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PMA Imaging Show Goes for Entertainment
In a bid to capitalise on the growing convergence between imaging equipment and home and mobile entertainment products, the annual PMA Australia produced imaging show will be given a new name and treatment at the 2011 show in Sydney, Now in its 30th year, the Australasian Show will be promoted under the name of Imaging & Entertainment Expo and it will be held at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre in Darling Harbour, Friday 24th to Sunday 26th June 2011. Read More ...
Issued by PMA Australia |
National Photographic Portrait Prize 2010
The National Portrait Gallery announced last Friday that Scott Bycroft from Perth has been awarded the $25,000 National Photographic Portrait Prize 2010 for his portrait, Zareth 2009. The winning portrait was selected from a field of almost 1,000 entries. With the generous support of Visa this year's exhibition includes all 43 finalists and will be on display until 2 May 2010. Read More ...
Zareth 2009 (detail) by Scott Bycroft |
Spencer Tunick is coming to Sydney
Sydney, is pleased to announce that contemporary artist Spencer Tunick will be making a series of installations titled ‘The Base’ in Sydney on 1st March 2010 as part of the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras. Read More ...
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New Nude Child Law
Photographers will not be able to rely a defence of artistic merit under the new child pornography laws proposed. Two years after police raided Melbourne artist Bill Henson's controversial art exhibition, the state Government will try and legislate to force artists to account for their works. Read More ...
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The legal picture
Recent publicity about bans on photography has probably made some people wonder what they actually have the right to do with their camera.
It might seem bleeding obvious, but photography is not illegal. However, if we take this as starting point, we can then explain when taking pictures may, in fact, be restricted. Read More ...
By Paul Curtis, Executive Director of Photo Imaging Council Australia |
PMA Australia 2009 Imaging Technology Show, June 25-28, 2009
The Southern Hemisphere’s largest photographic show is an event not to be missed by photo dealers, photographers, graphic designers, signmakers, government officials, marketing executives and enthusiast photographers. It will be held at the Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour, Sydney, NSW, Australia
26 - 28 June 2009 Read More ...
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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.3
Thanks to Adobe we now have a line drawn in the sand for the difference between Graphic Art and Photography. If you are a professional graphic artist, Adobe CS4 will be one of your preferred modes of design, and if you are a professional photographer then a program like Lightroom 2.3 will be your preferred mode of photo finishing.
From talking to other photographers, one of the most common complaints is the amount of time they spend in Photoshop. Read More ...
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National Photographic Portrait Prize Winner
The winner of the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2009 is Ingvar Kenne for the submission titled Cormac and Callum. The photograph depicts two boys standing beside an indoor spa pool. The atmospheric qualities of the interior space are powerfully conveyed. The winning work is featured in an exhibition of fifty-six portraits from the finalists’ and will be on display at the National Portrait Gallery until 17 May 2009. Read More ...
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Has photography lost its identity?
Is graphic art hijacking photography? I am not making any comparison between photography and graphic art, nor am I saying that photography is of it's nature better then graphic art. However, whilst I see both as dynamic visual media I believe they should each remain discrete. Read More ...
Stephen Wark |
The Walkley Award Winning Photographer 2008
NIKON-WALKLEY PRESS PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR - WINNER.
David Gray, Reuters Wire.
As Reuters’ specialist photographer in China, David Gray was in the right place to capture the world’s biggest stories this year. The body of work he submitted for this award covers an amazing range of stories. From tragedy and anguish in the aftershocks of the earthquake in Sichuan Province to the triumph and exhilaration at the Beijing Olympic Games, Read More ...
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Gursky takes photography into new era
IN February 2007, Andreas Gursky's image 99 Cent II Diptychon went under the hammer at Sotheby's London auction. Its new owner, an unnamed private collector, paid $US3.346million, a new record for a photograph sold at auction.
"Placed in this broader fine art context, Gursky's work suddenly transcends the normal valuations of contemporary photography," photographic magazine PopPhoto.comreported at the time. Read More ...
Corrie Perkin, The Australian |
Photography protocols panned as unworkable
ALL photographs of children clothed or unclothed will have to be cleared by the children's parents or guardians before they can be exhibited.
That is one problematic aspect of sweeping guidelines designed to protect children depicted in works of art.
It has prompted a key visual arts organisation to describe as "unworkable" elements of draft protocols drawn up after of controversy over Bill Henson's photography.
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Joyce Morgan |
No misgivings about those photos, says Henson
"IN A funny way, I'm untouched by it all," claims Bill Henson. He's putting on a brave face.
Earlier this year, Henson was a national punching bag, vilified as a child pornographer and denounced by political leaders. His photographs of naked children were seized by police and stripped from gallery walls. It seemed not out of the question that one of the nation's most honoured photographers might end up in jail.
Henson stayed silent and out of sight as the biggest story in the country broke around him. Now he's speaking — Read More ...
David Marr THE AGE |
Nude child art photography under review
LAWS governing the "artistic" photography of naked children will be reviewed by the State Government after an art magazine published sexualised pictures of a naked six-year-old girl.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said yesterday he would pull funding for the taxpayer-funded Art Monthly if it did not comply with new protocols over the depiction of children.
"I have very deep, strong, personal views on this, which is that we should be on about maximising the protection of children," Mr Rudd said. "I don't think this is a step in the right direction at all. Frankly, I can't stand this stuff."
Premier Morris Iemma described the images as "disgusting". Read More ...
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Laws needed on nude child photography
Clear laws need to be introduced to stop naked images of children being presented as art, a child protection advocate says. Art Monthly Australia magazine sparked fresh controversy over naked images of children Read More ...
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Teenage nudity closes Bill Henson photography show
ALARM about images of naked teenagers by acclaimed photographer Bill Henson has forced a Sydney gallery to cancel its exhibition opening.
Police said they were investigating the legality of some of the photographs in the exhibition at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery in inner-city Paddington. Read More ...
Matthew Westwood, The Australian |
Are the days of the Professional Photographer on Film sets numbered?
Until recently the responsibility for stills photography on film sets fell within the expertise of the professional photographer. Stills photographs are used to document the behind the scenes action, the making of the film, promotional work and most importantly to record images for advertising posters. Read More ...
Story by Patty Adams WA |
Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize
Belinda Mason's harrowing, computer-enhanced Self Indulgent was one of the key photographs in Bec Dean's feminist Girl Parade, at the Australian Centre for Photography in December. At the time I wrote Mason appears nude with unclad members of her family, each showing the effects of age (and software) on their bodies.
Now, retitled as Four Generations, Mason's picture has won the main $50,000 prize within the Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize, reinforcing the feeling photography is now more about visual fiction than observing life. That Mason's image remains a tour de force of computer-enhanced, seamlessly manipulated reality, portraying evolving bodies, Read More ...
Robert McFarlane. NZ |
A work of Hearts.
LEWIS Carroll's Queen of Hearts has been analysed, scorned and ridiculed for decades by readers of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
But one suspects Carroll would heartily approve of the treatment his famous monarch received from aspiring young photographer Verity Willmott.
Willmott's untitled photograph of the Queen of Hearts, Read More ...
Rosie Hoban, Herald Sun |
Geelong photographer to give evidence at Diana inquest
A GEELONG photographer who has powerful images of the Princess of Wales' last moments alive will next week give evidence at the inquest into her death.
Darryn Lyons, a London-based paparazzo who is visiting his home town, will give evidence on Tuesday by video-link from a barrister's chambers in Sydney.
The original images were confiscated by police in France and London in 1997. Lyons has copies and has described in his new autobiography one particularly strong image of the princess just before she died. Lyons said she looked like an angel, and had only a small cut on her forehead. The image has never been published.
The picture was in stark contrast to photos taken of the princess' companion, Dodi al- Fayed. Read More ...
Valerie Lawson The Age |
Winner of Australia Hottest Calendar Girl 2008
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Veronica Howard the inaugural winner of the “Australia's 2008 Hottest Calendar Cover Girl. Veronica aged 25, lives in the picture postcard Sydney suburb of Mosman, in her self renovated unit, for the past 6 months. She grew up in the Sydney suburb St Ives, where she spent most of her life.
When I first rang Veronica to let her know of her win, she was 'over the moon' with excitement. Not only was she to grace a calendar page, Veronica would feature on the cover. Upon meeting her in person, Veronica was still bubbling with excitement.
Veronica heard about the calendar competition through the www.starnow.com.au Read More ...
Stephen Wark - 2 opinions posted |
Jamie Fawcett v Nicole Kidman.
Paparazzi photographer Jamie Fawcett was in the Supreme Court on tuesday 20/2007 accused of making up stories after he had touched but not planted a bug outside Nicole Kidman's house.
Jamie Fawcett also agreed that Nicol Kidman had the right to privacy, if they were concealed behind the walls of a house, and said that the actress had sworn at him.
Jamie Fawcett said he was waiting outside Nicol Kidman Darling Point home on January 23, 2005, when he saw her security guard, Malcolm Carter, behaving strangely. Mr Carter turned around 360 degrees before crouching near a small wall, Fawcett said. Read More ...
StephenWark |
Picture perfect Herald the big winner
THE Sydney Morning Herald proved its contribution to outstanding journalism at the 52nd Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism last night, with Fairfax photographers picking up all the photographic prizes.
Kate Geraghty led the paper's photographers, winning the top photographic award, the Nikon-Walkley press photographer of the year, for her heart-wrenching photos of John Elliott, the 79-year Sydney man who travelled to Zurich to be legally euthanased. Geraghty also won the photographic essay award for the series of photos.
James Button won the newspaper feature writing award for his story on Elliott and his journey to death with dignity.
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Auckland photographer wins Friedlander award
Auckland photographer Edith Amituanai, 27, is the inaugural recipient of a new award set up in a partnership between photographer Marti Friedlander, her husband, Gerrad Friedlander, and the Arts Foundation of NZ. The $25,000 Marti Friedlander Photographic Award, which will be presented every two years, was announced at a ceremony at the Auckland Art Gallery last night. Read More ...
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Has photography lost it's identity?
Is graphic art hijacking photography?
I am not making any comparison between photography and graphic art, nor am I saying that photography is of it's nature better then graphic art. However, whilst I see both as dynamic visual media I believe they should each remain discrete.
Photography uses light to reproduce the likeness of an object whereby the graphic artist aims to communicate something specific using all manner of visual devices and enhancements. The photograph is a valid graphic artistic tool and therefore can be suitably manipulated for a specific graphic role. Of itself however the photograph should remain a reproduction of likeness and not an interpretation.
Then where do we stop with the powerful digital photo enhancement and manipulation tools? Read More ...
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