Program

ACT Photography teachers.

An exhibition of photographic work, venue to be decided.

Contact: Peter Raynard

ACT Office for Ageing

An exhibition of the winning entries in the 2008 Life's Reflections Photographic Competition. The exhibition will be on display at the Tuggeranong Community Arts Centre from Saturday 6 September to saturday 4 October 2008. The Life's Reflections photographic competition is an annual event acknowledging and celebrating the contribution older Canberrans have made to the ACT community. The competition is open to all ACT residents. In 2008, for the first time, the competition will include a category for professional photographers.

Contact: Tanya Eaton, Senior Policy Officer, ACT Office for Ageing.

Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Materials (AICCM).

Book, Paper and Photographic Materials Group Symposium. Including papers relating to the conservation of both contemporary and traditional photographic techniques. 23 to 25 July 2008, to be held at the Australian War Memorial.

Contact Tania Riviere, c/- National Archives of Australia.

Weblink www.aiccm.org.au and follow the book and paper group link.

Australian Institute of Professional Photography.  

Judging of the ACT and NSW Professional Photography Awards, Awards ceremony and exhibition (confirmed). A photographic trade show is proposed and a weekend seminar for photographers is also proposed.

Contact: David Paterson.

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Peter Raynard, Passage.

Australian National Capital Artists (ANCA) Gallery.

16 to 27 July 2008, Passage II, an exhibition that continues Peter Raynard's photographic journey .

Thirst, an exhibition of painting, digital imagery and new media works by Annette Fisher contemplating the dry lake and recalling the past performance of the Bird Goddess on the Lake, from 30 July to 10 August 2008.

13 to 24 August 2008, past and present ANCA tenants come together to celebrate the 15th anniversary of ANCA's establishment, with an exhibition exploring the relationship between artists and the photographic medium.

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Jenny Lawrence, Remembering Community, 1999, site specific installation, table & tulle. Photo: Louisa Abello

Derek Ross exhibits landscapes derived from photographs and paintings from the 10 to 21 September 2008.

24 September to 5 October 2008, an exhibition titled SHOT, will feature work by Canberra Institute of Technology Teachers from the Faculties of Photography, Fashion, Art & Design exploring the many and varied facets of photography in an exhibition of 2 and 3D works.

8 to 19 October photomedia, sculpture, painting and drawings by Paul Murray feature in an exhibition titled, A Chronicle of Quirks.

Contact: Ann McMahon, ANCA Gallery Development Officer.

Australian National University Drill Hall Gallery.

Three concurrent photographic exhibitions by leading French artists highlighting achievements in contemporary international art.

Contact: Nancy Sever, Director.

Australian National University

Photographies: new histories, new practices (working title), an international, interdisciplinary conference on photography, from 11 to 14 July 2008. The conference will also aim to link with other events being held during the Festival. Proposed sessions include:

  • Photography and social space
  • Photography and ethics
  • Photography and war
  • Photography and writing
  • Photography and the 1970's
  • Photography and indigenous culture
  • Photography and masquerade, and
  • Photography and regionalism.

Keynote speakers will be invited to hold public lectures during the conference. As a lead-up to the conference, ANU is also planning a program of visiting fellows in the field of photography during the 2008 academic year. 

Contact: Dr Martyn Jolly, Head of Photomedia, ANU.

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David Paterson, Dune, black & white pin-hole photograph.

Australian National University School of Art Gallery

Parade: an exhibition exploring new modes of self representation by artists from ANU associated with the Department of Photomedia.

Also, an exhibition of pin-hole photography with artists from around the country being invited to participate.

Contact: James Holland, School of Art Program Co-ordinator.

Australian Photographic Society

Electronic digital photography exhibition together with the Australian Digital Photographic Awards ceremony.

Contact: Paul Bennie, AAPS Chairman, Electronic Digital division of the Australian Photographic Society.

Robert Irving, 1917-1984. Bulldog Road, New Guinea 1943. Copy negative 054746. Australian War Memorial.

Robert Irving, 1917-1984. Bulldog Road, New Guinea 1943. Copy negative 054746. Australian War Memorial.

Australian War Memorial

An exhibition Icon and archive: photographic memory and war 1850 - 1950 from the Memorial's photographic collections. The exhibition will include iconic images from the Memorial's collection, examine why these have become so important, and place them in the context of less well-known images. Plus projections of images onto the exterior of the building are also planned.

Contact: Shaune Lakin.

Dianne Jones. Jones' picnic. People: Wamatji. Inkjet on canvas. Canberra Contemporary Art Space.

Dianne Jones. Jones' Picnic. People: Wamatji. Inkjet on canvas. Canberra Contemporary Art Space.

Canberra Contempory Art Space

An exhibition of the provocative work of contemporary Indigenous photographer Dianne Jones. Works by Chris Fortescue and Kathy Laudenbach will also be on show.

Contact: David Broker.

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Sean Davey, The Family (Cairns), 2005

Canberra Grammar School

16 to 31 August, 2008 an exhibition of photographs from Sean Davey titled, Pidgin, examining the lives of two brothers as they take a road trip up the coast of Australia and into Papua New Guinea. What may seem like a random collection of snapshots into nights of hard drinking and even harder mornings quickly establishes contemporary themes concerning the family unit, the notion of community, alcohol abuse, the implosion of indigenous cultures and the general breakdown of society. Pidgin is more than a picture story, it is a photographic work based on the truth of our times.

Contact: Sean Davey

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Rachael Cunningham, Green - Off the Wall CIT.

Canberra Institute of Technology

A series of exhibitions of the work of present and former CIT photography students on the themes of fashion, food and cars; master classes and other activities aimed at photography students from tertiary and senior secondary institutions.

Contact: Penny Boyer, Education Program Manager, Graphic Arts Technology, Faculty of Design.

Canberra Museum and Gallery

An exhibition of photographs from the CMAG permanent collection of works by photographers based in the Canberra region, and associated programs. All the CMAG gallery spaces will be given over to the festival.

Contact: Mark Van Veen, Deputy Director.

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Julie Grigson, Clown

Canberra Photographic Society

12 July to 31 August 2008 will feature The Canberra Photographic Society annual members exhibition titled, Out of the Camera, Onto the Wall .

Contact: Joseph A Cali.

Caroline Huf. Woven objects. Craft ACT.

Caroline Huf. Woven objects, photographic stills. Craft ACT: Craft & Design Centre.

Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre

An exhibition featuring the work of Caroline Huf, 17 July to 24 August 2008. Caroline Huf weaves objects from discarded tickets and packaging and by hand modelling other media such as plasticine. She carefully documents the sequential construction of these forms through photographic stills and combines the images to create stop-motion animated video work. The objects literally come to life in front of the viewer through video-mation while the amazingly constructed objects create an intricate presence in the space of the gallery.

Contact: Jason Hugonnet, Curator/Exhibition Manager.

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David Paterson, Gaspé Vista, Quebec, Canada 2006.

CSIRO Discovery Centre

9 July to 18 August 2008, Three Days in the Gaspé, an exhibition of landscape photography by AIPP Master Photographer, David Paterson, of the Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec, Canada.

Contact: Christine Cansfield-Smith, Director.

Helen Maxwell Gallery

A photographic exhibition exploring contemporary political issues.

Contact: Helen Maxwell.

Homeless Gallery

An exhibition aiming to show photographs taken by street people and others, who prefer an exhibition venue with an open door policy. Lasting a maximum of two weeks and organised within a very short lead time the exhibition concept relies on few 'rules' and will be seen ideally at an industrial site or in a vacant building space. Over 40 exhibitions have been held in a number of countries around this principle. The exhibition organiser, Steve Lovegrove, has previously organised a Homeless Gallery event in Hobart.

Contact: Steve Lovegrove.

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Julian Laffan "Photographer", woodcut 2005

Megalo Access Arts, Print Studio and Gallery

The Silver Light, an exhibition acknowledging the major influence photography and film have had on the way we see and understand the modern world. Curated by Julian Laffan, the exhibition features seven emerging artists whose work responds to the influence of photography using non-photogaphic means. While the work may appear to be photographically or digitally reproduced it has been hand crafted.

Contact: Peter Zanetti, Director.

Olympic games - Women's shift style uniforms designed by Zara Holt, 1968. National Archives of Australia.

Olympic games - Women's shift style uniforms designed by Zara Holt, 1968. National Archives of Australia.

National Archives of Australia

An exhibition on Australian fashion, and its photography. It will chart the search for a distinct Australian style of fashion during the 1950s, 60s and 70s, and explore the stylised representation of those fashions by its photographers. Associated events include a collaboration with CIT fashion students.

Contact: Tracey Clarke.

National Film and Sound Archive

An exhibition of selected photographs from the Taussig Collection, specifically a selection of two dozen of the photographs taken behind the scenes during the filming of the classic German science fiction film 'Metropolis'.

Contact: Graham Shirley.

Afong-Lai, working c 1859-  . Western man in Chinese costume in Hong Kong studio c. 1885. National Gallery of Australia.

Afong-Lai, working c 1859- . Western man in Chinese costume in Hong Kong studio c. 1885. National Gallery of Australia.

National Gallery of Australia

Wide-angle, an historical survey exhibition exploring aspects of the history of photography from the nineteenth century down to the 1940's in the Asia-Pacific region ranging from India through to the West Coast of North America. Thematic areas will include the spread of photography across the Asia Pacific region together with regional responses and adaptations, for example:

  • The use of photographic portraiture as a political tool by some Asia Pacific leaders, such as the Kings of Thailand and Hawaii;
  • Attitudes to landscape and the wilderness, including mammoth plate and panoramic work in the 19th century;
  • Hybrid western and Asian- Pacific fashion and costume photography as political and social performance;
  • 'Les danses a Bali' 19th and 20th century photographers of dance and performance.

Curated by Gael Newton, Senior Curator of Photography.

Charles Bayliss, 1850-1897. Bathing pool and fall, Cave River, New South Wales. Albumen print. c 1888. National Library of Australia

Charles Bayliss, 1850-1897. Bathing pool and fall, Cave River, New South Wales. Albumen print. c 1888. National Library of Australia

National Library of Australia

An exhibition on Charles Bayliss,  Australia's 'greatest nineteenth century photographer', curated by Helen Ennis. This exhibition will bring together many of Bayliss' famous panoramic photographs and will include digital versions allowing visitors to explore them in fine detail. Contact: Nat Williams, Director, Exhibitions, NLA.

Scheduled events include an evening in which photographs will be projected onto the exterior of the National Library of Australia building; a folio-viewing evening on the 4th September and a range of talks aimed at photographers who would like their work to be purchased by cultural institutions.

The National Library's Picture Australia service

A project Feast on Scraps, involving Australian artists reworking public domain photographs found through Picture Australia and then loading their artwork into Flickr to share in Picture Australia. Also an evening event titled, Collective Memory planned for the 15 July 2008 at the National Library, at which Picture Australia participant institutions will present snapshots of their photographic collections together with the photographers who contribute their work through Flickr to Picture Australia, will talk about their work.

Contact: Fiona Hooton, Manager, PictureAustralia.

Herbert Basedow, Nell Basedow Hanging out the Washing, Dickerie Water Hole, South Australia, 1919, National Museum of Australia

Herbert Basedow, Nell Basedow Hanging out the Washing, Dickerie Water Hole, South Australia, 1919, National Museum of Australia

National Museum of Australia

An exhibition curated by David Kaus, of the photographs of Dr Herbert Basedow, an Australian anthropologist who undertook several trips into central and northern Australia between 1903 and 1928. A selection of the 2,500 photographs he took will be shown alongside Aboriginal artefacts and natural history specimens he collected on these trips.

Contact: David Kaus, Curator NMA.

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Photo courtesy N. Raftos, from In Their Own Image: Greek-Australians National Project Archive

Plus an exhibition titled, Selling an American Dream: Australia's Greek Cafes.

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Andrew Chapman, Rodney Grosser on his property at Dutton, S.A. Beyond Reasonable Drought, Old Parliament House.

Old Parliament House

A collaborative photographic exhibition titled, Beyond Reasonable Drought, featuring work shown for the first time by 80 Australian photographers currently documenting the issues, concerns and impact that the ten year drought is having on the country from both urban and rural perspectives.

The project is similiar in scope to the visual record captured by the Farm Security Association in America during the great depression of the 1930's. The photographers are working under the acronym MAP (Many Australian Photographers) and the initiative is one of the most comprehensive visual records of a particular theme undertaken in this country and is truly national in scope and character.

The photographers, by way of example, whose work will be featured in the exhibition are:

  • David Callow, World Press Photo 2001;
  • Barry Salzman, International Golden Light Travel Award;
  • Michael Silver, Australian Press Photographer of the year 1985, Nikon Press Photograph of the Year 1985, 2nd place;
  • Andrew Chapman, The Shearers and Campaign;
  • Bruce Postle, Nikon Press Photograph of the year, and
  • Michael Coyne, first Western photographer into Iran post revolution.

Contact: Greg Lissaman, A/g Exhibitions & Events Manager, Communications & Visitor Programs, Old Parliament House.

Photo Access Arts Centre

Exhibitions by photographers from the Canberra community.

Contact: David Chalker, Director.

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Joe Cali, Corner Store, Cameron Corner

Strathnairn Homestead Gallery.

6 September to 12 October 2008, a solo exhibition by Joe Cali, titled, Australia - just add water. Venue open weekends only.

Contact: Joseph A Cali.

Tuggeranong Community Arts Centre

Exhibitions of photographic work around the theme of 'digital story telling' from workshops on Alzheimers disease, alcohol and drug rehabilitation, Hungarian émigrés, young Sudanese refugees, young apprentices in the building trades, post and ante-natal depression and prisoner's aid. Also an exhibition on the general theme of war, women and spirituality, including Islam in recent times.

Contact: Eulea Kiraly, Community Arts Officer

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del.icio.us Portrait, Jordan Williams 2007.

University of Canberra

An exhibition and catalogue around thoughts and images exploring the theme of 'photo/not-photo'.

The intention is to explore and expand the boundaries of the photograph to include new forms of photographic practice that may or may not have their origin within the photography medium.

Contact: Tim Thomas, School of Creative Communication, University of Canberra