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2 LATE ADDITIONS TO THE BALLARAT FRINGE PROGRAM
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AIPP / Canon Australian Professional Photography Awards
The Mining Exchange
12 Lydiard Street North, Ballarat
Open daily 10am – 4pm [late opening to 7pm Friday]
Free entry
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Toilets
The Australian Institute of Professional Photography (AIPP) is pleased to showcase winning images from Australia’s most coveted awards, the AIPP Canon Australian Professional Photography Awards (APPAs).The winning images form part of a national travelling exhibition that will make its final stop as part of the Ballarat International Foto Biennale. The winning images were carefully selected from a record 2,502 entries in 2008 (the 32nd year of the Canon AIPP APPAs) recognising Australia’s top professional photographers. The prints were subjected to three gruelling days of judging undertaken by recognised Australian and international photographers.
BALLARAT YMCA CAMERA CLUB / Inspiration – Eyes to the World
St Patrick’s Community Hall
Corner Sturt & Dawson Street, Ballarat
Open Friday to Sunday 10am to 4 pm
Free entry
Disabled entry
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The Ballarat YMCA Camera Group invites memberships of anyone interested in amateur photography whether as a hobby or as an expression of art.
"While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see." ~Dorothea Lange 1895 -1965
The photographs contained in this exhibition represent submissions entered into club monthly and interclub competitions. All prints exhibited have received a winning or a high score under an “Open Category”.
www.ballaratymcacameragroup.com.au
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ROBERT BILLINGTON / A photograph is missing
With author Tim Gooding’s words, Robert Billington takes a journey of discovery through country Australia, encouraging you to slow down and open your eyes a little wider.
www.billingtonphotography.com.au
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MASAKI HIRANO / Down the Road of Life
Japan’s Masaki Hirano stole the show at DFB’09 with his monumental work depicting the desecration of the Tasmanian wilderness, ‘Stumps of Silence’ at Andersons Mill. He returns to fringe at BIFB’09 with selected images shot in Bosnia and Cuba from his ongoing project ‘Down the Road of Life’
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MITRA MALEKZADEH & KRISTIN DIEMER / Iran – Gateways to the Soul
Discovering ancient Iran within a contemporary context. Photography is the frame for discovering the ancient soul of an ancient culture which is reflected in the contrast of an intensely modern and frenetic life existing alongside architecture, music and practices dating back to 7000 BC.
Due to current election protests in Iran, Kristin and Mitra believe it’s important to illustrate modern Iranian life more graphically than they captured during their travels. Therefore, a digital show of public web gallery, non-copyright contemporary images taken throughout Iran, by ordinary Iranian people, will be included.
LAURIE BRACKLEY & ANTON VANDERSCHOOT / Dichotomy
Arthur Gallery
37 Mair Street ,Ballara
Open 10 am – 3 pm Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
Free entry
Official opening Saturday September 5th, 5 pm – 7 pm
n. a division into two parts
This exhibition by Laurie Brackley and Anton Vanderschoot shows two different styles and techniques of photography, both of which share the same aim: to elicit a contemplative mood or feeling in the viewer. These Ballarat based photographers hope to challenge the way the viewer perceives the ordinary or urbane. Everyday subjects can become art, and embracing different perspectives can be enlightening.
DON BRICE / An Innocent in a Broken World
Radmac Gallery
104 Armstrong Street North, Ballarat
Open Monday to Friday 8.30am – 5.30pm, Saturday 9am – 12noon
Free entry
Our world can be alternately an exhilarating or a disturbing place. It contains wonders and joyous freedom, but also sorrows and frustration. Why should things die? Why should toys break? Why is happiness more elusive, the harder we strive? Don Brice explores the good and the bad through the plastic lens of a simple toy camera. These moody black and white images suggest there is hope amongst the sadness and beauty in unexpected forms.
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CRAIG HOLLOWAY / Faded Icons
Ballarat and district boasts numerous iconic buildings and sites, which have changed in their usage and level of upkeep over the years.
The photographs explore some hidden locations and capture the well known in their current state. The ravages of time, human neglect and climatic effects have created the colours and textures that shape today’s landscape.
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GORDON MONRO / Ab Initio
Gordon Monro’s exhibition ‘Ab Initio’ consists of abstract images derived from the mathematics of a vibrating drum. They are not photographs and do not derive from pre-existing images; they are created from scratch by a computer program Gordon wrote. They can be regarded as “virtual photographs” of something that only exists in the memory of a computer.
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JULIE PORTER / Light Suite
Julie Porter’s photographic installation ‘Light Suite’ not only refers to the gallery space but also that of dreaming and the imagination. Her photographs of light on bedroom walls reflect the origins of the gallery – a bedroom showroom. They draw together her interest in light, reflection, transparency and response to space that began with her sculpture degree at RMIT. ‘Light Suite’ also evokes dreams, memories and ethereal qualities somewhat like the paintings of Gerhard Richter. The current use of the gallery is an art supply shop where many artists’ imaginations abound.
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JEFF REYNOLDS & SALLY-ANNE STOEL / Colourful Fashion
‘Colourful Fashion’ is a 2009 Collaborative Photographic Exhibition by Jeff Reynolds and Sally-Ann Stoel focusing on the saturated and luminous. Their love for both fashion and bold hues combine together to form this unique array of images. Featuring both studio and scenic locations, ‘Colourful Fashion’ provides a glimpse of a variety of fresh faced models from two emerging photographers. Both Jeff and Sally-Ann are currently undertaking the honours element of their degree at La Trobe University.
ANTHONY BROWELL / Hyde Park Harmony - Portraits in the Park
Ballarat Library
178 Doveton Street North, Ballarat
Open Monday to Thursday 9.30am – 6pm, Friday 9.30am – 7pm, Saturday 9.30am – 1pm,
Sunday 1.15pm– 4pm
Free entry
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Car parking
Hyde Park is Sydney’s splendid central park, an oasis surrounded by the CBD and other highly populated areas. Forming the backbone of this park is a collection of Sydney Figs, which provide both the structure, and the ceremonial grandeur of the place. Most of these 80-year-old figtrees are diseased, and will be removed, and replaced, over the next few years. Thus, the beauty and shade of these trees will be absent for 25 years.
Over the past years, I have photographed, with a pinhole camera, about 100 randomly-met people who walk, and love, some even who live beneath these trees, to show how the serenity and peace of the place fill those who rest there.
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SUSAN GORDON-BROWN / 40 Days
The number 40 is significant in many cultures and religions, and is the inspiration for this exhibition. 40 can represent a period of celebration, fasting or mourning as well as purification and the beginning of a new life. Each of the people portrayed in these intimate and engaging photographs is a first generation Australian, and Susan has interviewed each individual about their journey. Their portraits as well as their words bring us glimpses of their culture and their experiences, and help us to understand a little of the circumstances that led them here. The participants in ‘40 Days‘ invite you to share in their lives.
TIM BURDER / Deserted Works
Eureka Visitor Centre
Rodier Street, Ballarat
Open 9 am – 5 pm daily
Free entry
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A continuing fascination with views from the flat, dry Australian outback, through the lens of Tim Burder. Of course, it isn’t necessarily either of these things – it can be inconveniently bumpy and wet at times. The desert gives us many awe-inspiring sights and quite often the beauty is just in the sheer “bigness” of the place. There is nothing like the night sky seen from the desert to give the sense of how insignificant we are and, by extension, how pointless our pettiness is. Presented as large panoramas, these images are from the outback of South Australia and Western NSW.
ALAN CLARK / Waterscapes
Racers Café & Bar
2 Wendouree Parade, Ballarat
Open Tues 8.30am - 5pm, Weds 11 am- 9pm, Thurs 8.30am - 9pm, Fri & Sat 8.30 am - 11.30pm, Sun 9am - 6pm
Free entry
Though he hails from very dry Victoria, Alan has spent a lot of time in Canada, with his Canadian wife. The abundance of water in all its states there supplies endless inspiration for contemplation and photography.
This exhibition shows water as liquid, ice and mist. It is still, in motion, and in transition between its states. It is beautifully portrayed in these traditional black and white prints. Exposed on medium and large format film and printed on silver gelatine fibre based paper in a traditional darkroom, these prints glow with the life of the water itself.
JULIE MILLOWICK / Portraits of a Century
The Old Butchers Shop
112 Seymour Street
Soldiers Hill
Open 24/7
Free entry
Displayed in the window of an old butcher shop, and available to be viewed at anytime, Julie Millowick’s portraits are of staff at [what was then] the Castlemaine Bacon Company. Known affectionately as ”The Baco” the photographs were made in 2005 to celebrate the Company’s centenary. They were displayed on large banners in public places throughout Castlemaine, and the images acknowledged the integral role all staff play in the success of the Company. The Company is now owned by George Weston Foods who continue the tradition of valuable support to the Central Victorian community. Black and white portraits, some with hand written text. Bring a torch to view at night.
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ACMP / Signature Exhibition
LAKE WENDOUREE SHORELINE
[Near Pipers]
Open 24/7
In celebration of the talent and diversity of ACMP members. This open air show is by members of the Australian Commercial and Media Photographers , presenting the images for which they are most well known.
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JOHN LAMB / A Feeling of France
Harlequin Design
915 Macarthur Street, Ballarat
Open daily 11 am - 5 pm
John’s second exhibition for 2009 gives some beautiful highlights of his trip to Paris, the Avignon Festival and the Provence area.
“This is not a travelogue. These images are mostly urban landscapes and it’s really the story behind and outside the images that interests me most. The social context and ‘the buzz’ of being there. That hint of excitement and feeling of the people behind these textured entrances, in laneways and around the festival”.
www.melbournephotography.com.au
TEAGAN GLENANE / As The Dark Sets In
Gallery on Sturt
421 Sturt Street, Ballarat
Open Monday to Friday 9am - 5.30pm, Saturday & Sunday 10am – 4pm
Free entry
Disabled access
This series, 'As the Dark Sets In' explores the contrast of the whimsical feminine with the soft glow of the approaching darkness. Set in the cool tones of winter, an exploration of moments and a focus on the innocence and sensuality of femininity and consuming mystery in the nocturnal. Inspired by child-like stories, these literary illusions explore what is essentially the female muse. Ballarat local, and final year photography student, Teagan Glenane, finds inspiration from ragged, mystical nature, and unreal beauty.
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CLIVE McWATERS / Untitled
Clive’s exhibition is a mix of pure landscape, illustrative landscape and portrait work.
His exhibition is a very diverse and interesting body of work that shows why he won many national and state awards in 2008. There is sure to be something to please you visually from a dark and mysterious New Zealand landscape to a contemporary colourful Ballarat canvas. Clive has also added some of his stunning portrait work of people, animals and some tasteful nude works. This beautiful collection of his award winning images along with a book launch will be sure to please.
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PETER KERVAREC / Untitled
Peter Kervarec is a Ballarat based photographer who loves Ballarat and the lighting conditions which this area receives due to the higher altitude. “Some people complain about the cooler weather, but I have to admit, I love it, bring on the cold! These conditions equate to more seasonal atmospherics." he says. Complementary lighting conditions and the quality of the light falling on any subject is quintessential to a great image. Peter’s aim is to capture, enhance and immortalise any subject, no matter how insignificant, dramatic or mundane. Every visual object is a key element in the daily jigsaw of life.
www.ballaratphotography.com.au
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STEPH TOUT / Sum of these holes : New pinhole works
When walking through a location, there is a plethora of visual stimuli surrounding you, shifting with your every step. Instinctively you select what to absorb according to subjective interests, emotions, experience. These many sensory encounters amalgamate into an intricate, non-linear yet cohesive understanding of place. Steph Tout explores this perceptual process in Sum of these holes; a collection of panoramic montages of place created with a 6-pinhole camera. Impressions have been gathered from sites both wild and urban, from a mountaintop to a carport’s ruins. This exhibition follows on from ensemble:place by pinhole, Steph’s Main Program show at DFB’07.
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SIMON PETERSWALD / Wood & Water
Simon Peterswald is an amateur with over 35 years experience mainly with transparencies but latterly in digital. He has had numerous images published in UK periodicals where he lived for many years and two of the images in the show reflect that time. Since returning to Australia he has been fortunate enough to be shortlisted for the inaugural National Photographic Portrait Prize of 2007. One of a handful of amateurs who had a portrait hung. This exhibition has a strong link to wood and water with an emphasis on detail and the aging process that takes place.
GROUP SHOW / Memories and Desires
Kirrit Bareet
403 Main Road, Ballarat
Free entry
Open Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm, Saturday & Sunday 10am - 4pm
Official opening Sunday September 6th, 2 pm – 4 pm
Three of Australia’s acclaimed Indigenous women artists, Dianne Jones, Gayle Maddigan and Bindi Cole exhibit alongside local Indigenous artists in an innovative first time collaboration between community and leading artists. The result is a celebratory conversation in art that is a must see for anyone ready for something new.
Powerful images explore the emergence of photography as a contemporary vehicle for Indigenous expression and creative vision.
Memories and Desire journeys beyond identity and race conventions. It asks in compelling terms, how difference is defined, how family is formed, who sees that which others do not and how forces that create memory, desire and self, become part of our visual cultures and imagined worlds.
[due to an oops in the system, the text published in the official program was an original draft. Text and show title above should have appeared instead We apologise for the mistake]
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JUNO GEMES / Proof : Portraits from the movement 1978 – 2003
30 minute looped audio visual presentation.
Warning – this show includes images of aboriginal persons who have since passed away.
Juno Gemes is one of Australia’s most celebrated contemporary photographers. As The Movement Photographer she has spent 40 years documenting the changing social landscape of Australia, in particular the lives and struggles of Aboriginal Australians. This process culminated in her exhibition Proof Portraits from the Movement 1978 -2003 being exhibited at The National Portrait Gallery in 2003. Proof then toured Australia for four years , and was exhibited in USA and Europe. This doco Proof shows Juno Gemes remembering the great events and leaders she has worked with in The Movement.
GROUP SHOW / Stroke
Ballarat Health Services
Queen Elizabeth Centre
102 Ascot Street South, Ballarat
Open Monday to Friday 10am – 4pm, Saturday & Sunday 11am – 4pm
Free entry
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Official opening of both shows Sunday September 12th, 2 pm – 4 pm
Stroke strikes at random, regardless of age or level of health. Without warning, individuals are left with varying degrees of permanent damage. This superb collection of photographs illustrates how a number of stroke survivors continue to participate in their daily lives. Under the guidance of internationally respected practicing photographer & RMIT University lecturer, Jens Waldenmaier, eight students, set about documenting the lives of twenty-two Boroondara Stroke Support Group (BSSG) members. The individual stories attached to each photograph form an insightful overview of the circumstances and challenges experienced by this remarkable group as they continue to readjust their lives.
Subject: Brian O’Meara, Photographer: Christine Ulriksen
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JENS WALDENMAIER / Samsara
Moments of endless change and transition can be seen in Jens Waldenmaier’s exhibition Samsara. If we are allowed to immerse ourselves in the concept of Samsara – [the process of continually moving on through the ocean of worldly existence] – we find the place we leave and the place we arrive at, whilst travelling through a space in between throughout time where we can create our own illusionary realities. Samsara inspired Jens to create visual representations of the embodiment of a time duration in landscapes. Through his non constructed, analogue captured photographs, he reveals a pure experience of both time and space.
DARREN JAMES / Periphery
L’Espresso Café
417 Sturt Street, Ballarat
Open Sunday to Thursday 7.30am – 6.30pm, Friday & Saturday 7.30am - late
Free entry
This work explores the edges of real and imagined, dreamed, recalled and conjured imagery. Dark and without exacting detail, the photographs invite the viewer to be part of the scene or story from which they come. As they do in dreams, the subjects mix incongruously, anonymous figures with mysterious surroundings and unlikely creatures. The photos are digitally created but faithful to the original camera image, there is no manipulation or effects.
ERIN McCUSKEY & EMMA STONEMAN / semaphore
Ballarat Railway Station
Lydiard Street North +, Ballarat
Open Daily 24 hours
Free entry
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Semaphore is an expose of communication as a sent message. Acting on a signal received commences the journey. Responding to the message begins the connection. As we move from an industrial society to an information-based one we reflect on communication tools at our disposal, ensuring we honour the promise of each generation. The method of sending the message has evolved and morphed over time and distance. From historic rail semaphore to the human body it’s the same expression sent in different ways. As humans our passion to communicate continues to play out with new ways of being. online @ www.yum.vic.edu.au/semaphore
GAVIN MILLER / Candela Explora
Marble Room
The Regent Multiplex
49 Lydiard Street North, Ballarat
Open Daily 9.30am – 9.30pm
Free entry
Toilets
What is a photograph? Gavin Miller has asked this question and has answered it by challenging the common perceptions of what a photograph can be. In its essence, a photograph is a recording of light. Without light, there is no photograph, and in this work ‘Candela Explora’, Gavin has explored light and motion in the abstract and applied them to common photographic styles. Still Life, Landscapes and environmental portraits have all undergone the ‘Painting with Light’ principle, where the delight of never really knowing what the outcome will be is an exciting component of this genre.
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LORRAINE HARVEY / Dancing in Ballarat
NL Harvey & Sons
123 Sturt Street Ballarat
Open 9.30 am- 5.30 pm Monday to Saturday
Free entry
Dancing in Ballarat is a collection of photographs taken by Lorraine Harvey capturing the various poses of ballet students performing at the Royal South Street Competitions. These performers have travelled from various places throughout Australia to compete in this prestigious ballet event held annually, in Ballarat. Her photographs portray a visual image of the dancers’ poise, grace, beauty and dedication to their chosen art form.
JULIE MILLOWICK / Close to Home
Gold Museum, Sovereign Hill
Bradshaw Street Ballarat
open daily from 9:30am to 5:20pm
entry Adult:$9.50
Pensioner/Student: $6.80
Child: $4.50
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Working on the philosophy that one does not have to seek out ‘spot news’ imagery to create meaningful documentary photographs, Julie Millowick has, for the past twenty years, been documenting her own environment. Julie lives in Central Victoria, surrounded by a landscape that was ravaged by the 19th Century goldrush, and is now enduring the impact of the prolonged drought. In this exhibition Julie’s imagery includes environmental portraiture, and digitally stitched panoramas. The work addresses, memory, endurance and survival.
CAROLYN BUCKLEY / Toxic : East Meets West
The Ansonia on Lydiard
32 Lydiard Street South
open 7 am – 6 pm Monday to Friday
8 am to 6 pm Saturday
Free entry
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Carolyn Buckley ‘s eight years living in Japan and China , experiencing a certain “Butterfly Effect” in her life, has used photography to control this rather, at times, toxic ripple but life changing experience. As her thought process seeps from her imagination she combines both cultures in so many of her creations. Her series of blended photographic images in TOXIC:EAST MEETS WEST depicts the world through her eyes . She creates with reckless abandon and her work described as far from normal:bizarre, lyrical and enigmatic ,humorous, sensual, innovative, a certain theatrical element, unique style whilst adding new dimensions. Much is left to the interpretation by the viewer.
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GILLIAN FLETCHER / Streets of Gold
Ballarat by night can be a mysterious place. Darkness, broken only by occasional pools of light spilling from shop fronts, the cinema, street lamps. Alleyways with no end in sight. Solitary cars. History everywhere. Gillian Fletcher took a Sunday evening stroll round the town centre; come see the night through her eyes.
JUILEE PRYOR / Girls Light Out
Creative Framing Gallery
18 Armstrong Street, Ballarat
Open 9 am – 5 pm Monday to Friday, 9 am – noon Saturday
Free entry
GLO is a new body of work by Sydney based photo-media artist Juilee Pryor. This suite of large cyanotypes of underwear refer to the hidden nature of sensuality and desire that is concealed under the carefully constructed personas we present to the world. What we wear hidden under our clothes is perhaps the closest to the truth about what is concealed under our skin and are the only barrier between our carefully engineered outer appearance and the naked truth. These softly radiant impressions of the concealed/revealed body seem to shimmer and glow with the promise of a dynamic sensual engagement with the world.
COMPETITION / Australia
Thorton Richards Camera House
416 Sturt Street
Ballarat
Open 8.30 am – 6 pm Monday to Friday, 9 am – 4 pm Saturday
Free entry
As part of the BIFB Thornton Richards Camera House is hosting a Photographic Competition ‘Australia.’
ENTRY FEE is $9.95 which includes an 8x10 inch (20x25cm) framed print which will be returned after the 4th of October. All entries will be displayed during BIFB at Thornton Richards Camera House. Also during BIFB at there will be a large print display again with an Australian Theme by Ballarat’s best photographers which will demonstrate the depth and artistic quality of the photographers in Ballarat and surrounding area. For competition details go to www.thorntonrichards.com.au
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