BIFB’11 REVIEWERS
Luis Enrique Ascui
Melbourne, Photojournalist
Luis has worked as a photojournalist for 20 years. Through his work he has explored the political turmoil and changes in Indonesia, undertaken projects in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Kashmir, and Sarajevo. His work reflects an interest in the human struggle to survive under intolerable conditions, and the impact of war and disaster remain strong themes –whether among images of life in Taleban-controlled Kabul or the destructive scope of Asia’s devastating tsunami. A grant from Panos (London) assisted documentation of Mayan culture in Central America in 1994, and images of Guatemala were exhibited in Copenhagen at the United Nations Summit for Social Development. He received the Nikon Award for Photojournalism in 2000. He lived in Asia for ten years, and covered breaking news for Reuters, Getty Images, and worked on features and television documentaries. He is now the director of The Multimedia Agency in Australia and travels frequently to Asia Pacific to continue his projects on environmental portraiture. He also teaches photojournalism, and conducts workshops.
Anthony Browell
Sydney, Photographer
Has practiced photography of all illustrative genres since 1970, mainly in Sydney, have been
exhibiting since 2000, at Stills, Point Light, Michael Nagy and other Sydney galleries, and since
2005, He has been working with large-format pinhole cameras on all his personal work. Anthony was on the Portfolio Review panel at Daylesford 2007 and BIFB’09 and has also exhibited at Daylesford in 2005. In 2008, he visited the Rencontre d’Arles in France, and was himself a reviewee
during the festival.
Sally Brownbill
Melbourne, Commercial photography consultant
Trained as a commercial photographer at RMIT worked in the UK and came back to Australia and
began her own agency representing some of Melbourne’s top photographers. Following this she
began working with Designers, Art Directors and Copywriters. Throughout this time she lectured
in photography for 13 years at RMIT in a subject based on the commercial industry.
Now she design folios for photographers who are at all stages of their careers and are looking for an
edgy approach to putting a commercial folio together. She also equips them with marketing strategies
including web design and branding if needed.
Naomi Cass This reviewer is fully booked
Melbourne,Director of Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP).
In 2005 Naomi oversaw relocation of CCP, a membership organisation to purpose designed premises. During her period as Director, curatorial projects include Echo: Sounding out Contemporary Photography Deloitte Melbourne (with Rebecca Chew), Scanned and Drawn Melbourne Art Fair (with Karra Rees). Her most recent exhibition is the major survey of Simryn Gill’s photography, Simryn Gill: Inland, presented by CCP aspart of the 2009 Melbourne International Arts Festival and is currently touring throughout Victoria.
Naomi has been on the jury of a wide range of awards, including CCPs Kodak Salon; CCP’s
Documentary Photography Award; Contempora 5 Art Prize; Linden Postcard Show; National
Photographic Portrait Prize and the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award. In 2011
she will judge the Olive Cotton Award, Tweed River Art Gallery.
Julia Durkin
Festival Director – Auckland Festival of Photography
Julia has been Director of the Festival since 2004 and is based in Auckland
Alasdair Foster
Photographic consultant, Sydney
Alasdair Foster is a consultant specialising in international cultural projects and a researcher in the theory of arts policy formation. He was the founding director of Fotofeis, the award-winning international biennale of photo-based art in Scotland (1991–1997) and, more recently, director of the Australian Centre for Photography (1998–2011). His educational background is in photography, natural philosophy, history and film and he has worked as an artist, curator, writer and commercial photographer. Alasdair is currently a member of the photomedia research cluster at Monash University Faculty of Art and Design, Melbourne and a founding member of the International Photography Network. He has held many previous positions including President of the Contemporary Art Organisations of Australia, editor of Photofile magazine and Chair of the Conference for European Photographers. He was author of the photography section of A Charter for the Arts, commissioned by the Scottish Arts Council. Alasdair has organised several hundred exhibitions and has published widely in Europe, Australia, Asia and the Americas. He has contributed to a number of books including Behold the Man: the male nude in photography (Stills 1988); Addressing the Forbidden (Stills 1992), Photographica Australis (ACP, 2002); BLINK (Phaidon 2002); Ray Cook – Diary of a Fortunate Man (QCP 2007), Erwin Olaf (Aperture 2008) and Edward Burtynsky – Minescapes (WAM 2009), Imagining the Everyday [China] (ACP 2010), Polixeni Papapetrou: Tales of Elsewhere (ACP 2011). During the past three decades Alasdair Foster has been an official guest of photographic festivals and events around the world including those in Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Taiwan, UK and USA.
Brian Gilkes
Melbourne, Director Visual Communications and Research, Pharos Editions
Brian Gilkes has worked in most areas of photography including scientific research, promotion, publishing, journalism and fine art. He has published widely in scholarly, educational and popular media. He currently heads Pharos Editions, assisting artists in collaborative art projects, fine ink-jet printmaking, artist's book publishing, editioning, exhibitions and workshops. Pharos prints and books are in the permanent collections of most Australian national galleries, and many international galleries, museums and private collections. Dr Gilkes' current research includes software assisted printmaking strategies, the relationship between perception, cognition and representation, pathways to creativity and performances of space and time.
Dianna Gold
Melbourne, Curator/Arts Advisor/Consultant, Former Director of Gallery 101
Dianna Gold is a Fine Arts Consultant with a background in Visual Arts and Education. She is a freelance Curator and Arts Advisor, developing contemporary collections for both the corporate and private sectors. In 2004 and 2005 she co-curated an Exchange exhibition of twenty-one Australian artists held at the National Arts Club in Manhattan, New York. With nearly twenty years of experience as the inaugural (former) Director of Gallery 101 Melbourne, she presented well known contemporary, documentary and commercial exhibitions focussing on photography. For several years Dianna also facilitated the annual ACMPhotographers Collection Exhibition. Board memberships have included the National board of the Australian Commercial Galleries Association (ACGA), Friends and Benefactors of the Department of Design and Communication RMIT University and Industry consultant to the Advisory Panel of Deakin University to establish the Bachelor Degree of Contemporary Art. She developed the inaugural public art collection of 101 Collins St, which houses a large scale photographic mural in the rear foyer.Dianna has judged a wide spectrum of Art Prizes across various mediums including photography and has been a guest lecturer on professional development for visual arts students. Currently Dianna manages the entire photographic print archive of photographer Mark Strizic, the negatives of which were acquired by the State Library of Victoria in 2007.
David Hagger
Melbourne, Manager of Mossenson Galleries
Director of the multidisciplinary art initiative Blackartprojects
David has been closely involved with a number of art fairs in Australia and abroad, worked as an art
consultant, curator, judge and representative of artists for nearly ten years. He has also written
numerous exhibition catalogues and contributed to Australian and international publications.
Merle Hathaway This reviewer is fully booked
Ballarat, BIFB Board member
Co-ordinator of education program, Shutterup, freelance exhibition curator (currently working with Buninyong Gallery). Former Executive Officer, Public Art Galleries Association of Victoria. Between 1995 – 2008 Merle was the Director, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, known for its extensive photographic collection and regular photography exhibitions
Felicity Johnston
Perth, Board member of Foto Freo and Director of Johnston Gallery
Felicity has been a Board Member FotoFreo since 2008, Director Johnston Gallery, a commercial
gallery specializing in contemporary Photography and Curator of the Cruthers Collections of
Women’s Art, University of Western Australia.
Martyn Jolly
Canberra, Head of Photography and Media Arts at the ANU School of Art
A photographer and writer, his work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia and the
National Gallery of Victoria. His book Faces of the Living Dead: the Belief in Spirit Photography was
published in Britain, the US and Australia. He has been a portfolio reviewer for Le Mois de la Photo
à Montréal, Critical Mass, and Vivid. Recently he has judged the Josephine Ulrich and Win Schubert
photography award at Gold Coast City Gallery and chaired the Visual Arts Committee of Arts ACT. He
frequently writes about contemporary Australian photography and speaks at the National Portrait
Gallery, the Art gallery of New South Wales and the National Gallery of Australia.
Cynthia Karalla
Core program artist. USA & Italy
Karalla was born in Detriot (1966) and now works between the modern backdrop of New York City and the rural south of Basilicata, Italy. Continuously experimenting and pushing the medium, Karalla acknowledges that the path of producing any work is never clear. What is important is listening to thy inner-self, fully aware that figuring out the final result is of no consequence. It is IN the process that art is born. "We each have a monopoly; there is only one of us..." Karalla has worked with Andres Serrano as his right hand on the projects, “The Interpretations of Dreams” and “American” She has work in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art - NYC, Cooper-Hewitt Museum - NYC, Yokohama Museum - Tokyo, New York Public Library, Daniel Katz - London, Koc Holding - Istanbul and Edward R. Downe Jr – NYC.
Philip Kulpa
Melbourne, Director Source Photographica
Source Photographica, was established by Philip Kulpa who has been an active participant in both
the Australian and International visual arts industry for 25 years. As investor, seller and observer,
what started out originally as a vintage photography collector’s passion, has seen Philip develop
into a compelling photography authority.
Philip travels regularly to important shows globally: Paris Photo, AIPAD New York. He has contacts
and relationships with many Auction houses worldwide and his formidable knowledge is now
recognised internationally. It is this reputation that has increasingly seen Philip called on to curate
for several important private collections in Australia and abroad.
Philip has now added Artist’s Representative to his resume. The focus is on supporting and
showing established and emerging contemporary artists locally and internationally.
Shaune Lakin This reviewer is fully booked
Melbourne, Director, Monash Gallery of Art
Director of Monash Gallery of Art, which houses a specialist collection of Australian photography.
Former curator at National Gallery of Australia and Australian War Memorial.
Julie Millowick
Deputy Head of School, Lecturer Photography LaTrobe University
Julie Millowick is a working photographer, with a long history in corporate and documentary
photography. She is Lecturer in Charge of the Photojournalism Unit at La Trobe University,
Bendigo. Julie has work in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, The State Library of
Victoria, and the National Gallery of Victoria.
Michael Proud
Canberra, Acting curator of Pictures at the National Library of Australia
The National Library collects pictorial materials to document aspects of Australian social history
and to meet the needs of researchers, historians, publishers and curators for documentary images.
For contemporary subjects, photographs are acquired with a view to acquiring accurate
representation. Images are increasingly acquired in digital form. Michael has extensive experience in collection development and acquisition of documentary photography. He is involved in the selection and acquisition of pictorial materials for the National Library’s collection. Michael was a reviewer of documentary photography at FotoFreo and Vivid.
Heidi Romano
Country Victoria, Editor and Publisher: UYW – unless you will - a bimonthly international photography journal
Heidi Romano is a fine art photographer, editor, founder and curator of UYW – unless you will - a
bimonthly international photography journal that showcases a vision within photo-based art. Her
goal is to bring together a collection of notable photographers from around the world and present
their work.
Moshe Rosenzvieg
Sydney, Founder and Director of the Head On Festival of Photography
Madeleine Say
Melbourne, Picture Librarian, State Library of Victoria
Madeleine was appointed as the Picture Librarian at the State Library of Victoria in 2002. In her current role she is responsible for the selection of material for the collection in accordance with the collection development policy. This includes a modest acquisitions vote and the administration of $300,000-$500,000 worth of donated material each year, predominantly as Cultural Gifts. She has published in the La Trobe Journal, and other library publications such as The Art of the Collection.
Stefano Sensini
Melbourne, Art Consultant
Born and educated in Italy, Stefano completed a Bachelor of Art History. He worked in the
capacity of Art History lecturer in Italy and during this time commenced the organisation and
facilitation of contemporary art exhibitions throughout Italy. Stefano worked as an Art Consultant in central London for 12 years. During this time he consulted investors/collectors, gave lectures in the main Museums; coached up-coming artists to enable them successfully to develop into the fine art world. More recently, now based in Melbourne, with a focus on Photography, he is continuing to consult internationally, working with Australian, Italian and English artists.
Susan van Wyk This reviewer is fully booked
Melbourne, Curator, National Gallery Victoria
Susan has been a curator in the Department of Photography at the National Gallery of Victoria
since 1989. She has curated numerous exhibitions of Australian and international photography
including, most recently Deep Water: Photographs 1860-200 and Luminous Cities: Photographs of the
built environment. Susan is the author of No Standing Only Dancing: Photographs by Rennie Ellis, The
Paris End: Photography Fashion and Glamour, and co-author of Second Sight: Australian Photography
in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria.
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