January 2020
What’s on in Victoria
John Pollard’s Gums This exhibition celebrates John Pollards his contribution and love affair with the handmade gum bichromate photographs.
John was a professional photographer, photo-engraver and printmaker headed for Europe in 1956. He worked professionally in a photo-engraving house in Zürich before living in London for five years returning to Australia in 1962.
In 1999 John decided to concentrate on his research into the gum bichromate process. He held a number of solo exhibitions of his gum bichromate prints in Australia and overseas, as well as contributing to many group exhibitions.
The exhibition runs to 26th January 2020 More Info
TURNING POINTS contemporary photography from China. Since the 1990s, there has been an extraordinary flourishing of contemporary photography in China. This exhibition brings together photographs from the turning point of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and includes artists who have examined subjects as diverse as identity, traditional culture, and the rapidly changing face of Chinese cities.Drawn from the photography collection of the NGV, this exhibition highlights the exciting diversity of contemporary Chinese work that has emerged in the last thirty years and showcases photographs that were presented to the NGV by the renowned international contemporary art collector Larry Warsh. To 22n Jan NGV More information
Polixeni Papapetrou
The debutants 2009
OLYMPIA Polixeni Papapetrou Comprises photographs by Australian photographer Polixeni Papapetrou (1960–2018) of her daughter Olympia, covering the period from Olympia’s birth (1997) until the artist’s death (2018). Throughout this time, Olympia played a particularly important role in the artist’s image making, assuming the complex roles of model and muse, collaborator and champion.Following the birth of her daughter, Papapetrou’s work underwent a significant change. Her earlier work had focused on the carefully constructed and stage-managed worlds of people who lived, worked and played in disguise, including drag queens, wrestlers and avid Elvis fans. However, after Olympia’s birth, Papapetrou began photographing her children, Olympia and Solomon, and later their friends. Rather than making Papapetrou’s world smaller, this apparently inward turn opened up a limitless world of play acting, imagination and storytelling.This exhibition surveys twenty years of Papapetrou’s practice and includes works from her best-known series, as well as lesser-known images. Olympia: Photographs by Polixeni Papapetrou was curated in collaboration with the artist’s family. It draws from the NGV Collection and the artist’s estate, and is the first major museum retrospective of Papapetrou’s work.The NGV is publishing a monograph to coincide with the exhibition. It covers twenty years of Papapetrou’s practice and features contributions from Susan van Wyk, NGV Senior Curator of Photography; Robert Nelson, art critic and widower of Papapetrou; and Papapetrou’s children, Olympia and Solomon Nelson. At NGV To 29th March More Info
The Tucker Portraits Albert Tucker (1914–99) is one of Australia’s most well-known and renowned artists, and a key exponent of Australian modernism. He was primarily a figurative painter who critically responded to the world around him. In 1939 Tucker acquired his first camera. From that moment on he began documenting his life and the people and places that meant so much to him. His archive of photographs range from studies of people that he used as source material for his paintings through to incredibly rare and intimate portraits of his family and friends who today are recognised as leading protagonists in Australian modernism and the Heide circle. The Tucker portraits explores how Tucker used photography within his practice – from inspiration and source material for his paintings through to capturing unique and intimate documents that explore the social, cultural and political life in Australia.To 9 February 2020 at MGA More information
Dressing up: clothing and camera 
Since the early twentieth century the practice of fashion photographers has posed body and garment to create brands and promote lifestyle choices to sell us the clothes we wear. Shaping and shaped by the individual, our clothes can conceal, reveal and transform who we are. Like the photographs in this exhibition they are the bearers of memory, emotion and time. Artists: Gordon Bennett, Polly Borland, Pat Brassington, Eric Bridgeman, Jeff Carter, Nanette Carter, Jack Cato, Zoë Croggon, Sharon Danzig, Rennie Ellis, Elizabeth Gertsakis, Christine Godden, Alfred Gregory, Craig Holmes, Tracey Moffatt, Derek O’Connor, Jill Orr, Deborah Paauwe, David Rosetzky, Damien Shen, Wesley Stacey, Christian Thompson, Lyndal Walker, Justene Williams, Anne Zahalka. To 9 Feb 2020 More Information
Fashioning black identity: Africa and the African diaspora Fashioning black identity: Africa and the African diaspora explores ways in which contemporary black African artists are using fashion, photography and portraiture to redefine personal and cultural identity. Photography as a commercial business began in Africa with British and European colonisation in the late 19th century. Studios were set up to capture images of ‘exotic’ Africa to sell to the outside world. However, with the move to independence between the 1950s and 1970s, many of the photographic studios were taken over by African apprentices who began to explore the possibilities of photography as an art form.Artists: Jojo Abot, Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou, Atong Atem, Delphine Diallo, Omar Victor Diop, Seydou Keïta, Namsa Leuba To 9 Feb 2020 MGA More information
People of Docklands Magnet’s new and exciting exhibition features pictures taken by you. If you live or work in Docklands, just passing through, this ‘living and breathing Docklands’ is you.Be a part of this Docklands community program – capture an image of life, an expression of the moment, of people, places, anything that Docklands is to you.Participate! Pop into Magnet, download your image, we print it, and mount it to build a photographic wall of life in Docklands. Cost: $20 per image, printed to A3 size, yours to keep after the exhibition ends.People of Docklands – photos by You
Ellie Young Of Gold and Glass Feb/April 2020
The Print Exposed 2020 April/June 2020
Diana Bloomfield The Old Garden 2020 July September 2020
Pradip Malde Magic November 2020 January 2021
Danielle Edwards Convergence January April 2021
What’s on in NSW
Capturing the Home Front Featuring photographs by Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake and Australian wartime photographers.at Australian National Maritime Museum to 16 Feb 2020 More Information
What’s on in Queensland
The Look exhibits 68 photographic portraits of well-known Australians. It’s currently showing at NPG in Canberra and will travel to regional galleries over the next two years. Featured portraits include Bryan Brown, Rose Byrne, Heath Ledger, Archie Roach (below), Ian Thorpe, Michael Hutchence, Tim Jarvis, Noni Hazlehurst, Layne Beachley, Anneliese Seubert (below), Marcia Langton, Nick Cave, and Ruby Hunter. Photographers include Adam Knott, Greg Weight, Ian Darling, Bill McAuley, Michael Riley, Bruce Weber, Brett Canet-Gibson, Terry Milligan, Gary Grealy, Doug Gimesy, Dave Tacon, Nikki Toole, Jacqueline Mitelman, Andrew Maccol, Ingvar Kenne, and Karin Katt. Runs until Sunday 9 February 2020 at The National Portrait Gallery, King Edward Terrace, Canberra. More Info
What’s on in SA
Ray of Light Sydney-based artist Robyn Stacey depicts South Australia as it has never been seen before. Translating from Latin to mean ‘dark room’ the camera obscura is an optical device of wonder, whereby the external world is trapped and inverted within the room.This exhibition presents eight large-scale camera obscura photographs by Stacey. The photographs were created by the artist in 2016 when she turned well-known sites around Adelaide into camera obscuras – including Carrick Hill, Parliament House, artist Hans Heysen’s studio at The Cedars in Hahndorf, and the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI).Barossa Regional Gallery, Tanunda, SA to 9 Feb More information
What’s on International
The Hand Magazine – A Magazine For Reproduction-Based Art More Info
View Camera Australia Blog – a new blog dedicated to large format and darkroom photographers in Australia. Edited by David Tatnall. www.viewcameraaustralia.org
Nikon F3P (press professional) with split image screen – 720.00
Nikon MD-4 motor drive for Nikon F3 series – 120.00
Sinar Norma 4×5 camera with extra rear standard, film back and some spare parts – 700.00
Minolta III flash/ambient light meter in case with flat disk – 120.00
Nikon D2X, body only with battery and charger, $800.00.
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Hasselblad 503CX s/no 11EV17623 $750
Hasselblad 135mm f4 C T* Macro + bellows s/no 4870920 $600
Voigtlander Heliar Vintage line 50mm f3.5 M-mount (mint, boxed) $650
Rollei 35TE (meter not working, otherwise vgc) s/no 50331393 $150
Canon Lenses
17mm TSE L f4.0 (near mint, boxed) s/no 57500 $2000
Lomography 85mm /f2.2 (near mint, boxed) s/no 80000 $650
180mm L Series f4.0 Macro (near mint, boxed) s/no 61112 $1300
Canon 2x Teleconverter II (vgc) s/no 91448 $200
Nagaoka 5×4 (exc) $900 includes – Horseman 6×6 film back (and Graflok adapter)
Large Format lenses, all in excellent condition:
Schneider 150mm f9 G-Claron, Copal 0, yellow filter, s/no 14064150 (image circle 189mm) $300
Fujinon 250mm f5.6 SF, Copal 3, s/no 781557 (image circle 300mm) $300
Fuji 400T f8.0, Copal 1, s/no 691289 (image circle 220mm) $400
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News: Prizes: Awards: Competitions: Exhibition Entries
Hand Magazine entries More Info
NAVA – Check this web site for current grant and prizes http://www.visualarts.net.au/grantsprizes/
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