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Thank you Aesthetica Magazine for the wonderful coverage of the Burqa series and Wall Power exhibition in Paris. Read here

Blue Burqa #1 with Bill Henson (rear) and Michael Riley (middle).

Read here (in French)

Thank you Lenscratch and Cristy Havranek for including 'Orphans' in the 'Good Manners' exhibition. The often whimsical images may be viewed here.

Opens 15 June at FDR Four Freedoms Park

Delighted to be participating in the 'Capture Your Freedom' exhibition at FDR Four Freedoms Park, New York, interpreting FDR's four freedoms.

Full details here



SELECTION PANEL:

Penny Abeywardena, Commissioner of the Mayor’s Office for International Affairs; Yvette Alberstein, Executive Director of Witness; Nathalie Applewhite, Managing Director of Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting; Geoffrey Berliner, Executive Director of Penumbra Foundation; Emma Raynes, Director of Programs at Magnum Foundation; and Maggie Soladay, Photography Editor at Open Society Foundations (OSF).

EXHIBITING PHOTOGRAPHERS:

Ruthie Abel, Inbal Abergil, Patricia Ackerman, Kisha Bari, Susan Barnett, Sara Bennett, Paolo Bona, Valeria Bove, Vidhyaa C, Argus Paul Estabrook, Tom Finke, Carlos Gonzalez, Eliza Hatch, Louise Hone, Ed Kashi, William King, Ryan Koopmans, Gioia Kuss, Jason Little, Liu Liu, Jorge Lopez Munoz, Calli McCaw, Marla Mossman, Fabian Muir, Cletus Nelson Nwadike, Hector Rene, Whitney Welshimer, Emma Williams, and Mohammad Zoyari.

In its next iteration, 'Wall Power: Contemporary Australian Photography' is running at the Australian Embassy in Paris from 15 June - 25 November.

Details here

EXHIBITING ARTISTS:

Bill Henson, Brook Andrew, Catherine Nelson, Christian Thompson, Deborah Paauwe, Destiny Deacon, Fabian Muir, Joan Ross, Joseph McGlennon, Luke Shadbolt, Marian Drew, Michael Riley, Narelle Autio, Nici Cumpston, Petrina Hicks, Polixeni Papapetrou, Rosemary Laing, Shaun Gladwell, Tamara Dean, Tony Albert, Tracey Moffatt, Trent Parke.

Hanging under way for Wall Power at the Australian Embassy in Paris...

View the other wonderful winning images here.

Judge's comments: 'This is a lovely, unexpected response to the theme – members of an Armenian Church congregation praying as religious figures watch on from above. That these are all women and that religious history largely only has a place for men is one interesting observation, as are the subtle hand prints and markings on the wall behind them – small but indelible marks on history themselves, quiet human symbols underneath more prominent ones.'

On now until 21 May at the Australian High Commission, London, in collaboration with the Australian Government and Photo London - do get along!

17 May - 21 May 2018, Australian High Commission at Australia House, London

WALL POWER: Contemporary Australian Photography features the work of twenty-two leading Australian photographers, each exploring the myths and legends surrounding Australia’s unique light, landscape and history. The exhibition includes multiple seminal works by Australia’s best-known contemporary photographers including Tracey Moffatt, Bill Henson and Trent Parke. The exhibition covers a broad spectrum of practical and conceptual approaches to photography, all casting light on the Australian national identity, rich in complexities and conflicts. At the core of WALL POWER lies the photographic image and the immediacy and power of the medium.

After successfully showing in Cologne and Berlin in 2017, the exhibition will open in London on the 17th May, 2018 at Australia House on the Strand. The exhibition coincides and is partnered with Photo London, the United Kingdom’s premiere photography event.

“The works in WALL POWER reflect the diversity of practice in the last two decades or so by Australian artists born between 1955 and 1984 whose careers began from the mid-1970s to the early 2000s. Stylistically, the images reflect the centrality of postmodern approaches in photomedia in the contemporary art scene in Australia since the late 1980s. Even when most provocative, they still seem ‘Australian’ to me in their offbeat subtlety and their wry puns and references.” – Gael Newton, formerly the Senior Curator of Australian and International Photography at the National Gallery of Australia.

Exhibiting Artists:
Bill Henson, Brook Andrew, Catherine Nelson, Christian Thompson, Deborah Paauwe, Destiny Deacon, Fabian Muir, Joan Ross, Joseph McGlennon, Luke Shadbolt, Marian Drew, Michael Riley, Narelle Autio, Nici Cumpston, Petrina Hicks, Polixeni Papapetrou, Rosemary Laing, Shaun Gladwell, Tamara Dean, Tony Albert, Tracey Moffatt, Trent Parke.

WALL POWER has been made possible by the direct support of the Australian Government.

'Searching for North Korea' showing at MoPLA, April 21 - May 12 via PDN

See the other finalists here - some superb images.



Jury’s comment - “This is an initially perplexing composition, the frame seeming to fold in on itself in confusing ways – this superstructure towering over an urban wasteland, and then this gorgeous vista, as if spliced in from another scene. It has an almost dystopian feel about it, where one class enjoys the views from the parapet while the rest of the city rots below. Heaven and Hell. An apt metaphor for today’s society perhaps. I’m drawn to the figures climbing on the left-hand side of the frame, heads down, personifying that urban drudgery - traveling through an urban purgatory. There’s so much here to uncover”. – Life Framer

For 'Searching for North Korea'.

Shades of Leisure in North Korea as Picture of the Day in the London Telegraph

Thank you BuzzFeed News for the article on the DPRK work. Read here

The most important picture I'll ever take.

Thank you Musée Magazine for the 'Urban Burqa' spread in the 'Humanity' issue.

Many thanks Marciej Leszczynski and PhotogrVphy Magazine for the interview on Shades of Leisure in North Korea and other work. Read here.