Sydney Photo Events

[goldie]

This Sunday, Oct 21st is the Sydney Camera Market at Ultimo community centre. I always turn up late, when stall holders are getting ready to pack up so I tend to see the dregs. Presumably the keen people get there early & grab the good stuff. At the last one I did get a Hansa bulk loader for $10, marked down from $20. There are bargains at the end of the day & I like to sleep in.


http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/a...SydneyLife.asp
The Sydney Life exhibition is on in Hyde Park until the 22nd October. I haven't been yet so can't make any comment. Very large prints hung between trees down the central pathway.


I saw quite a nice show at Somedays gallery - Paid By Clothes, photos by Jessica Matino. Shot on square medium format, a Mamiya C330 based on one shot. Medium size prints that have the feel of natural light & colour neg. The subject matter is moments observed backstage at fashion shows.
The gallery is part of a clothes shop & on the same level as the Blanco Negro facility, so you could pop in there to buy some Kentmere or Foma paper.
72b Fitzroy St, Surry Hills.

[Tony Egan]

Thanks for the reminder and gallery tips. I have been fasting from buying the photo trader mag which is where I generally see the advert for the Sydney camera market. Bought a $5 portable CD player last time I went and listening to some fine Bill Evans piano through it while I write this!

Also been meaning to drop in to Blanco Negro and inquire about FOMA following some recent correspondence with Richard White.

Cheers,

Tony

[tony lockerbie]

Those camera fairs are dangerous places, best leave your wallet at home. Can't make the Sydney show but will be at the Canberra markets on the 28th. There are always things too good to pass up, like the gent who had large amount of APX100 in 120, selling it for 50c a roll.... I kid you not!
Leaving your shopping till the last minute is a good idea, vendors a keen to offload stuff rather than taking it home.
I usually have a table or two at the Canberra market and other dealers comb through all the good stuff even before the public are allowed in.
Tony

[Matthew Gorringe]

Thanks for the reminder, I'll probably try to get in line early and see if I can pick up some darkroom stuff.

If you're there early Goldie wear a white carnation and I'll say g'day.

[goldie]

The annual Cross Projections screenings are on next week. I've been to the last two & it's worth a look. You see recent projects from a range of photographers shown on a big screen. It is data projection but quality last year looked OK. One thing that does bother me with these new style of slide shows is that everyone feels obliged to add music to their show & then they feel the need to edit the photos to match the music. It can end up looking more like a music video than a showing of photographs. But I'll grit my teeth & put up with that aspect because I want to see recent work.
http://www.crossprojections.com.au/cp_flash.html

[goldie]

Murray Fredericks has a show opening at Boutwell Draper gallery next week. Colour photos shot at Lake Eyre on 8x10 colour neg. I think there will also be some video that he shot there. I saw him do a presentation of this work recently & it's very good.
http://www.boutwelldrapergallery.com.au/contact.php

[goldie]

There seems to have been some type of merger between Vision Graphics & The Lab. (For those outside Sydney, these are two of the bigger & long established pro labs). I was at Redfern yesterday & saw a sign outside Vision Graphics facility that they will be moving to 10 Danks St Waterloo (The Lab's address) in a couple of weeks. The name is changing to something like 'Vision Lab'.

[goldie]

Wednesday 26th March 6pm
there will be a panel discussion about Photoactivism.
Free admission

Speakers are
Dean Sewell (excellent photographer)
Robert Knoth (photographer) & Antoinette de Jong (writer)
plus someone from Greenpeace & a politician from the Greens.

Knoth & de Jong are exhibiting at the ACP their project 'Certificate 000358' a photojournalistic project that looks at the aftermath of nuclear testing in the former Soviet Union.

I'd probably be there but I'm working that night. I also missed the night a few weeks back where Stephen Dupont gave a presentation. I heard that was standing room only.

Australian Centre for Photography
257 Oxford St
Paddington

[goldie]

There's also a few things worth seeing at the Museum of Sydney. Haven't been yet but told they're good.

The 1970s: a decade of protest
photographs by Roger Scott
until June 1st '08

Roger Scott is an excellent street photographer who did a lot of good work in the '70s.

Sydney now: new Australian photojournalism
until April 27th
group show of 24 photographers
incl Tamara Dean, Trent Parke, Marco Bok, Dean Sewell, Narelle Autio.

Museum entry is $10, I think.

[David Grenet]

Thanks goldie - looks interesting.

Don't forget the Moran Prizes at the State Library too!