World Wide Pinhole Photography Day (WPPD): Sunday 29 April 2009:

We had a great time on 15th March creating pinhole cameras from tin cans. The camera, negative and positive images were on display at 69 Smith Street Gallery (25 March to 12 April).

For more information on WPPD visit www.pinholeday.org

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SurReal

If you look up Surreal in the thesaurus you’ll see words like unreal, bizarre, unusual, strange, uncanny and dreamlike. Surrealist photography turned the world of photographic perception upside down. Instead of recognising the camera as a tool of vision and the photograph as an image of truth, the Surrealists utilised the camera as a tool of the imagination.

Michael Prior, Giovanni Lovisetto, and Veronica Hodgkinson give us a taste of some of the manipulation techniques used by the traditional surrealist photographer to create images that are an abstraction of reality.

Opening: Wednesday 11 March, 6pm – 8pm
Artist Talk/Meet the Artist: Saturday 14 March, from 2pm
Exhibition duration: Thursday 12 to Saturday 28 March
Image Credit: Michael Prior

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Group Exhibition: The Industrial Landscape
Exhibition dates: Thursday 12th to Saturday 28th February 2009

The term landscape is often associated with the rural environment. But what of the industrial landscape? Does it mimic our notional of the word ‘landscape’ displaying similarities in topography, panorama, and cycles of change?


A selection of Melbourne photographers share a sample of their work representing an interpretation of the Industrial Landscape. Providing images juxtapositing nature and man-made, old and new, remnants of the Industrial Age as objects of beauty, and a mediation of colour, shape, form and texture.

Artists include: Wendy Currie, Len Currie, Antara Mascarenhas, Trish Moran, Stuart Murdoch, Michael Prior, Lloyd Shield, and Rohan Young.

Exhibition duration: Thursday 12th to Saturday 28th February 2009
Viewing hours: Thursday to Saturday, 12-5pm
Opening: Wednesday 11th February, 6-8pm
Image Credit: Wendy Currie
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Transience by David Tatnall
Exhibition dates: Wednesday 1st to Saturday 18th October 2008

‘David Tatnall is probably best know as a wilderness photographer, but he’s also a champion of new ways of seeing using old technology.’ - Amanda Smith. Artworks. ABC Radio National. 16 September 2007.

Transient. Passing with time; not lasting or enduring; transitory; lasting only for a time; temporary.

This exhibition is a series of images made using a hand crafted pinhole cameras that explore the transient nature of people and the permanence of their mark on nature.

Images are more about the passage of time than about representation. The long exposures required for large format pinhole cameras give the images a ‘mysterious beauty’ unique to pinhole photography.

The finished prints have the mysterious beauty of photographs taken in the late 19th century with wet-plate cameras’. - Terry Lane. The Age. 16 August 2007.

For more information on David and to view more of his work please visit www.davidtatnall.com