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Life in the Old Dog, Yet

Photography Exhibition Review Life in the Old Dog, Yet | Brian Jones M16 Artspace Gallery | 18 April 2024 – 12 May 2024 Canberra photographer Brian Jones says he is continually fascinated by the world around him, and that is reflected in his diverse and ever-changing photographic interests. He has a Graduate Diploma in Visual Art (Photography and Media Arts) from ANU School of Art. Previous…

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#Active #Alive #Brian Jones #Burdens #Dehumanised #Devalued #Dignity #Humanity #photography #photography exhibition #Senior Citizens #Society #Value

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Volver (The Return)

Photography Exhibition Review: Photography Volver (The Return) | Judith Martinez Estrada Photo Access | 15 March 2024 – 27 April 2024 Two exhibitions running concurrently at Photo Access explore identity and memory, in quite different ways. Volver (The Return) is one of them. The artist Judith Martinez Estrada has focussed on migration as well. Starting in 2017, she comprehensively explored…

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#Family #History #Identity #Judith Martinez Estrada #Memory #Migration #PhotoAccess #photography #photography exhibition

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Poison Berries

Photography Exhibition Review: Photography Poison Berries | Janhavi Sharma Photo Access | 15 March 2024 – 27 April 2024 Two exhibitions running concurrently explore identity and memory, in quite different ways. Poison Berries is one of them. Janhavi Sharma is a visual artist from India currently living and working in Nottingham, UK. In this exhibition she reflects on her childhood and…

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#Identity #Janhavi Shama #Meher Manda #Memory #Metaphor #Orange #Photo Access #photography #photography exhibition #Photography review #Poetry #Poison Berries #Visual art #Words

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Holiday Postcards

I recently printed three images at 6 by 4 inches size. Why, I hear you asking. Well, the committee of the Canberra Photographic Society decided to have Holiday Postcards as the subject for its monthly Exhibition & Critique meeting – you might know such a meeting as Competition night at your club, but ours removed the use of the term “competition” some years ago and does not have an arrangement…

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#Auckland #Australia #Australian Photographic Society #Canberra Photographic Society #Chris Holly #Holidays #Lyndonville #New Zealand #News South Wales #Piha #Postcards #Silverton #USA #Vermont

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Birds and Nature - A Photographer’s Perspective

Exhibition Review: Photography Birds and Nature – A Photographer’s Perspective| Binh Le Thanh Kyeema Gallery at Capital Wines, Gladstone Street, Hall | 7 March – 7 April 2024 This is Binh Le Thanh’s first exhibition. It essentially falls into two parts – one is all about birds in nature. The other set of images are astrophotography – also known as astronomical imaging – which is the…

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#Astrophotography #Binh Le Thanh #Birds #Nature #Wilderness #Wildlife

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MONACHOPSIS

Exhibition Review: Photography MONACHOPSIS | Hilary Wardhaugh CCAS Manuka | 14 – 24 March 2024 Speaking at the opening of her exhibition, local long-established career professional photographer, Hilary Wardhaugh, announced it was the first step in her new career as an artist. There was much laughter and positive response to that. Having long believed artists can emerge later in their life…

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With Nature

Visual Art Exhibition Review With Nature | Bridget Baskerville, Megan Cope, Wendy Dawes, Marley Dawson, Sammy Hawker, Annika Romeyn (curated by Alexander Boynes) CCAS Lakeside | 10 February – 6 April 2024 With Nature is about environmental changes happening because of us. Six contemporary Australian artists address the issues, aligning the materials they employ in their studios to convey their…

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#CCAS Lakeside #Drawing #Earth #Environment #Environmental Impact #Indigenous #Nature #photography #Sculpture #Textiles #Visual art

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VIEW 2024

Photography Exhibition Review VIEW 2024 | Caleb Arcifa, Juncture Collective, Rose Hartley, Brittany Hefren, Emma Phillips, George Pople Photo Access | 25 January – 9 March 2024 PhotoAccess has launched its 2024 Exhibition Program with VIEW2024, its annual showcase of emerging photo-media artists from the ACT and surrounding regions. Caleb Arcifa shows us one work comprising silver gelatin…

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#Brittany Hefren #Caleb Arcifa #Emma Phillips #George Pople #Juncture Collective #Photo Access #Photoart #photography exhibition #Rory Gillen #Rose Hartley #Sophie Dumaresq #VIEW 2024

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Water

Exhibition Review: Photography Water | Cristy Froehlich The Link, Ginninderry, 1 McClymont Way, Strathnairn | 23 Jan – 3 Mar 2024 Canberra photographer Cristy Froehlich is so fascinated by droplets of water that she has brought them to life via her camera lens. In her exhibition, Water, Froehlich has produced images of her constructed interactions between water, light, time, colour, texture…

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#Acrylic Blocks #Cristy Froehlich #Ginninderry #Nature #Photoart #photography #photography exhibition #Water

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The Entertainers

I have photographed musicians, dancers, actors and other artists entertaining in various situations over the years. Three A3-size prints on Hahnemuhle Fineart Photo Pearl Paper made (on my Epson Stylus Photo R3000 printer) from such photographs now hang together in my home. They are each off-white matted and black framed. Let me share something of why, of all the images I have taken over the…

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#People #photography

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Scenes from the Mall - Photographic portraits in the Belconnen Mall (1989-90)

Photography Exhibition Review Scenes from the Mall – Photographic portraits in the Belconnen Mall (1989-90) | Spiros Coutroubas West Gallery, Belconnen Arts Centre | 1 December 2023 – 11 February 2024  The largest shopping centre in the satellite Belconnen area of Canberra opened for business in 1978 as that district reached a critical population mass. It was then known as the Belconnen Mall,…

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#Belco ARTS #Belconnen Mall #Lido Bistro #photography #photography exhibition #Portrait of a Stairwell #Shoppingtown #Spiros Coutroubas #Westfield Shopping Centre

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Focus: Australian government photographers

Photography Exhibition Review Focus: Australian government photographers | Multiple Artists National Archives of Australia (National Office, Canberra) | 17 November 2023 to 10 June 2024 Supported by the National Collecting Institutions Touring and Outreach Program Focus: Australian government photographers brings Australia’s government photographers (who were public servants) out of the dark…

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#1939-1996 #AIS #ANIB #Australian government photographers #Bill Pedersen #Dept of Information #Focus #Jocelyn Burt #John Crowther #John Houldsworth #John Tanner #Keith Byron #Marilyn Rowe #National Archives of Australia #National Collecting Institutions Touring and Outreach Program #Norman Plant #Tim Acker

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Meeting Up

Every few months I write a column for the Australian Photographic Society’s APS Focus page in Australian Photography magazine, intended to encourage people to explore what the Society is all about and has to offer and, then to join. The following article has just been published in the biggest annual issue, known as the Photographer of the Year 2023 issue, of the magazine. As published Since…

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#APS Focus #APS MeetUp #Menindee #photography #Photography article #public artwork #Silverton #Stop Here on Red Signal

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Nucleo

Photography Book Review Title: Nucleo Author: Wouter Van de Voorde Publisher: AREA Books (Paris) Format: 240 pages (all with foldout), 32 x 23.5 cm, softcover (with dustjacket) ISBN: 978-2-4935-0911-6 Having become aware of Wouter Van de Voorde’s photography, Laure-Anne Kayser of AREA Books (Paris) approached him to do a book. Like his previous sold-out book Death is not here (published by…

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#Anne O&039;Hehir #AREA Books (Paris) #Foundation Henri Cartier-Bresson #Laure-Anne Kayser #Nucleo #Photobook #Wouter Van de Voorde

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Terra: (un)becoming

Photography Exhibition Review Terra: (un)becoming | Multiple Artists Photo Access | 7 – 20 December 2023 Terra: (un)becoming is the outcome of Photo Access’ annual “Concept to…”workshop series. After nine months of mentorship from local photographers Sari Sutton, Mark Mohell and Gabrielle Hall-Lomax, participants were to create new bodies of work. The exhibition is described as reflecting on…

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#boxes #Collage #Concept to Exhibition #Diverse #handmade #Inkjet #maquettes #Mixed media #Photo Access #Photobooks #photography #Screenprint #Silver gelatin #Terra: (un)becoming #zine

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Robert Frederick Compton Legge

Bob Legge, SSAPS – photographer unknownbut photographed by a member at a Canberra Photographic Society workshop Robert Frederick Compton Legge (generally known as Bob) died on 11 November 2023, aged 81. He was born on 30 July 1942, almost 5 months after me. He arrived in Canberra in 1959, again about 5 months after my arrival. Whilst the vast majority of current CPS members did not know Bob at…

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#APS #Australian Photographic Society #Bob Legge #Canberra Photographic Society #CPS #People #photography

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illuminate ‘23

Photography Exhibition Review illuminate ‘23 | Friends Photographic Group ANBG Visitor Centre Gallery | 23 November – 10 December There’s always an exhibition in the Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG) Visitor Centre Gallery. Each exhibition explores the Australian environment through diverse creative forms including fine art, craft, photography and sculpture. The Friends of the ANBG…

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#acacia #ANBG #crab spider #David Cox Memorial Award #Fauna #Flora #Gang Gang #Golden Wattle #Graham Gall #illuminate &039;23 #Irene Lorbergs #Kangaroo Paw #New Zeealand Honeyeater #photography exhibition #Waratah