30/7/08 School of Art ANU to view Parade: Manufacturing Selves in Photography.
These works feature 16 contempoary artist who make portraits and self portraits.
These works are not realy what I enjoy, as the art world is a whole new realm and who have a different way of thinking and capturing there images. Some of these are technically not all that great, and some have you thinking about what the image is supposed to represent. I suppose that is what the ART world wants you to do to keep the viewer guessing.

I did enjoy Marzena Wasikowska work where she has 6 portraits of her son??? portraits from 2004-2008 showing his age from 12 years - 16 years. The aging process is well represented in these portraits ans she pulled it off realy well.

Tina Fivesh 3D portraits where holygram style type images and was interactive with glasses to view them with. Very clever and with the glasses, on they show great detail and almost human like contact.

14/11/08 Selling an American Dream, NMA. Austalia's Greek Cafe's. Wow what a great exhibtition and who remembers these Milk Bars. Placed on nearly every corner shop. A great Australian past time with a great history. This exibition takes us back in time, a place where our child hood was so innocent lol. The greek Cafe helped transform Australia popular culture and this exhibition not only looks at how it was done, but also tells personal stories of those invloved.
A journey back in time with a series of B/W images, and video display. A must see exhibition.

25/6/08 Drill Hall Gallery to view Michele Maurin: Voyages Photographiques, An Ecological Journey. An another instersting look at what the world has to offer us, with french photographer Michele giving us access to images from, New York, Hong Kong, French Polynesia, Ivory Coast and the Amazon. Her use of partial toning, with gold, iron and other metals to penetrate the silver emulsion to bring out a special lighting to her images make it unique.

I found the Ivory Coast and Amzon images in particular similar to the picture paradise images @ from the National Gallery composition and landscape wise.


Also @ the same location I got a look @ Lydia Chevel installation of work covering the theme wIne glasses. Digital photography that evokes excess with a of riot of images and colours.
All the images are out of focus and blurry but great compositions.
Not realy sure what it all means, maybe the abuse of alcohol in Australia society today, particulary the excess the teenagers seem to be drinking it at And maybe Lydia is trying to portray that to us.

12/7/08 After 200 years AIATSIS . Photographic essay of Indigenous Australia.
Something close to my heart and I have been apart of for the past 6 years.
In 1988 2oo years of early coloniaisation, a team of Indigenous and non Indigenous photogaphers where a part of a process to document the lives of Australian Aborginginal and Toress Strait Islanders in their own communities and how they have progress during that time.
My recent employemt with AIATSIS as a photographer has given me the opportunity to visit and hand back these imags that where taken over 20 years ago.

In a recent class, we discussed photography and colonialism and the importance of those Indigenous photographs take over 100 years ago.
Although they where exploited, they are now an important part of history, healing process and story telling.
The after 200 years collection is also is used in the same way to reconnect families and people back together. And over time those early colonialism photographs will be just as important.

11/8/08 Documentary Images by Sarah George and the CSIRO discovery centre. I had the pleasure in photographing the opening of this great exhibition and as a kid read the story/book about the Kakadu Man.
Bill Nedj IDDID DJURA. He had since now passed and Sarah got to document the final 6 years of his life. She tells the story of how she was just passing through the community on a holiday when her and Bills paths crossed. She will be the 1st to admit she had little knowledge of Aboriginal culture, but soon found herself living amongst the community where she was accepted.
Bill Nedji wanted his story told and she just happned to be in the right place @ the right time.
Now she can tell the story of those years in these images where she was aloud to access area's such customs, ceremony's and traditions, as an Aboriginal person I could only dream of being a part of.

For sacred reasons it would be wrong to post Bills image on this blog, but I have posted a picture of Sarah talking at the opening.

13/8/Chris Morrison COMPRESSED. Photo Access Manuka A unique exhibition of over an eight minute widescreen Multimedia Room projection and music track made from 14,000 digital images shot using time lapse photography in Canberra and Sydney. I had the pleasure in studying with Chris and was able to see how he began this journey in 2007. To see the final result was an accomplishment itself.

10/8/08 Joge Deustva, In search of a hero. Showcase Gallery. An interesting look a his work and more the better that he was able to be there, to meet and greet with a rare talk about his photographs.
A collection of Black and White images from his native Peru. I'll have to say it was inpsirational that he was able to tell us he's background and what he's photographs meant.
A Series images of a Journey and there was even Images in a 3d Affect.

The time we lived Dangerously with an interesting look @ people portraits and there guns. Which shows the violent world we live in today.
Another series of photographs shown was the down side of poverty and how people live. This is their environment and although it's not much, it means the world to them and they are happy.
The best Gallery of images I have seen so far.

10/8/08, New Parliment House, Pinhole Camera's. An intersting and intriguging way to look @ photographs. The creativness it brings out from such a simple pinhole solution, will always astound me. Even though pinhole camera ahs been around for a very long time, this is something that is new for me. Like Large Format I would love to explore this type of photography a whole lot more.

Walking under the Land 11/7/08 ANU school of ART . Photographic Exhibition from 4 artist Alex James, Timo Nest, Cathy Laudenbach, Marzena Wasikowska.

Shot with Large Format, Alex James images in particular of long exposurses from the south coast where brilliant. They had a certain calmness about them, and the waters had a misty look about them from the long exposures. Love the Large Format, and would love to exlpore and photograph more in this type of environment.

Visited the CMAG on the 27/8/08 to look at a collection of work from David Warren. Holographic Images which show the continuing issues with the imapact on social interaction. Mobile phones, computers and newtworking. This was something different for me to view and I quite enjoyed seeing images with illusions and 3D affects sequence , Realy eye capturing stuff.

20/8/08 Visited the National Gallery of Australia to view Pitcure Paradise . An exhibition 1st of it kind to survey the history of photography of our region. From India and Sri Lanka, South East and East Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.
This exhibition shows the rich heritage and the many outstanding work of the firts century photography.
I found it hard to view, as the post colonial view on this exhibtition is thrown out the window. I t feels as though the past 2oo years of post colonial has been erased. But the images are a sight to see and the photography tells a great story of the many links from this region. Pioneer Photographers with over 400 originals photo's and albums produced from private and public collections.
The Panoramic view of the Sydney Harbour was a great feature.