An official part of the 2013 Reportage Festival Program
Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb will open an inaugural exhibition of their work from Cuba in Australia. The exhibition, a selection of images from their book ‘Violet Isle’ will be on show for the first time in Australia as a part of the 2013 Reportage Festival at 10×8 Gallery, also the venue for the upcoming ‘Finding Your Vision’ workshop presented by Reportage.
Where: 10x8Gallery
When: May 15 to June 1, 2013
(Degree South is Tim Page, Stephen Dupont, David Dare Parker, Jack Picone, Ben Bohane, Michael Coyne, Ashley Gilbertson and the late Sean Flynn)
The Degree South Collective of award-winning Australian documentary photographers have covered conflicts from Vietnam in 1965 to present day Afghanistan. PEACE showcases a collection of images that provide a personal reflection of peace, captured amongst the environment of war. It was a hard task for these men to find the meaning of peace amongst their images of war however these images are definitely chosen from the heart.
For two weeks starting on Tuesday 14th May, this new exhibition will be displayed at Meyer Gallery Syndicate@ Danks. Extended hours till 7pm on Thursday 16th & 23rd May.
‘Peace’ is a featured exhibition of the 2013 Reportage Festival.
Where: Meyer Gallery
When: 14 May – 26 May 2013
Closing drinks with the artists: May 26, 2013 2-4pm
‘Home’ is an interactive exhibition featuring the imagery of Australia’s own Oculi collective where viewers are able to populate and sequence their own custom Blurb book from the exhibited work. The imagery explores the concept of ‘home’ in both the literal and the abstract, offering a collective interpretation of ‘home’ as an idea.
Oculi is a collective of eleven of Australia’s most prestigious documentary photographers. Since its’ beginnings in 2000, the group continues to set the tone in Australia for the best in reportage and art photography and is the country’s premier destination for commissioning and purchasing work.
Its members are Donna Bailey, James Brickwood, Lee Grant, Claire Martin, Nick Moir, Jeremy Piper, Andrew Quilty, Raphaela Rosella, Dean Sewell, David Maurice Smith and Tamara Voninski.
Blurb is a creative platform that allows anyone with a computer to create, promote, share and sell their own bookstore-quality publication, photo books, magazines or ebooks.
Home will be on show from May 22 to June 10 as the featured exhibition at the 2013 Reportage Festival Hub, Cleland Bond. The hub is open day and evening is a part of the Vivid Light Walk.
May 22 at the Cleland Bond Building is the opening night and the featured date for the interactive installation, 6-9pm.
Where: Cleland Bond Building
When: 22 May – 10 June
Opening Night: May 22, 2013 6 – 10pm
Four women, Four visions, Four stories, Four corners…
Featuring the work of Jodi Bieber, Tamara Dean, Claire Martin and Raphaela Rosella
An exhibition curated by Anna Maria Antoinette D’Addario and a featured part of the 2013 Reportage Festival
4 Stories investigates four different perspectives of four award winning female documentary photographers. The exhibition one of five major outdoor installation exhibitions a part of the 2013 Reportage Festival will be on show from Thursday May 23 to Saturday June 29, 2013 in Sydney’s Darling Quarter.
Four massive cubes measuring 2.4 meters will exhibit the work of each individual photographer, four prints for each.
The Cubes are the birth child project OPEN of Ambush and Darling Quarter precinct and have been used only one time before in a public street art exhibition. A photography first the unique structures will be on display day and night whilst solar charged lights keep them illuminated in the evening hours.
4 Stories is an exhibition curated by Reportage Assistant Festival Director Anna Maria Antoinette D’Addario for the 2013 Reportage Festival, featuring the work of Jodi Bieber, Tamara Dean, Claire Martin and Raphaela Rosella and is proudly supported by Ambush, Darling Quarter and Canon.
More information on the photographers and their individual stories to come.
Where: Darling Quarter
When: Thursday May 23 to Saturday June 29, 2013
Opening Night with the artists, Jodi Bieber, Tamara Dean, Raphaela Rosella and Claire Martin (In spirit as she is abroad)
May 23, 2013 – 5 to 8pm
Image credits as follows: Jodie Bieber/ The Goodman Gallery, Tamara Dean/ Olsen Irwin Gallery, Claire Martin/ Oculi, Raphaela Rosella/ Oculi
An official part of the 2013 Reportage Festival Program
David Burnett (USA) is a photojournalist and co-founder of Contact Press Images, with over four decades of experience covering news, history and people in over 70 countries. Burnett has been listed by American Photo as one of the 100 most important people in photography.
Thirty years after the death of reggae legend Bob Marley his music and influence remain vital.
‘Soul Rebel: An Intimate Portrait of Bob Marley’ presents Burnett’s extraordinary photographs of Marley at his Kingston, Jamaica home and studio; both in 1976 and later during the 1977 Exodus tour in Europe. Burnett mixes iconic images with unpublished photos, presenting a unique and rare view of the larger-than-life reggae legend.
Blender Gallery
23 May – 22 June 2013
16 Elizabeth Street Paddington 2021
ph: 02 9380 7080
Opening Night: May 28, 2013
A gripping look behind prison walls. By request of Noorderlicht, guest curators Hester Keijser and Pete Brook have brought together work by eleven women photographers, presenting quite unexpected photography of great variety, revealing life behind bars.
Artists include: Araminta de Clermont, Amy Elkins, Alyse Emdur, Christiane Feser, Brenda Ann Kenneally, Jane Lindsay, Deborah Luster, Nathalie Mohadjer, Yana Payusova, Lizzie Sadin, Lori Waselchuk
Curated by: Hester Keijser & Pete Brook
Presented by: Noorderlicht Photography
Brooklyn-based photographer Russell Frederick will present work from “Dying Breed: Photos of Bedford Stuyvesant” documenting a culturally diverse community at risk. The work raises important questions on the evolution and potential breakdown of traditional neighborhoods.
Artist: Russell Frederick
Bruce Gilden documented the areas worst afflicted by the U.S. housing market crash, including Fort Myers, FL; Detroit, MI; Fresno, CA; and Nevada. Only by showing the human cost of the housing crash is there any hope for systemic change.
Artist: Bruce Gilden
Presented by: The Magnum Foundation
Between the height of the French Indochina War in the fifties and the fall of Phnom Penh and Saigon in 1975, 135 photographers from all sides of the conflict are recorded as missing or having been killed. This exhibition is a memorial to those men and women. Tim Page, renowned photographer who produced many of the iconic images taken during the Vietnam War, has gathered thousands of pictures taken by those who were killed or went missing. The Requiem exhibition is a selection of those photos.
Captured by both Cambodian and foreign photographers, Requiem documents Cambodia in its last death throws, before the country fell to the Khmer Rouge on April 17th 1975. Once in power, the Khmer Rouge had no need for publicity, no call for the media who they targeted indiscriminately. Most were ambushed summarily, executed or marched into captivity. Requiem is a collection of their photos, the photos they sacrificed their lives to take.
An official part of the 2013 Reportage Festival Requiem will feature in the Vivid footprint as a part of the Rocks Pop Up initiative.
Where: Rocks Pop Up Gallery
85 George Street, The Rocks
When: 25 May – 6 June 2013
An official part of the 2013 Reportage Festival Program
‘A Traves de Mis Ojos (Through My Eyes)’ A young photographer’s perspective of Cuba
Arien Chang Castan’s ‘A Traves de mis Ojos’ (Through my Eyes) is the window into a changing Cuba viewed from the perspective of one of its most prominent emerging documentary photographers.
In 2003, Arien Chang Castan began to work as a documentary photographer. For seven years he worked primarily with black and white film. In the beginning, his work dealt with diverse themes such as urban landscapes, portraits, and various aspects of Cuban life. Yet all of this is a prologue to his current work.
Inspired by the work of Cartier-Bresson, Sebastiao Salgado, Bruce Davidson, and Eugene Smith, Arien has developed a series that, in a certain way, reveals an alternate reality within the changing Cuban society. Arien’s work focuses especially in areas within Cuban society that are generally ignored in Cuban documentary photography. Themes like the rodeo, gay culture, and bodybuilding are reflected in his work, always portrayed with an artistic, conceptual vision that enriches the image.
Since 2010, Arien has collaborated with the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops. He has worked with groups from San Jose University, California as well. He visited Venezuela with the intent to produce a book of photography about the Caribbean. He has given conferences in important institutions in Cuba like the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), in the Writers Union and Cuban Artists (UNEAC), and the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba. His work has been on display at the Fototeca de Cuba, The National Museum of Fine Arts, and at the Bienal de La Habana.
Where: X88 Gallery
88 Abercrombie Street
Chippendale
When: May 28 to June 8, 2013
Opening night: Wednesday May 29, 2013
