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Dan O' Day at M16

Another exhibiton at M16 and these works probably suited the warehouse studio even more.
The photographs were particularly low quality/res and showed people sleeping in different parts of the world.
The photographs were really effective and i think it was a unique idea.

HIlary Wardaugh at M16

The M16 space is really cool. Warehouse style gallery which was appropiate for this exhibition.
Some really good colour used, and black and white.

My Place

My Place was another exhibition held at Cafe Yala and again was photograph first year students.

There were shots from all over Canberra being exhibited, and it looked really good.

The space was used really well and not too cluttered.

Portraits

Portraits was an exhibition held at Cafe Yala from my fellow first year students.
It was cool to see our work being displayed where other CIT kids could come have a look.
A lot of the work in it was superb.

Eat

Eat was an exhibition held at Design space at CIT by students.
The photographs were really clear and enticing and would fit quite easily into any cookbook.
There is a particular trend with using a low aperture on food photographs to get a particular depth of field effect in the photographs. I have been told this is a "fad" in food photography and in nearly any cook book from the past few years will have this style in most of the photographs.
I am quite over seeing this "fad" because it really drains out the creativity of the the photograph.
The students managed to have some of these photograph in the exhibition as well as some of their own styles.
I can't wait to start food photography as i think it would be an awesome field to work it.

40,000 + 40 by David Callow

This exhibition was held at the Watson Arts Centre and had a really small studio space to work with.
The images were incredible. They were mainly Aboriginal Portraits, but the photographs were awesome. They were really large in size and had some amazing texts to go with them which opened your mind to the photographs and the scenes shown.

Chris Fortscue - Resonant Sites

This exhibiton was really quite weird. It was definately on the Artistic side of things. The photographs looked like cartoons and were not taken by the artist. It started a debate amoung the class as what constitutes art and the like. The Artist had added a block colour to certain images which blocked out a piece of the work. It made you think why he had blocked it out and what statement he was making.

My opinion is that it can be considered his work so long as he acknowledges the source for the original photograph. It was good to have the artist in the studio at the time because he talked and discussed his work with us.

Chris Morrison - Compressed

This piece was shown at Photoaccess when we went there a few months back.

Compressed was a 7 or 8 minute (ish) video that had been put together from thousands of still images.

The content was footage from Canberra and Sydney and it was absolutely incredible.

The clarity and detail from each little scene was awesome.

I have absolutely no idea how he managed to shoot that fast and continuarly get the correct exposure, unless he was shooting on auto, which seems very unlikely.

This piece inspired me to think outside the square and be original.

It was one of the best exhibition pieces i saw in the Vivid festival, which is proven because it is the only exhibition i have not needed to go back and think about what content was in it.

The Fuji ACMP Australian Photographer's Collection: A Decade of Showcasing Australia's Best Photography

This exhibition was incredible and had some awesome photographs.
The colour and clarity used in the exhibiton was awesome.
The thing that stood out for me most about this exhibition was how creative and artistic the photographs really were. Which was a nice change from all the documentary exhibtions we had been going to see in the Vivid festival.

Iddid Djura

Iddid Djura was an exhibition by Sarah George held at the CSIRO (I think?)
The exhibition space was really small and the photographs were all really cluttered.
There was too many photos for the space that they were shown in.
The thing that came from this exhibition that everyone remembered was the mounting!
Now the fact that we have it in our minds that white mounts are the best to go with was proven in this exhibiton. The mounting was horrible. There was a range of coloured mounts including red, navy blue etc. Some of the coloured mounts worked okay with the photographs but as a whole they did not match at all.
The photographs themeselves were pretty interesting. The photographer had photographed an Aboriginal community and it worked quite effectively. The portrait style photographs worked really well and were quite effective.
Something i will say though, is work with the space you're given. The curator had packed more photographs in the space than required and the exhibition probably would have been more effective if there were less photographs in it. Less is more in this case.

Beyond Reasonable Drought

Beyond Reasonable Drought was an exhibition held at Old Parliament House.

Without a doubt this was my favourite exhibition through out the Vivid festival, (even though i may have said this about another exhibition or two)

The photographs were absolutely amazing. They ranged from pictures of desert and cracked earth to dried up lakes and sheep. The exhibition really opened my eyes to the drought that this country is in.

A photograph is Missing by Robert Billington

A photograph is Missing was an exhibition held at the Bungendore Woodworks upstairs in the Gallery.
For starters, the space was particularly interesting because of the lighting. The studio gallery was not lit like the National Gallery, it had a darker feel to it because the lights weren't as strong.
This enhanced the viewing of the photographs because they were in black and white. The prints were of a good viewing size, and best of all there were some film prints.
The photographs were really interesting as well. They were all different yet they flowed really well as you walked through the studio. The photographs had some really appropriate wall texts to go with them that were really interesting.
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Woodbury Type Process

The Woodbury Type Process is an interesting one that has been described as mash and gravy.

If you spread mash out on to a plate of some description and use a fork to make a certain imagewith different levels of thickness and deepness then pour gravy on top you are left with a type of Woodbury image.

The parts of the mash where the indents are deeper will go a deeper colour and the more shallow areas will be lighter. You are left with a picture of different shades of brown.

The Woodbury type typically uses a machine that does carving to a chosen material.

The idea was formed by a photographer called Walter Woodbury, hence the name.

Sourced from

http://www.alternativephotography.com/process_woodburytype.html

Woodbury Type Photography

Not sure if this the photography type i had to research, but i can't find anything on it..

Picture Paradise

Picture Paradise was held at the National Gallery of Australia.
This exhibition comprised photographs from the first 100 years of photography. From 1840 to 1940 ish.
It was amazing to see some of Ansell Adams work in real life. That was pretty incredible. The whole exhibiton was really cool. It didn't focus on one medium of photography or theme.

Icon and Archive: Photography and the World Wars

This exhibition was held at the Australian War Memorial. It was easily one of my favourite exhibitions from the Vivid Festival. The images were so confronting and so truthful it was shocking. The stories that went with some of the images were incredible as well. For me it was an awakening to shocking details of war. The only images we're presented with in society about war are very recent. And most of what we know of war has come out of movies or songs. There were a couple of recurring photographers in the exhibiton which is amazing to think about their job as a photojournalist in the first or second world war.

Interval by Bryan Dawe

This exhibition was truly artistic and very conceptual. It was just the type of work you'd expect to see in a photography art exhibiton. At the same time however, none of his work was expected it was completely different. Something i had never seen before. The colours and slow shutter speeds of his work was incredible. Reminded me heaps of being in the theatre and performing on stage. The way the artworks were presented were really interesting as well. It almost looked like the photographs had been painted or something. I was not a fan however, of how reflective they were. You could always see the background and people walking around behind you and most of all, you could see yourself in the artwork because it was so reflective!

Traces of Memory: An exhibition by Julie Millowick

This exhibition was held at the Watson Arts Centre.
It was a particularly different exhibition because it was based on a range of photograms.
A photogram involves the process of placing an object on top of photographic paper and exposing it the same way you would project film in an enlarger. It was interesting to see artistic versions of this type of photography. I was introduced to it in high school when we were learning how to expose paper. I guess i've always thought of it as an amerture medium but Julie Millowick really changed my view on it.
The photograms she had produced were quite botanic and included a range of flowers and plants; they were displayed next to an image of the same plant.
I really enjoyed this exhibition althought it only comprised of a few images. It a bit strange that this exhibition had been placed in the same gallery as another exhibiton about Aboriginal Culture. I don't know if there was a purpose involved or if it was just due to lack of exhibition space!

Pinhole Prints at Parliament House

This exhibition at Parliament House was one of the best i have seen through out the Vivid festival. Some of the photos were incredible and had great quality.

I specifically liked the idea used of the camera obscure where the artist projected the image onto a wall in the house. The outside world came to life in these photos. I'm not sure though if the camera obsura idea was taken using a pinhole camera. The quality of the prints were possibly too clear to be taken using a pinhole. The pinhole camera exhibition also had some cameras on display to show people the idea and process used in a pinhole camera. The exhibition particularly appealed to me because i have done a little amount of pinhole work before. It would be exciting to do a pinhole class in our course next year.   

Cruise at CIT Design Space

Cruise was a student exhibition held at the CIT design space. Some of the photographs were really interesting. I specifically like the photographs that were taken on location. Some of the studio shots had some problems with photo quality and the photoshopping in some of these were really average as well. 

The Silver Light at Megalo

This exhibition was held at Megalo at the Canberra Technology Park. 

It contained many works in a variety of different mediums. It was mainly an art exhibition as there were little photography works included in the exhibition. The piece that stood out for me the most was the artwork that contained a megaphone or whatever that thing was that was drilled into the sheets of plastic. 

 

Looking back to the many months ago that we started going on these fantastic tours of photography exhibitions from around Canberra; i have learnt lots.

The vivid exhibitions i attended were

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2. Traces of Memory: An Exhibition by Julie Millowick

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7. There you aren't: An exhibition By Dan O'Day

8. Interval

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12. Australia on Canvas

13. My Place

14. Portraits

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