. All at the Monash Gallery of Art [MGA] 860 Ferntree Gully Road Wheelers Hill Victoria 3150 03 9562 1569. Open: Tue-Fri: 10-5pm, Sat-Sun: 12-5pm, Mon & public holidays: closed. Gallery, gift shop, licensed cafe and sculpture park FREE ADMISSION

Ethiopian Time by Tim Handfield [fr# 753]In these photographs I hope to capture the feeling that I experienced in the Simien Mountains of Ethiopia, an uncanny sense of recognition, like being in a 19th Century landscape painting.Digital photography has freed photography from the constraints of film and chemistry, enabling the photographer to define the way that the camera ‘sees’ colour and how that is subsequently translated into the print. In this exhibition I embrace this new painterly quality of digital photography to explore connections between contemporary photography and the sublime landscape tradition. Show runs June 30th to July 11th at At Forty Five Downstairs. Gallery hours, Tues – Fri 11 -5, Sat 12 – 4

classified stuff

classifieds are free, but only run for one edition unless you email me to run in the following edition due to lack of enquiries, or you wish to delete, add, or change the price of items. Don’t send an essay – just item, price and contact details. KISS

There is a small office available in our large studio here at RIPE – www.ripestudios.com.au A shared community of 4 ace photographers! Would suit designer, web developer, retoucher, stylist or other creative… For further details contact Andrew or Cecelia.
RIPE STUDIOS, 80 River Street South Yarra Melbourne Australia 3141 T: 61 3 9826 8883 andrew (at) ripestudios.com.au

Full Bronica kit –polariod back 3 lenses 2 bodies ETRSi all offers considered
Lucy Morton fr#056

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Arterial Fence Sod [aka a bunch of stuff]     #103     31/3/2009

Haiku stuff

I’m sorry, there’s — um –
insufficient — what’s-it-called?
The term eludes me …

editorial stuff

Get your beer can, pin and emery paper ready. Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day will be celebrated on Sunday, April 26, 2009. Please join the celebration! www.pinholeday.org.
The coordinators of the eighth Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day are busy preparing for this upcoming major global festival. It will be the traditional last Sunday in April; the next one will be April 26, 2009. Anyone, anywhere in the world, who makes a pinhole photograph on Pinhole Day, can scan the image and upload it to the www.pinholeday.org website where it will become part of this premier gallery of lenless photography. Last year, 2628 participants from 62 countries contributed images to the WPPD 2008 Gallery. Over 100 events – workshops, exhibits, lectures, etc. – were held throughout the world. All of these events were coordinated locally by volunteers.
Lets see a major effort from free radicals this year.

Did you know that if you “Employ” a child under 15 as a model, then the parents have to apply for an employment permit; which is basically free, except for the $30 police check; and takes several weeks to process. The permit also needs to be signed by the parents, employer AND the child’s
school. So you would assume that employment means you pay the model right!? Well no… if you exchange services for prints, then that is officially regarded as employment. I can see how this works for companies employing models for catalogue stuff and child actors and performers, but for an hour here and there photographers, it makes you wonder how anyone gets anything done.
This permit thing also applies to choirs, dance troupes, bands, and theatre groups; so technically anyone under 15 who performs at a carols by candlelight anywhere is required to have a permit if it’s deemed as employment. Madness.

weather extreme stuff

As James Taylor once sang “I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rain” ! Following on from the Vardenaga’s plight in the Ingham floods as reported in #102, down south free radical Brian Gilkes lost his St Andrews home [but fortunately not his studio as well] and Chris Franklin and Donna Murty lost their weekend retreat at Strathewen. Then a fortnight later free radical World HQ came under attack from the Muskvale fire, which was headed fair and square for Lyonville until the wind change came and turned the fire front at right-angles. Lucky for us but not so lucky for the residents of Coomoora and Wheatsheaf. Luckily the Daylesford fire was nowhere near the intensity of Black Saturday, and the losses paled into insignificance in comparison to what had happened a fortnight earlier, but there was still more than enough menace to fuel the nervous energy as I first skirted the blaze on my way back from Ballarat to activate my fire plan.

Amateur photographers are queuing up to pay $25 each for a 2 ½-hour tour of homes destroyed in the Black Saturday bushfires. Jo-Anne Kasch has started tours of the bushfire-ravaged town of Narbethong, about 15km from Marysville. Ms Kasch has been running the bus tours for about 10 days from the Black Spur Inn where she works, charging $25 including a three-course meal. However, the tour has angered Tourism Victoria who is calling for people to boycott the tour. Ms Kasch said she’d had more than 160 bookings from photographers affiliated with the Victorian Association of Photographic Societies. She said the tours taught people about the devastation of the Black Saturday bushfires and promoted tourism. More at http://tinyurl.com/cw4m4s

new members stuff

A big warm and fuzzy welcome to our newest free radical member, Nicole Boenig-McGrade from WA

call for entry stuff

It’s always a good idea to thoroughly read and understand terms of entry for any photographic prize or competition.
If you don’t like what they say, or feel terms and conditions are not clearly spelled out, or appear exploitative, don’t enter!

PAVE Festival and Emerald Lions Club Photographic Exhibition 9am to 4pm Saturday & Sunday April 18th & 19th 2009 Emerald Mechanics Institute Hall (Melway Reference 127 F4) The PAVE Festival Committee, (Performing and Visual Arts in Emerald), and the Lions Club of Emerald are proud to coordinate a Photography Exhibition on Saturday & Sunday 18th & 19th April, 2009, at the Mechanics Institute Hall in Emerald. The PAVE festival will run from 13th to 19th April and will be advertised widely in local papers, school newsletters, city publications, radio etc.
The theme for the exhibition is “Close Up” however photographs based on alternative ideas will be accepted. ALL ENTRIES TO BE FRAMED FOR HANGING
If you would like to be part of this event, please complete the form and return to the address stated with entry fee by April 9th. Entry Fees are $5- per item and $2- per item for Under 21s. Cheques made payable to Emerald Lions Club. There are limited places, so places will be allocated on a first in, first serve basis. After this date we will consolidate all expressions of interest and send confirmation. Please see terms and conditions sheet for important additional information. Both entry form and terms and conditions can be found at this link: PAVE Festival Entry Details

2009 CCP/COLOUR FACTORY AWARD FOR AN EMERGING PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTIST NATIONAL CALL FOR ENTRIES.
CCP is committed to providing opportunities for emerging photo-based artists through education, professional development and exhibition. As part of this commitment, Centre for Contemporary Photography and Colour Factory invite all photographic artists in the first eight years of their practice to enter the fifth CCP/Colour Factory Award for an emerging photographic artist. The winner will be awarded a solo exhibition at CCP from 7 August to 26 September 2009 and printing to the value of $5,000 courtesy of Colour Factory. The judges in 2009 are Milton Harris, Contemporary Art Collector, David Rosetzky, Artist and Phill Virgo Director, Colour Factory. Entries Close 5 June 2009. For further information please see the CCP/Colour Factory Award webpage

The Murrurundi District Arts Council invites photographers to submit works in competition for the 2009 Murrurundi Keddie’s Pastoral Photographic Prize. This inaugural biannual prize, valued at $10,000, has been initiated by the Keddie family and aims to promote excellence in contemporary photography. Entrants to the prize are asked to interpret this year’s theme – WATER – in black and white, with a focus on the significance of water in the natural environment.All entries will be assessed and selected by a panel of judges. The selection of images will be done anonymously based on the quality of the photograph and the prize will be awarded to the most outstanding photographic work as determined by the final judge – photographer-author Trisha Dixon. Entries close June 26th. www.murrurundiphotographicprize.com.au

In April, the Pembleton Arts Group is holding its third annual photography exhibition on the theme of Fire, and now invites professional and amateur photographers to submit works for this exhibition and sale. This year Pembleton hosts Bike Victoria, which will bring some 2500 people to our town. To cater for this large influx of visitors, there will be a special opening on Wednesday 1st and Thursday 2nd April. The exhibition will then run from Friday 10th April to Tuesday 14th April to cater for the Easter visitors to our region. After all that Bridgetown (this was sent out before the Balingup and Victorian fires) has just suffered it is a subject very close to our lives in the middle of the forest at the height of summer but fire is also our comfort in winter and sizzles our sausages on the barbecue and is used in countless other ways. Fire is beautiful and fire is terrifying, it transforms and it purifies and it destroys. It symbolizes many things. We anticipate an exciting and varied exhibition of photographs and many interpretations of fire. So photographers, get involved and show your fired-up inspirations. Entry forms can be downloaded from the Pembleton Visitor Centre website at www.pembertontourist.com.au under the link “Galleries and Artisans” and “Pemberton Arts Group”.

photography festival stuff

Interested in exposing your work to a panel of important and career influential persons? The Ballarat International Foto Biennale 2009 is offering 2 days of Portfolio Reviews as part of BIFB’09. Reviews will take place on Thursday Sept 3rd and Friday Sept 4th, and will give serious photographers the opportunity to present their folios – one on one – to a range of curators, publishers, agents, gallery and festival directors from all over Australia. Places will be limited and allocated on a first come first served basis. For more information email portfolioreviews (@) ballaratfoto.org

Also, If you are a teacher of photography, BIFB’09 is putting together a program specially for school tour groups, which will include supervised visits to Core program exhibitions with special presentations by participating artists and curators. If you are interested in having your students participate, send an email to schools (@) ballaratfoto.org for more details. The Festival will run from Sept 4 to Oct 4 2009, with a Core Program of 20+ exhibitions of the best of Australian and International contemporary photography. The Fringe will grow with events in both Ballarat and Daylesford, as well as a comprehensive program of workshops, seminars, lectures, projections, special and affiliate events throughout the month. To keep abreast of all the news, go to www.ballaratfoto.org to get on the email list.

other happening stuff

For many women working in photography, it is a journey like no other. In Australia, photography is still in the process of finding its feet, but in recent years Australian photographers have emerged to stand alongside internationally acknowledged artists. Although Australian photography throughout its history retains the hallmarks of originality and innovation, there have not always been the opportunities to show this work. For many women this has been compounded by familial responsibilities and the competitive endeavour that comes with being an artist.
So, taking our cue from and with the blessing of Women in Photography NYC, this virtual gallery aims to showcase the talent of Australian women artists working in the field of photo-media. Our intentions are to show the wired world selected works by these women and to create a focal point for artists, curators, galleries and enthusiasts interested in the development and culture of contemporary Australian photography.
Curated by Lee Grant and U.K Frederick with regular guest curators, a new artist, either emerging or established, will be featured with a solo online exhibition every two weeks.
Submissions are open to all Australian women working in the photographic medium. Light Journeys does not charge any fees. To be considered for the initial round, please email an artist statement with 5-8 jpeg images (72dpi, 1000 pixels wide and sRGB profiled) and re-title your images surname_firstname_number.jpg to lightjourneys (@) gmail.com no later than March 8th, 2009 (International Women’s Day!). Ongoing submissions are welcome and will be accepted on a rolling basis.
We look forward to hearing from you and of course… spread the word! In creating this site, we are looking to encourage support and dialogue (and not just amongst women) as well as the opportunity to get your work and ideas out there!

exhibition stuff  stuff

Happy to list your show be it in Melbourne, Darwin, Hobart or wherever, but if it’s too much trouble to send me your exhibition details in a format that I can readily cut and paste, ie in the body of an email, then it’s too much trouble for me to transcribe details from a pdf or go chasing websites for the information that’s missing. Send the details to free radicaloz [at] gmail.com Include details of opening and closing dates, gallery address, opening hours, and if you like, a brief synopsis of the show.
Send information as text only, preferably pasted into the body of an email and not as an attachment. Sometimes it’s 4 – 6 weeks between editions of the notes, so if you want to be sure of getting a listing, get your details in early.

Inertia Overcome by Christine Tomas is at the Harvest restaurant, 1 Harvest Rd North Fremantle. Hours Tues – Thurs 6pm to late, Fri – Sun 8am to late. Show current to May 17th

DRIED – an exhibition of images depicting an Australian rural industry in crisis by Sandy Edwards [fr#610] Opening: 6:30pm, Friday, 3rd April 2009 at the Barooga Hotel, 1 Vermont Street, Barooga, NSW. Showing until 30th June 2009. Sponsored by Fujifilm Professional. Info 0421 996 813

The South – North Exchange – A very unique exhibition to raise funds for the establishment of a cross-cultural exchange program for Indigenous youth from Australia and Norway. This group show is a unique opportunity to see an outstanding selection of works by established and young artists from two very opposite parts of the world, northern Norway and Australia. All artists have kindly donated their works with all proceeds going towards the establishment of a unique cross cultural exchange program for young artists from indigenous communities in Australia and Norway. Foyer Gallery, Gasworks Park Cnr Graham &n Pickles Sts Albert Park, open 9-5 daily. Info from 03 86064200.

Then & now: South African Photography was conceived as a dialogue between eight documentary photographers whose practices traverse two highly distinctive periods in South African history: before and after the country’s transition to democracy. The exhibition provides insight into the personal, intellectual and photographic journeys that each artist has taken as they have witnessed, recorded and lived through remarkable times both past and present, then and now. It includes the work of David Goldblatt, George Hallett, Eric Miller, Cedric Nunn, Guy Tillim, Paul Weinberg, Graeme Williams and Gisele Wulfsohn. This exhibition is staged in association with Southern Exchange and Paul Weinberg.
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Black + White – Indigenous Australians are central to the history of Australian photography. Aboriginal and Islander life has been a subject of photographic documentation in this country since the earliest days of the camera, and Indigenous subjects have continued to feature in the images of photographers working in a wide range of genres over the last 150 years. During recent decades, Indigenous Australians have also become some of this country’s most important photographers, and have often turned their cameras back on their own people and traditions.
This exhibition draws primarily on works from the MGA Collection and includes photographs by Gordon Bennett, Brenda L Croft, Rennie Ellis, Fred Kruger, David Moore Derek O’Connor, Phillip Pike and Axel Poignant.
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Maid in Hong Kong by Janina Green Though bonded by their employers all week, Phillippino maids in Hong Kong find joy and freedom on Sundays. They take over public spaces around the city where they picnic, dance, sing, chat and gossip under bridges, in parks and around department stores.
Since participating in a West Space Project in Hong Kong in 2003, Janina Green has been fascinated by the study of femininity that such a congregation of women affords and has made a series of hand-coloured sepia images in response to it.
At the Monash Gallery of Art [MGA] 860 Ferntree Gully Road Wheelers Hill Victoria 3150
03 9562 1569. All shows current to May 3rd 2009. Open: Tue-Fri: 10-5pm, Sat-Sun: 12-5pm, Mon & public holidays: closed. Gallery, gift shop, licensed cafe and sculpture park FREE ADMISSION

Order and Disorder – Archives and photography in the photography gallery, level 3. Archives contain elements of truth and error, order and disorder and are infinitely fascinating. As both collections of records and repositories of data, archives are able to shape history and memory depending on how, when and by whom the materials are accessed. Their vastness allows for multiple readings to be unravelled over time. Photography is naturally associated with archives because of its inherent ability to record, store and organise visual images. With this in mind, this exhibition brings together artists drawn largely from the permanent collection of the NGV who explore the idea of archives as complex, living and occasionally mysterious systems of knowledge. Several of the selected artists act as archivists, collecting and ordering their own unique bodies of photographs, while others create disorder by critiquing the ideas and systems of archives. Show current to April 19. National Gallery of Victoria, St Kilda Rd

Stumps of Silence by Masaki Hirano [fr#752] plus images from his Down the Road of Life book Volume 1, featuring images from Cuba, East Timor and Bosnia is showing at the Convent Gallery, Daly St Daylesford www.theconvent.com.au Show current to early April

KODAK Summer Salon. Australia’s largest open-entry, photo-based exhibition and competition, the 2009 Kodak Salon is an annual event celebrating the latest developments in photo-media practice around the country. Supported by leaders in the photographic industry, the Salon provides an excellent opportunity to exhibit work in a professional, high-profile context, with $12,000 worth of prizes awarded. The 2009 Kodak Salon presents an exciting and diverse snapshot of contemporary, Australian photo-media practice. Visitors are also invited to vote for their favourite image in the Crumpler People’s Choice Award. Judging Panel: Virginia Trioli Presenter ABC2 Breakfast News, Patrick Pound Artist and Naomi Cass Director CCP
Current to May 23rd at the CCP, 404 George St Fitzroy.  Gallery hours Weds to Sat 11 – 6. info at www.ccp.org.au

classified stuff

classifieds are free, but only run for one edition unless you email me to run in the following edition due to lack of enquiries, or you wish to delete, add, or change the price of items. Don’t send an essay – just item, price and contact details. KISS

Portrait Backdrop. Studio or Portable. Canvas. Brown tonings we use to call Rembrandt. Plus a roll of carpet to suit. Size: 2750 mm (9 ft) x 2750 mm (9 ft). Still in almost perfect condition.
Plus 1 set of brackets. These are the 3 tier brackets for hanging multiple rolls of paper.
Cost: Make a reasonable offer and they’re yours. Email Richard White: white (@) mcmedia.com.au or phone 03 5776 9533 Bus hours.

South Yarra studio for sale – 3 Penny Lane. The property has just been listed and in it’s previous incarnation was used as a photographic studio (with existing darkroom) the premises have great potential for a creative space or a live/work unit. Contact agent: Tom Staughton 0411 554 850

Own Your Own Bookshop We are looking for someone to set-up and operate an Art Bookshop (new and/or secondhand) in the ground floor space of the Brunswick Street Gallery in the heart of Fitzroy. I am willing to provide the space rent free. This would be your business owned and operated by you and you would have access 24 hours a day. The only conditions are that the bookshop specialise in Art books including photography, you fitout the shop with suitable shelving etc, and you open at least from 10am to 10pm 7 days a week and that you direct people coming in to the shop up to the galleries upstairs. The space is approx 8m x 2.3m so it would not be a large shop but I think done right it could be effective. You can also put a table of books outside on the pavement. BSG is opposite Bar Open and Mario’s cafe on the corner of Argyle St.
If you are interested please email me your resume with details of your experience that would be relevant to the venture. Mark Jamieson, mark (at) bsgart.com.au 0419 390 478

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 Censorial Draftee #102 [aka a bunch of stuff]           #102     08/2/2009

Haiku stuff

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Could be a fatal error.

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editorial stuff

[courtesy fr#686 Julie Millowick]

Toddlers image sparks controversy in nanny state
The age of overzealous risk management and fear of upsetting the most sensitive of minds hit the West Australian arts community this week when an innocent photograph of two children without t-shirts was pulled from an exhibition.
Perth photographer Nicole Boenig-McGrade shot two young children pottering about on a typically Australian street for the exhibition entitled Kids in Suburbia. She captured an image of childish activity that takes place in most suburbs every day.
Prominent arts figures contacted by WAtoday.com.au said the image was no different from that screened on countless nappy advertisements on television. Many questioned just what kind of a “nanny state” WA was becoming. The library manager charged with overseeing the exhibition in the Subiaco Library deemed the image too controversial to be hung. The decision was taken following the furore artist Bill Henson ignited when he showed an image of a naked 13-year-old girl at a Sydney exhibition last year.
Perth artists and gallery owners today questioned whether an arts specialist, instead of a bureaucrat, should have made the decision to pull the photo. The black and white picture by Boenig-McGrade shows a boy and a girl, both wearing pants, playing with chalk and a bucket on a suburban footpath. This morning the Subiaco Council reinstated the image in the exhibition. Deputy mayor Andrew McTaggart admitted the decision to pull the photograph was erring too far on the side of caution.
Artrage director Marcus Canning said the notion of restriction and censorship pained artists.
“In this instance a bureaucratic and administrative body has made the decision, and institutions have a tendency to play it safe,” he said. “When risk management starts to filter down and results in an image as innocuous as this one being take out of the public eye it’s getting a bit ridiculous.”
Read the full article in W.A. Topday at this link: toddlers image spark conroversy in nanny state

weather extreme stuff

Whilst free radical members in FNQ are going mouldy, [fr#666 Robin Gauld writes 1metre of rain since Xmas in Townsville] there’s not a single millimeter in the rain gauge at free radical World HQ over the same period, and coming through this weekend unscathed I feel like I have dodged a bullet. For those of you unfamiliar with the location of World HQ, Lyonville is surrounded by the Wombat State Forest. In fact, World HQ backs directly on to 66,000 hectares of tinder dry bush.
Having been a resident of Aireys Inlet in the Ash Wednesday Bushfires, and having lost virtually everything I owned, watching the helicopter images of the devastation of Marysville this morning brought back major feelings of deja vu.

And whilst we down south ponder the ramifications of our own contribution to the weather extremes and who or what is to blame, the following is just in from Ingham QLD in this morning’s
dispatches.

This is Ann Vardanega, fr# 602 from North Queensland, Are you affected by the fires?
Was looking at the ABC news, updating the information on our flooding up here and
wondered if you were affected by those terrible fires around Melbourne?

Anthony [fr# 634] and I as well as Theresa [fr#635] have been living in the shop for nearly a week now because of the flooding. Thank goodness we had a kettle and microwave down here.
I lost power and telephone at home on Monday afternoon, and so with only the last of
power on the mobile phone, called a neighbour with a boat who collected myself, Theresa,
a grandson and two cats to be evacuated out to down here. Just as well as we spent the next two days stopping leaks into the minilab, attempting to save this business.
At my studio I have had around 7 foot of water through, lost some things, but all computers, hard
drives and back up discs now reside in the ceiling of a two story house for safety. Theresa and I
put them up there through the manhole before we left.

Ann also sent a few pics which I will pass on to webmeister Cam to post. You will be able to check them out at www.freeradicaloz.com soon

new members stuff

A big warm and fuzzy welcome to our newest free radical members, Dennis Wild from TAS, Aaron Tait from QLD and Masaki Hirano from Japan.

call for entry stuff

It’s always a good idea to thoroughly read and understand terms of entry for any photographic prize or competition.
If you don’t like what they say, or feel terms and conditions are not clearly spelled out, or appear exploitative, don’t enter!

PAVE Festival and Emerald Lions Club Photographic Exhibition 9am to 4pm Saturday & Sunday April 18th & 19th 2009 Emerald Mechanics Institute Hall (Melway Reference 127 F4) The PAVE Festival Committee, (Performing and Visual Arts in Emerald), and the Lions Club of Emerald are proud to coordinate a Photography Exhibition on Saturday & Sunday 18th & 19th April, 2009, at the Mechanics Institute Hall in Emerald. The PAVE festival will run from 13th to 19th April and will be advertised widely in local papers, school newsletters, city publications, radio etc.
The theme for the exhibition is “Close Up” however photographs based on alternative ideas will be accepted. ALL ENTRIES TO BE FRAMED FOR HANGING
If you would like to be part of this event, please complete the form and return to the address stated with entry fee by April 9th. Entry Fees are $5- per item and $2- per item for Under 21s. Cheques made payable to Emerald Lions Club. There are limited places, so places will be allocated on a first in, first serve basis. After this date we will consolidate all expressions of interest and send confirmation. Please see terms and conditions sheet for important additional information. Both entry form and terms and conditions can be found at this link: PAVE website

HEAD ON CALL FOR ENTRIES 2009 DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION – Sunday 11pm (EDT), 22 March 2009. Head on Foundation invites photographers to submit images to the 2009 photographic portrait competition. Prizes will be awarded for the best 3 images. The selection of images will be done anonymously based on the power of the photograph rather than the celebrity of the subject or photographer. Further prizes will be awarded to images selected for ‘The Critic’s Prize’ and for ‘People’s Choice’. Finalists’ work will be selected by Magnum photographer Trent Parke, Award winning Photographer Narelle Autio, Good Weekend picture editor Judith Love and Head On curator Moshe Rosenzveig. The ‘Critic’s Prize’ will be selected by the Sydney Morning Herald photography critic Robert McFarlane. Total value of prizes is approximately $37,000. Details from www.headon.com.au

The Kodak Salon is an annual event celebrating the latest developments in photo-based practice. An open-entry exhibition and competition the Kodak Salon provides an excellent opportunity to exhibit work in a professional, high profile context. The Kodak Salon is one of the largest and most renowned photographic award exhibitions in the country, including artists from all around Australia. Entries Close Friday 6 March 2009. Artwork Due Tuesday 24 March 2009. Exhibition Opening Thursday 2 April 2009, 6–8pm. Exhibition Dates 3 April–23 May 2009. Artwork Collection Sunday 24 May and Monday 25 May 2009. ENTER ONLINE. This year CCP is introducing full online payment and registration for Kodak Salon, including uploading your catalogue information and publicity image. For prize categories and more information go to www.ccp.org.au/kodak_salon.php

The Sony World Photography Awards are entirely international, welcoming professional photographers from across the globe to submit their photographs into a highly competitive awards programme. You will be judged by the World Photographic Academy to receive one of the 12 prestigious category awards and, the most coveted prize, L’iris d’Or, with the recipient taking prize money of $25,000.
A shortlist of 7 photographers in each of the 12 categories will be selected and announced on 24th of February, 2009. The announcement of the 36 total winners will be made on 17th of March, 2009. For the final stage of judging, one single photographer will be chosen by the Honorary Judging Committee from the 12 First Place category winners. This photographer will be announced and awarded in Cannes as the recipient of the 2009 L’iris d’or. All 36 Category finalists will be showcased as part of the official 2009 Finalists exhibitions in Cannes .The first place winner of each category will be flown out to Cannes to attend the World Photography Festival screenings, workshops, exhibitions, talks and other events taking place throughout the city of Cannes from the 14th – 19th of April. Detail from www.worldphotographyawards.org

Workshop Stuff

Environmental Photography Workshop presented by The Performing
And Visual Arts in Emerald Festival and the Emerald Lions Club

This workshop explores techniques for macro and landscape approaches to photography,
as well as focusing on aspects of camera operation, composition, exposure,
depth of field and perspective and most importantly,
inspiration!
The workshop
will be illustrated with many visual examples, a short field trip and is suitable
to those working with either film or digital cameras
The workshop
will be run by photographer & environmental scientist,
Alison Pouliot
For workshop bookings Ph: 0419 326 930 Limited places available! For further
details about the workshop please visit www.alisonpouliot.com or email Alison
directly at alison (at) alisonpouliot.com

photography festival stuff

Interested in exposing your work to a panel of important and career influential persons? The Ballarat International Foto Biennale 2009 is offering 2 days of Portfolio Reviews as part of BIFB’09. Reviews will take place on Thursday Sept 3rd and Friday Sept 4th, and will give serious photographers the opportunity to present their folios – one on one – to a range of curators, publishers, agents, gallery and festival directors from all over Australia. Places will be limited and allocated on a first come first served basis. For more information email portfolioreviews (at) ballaratfoto.org Also, If you are a teacher of photography, BIFB’09 is putting together a program specially for school tour groups, which will include supervised visits to Core program exhibitions with special presentations by participating artists and curators. If you are interested in having your students participate, send an email to schools@ballaratfoto.org for more details. The Festival will run from Sept 4 to Oct 4 2009, with a Core Program of 20+ exhibitions of the best of Australian and International contemporary photography. The Fringe will grow with events in both Ballarat and Daylesford, as well as a comprehensive program of workshops, seminars, lectures, projections, special and affiliate events throughout the month. To keep abreast of all the news, go to www.ballaratfoto.org to get on the email list.

other happening stuff

The AIPP is proud to announce Celebrating Women in Photography – a black tie gala evening to support International Women’s Day & the Olivia Newton John Wellness Centre being held in Melbourne on Monday 9th March 2009.

Held in conjunction with photographic organizations in the UK, New Zealand and the USA, Celebrating Women in Photography will showcase some of Australia’s leading women photographers. We will be celebrating the lives and careers of:

- Ruby Spowart
- Bronwyn Kidd
- Kate Geraghty
- Karen Gowlett-Holmes
- Lyn Whitfield King
- Jackie Ranken

Also a there will be commemorative presentation of Olive Cotton’s life and career

Where: Park Hyatt Melbourne
When: Monday 9th March 2009
Cost: $120 – More info and tickets from www.aipp.com.au

call to arms stuff

The time has come to elevate the free radicals to a position of preeminence with the re emergence of the Rupert Ball Prize for photographic self portraiture as part of the Ballarat International Foto Biennale. The R Chee Ball prize ran for three years from 2002 – 2004 and was a bit of fun, and now seems like as good a time as any to resurrect the Prize, specially when there is a potential audience of 40,000 that could get to see how photographers might represent themselves on a gallery wall. The only drawback is that we need someone to put their hand up to organize the show. If you think you are capable and would like to discuss further, please dropme an email to free radicaloz [at] gmail.com

And whilst on the subject of calling to arms, don’t forget to mark your diary with the last Sunday in April, which is World Pinhole Day. People all over the world are asked to make a pinhole image on that day and then you have a month to upload it to the WPD website. Details from www.pinholeday.org

exhibition stuff  stuff

Happy to list your show be it in Melbourne, Darwin, Hobart or wherever, but if it’s too much trouble to send me your exhibition details in a format that I can readily cut and paste, ie in the body of an email, then it’s too much trouble for me to transcribe details from a pdf or go chasing websites for the information that’s missing. Send the details to free radicaloz [at] gmail.com Include details of opening and closing dates, gallery address, opening hours, and if you like, a brief synopsis of the show.
Send information as text only, preferably pasted into the body of an email and not as an attachment. Sometimes it’s 4 – 6 weeks between editions of the notes, so if you want to be sure of getting a listing, get your details in early.

Kim Tonelli [fr# 184] Australia’s leading music and celebrity photographer is exhibiting some rare and exciting images that she has assembled from her impressive career which spans London and Australia. Show includes images of Crowded House’s Paul Hester, Bert Newton, Rove, Matthew LLoyd, John Butler, Living End, Veronicas and to mention a few.
The exhibition is taking place at Melbourne style located at 155 Clarendon St South Melbourne 3205. Show Opens Tues 10 February 6-8pm and then daily to 27 February inclusive. www.melbournestyle.com.au

No standing only dancing – Photographs by Rennie Ellis at the NGV Ian Potter Centre, Federation Square . Show current to 22 February 09
Galleries 15 & 16, Level 3
Admission free

Andreas Gursky; Temporary exhibition space 2, National Gallery of Victoria International, St Kilda Rd. [admission fees apply] Andreas Gursky (born 1955) is one of the world’s leading contemporary international artists. In essence, his photographs are concerned with the experience of life in a globalised world. Through a combination of enormous scale; the most precise pin-sharp detail; and bold use of colour, he systematically represents the individuals place within our complex, fast-paced consumer society. As Flash Art (2007) noted, Gursky scours global locations for scenes that explore ‘thematic dichotomies of macro and micro; individual and mass; photographic documentation and abstract formalism.’ Gursky has photographed quintessentially modern scenes – shops, stock markets, apartment buildings, leisure centres, and tourist sites – showing the world as high-tech, fast-paced, expensive, commercialised and overpopulated. Far more than a depressing spectacle of consumerism and globalisation, the sheer beauty and scale of Gursky’s photographs is highly seductive. Ultimately his extraordinary images are a visceral experience that makes us profoundly consider our own place within this world. [ed. well worth the admission price] Show current to Feb 22nd
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Order and Disorder – Archives and photography in the photography gallery, level 3. Archives contain elements of truth and error, order and disorder and are infinitely fascinating. As both collections of records and repositories of data, archives are able to shape history and memory depending on how, when and by whom the materials are accessed. Their vastness allows for multiple readings to be unravelled over time. Photography is naturally associated with archives because of its inherent ability to record, store and organise visual images. With this in mind, this exhibition brings together artists drawn largely from the permanent collection of the NGV who explore the idea of archives as complex, living and occasionally mysterious systems of knowledge. Several of the selected artists act as archivists, collecting and ordering their own unique bodies of photographs, while others create disorder by critiquing the ideas and systems of archives. Show current to April 19.

Stumps of Silence by Masaki Hirano [fr#752] plus images from his Down the Road of Life book Volume 1, featuring images from Cuba, East Timor and Bosnia is showing at the Convent Gallery, Daly St Daylesford www.theconvent.com.au Show current to early April

Then & now: South African photography in the Special Exhibitions Gallery. Feb 12 to May 3

Then & now: South African photography was conceived as a dialogue between eight documentary photographers whose practices traverse two highly distinctive periods in South African history: before and after the country’s transition to democracy. The exhibition provides insight into the personal, intellectual and photographic journeys that each artist has taken as they have witnessed, recorded and lived through remarkable times both past and present, then and now. It includes the work of David Goldblatt, George Hallett, Eric Miller, Cedric Nunn, Guy Tillim, Paul Weinberg, Graeme Williams and Gisele Wulfsohn. This exhibition is staged in association with Southern Exchange and Paul Weinberg.
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Black & white: Documenting Indigenous Australia in the Wilbow Gallery. Feb 12 to May 3 Indigenous Australians are central to the history of Australian photography. Aboriginal and Islander life has been a subject of photographic documentation in this country since the earliest days of the camera, and Indigenous subjects have continued to feature in the images of photographers working in a wide range of genres over the last 150 years. During recent decades, Indigenous Australians have also become some of this country’s most important photographers, and have often turned their cameras back on their own people and traditions. This exhibition draws primarily on works from the MGA Collection and includes photographs by Gordon Bennett, Brenda L Croft, Rennie Ellis, Fred Kruger, David Moore Derek O’Connor, Phillip Pike and Axel Poignant.
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Janina Green: Maid in Hong Kong in the Focus Gallery. Feb 12 to March 10Though bonded by their employers all week, Phillippino maids in Hong Kong find joy and freedom on Sundays. They take over public spaces around the city where they picnic, dance, sing, chat and gossip under bridges, in parks and around department stores. Since participating in a West Space Project in Hong Kong in 2003, Janina Green has been fascinated by the study of femininity that such a congregation of women affords and has made a series of hand-coloured sepia images in response to it.

all at the Monash Gallery of Art Corner Jells & Ferntree Gully Roads, Wheelers Hill Victoria 3150 Tel: 03 9562 1569 mga (at) monash.vic.gov.au Web: www.mga.org.au
Open: Tue-Fri: 10-5pm, Sat-Sun: 12-5pm, Mon & public holidays: closed. Gallery, gift shop, licensed cafe and sculpture park FREE ADMISSION

Je toto lokalni, nebo narodni zvyk? by Peter Fitzpatrick. This series Je toto lokální, nebo národní zvyk? was produced during a five month artist-in-residence program at the Meet Factory in Prague, Czech Republic from November 2007 to April 2008. Fitzpatrick was living in the outer suburb of Prague known as Smíchov, a once thriving industrial area that now consists of abandoned factory buildings, crumbling flats and a major transport hub. The transitory people that inhabit this part of Prague are the protagonists in this body of work.
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Cub separated from spooked polar bear by Sanja Pahoki. Cub separated from spooked polar bear is Sanja Pahoki’s latest investigation into mother-child relationships, mental illness and language. The exhibition is based on media reportage of two polar bear cubs that were hand-reared by German zookeepers after being rejected by their mothers. One of the mothers became disturbed when a photographer entered her enclosure. The zoo feared that the fate of the polar bear cub, named Flocke would follow that of two other cubs that had been eaten by their mother, Vilma. Flocke has been compared to Berlin Zoo’s celebrity polar bear, Knut, who was also rejected by his mother Tosca, an ex-East European circus performer. Like Elvis Presley, Knut had a twin brother that died shortly after birth. At the height of Knut’s fame he was photographed by Annie Leibovitz and featured on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine with Leonardo DiCaprio. The decision to hand-rear polar bears has been controversial with some animal activists claiming that the zoos should have let ‘nature take its course’ by leaving the cubs to die. As vindication of this belief there has been speculation about Knut’s mental health. Zookeepers have claimed that Knut is a ‘psychopath’ who is addicted to human adulation.
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On The Line: by Catherine Bell (Aus), Semâ Bekirovic (Nl), Olga Chernysheva (Ru), Domenico De Clario (Aus), Miranda July (Usa), Sarah Lewis (Aus), Jan Nelson (Aus), Kate Swinson (Aus), Anne Wilson (Aus). Curated By Anne Wilson. On the line brings together national and international artists whose process involves risk or who use their immediate environment to explore universal themes. Initially these environments are seen relative to the artists’ methodology, yet over time a shift occurs in the viewing experience transporting viewers into a poetically inscribed reflection on the human condition. Produced through a variety of mediums, these works are heartfelt, and the underlying curatorial cohesion comes out of a resonance that continues long after first viewing.

All shows current to March 21st at the CCP, 404 George St Fitzroy. Gallery hours Weds to Sat 11 – 6. info at www.ccp.org.au

Beneath and Beyond by Julie Stephenson Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane City Hall, King George Square
Exhibition dates: 19 December 2008 – 8 February 2009

classified stuff

classifieds are free, but only run for one edition unless you email me to run in the following edition due to lack of enquiries, or you wish to delete, add, or change the price of items. Don’t send an essay – just item, price and contact details. KISS

WANTED, Russian lenses for Fed or Zorki. Optics must be good as these lenses are required for use. John Austin fr#708 mail2 (at) jbaphoto.com.au http://www.jbaphoto.com.au 08 9773 1288

Wanted, Metz 60CT1 with Battery Pack. Frank Amato fr#611 info (at) frankamato.com.au
m:0418 380 341

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