The end of year show for our second Year Photography class opens on Wednesday. The official drinks and nibbles is on next Friday Nov 5th between 6 and 8pm.

We have been busy printing and framing our work in preparation.

Photography exhibitions

A good thing about being back is the opportunity to catch up with some more contemporary art.
This weekend I saw 2 exhibitions that were closing this weekend.
The first at New North gallery
http://www.newnorth.com.au/index.php?page=group-m
the work of Group M members: Albert Brown, George Bell, Roy McDonald, Harry Youlden and Richard Woldendorp who were active in Melbourne in the 1960s

The second gallery was Heide where the confronting photographs of Carol Jerrums, William Yang, Nan Goldin and Larry Clark were in an exhibition called Behind the Lense: Up Close on Film.

They were documenting their lives, and recording images of their friends - none of them what you would call conventional. All of the photographers who were represented were engaged in portraiture, but in the 1960s and 70s they were a generation apart from the Group M  folk. The latter were still using formal and 'polite' approaches - in the tradition of Cartier Brersson. While Jerrums cited Cartier Bresson as a major influence, her work and the work of  the others in the show would have been more at home on the pages of Rolling Stone than Paris Match.

This is the image used to promote the show - Carol Jerrums.

Back in Melbourne

How wonderful to be home and to see the garden looking wonderful.

In Italy and Malta

Currently I am in Italy (via Malta)
the blog I will be updating is http://sueberntravelog.blogspot.com

Large Format Still Life

Personal project for college coming to a close - these are the final images for my 5x4 films.

Timelines - Photography and Time

Went to the NGV International to see the photography exhibition which is on there.

Works from the collection - was thrilled to see the Latigue and the Brassai here - such iconic works.

Also enjoyed the work of Ponch Hawkes and Bill Brandt

Large Format Camera Work

For my personal project I have decided to use the 5x4 camera at college to photograph still life - vegetables which, unlike people, do not blink or wriggle.

There have been challenges with the loading and development of film, getting the light right and so forth. But I am getting close to completion.

Theses are images I took using my digital camera when I was testing the light and composition prior to using the large camera.