Well done to all the students; a great show with plenty of good feedback and some sales even.
We will, over the coming weeks, begin to erase the computers ready for next year, please have any saved work removed from ALL computers by, Monday the 23rd of November.
Keep checking back here for updates on the remaining events for 2009. The year is not completely over for you all yet!
Opening night tonight kicks off at 6:00pm. Please arrive early, you are the hosts for the evening, so look after your guests and make sure you contribute to some glass collection, work behind the bar, or help with glass washing.
The after party will kick off once the gallery is clean & tidy. The Windsor Castle Hotel in Windsor is where we will have a drink or two to celebrate the end of yet another successful year.
Here are some maps to help you find the pub:-
A reminder folks; " Many hands make light work!" So those students who had large custom prints / frame sizes made, could they make sure they are there to collect their own work at 4.30pm Sunday 15th November..
Just a reminder that the deadline for exhibition work is 4pm TODAY, Fri 30th Oct.
If your work is not in the white room by 4pm today it will not be accepted into the exhibition.
MIck
EXPERIENCED photolab person with initiative & drive.
Duties include:
SEND RESUME TO:
Photo Production House
245 High Street
Prahran
Vic 3181
Ph 03 9529 6282
Who can enter
The Canson Infinity Masterpiece Award is open to all higher education students from all over Australia, as long as one of their subjects studied in 2009 is related to Photography or Digital Imaging. The entrant can be a full or part time student and the unit can be elective or a major subject. A copy of your enrollment will be requested if you make the final.
What does it cost to enter
Each entrant can enter up to 4 entries, and each entry costs $10.00 to submit.
Buy your entry fee at www.kayellaustralia.com.au/photosite/events, a invoice will be emailed to you to submit with your prints.
Entries will be judged on
Condition of entry
All entries must be printed on an inkjet coated Canson Infinity product.
www.cansoninfinity.com
A Photographic Exhibition by Leigh Crow.
Opening / 6pm Thursday 15th Of October
At Barber Bar, 315 Victoria Street, West Melbourne
The SRC are having a fund raising BBQ, next week.
The details are, kick off @12:00 Wednesday 14th of October.
There is a meeting of ALL students next Wednesday; the 14th of October. at 10:30 am. This is a very important meeting, regarding the 2009 end of year exhibition, and ALL STUDENTS must attend.
Print Finishing
Kevin is running catch-up classes this week, 9:30 Wednesday & Thursday, in the white room.
Don't forget to continue to seek out feedback from as many staff as possible regarding your folio and its progress.
The Workshop exhibition is now going to be held on the 18th of October to the 1st of November, so there will be a meeting this Wednesday the 7th at 12.30 in the white room. All those contributing need to attend the meeting, or please let Irene know how many images you are putting in and what sizes.
So those of you who have expressed an interest in exhibiting at the workshop, it's time to start thinking seriously about the space and what work you want to exhibit.
So see you Wednesday the 7th at 12.30
intimacy through the lens
selected works by:
On behalf of all artists, we warmly invite you to attend the opening of our exhibition wherein the exploration of intimacy is the essence, amongst a collection of varied interpretations of the concept.
Exhibition runs from october 2-15
Friday, October 2, 2009
Opening night: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: The Highway Gallery,
14 The Highway Mount Waverley, Australia.
Four count 'em folks; yes FOUR ex-pic students have been shortlisted for this years, William Bowness Photography award, who knows folks, maybe your name will be up there too one day.
For Pathways and group 1+3 folio, we are all going to the Monash Gallery of Art this wednesday the 16th of september. We will be seeing the works of American Photographer Roger Ballen and will also have someone from the MGA speak to you about the photographic exhibition.
So please come and meet us at 10.15 out the front of the Monash Gallery of Art,
860 Ferntree Gully Road
Wheelers Hill Victoria 3150 Australia
Melway: 71 J10
This week classes will proceed as usual, except, Friday, which is a 1/2 day. Staff* and students are going to Bimbos in 376 Brunswick Street Fizroy, from 2:00pm onwards for cheap pizza and drinks, so come along and chillax.
*Have fun everyone, I will be thinking of you all from a faraway place. Arigato!
Avant Card has grown to become the largest free postcard advertising company in Australia with more than 1,400 quality distribution points. They are now calling for submissions from artists who wish to make their art available to a far reaching audience and in a cute, punchy format.
This project was set up to provide national exposure for emerging Australian artists and to showcase fantastic postcard images onto displays. Whenever Avant Card call for submissions, they are inundated with a variety of artistic styles from all over Australia.
Avant Card likes to promote diversity, and successful images are chosen on their ability to inspire, innovate, inform or intrigue the general public.
Send your design forth to become an Avant Card!
Want to contacting them directly, melb@avantcard.com.au,
1 - 5 Wilkinson Street, BRUNSWICK VIC 3056 AUSTRALIA
P (613) 9388 0488 F (613) 9388 0499
Next week is term holidays and Marcus, & Irene have kindly offered to open all the facilities to allow students to work on their own, on the Tuesday. The school will be open from 10:00am to 4:00pm Tuesday ONLY!
Kim Lawler, [a former pic student]
Between Lines
Tue 29 Sep 09 to Sat 10 Oct 09
gallery hours: Tue - Fri 11am to 5pm
Sat 12pm to 4pm
admission:free
“Beyond romance or nostalgia, Lawler’s lucid visual studies reveal the aesthetic beauty of the stories being written and rewritten onto this responsive and at times fragile environment.” Amy Barclay, curator
Between Lines comprises a series of aerial photographs taken in the Kimberley, far north Western Australia. This remote area is embedded with stories of Indigenous and non-Indigenous inhabitants, transitory visitors and scarred by multinational companies resource development. The artist, Kim Lawler, is concerned with markings, both natural and constructed, that tell stories of places, transitions and interruptions that occur within the landscape.
Between Lines is informed by Lawler's experience of living in these regions and local perspectives on the displacement of people and their consequential relationship to the land that has taken place. It is also informed by the opposing qualities of abandon and connection that occur as the stories within these landscapes continue to unfold.
fortyfive downstairs 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000
We are starting to gear up for the 2009 pic end of year exhibition .
We need images to be selected then incorporated into our invitation.
This is a good opportunity for you to promote your self and your images.
They can be black and white or colour.
Image Files are to be in RGB mode and saved as TIF’s with a resolution of 300 dpi.
Hand your images on a USB stick for copying by Kevin.
Alternatively you can email them to kevin@pic.org.au
Closing date will be 12.30 Lunch Time
Friday 18th September last day of Term three. So get in early ....
This Wedenesday 9th Sept there is an excursion to the Ballarat International Foto Biennale.
We are meeting at Southern Cross station and catching the 8.10 am train to Ballarat which arrives @ 9.35am.
NB this service is a reserved ticket service which means you MUST purchase your ticket at least 30 minutes prior to departure time. This is the link to their website
28 August – 21 February 2010
Gallery 11, Level 2
*Access via Joseph Brown Collection
Admission free
This exhibition examines the idea of the ‘tourist gaze’ and its relationship with three contemporary Australian photographers.
Since the mid-nineteenth century, tourism and photography have concurrently developed and expanded. Writer John Urry described the importance of this relationship when he said, “The immensely expanding popularity of photography in the later nineteenth century indicates the importance of new forms of visual perception, and their role in structuring the tourist gaze that was emerging in this period.” Since that time photography has been a means by which people could discover the world through magazines, books, postcards and personal photographs.
From my own notes; here are some of my first impressions:-
Long Distance VisionChristine Godden.
All typical modernist images in scale and subject matter, mostly feminine subject matter too, not sure where the tourist aspect comes in though as all the images have that typical Aussie light, perhaps the catalogue would more to offer?Three prints, obviously printed on different paper much cooler than the rest? Intentional? Doubt it? Beautiful work nonetheless. 'Krista on the float' beautiful long tonal scale and despite the almost too easy graphical nature of the composition, just fits so well together. Very early POMO at one level but still somehow charming and elegant holding up well in this age of HUGE digital works a real pleasure to see. 'Elena's pillow' 1974, almost looks silver. A pillow photographed on a shag pile carpet, not much else really. Just looks close to luminous as I've ever seen, in a print from some one othe than, LW, or Lobby. Just read the wall 'blurb' and I was pretty spot on except, it was all shot in the U.S. over a 6 year period. Almost makes me wanna break out the Metol and start printing! Awesome stuff!
The other 2 are very interesting as well. a real must see for 2009.
Photography, Adobe, Web - 3 Months (TEMP)
Photography of beads and jewellery
all advertising material
uploading images onto web
immediate start
This is an autonomous role, where your creativity and technical skills can merge providing great job satisfaction, and rewarding commercial results and kudos.
The Hours
One word – Flexible (Tuesday to Fridays)
This is a temperory (3months) part time role 15 – 22 hours per week.
The Reward
$22.5 to $25.00 per hour Neg: plus super.
The Equipment
Cannon G Shot 9
Adobe CS4
Double screen pc with your own office.
You.
Adobe,Photoshop, Flash and Acrobat
Illustrator, Basic excel
Creative, graphics background.
Become part of a team where creativity is balanced with the everyday necessity of going to work.
Please email a covering letter, resume, and include 5 small images quoting “web photographer" in the subject line to admin@wholesalebeads.com.au
Please include 3 previous employer referees.
An exciting opportunity exists for a talented young freelance photographer with Lifeblood Clothing, a Melbourne clothing label.
We're looking for a student photographer for a one day fashion shoot in Camberwell, to showcase Lifeblood Clothing's current range. Specific experience in fashion photography is not required, however we are looking for someone who can demonstrate the skills required to deliver commercial quality fashion photographs.
To apply,
please send a CV and a portfolio consisting of a maximum of 12 low res photographic examples of past work in jpeg or pdf form to dylkelson@gmail.com by 5pm, Friday the 11th September.
There is a myspace page you can check out.
Hey folks, we're out of rechargeable batteries for the Pentax K100s.
We had heaps of these and were issuing spare sets when the cameras were borrowed. We were trying to do the right thing by the environment but they haven't been getting returned.
Can you please hunt around at home and bring them in if you find any? They're the green ones. At the moment we don't have any spare to issue when you borrow these cameras.
Also, the flash batteries aren't getting returned either. Please bring them in as we can't issue any flash units without them!
Thanks everyone.
Demand will begin to rise on the inkjet printers as we enter the 3rd last week of the term, that's right folks there are only three weeks left in this term, so now would be a good time to get your skates on. As we anticipate the increase in demand on inkjet printers, we will place booking sheets on the wall in the digital hub every Wednesday. Make sure you're here to book and make sure you show on your allocated day/time, if you are 15 minutes late the printer is forfeited to the next person waiting.
Irene will be asking you to fill in some paper work in Pathways this week, this will speed the final making process for later on in the term, please show up and help, we actually need your signature of the paperwork if it is missing we will have difficulty processing your final results for 2009.
We need a volunteer to design the annual invite for the 2009 exhibition, if you are interested in either offering an image up for the invite or actually designing it, please see Kevin. URGENTLY
In what is a first this year, we are planning on awarding acquisitive prizes for several styles and genres of work, the details are sketchy at the moment, but we think we will award prizes to 5 of the best pieces made this year, and the winners will be paid for their prints, which we will then keep. As I said details are yet to be nutted out but everyone will be in the running for these acquisitive prizes.
Both Ian Potter and the NGVI Are running photography shows at the moment. Ian Potter has, an exhibition entitled, Long Distance Vision, that...
examines the idea of the ‘tourist gaze’ and its relationship with three contemporary Australian photographers.The NGVI has a show that looks at photographs
that depict space travel, seen in archival images from NASA, space allegories, and altered perceptions of reality inspired by ideas of science and space. These photographs also show a fascination with light, as both the means and the subject of the image.
Victorian College of the Arts, and PIC have a long history, many of our students take the tertiary pathway to this college and do very well as a consequence. They use an artisanal approach to teaching photography not unlike we do here at pic. This method of teaching is being threatened. PLease join this facebook group [savevca]and get involved and help save the VCA.
Volunteer, to help out at this prestigious festival and get to meet some pro photographers in the process, a great networking opportunity
I've been getting questions of late about assignments and assessment, if you have not already done so, download the course text-book, it lists 89% of the assignments due to pass the certificate or diploma course.
Here's a picture of their location.
Group 1 & 3, folio this week will be at C.C.P., meet there at 11:15
There are 5 weeks left of this term, that equals 5 darkroom days 5 days to process film or work in the digital lab, next term there are 3 weeks of time to prepare for the final exhibition and have all your work marked off. We still need to show yo how to start print finishng, or at least think about how you wanted you folio to be presented. You are advised to consult with as many staff as often as you can to make sure all is on track frm n ow till the end of Classes in November.
Nikon offers huge discounts to students until,13th, December, 2009.
Agreat networking oppurtunity is upon us, the Ballarat International Foto-Biennale opens soon, check their website for more information.
Here's the map of the location of Sugar Studio, York St. Richmond.
The little A symbol is from google maps, it indicates nothing in relation to Sugar studios, that address again Level 1 No 4 York St, Richmond.Assessment is under way here, camera classes for Stuart have your timetables and please remember to bring your tech journal, Kevin's classes he will have informed you of his approach and process.
As for digital assessment Grp 3, I have a handful of pieces on my desk, some are labelled some are not, I want to assess this work asap so we can move forward group 3, please see me urgently and identify your work.
FREE TO ENTER
As we say hello to spring, now is the time to grab your camera and take some amazing photos as the region regenerates after winter and the fires.
Finalists’ photos will be exhibited at Mandala Wines (for the Open Category) or the Healesville Sanctuary Platypus enclosure (for the Junior Category) for the first 2 weeks of October.
Download your photographer’s pass and start shooting – you’ll even receive ‘photography specials’. See what’s on in the region – there’s fun for your whole family – at Healesville Sanctuary, Puffing Billy, Melba Festival, Arts Festivals, and even Lake Mountain for the snow. You may need to put aside a weekend - there are specials for accommodation.
Entry photographs must be taken and uploaded between :-15 August and 19 September.
Hot off the press:
We are looking for expressions of interest for a part time position (3days per week) with the possibility to go full time at our wedding and portrait studio.
The ideal candidate would have a good grasp of photoshop, be outgoing with a fun disposition, have good customer service skills and own their own car. The job would involve both weekends and week day work including assisting on weddings, proofing and retouching and general admin work.
The right person will also be trained up to become a second shooter at weddings and portraits.
If this sounds like you and you are interested in coming into the studio in Mooroolbark for an interview please call the studio on 9733 4854 or email me at johl@jddigitalphotog.com
Stuart here. Yes folks I am back. Looking forward to hearing your stories of creative adventure you've undertaken while I was gone.
Here are some shows I think yo should see next week.
One of the most compelling contemporary Chinese Australian artists, Liu Xiao Xian explores the nuances between East and West with playfulness and wit, revealing some profound differences as well as shared concerns and values. Born in China and raised during the Cultural Revolution, Liu Xiao Xian left Beijing for Sydney after the Tiananmen Square Massacre. On this twentieth anniversary of Tiananmen, it is fitting that RMIT Gallery is focusing on his photographs and sculptures which explore the subtleties of his diasporic experiences. The exhibition will include chess sets that incorporate Australian indigenous animals and introduced species, large scale portraits of Buddha comprised of images of Jesus, and stereographic images with Liu’s face superimposed that highlight the relative invisibility of Asians in Australian settler history.
Curated and managed by the Australian Museum, this exhibition showcases the best twenty-five entries in the annual Eureka Prize for Science Photography, sponsored by New Scientist. The Prize is awarded for a single photograph that most effectively communicates an aspect of science, and is a significant component of the Australian Museum Eureka Prizes, Australia’s premier science awards. For this prize, the definition of science is a comprehensive one including the natural, physical, applied or life sciences (including agricultural sciences); environmental issues; biodiversity issues; flora and fauna; medicine; astronomy; information technology; technological innovation; engineering and health science; as well as work that addresses the social or economic consequences of science. The winners of the 2008 Prize were Phred Petersen (first); Steven Morton (second), Katrina Putker (third).
It's that time of year again, so round up all your friends and enjoy the presentation of Sound and Image 2009.
The City of Melbourne is calling for entries to their Eco-city photography competition. Entries accepted UNTIL 14 JULY
Photographs should be taken of places, people or things that represent your vision of sustainability.
Prizes will be awarded for each of the categories: Open; High School;Primary School - as well as commendations for a range of different subjects.
Each category winner will receive a printed copy of their photograph in a reclaimed timber frame from Mulberry Gallery plus a $100 voucher from Todae, a leading online eco-store.
There will also be commendations for the following subjects:
The awarded images will be printed by All About Graphics (www.allaboutgraphics.com.au ) who specialise in a niche area of the finest qualilty art, photograhic and presentation prints.
The images will then be exhibited at pigmentGALLERY (www.pigmentgallery.com.au ) on level 2 of the iconic Nicholas Building in the heart of Melbourne in 22 July – 1 August.
The Nicholas Building is a destination for those interested in fashion,design and the arts. Pigment Gallery adds to the mix of gallery spaces in the Flinders Lane art precinct and wider City of Melbourne arts offerings.
Cycling related entries will also be considered for the 2009 Bike Account. To see the 2008 Bike Account for information on last year’s account.
For more information about competition themes, terms and conditions and to download an entry form visit the City of Melbourne website, (http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/info.cfm?top=218&pa=4017&pg=4428 ).
Applicants need to be confident, competent, and able to work to in a fast-paced environment with an eye for detail. A friendly and charismatic personality is necessary, as you will be meeting with clients throughout the day.
We are looking for someone willing to commit, be positive and motivated about learning and growing within our company.
Your own transport is essential.
Please send resumes via email only to employment@urbanangles.com.
Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.
Naomie Sunner INSTRUCTIONAL GUIDE TO FEMININITY 1 July - 18 July, 2009, Jenny Port Gallery Richmond
Phone: +61 3 9429 6006
Level One, 7 Albert Street
Richmond, Victoria, Australia
Open: Wed-Sat 11-5pm, or by Appointment
The next exhibition at Town Hall Gallery begins on Wednesday 8 July and runs until Sunday 2 August 2009.
The Family Mould continues photographer Ilona Nelson's current exploration of self identity. Prompted by the birth of her first child, Nelson uses her artistic practice to focus on her family history, demonstrating that the deeply personal is in many cases the universal. Her selectively hand coloured photographs reinterpret images from her family album by re-photographing them in a contemporary context.
More exhibitions in all mediums at Art What's On
What a great way to kick off the term break, but with an exhibition. Cassie, informs me she may have some work in this show at BSG, called Small Works. So what are yo waiting for go check it out!
Here is the documentation from Mick regarding your mid year assessment.
First the timetable/schedule, secondly the expectations/requirements.
Thanks for sharing your folios, it was as always a great experience, I hope you learnt as much as I did.
As it is the end of term, we will be at the corner hotel in Richmond; upstairs, in the roof top bar from around 4:30, if you want to come along and 'celebrate' the end of semester; with us.
Second year digital students, I have uploaded a pdf of the requirements/tasks set to date, all are due, 3rd week back. Colour management, however is the exception to this. This is due at the end of Term 3.
The remainder of the year will consist of colour Management classes; Web Design, and 'workshops'. You must undertake, 2 of the offered workshops, to fulfill the requirements of the diploma. Dates times, subjects of the workshops will be announced shortly.
All equipment is due back now so please return everything!
If you would like to borrow equipment for the holidays come down to the equipment store room between 12 and 1pm on Friday. To keep things fair for everyone won't be issuing any equipment for the rest of the week until 12pm on Friday so that means if you want equipment for the holidays then you must come in on Friday at 12pm or you will miss out!If you want to borrow a digital camera the booking sheets are in the store but please note that we won't be issuing them until Friday at 12pm as well.For those of you living under a rock, this week is folio review week.
See this posting from a few days ago about what is required and expected of you.
The times for each group have been posted up around pic since last week, if you need a copy of the review timetable, email me and I'll send you one.
Kayell, one of major suppliers, offers several benefits to you the individual student.
Signing up on their website, will give you access to great prices on all kinds of consumables and hardware.
Kayell in conjunction with Canson, is running a competition, with great prizes. Use Canson paper to make your best print, mount it and submit it to go in the running for great prizes. More information closer to the date submission date.
Next week is folio review for all of 1st year. Here's a list of expectations about the week.
A list of your days and times has been posted on various notice-boards around the school. Any issues regarding your date and time need to be resolved in advance, ie this week.
This week, it is your responsibility, to make an appointment with your folio teacher for a 1 to 1 consultation, it may also be a good time to catch up on other assignments, as well.
This Wednesday; meet at the NGV at 10:30, then onto ACCA, afterwards.
Those of you who live near Brunswick may like to check out this Photography Exhibition
From the artist himself:-
Drew Pettifer’s confessional photography records and reflects on private moments in the life of the artist. This immersive series explores themes of intimacy, youth, the domestic and the ambiguities that surround these amorphous categories.
Angelina, and Denny; former PIC students, are having a show soon, here's their flyer, check the show out it's a new space and they are exhibiting black and white work from their own self published zine.
The show runs from the 27th of May to the 13th of June 2009, at Pigment Gallery, Level 2 Nicholas building, 37 Swanston St [cnr Flinders Lane] http://www.pigmentgallery.com.au
Wednesday - Friday 12 - 6pm Saturday 12 - 4pm
Leave your lunch at home, come buy a sausage; cupcake, veggie burger or drinks to help, the 2nd years raise money for their upcoming exhibition.
Or buy a $5.00 print. [2nd years, bring a print]
Here is the assessment roster, bring all the assignments you have done by the due date, please.
Camera Assessment for all 1st year students. [Stuart's Camera Classes assessment next 2 Tuesdays, and Thursday afternoons, until complete; Kevin's Camera Classes assessment Tuesday and Thursday this week] Brings us everything you have.
Marcus' and Stuart's folio group will be at the CCP from 11:30 to 12:30 this week. Bring your exhibition journal or Visual diary, to the gallery.
Or, "heads down, shoulder to the grind stone"
First the good news
We all have recovered from the camp and are rested and ready for a busy term. The staff want to congratulate all who came to camp on their behaviour. Well done.
CCP is committed to providing opportunities for emerging photo-based artists through education, professional development and exhibition. As part of this commitment, Centre for Contemporary Photography and Colour Factory invite all photographic artists in the first eight years of their practice to enter the fifth CCP/Colour Factory Award for an emerging photographic artist.
The winner will be awarded a solo exhibition at CCP from 7 August to 26 September 2009 and printing to the value of $5,000 courtesy of Colour Factory. The judges in 2009 are Milton Harris Contemporary Art Collector, David Rosetzky Artist and Phill Virgo Director, Colour Factory.
Groups 2&4; Folio Going to CCP
Camera class postponed for groups 2&3
All other classes as usual.
Fisrtly a reminder:-
This weather report is from the bom.gov.au site, the nearest weather station/town is Colac, which is lower in altitude and much further away from the coast.
Forecast for the rest of Tuesday
Note the minimum temperatures
Partly cloudy. Isolated showers from this morning until late afternoon. Winds south to southwesterly averaging 10 to 20 km/h becoming light later in the evening. Temperatures around 14 during the day.
Ballarat Morning shower or two. Max 12
Hamilton Morning shower or two.Max 14
Colac Shower or two. Max14
Warrnambool Shower or two. Max 15
Maximum Fire Danger: Low
UV Alert from 11:30 am to 1:10 pm, UV Index predicted to reach 3 [Moderate]
Forecast for Wednesday
Cloudy. Patches of frost early in the morning. Isolated showers from the morning. Winds north to northwesterly averaging 10 to 20 km/h tending west to northwesterly up to 30 km/h during the morning. Overnight temperatures falling to around 4 with daytime temperatures reaching around 14
Ballarat Frost then showers.Min1 Max 12
Hamilton Few showers.Min3 Max 14
Colac Few showers.Min6 Max15
Warrnambool Few showers.Min 6 Max 15
Forecast for Thursday
Partly cloudy. Patches of frost early in the morning. Winds west to southwesterly averaging 10 to 20 km/h becoming light later in the evening. Overnight temperatures falling to around 5 with daytime temperatures reaching around 16.
Ballarat Light early frost. Min2 Max13
Hamilton Partly cloudy. Min4 Max15
Colac Early shower or two. Min7 Max16
Warrnambool Partly cloudy. Min 6 Max 17
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