Keisha Doyle

“Collective” an exhibition of La Trobe University photography students 

Feb 20 - March 2 | Opening Friday Feb 27 | 5pm

"Collective" is an exhibition of La Trobe University photography students to coincide with the new university year, opening 5pm Thursday Feb 27.

The exhibition of eight continuing students from the University’s photography program shows a selection of work from Harley Caldwell, Jinae Connell, Judd Dean, Katrina Doolan, Keisha Doyle, Bree Robbins, Adam Telford and Matthew Turner. Demonstrating the great range of work produced by the local students, the show introduces these emerging photographers to the community and allows them to gain important exposure and exhibition experience. 

A public opening reception will be held during 'O' day celebrations to welcome commencing students and introduce them to Mildura's lively arts community. 

Lost and Found Project:  Family photos swept by the 3.11 East Japan tsunami will open at  CCP Melbourne  tomorrow May 31st at 6pm before coming to Wallflower Photomedia Gallery in Mildura.

This powerful exhibition displays damaged and orphaned family photographs retrieved during the clean up efforts following the devastating tsunami in March 2011. About 750,000 photos were collected from the rubble and volunteers for The Memory Salvage Project have cleaned, digitized, numbered and returned at least 20,000 family snapshots but some were too badly eroded to ever be identified.

In  New Yorker's Photobooth, photographer Munemasa Takahashi speaks of the exhibition and why the images are so moving:


After the disaster occurred, the first thing the people who lost their loved ones and houses came to look for was their photographs… Only humans take moments to look back at their pasts, and I believe photographs play a big part in that. This exhibit makes us think of what we have lost, and what we still have to remember about our past.


The Aperture exposures blog  also had an extract from Aperture magazine issue 206 , where photography critic Mariko Takeuchi writes:

In the cities, towns, and village affected by the disaster, a vast number of personal photographs were salvaged, pulled from underneath rubble and mud by all sorts of people. They were discolored by saltwater and covered with dirt; some were misshapen or even emitted foul odors. With very few exceptions, it was impossible to identify the people who had made the photographs, their subjects, or their owners—if indeed they were still alive.

This exhibition humanizes the troubling abstraction statistics and death tolls and generated world-wide interest and a Discovery channel special . Thousands of these abstracted images have been assembled into this powerful and visually stunning travelling exhibition.

Event | Young Art Collectors: Photography

The Art Gallery of NSW will be holding a panel discussion this month giving "an insight into the world of collecting photography". This is part of AGNSW's series of Young Art Collectors Events which aims to encourage young art appreciators to step into the world of collecting and to inform those who are interested in the mechanics of building an art collection. If you're in Sydney this month and interested in the process of building an art collection it would be well worth booking yourself a seat for what will surely be an informative hour and a half.


Young art collectors: photography - Wednesday 23 May

An insight into the world of collecting photography.


In this panel discussion we bring together Gallery benefactor and prolific art collector, Andrew Cameron, Judy Annear, the Gallery’s head of photographs, and Kon Gouriotis, director, Australian Centre of Photography, to share with you their experience of collecting and appreciating photography. 
The discussion will be followed by a Q&A session.

Date: Wednesday 23 May 
Time: 6.00pm
Venue: Centenary Auditorium (Lower Level 1), AGNSW  
Cost: Members $35, Non-members $40

Bookings and enquiries: 
Phone: 9225 1878
On-line: www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/calendar/young-art-collectors-photography/

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Exhibition runs until May 15 | Open Monday - Friday 10: 00 - 5: 00 & Saturday 12: 00 - 4: 00

5022 9542, 41 Deakin Ave, Mildura, VIC 3502 manager@artsmildura.com.au

Invitation | Opening Drinks 6-8pm Thurs 3 May | Katrin Koenning & Hugh Stewart | HeadOn at MiCK  




If you're in Sydney this week head on out to MiCK in Paddington for the opening of Katrin Koenning's show "From A Changed North". Katrin will soon be part of the Wallflower Photomedia Gallery curatorial initiative exhibition ___on this site which we will be formally announcing tomorrow on the blog and Facebook but in anticipation of this, check out Katrin's work in Sydney or, if distance forbids, via her website.

KATRIN KOENNING | From A Changed North
 Winner 2011 HeadOn Portrait Prize Critic's Choice Award
 Winner 2011 Australia's Top Emerging Documentary Photographer

http://mickthegallery.com/exhibitions/head-on-photo-festival-katrin-koenning/