Pinhole camera workshop

Pinhole camera workshop
12-4pm Saturday 27 November 2010

Want to give pinhole photography a shot? Heard about it but don't know where to start? Recently bought a Diana or a Holga with pinhole capability and want some tips?

David Tatnall will provide expert advice for beginners of all types wanting to give pinhole photography a go in this fun workshop. Tips and tricks from making an accurate pinhole, avoiding blank film, what to ask for at the lab to how to build your own or even convert a camera you already have.

Bring along your own pinhole if you have one, or there are a few different types available to purchase from SHOP@MGA or even just play with a borrowed one on the day.

Bookings Essential, limited places
$35 Friends of MGA
$40 General

Call 03 8544 0500 to book your place

About the presenter:
David Tatnall is well known for his masterful use of pinhole cameras to capture urban and natural landscapes. His runs intensive large format photography and pinhole classes where he guides you through the steps to build your own accurate camera at Gold Street Studios in Trentham East

Is Photography Global?

Panel Discussion
Wednesday, 1 December 2010, 6.15pm
What are the relations involved in the global production of photographs? In what ways are new technologies influencing, shaping or impinging on these relations? Does photography have a specific place in globalisation? Are some kinds of photography more global than others?

Is Photography Global? aims to begin an international conversation among critics, historians and practitioners of photography on global thinking within the discipline.

Paul James (Director of the Globalism Institute, RMIT), Natalie King (curator/ writer) and Matthew Sleeth (artist) will discuss issues around the global production, distribution and local reception of photographs. Led by David Bate (University of Westminster, London) and Daniel Palmer (Monash University, Melbourne).

Centre for Contemporary Photography
404 George Street Fitzroy Victoria 3065 Australia
t +61 3 9417 1549 w www.ccp.org.au

image:
‘The Blue Marble’ — Earth seen from
Apollo 17, 1972.
NASA/courtesy of nasaimages.org

The past, present and future of photography

Have a spare 15 minutes? Fill your ears with a discussion of the past, present and future of photography. SFMOMA (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art), guided by their upcoming exhibitions and a fascinating forum from earlier this year, ask the question 'Is photography over?'.

You can watch and listen along here.

SFMOMA is currently showing two photography focused exhibitions: Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870 and Henri Cartier-Bresson: The modern century

New North Photography Prize

The New North Prize for Photography is announced tomorrow night at the New North Gallery at 15A Railway Place, Fairfield. This is the second year of the prize, which has three categories: open, student and portrait. The winner of the open category gets to stage an exhibition at New North next year, with $2500 worth of printing included. Entries were received from a broad range of photographers and there are some great pictures on show. Be at New North at 6pm to hear the announcement.

Alfred Gregory at Source Photographica

From Everest to Blackpool, by Alfred Gregory
Exhibition: 8th - 29th October 2010
Tuesday - Sunday 11am – 5pm
Source Photographica
1A Rose St, Brighton VIC 3186
T:03 05306059

On June 2nd, 1953 the world heard that the peak of Mt Everest had finally been reached. It was a British - led team that made it to the summit of the world's highest mountain, and images of the triumphant Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were flashed around the world.

Those pictures were taken by Alfred ‘Greg’ Gregory, the expedition's official stills photographer, and constitute part of a an exhibition of his work at Source Photographica until 29 October 2010. The show contains many images held in the MGA collection

GREGORY, Alfred Everest First Ascent 1953: Tom Stobart, 2005.
Gelatin Silver Photograph. Monash Gallery of Art, City of Monash Collection

Hijacked Artists featured online

Flak Photo is a daily photography website that celebrates the art & culture of photography online. It's all about discovering and promoting photographers from around the world. Published six days a week by one-man-band Andy Adams in his "spare time" no less.

While they've just finished featuring works by 20 of the photographers from Hijacked 2: Australia/Germany each weekday for the last month, that's not the only reason to check them out.

They also accept submissions to be featured on the site - so to those photographers out there looking for some international exposure, this might be your opportunity.

- Stephanie

Li Gang's artist talk today

Exhibiting artist Li Gang and exhibition curator Tony Trembath both joined us this morning to discuss their exhibition Li Gang: in the grey scale (on display until 28 November 2010).

We recorded the talk and hope to have it up on our website later today for those of you who couldn't make it along.

- Stephanie

Lee Grant wins the 2010 Bowness Photography Prize

Canberra photographer Lee Grant has won this year's prestigious $25 000 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize at Monash Gallery of Art in Melbourne.

Lee Grant's family portrait Mary with her daughters Aja and Adau, and her granddaughter Nankir is a formal portrait of a Sudanese migrant family set in their home in Canberra.

Established in 2006 to promote excellence in photography, the annual non-acquisitive William & Winifred Bowness Photography Prize is an initative of the MGA Foundation. It has quickly become Australia's most important photogaphy prize.

Works by Philip Quirk, Clare Rae and Darren Sylvester received Adobe Honourable Mentions

34 artists have been shortlisted as finalists in the 2010 prize. All 34 works are on display in the exhibition (see them online here).

Get involved by voting in the People's Choice award, with $1000 going to the winning artist and four Crumpler Camera bags up for grabs for the voter.

For more information on this year's prize as well as it's history check out MGA's website

2010 Bowness Photography Prize judging in progress...

The 2010 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize is being judged today. Curator Gael Newton, photographer Max Pam and MGA Director Shaune Lakin have been deliberating over the winner of $25 000 for the last 5 hours!

Announcement of the winner and three Adobe Honourable Mentions will take place at MGA tomorrow night at 7.30pm. Also voting will open tomorrow for the Crumpler People's Choice Award. Voters go into the draw to win three Crumpler Camera Bags and the winning artist walks away with $1 000 thanks to the MGA Foundation.

-Katie

CCP Lecture Series, Wed 15 September 2010

Dr Penny Edmonds, historian at The University of Melbourne and Dr Jane Lyndon, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies, Monash University will be discussing issues of Indigenous sovereignty and rights through colonial photography and performances in a free lecture at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, 404 George Street Fitzroy, tomorrow night, Wednesday 15 September 6.15pm.

For more information contact CCP on 9417 1549 or info@ccp.org.au

Amanda Thornton

PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE RETURN OF THE DEAD

PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE RETURN OF THE DEAD
3.00pm Saturday 14 August 2010 FREE EVENT
Bookings preferred mga@monash.vic.gov.au or call 03 8544 0500

Join prominent photographic artists ANNE FERRAN and ROD McNICOL and well-known curator and writer HELEN ENNIS as they discuss photography's ability to keep the past alive.

Contemporary culture is obsessed with keeping the dead alive. While vampires and zombies were once the mainstay of horror films and literature, the success of Buffy and more recently the Twilight saga suggest our collective fascination with the undead has reached phenomenal proportions.

Photography is also preoccupied with the undead: it keeps the past alive, in the form of a magical, silvery image. As part of its latest exhibition Living deadly: haunted surfaces and contemporary art, MGA is hosting a panel discussion on photography’s ability to keep the past alive.

image: Rod McNICOL Untitled 1–20 from the series Memento mori 2002–3
20 pigment ink-jet prints on cotton paper 2010
courtesy of the artist and Place Gallery, Melbourne

Barbara Oehring wins Most Dramatic Image

MGA Friend Barbara Oehring took out the LEXAR MOST DRAMATIC IMAGE prize at CCP 2010 Kodak Salon for her photograph Sleep in Fright. Barbara wins a Sony DCR SX40Silver Handycam & Lexar Card Pack $1427. Check out the show until 25 September 2010