Life@Random: April 2012

Monday 30 April 2012

Exhibition@Random :: Andrew Quilty

Opening soon is Andrew Quilty’s exhibition “Blue Highways”.

Quilty’s latest lyrical black and white photographs from the U.S.A are quiet poems of questions and exploration. As a native of the US, I look forward to Andrew’s Australian perspective as a stranger in a strange land.

Exhibition opens May 1^st

Maunsell Wickes at Barry Stern Galleries

19 Glenmore Road, Paddington (Sydney)

May 1-20

Exhibition@Random :: Jesse Marlow

Jesse Marlow’s “Don’t Just Tell Them, Show Them (Part 3)” is a “must-see” exhibition at Anna Papas Gallery in Melbourne. Marlow’s vivid and colourful photographs depict the world we pass by every day, but rarely really see. This exhibition is a wonderful experience of street photography as art. The show runs until May 26^th at 2-4 Carlton Street, Prahran.

Saturday 28 April 2012

G-Technology G-Street Photography winner

Winning photo © Mike Keevers

Tamara Voninski was a judge for the G-Technology G-Street Photography competition. Of the G-Street winner in the film/digital category Mike Keevers, she said ” The beautiful use of light and the elegant quirky moment made this entry a stand-out from the beginning”. Keevers is based in Sydney.

Exhibition at No Vacancy Gallery , Melbourne

Photo © Tamara Voninski
Tamara Voninski was invited to exhibit selections from two series “Then & Now: China” and “Stroller Evolution” at No Vacancy Gallery in Melbourne this month when she judged the G-Technology G-Street Photography competition.

http://invisiblephotographer.asia/2010/07/18/invisibleinterview-tamaravoninski/

An interview by Invisible Photographer Asia.

Tamara Voninski is a founding member of Oculi, a collective of award-winning documentary photographers in Australia founded in 2000. Numerous of her photography projects have garnered recognition from the Leica/ CCP Documentary Photography Award over the years. Her photographs of Polynesia and Shanghai are sensitive and quirky, reflecting a wandering soul, and a curious eye behind the lens that captured them.

photo-eye | BLOG: photo-eye Book Reviews: Oculi

photo-eye | BLOG: photo-eye Book Reviews: Oculi: Oculi , Photographs by the Oculi Photography Group. Published by Hardie Grant Books, 2010. Oculi Reviewed by Tom Leininger _________...

"I met Voninski when I was a student at Western Kentucky University. I remember Voninski creating images that went beyond the typical American photojournalism standards. She has continued to do so and her newest work is visually complex in terms of its content and formal elements. One of her images in the book, "The Old Country: USA 1991," was made when she was in college. The image still holds up 19 years later and gives a hint as to what Voninski's current is, layered with content and poetry. The highlights for me in this large book are Jesse Marlow's walking wounded, James Brickwood's interpretation of parkour, Tamara Dean's lyrical take on rituals, Steven Siewert's pigeon racers and Tamara Voninski's black and white dream world."

Tuesday 17 April 2012

Oculi in CCP "FLASH"

Oculi

A review of Oculi by Helen Frajman for the Centre for Contemporary Photography publication "FLASH".
"... below the surface of the collective is ‘a matriarchal undercurrent driven by Voninski, Dean and Autio’.¹ Given the notoriously butch reputation of documentary photography, you’ve got to check out the book on that basis alone!"