View Camera Australia presents the fourteenth online exhibition featuring the work of: David Rendle,Alex Gard, Ilona Schneider, Craig Watson,Silvi Glattauer,James Niven, Murray White, Tom Sheppard, Stuart Clook,Robert Poole, Janet Naismith, Gary Chapman,Keira Hudson, Zhan Teh, Craig Tuffin, Effan Effans,Alex Bond, Greg Neville, Greg Wayn, HugoRussell,Bianca Conwell, Charles Millen, Wendy Currie, Iain Maclachlan, Julian Pearce, Mark Darragh, Danny Tasmakis,Bruno Kongawoin, Garrie Maguire, Zo Damage, RyanDandelion,Morganna Magee,Peter de Graaff, Gary Sauer-Thompson,Ian Raabe,Shane Booth,Peter Kinchington & Lorraine MacLarty.
Photograph above: David Rendle. Cope Creek, Pretty Valley. Breathless moments at the High Country. Scan of 4×5 negative.
Alex Gard
Miena Cider Gum Study #14. 14 x 35.5 cm black glass ambrotype. Instagram.
Ilona Schneider
Light Cathedral. Vienna. 25 x 20 cm silver gelatin print from 4×5 pinhole negative. Website.
Craig Watson
Chaos of the Carnival. From the Look Deeper series. Chaos Of The Carnival, is 10 exposures and the more you look into it, the more you see. The photo was taken at the 2024 Royal Geelong Show and attempts to express the excitement and chaos of the carnival rides and attractions. Shooting on 4 x 5 film, my neo-surrealist work shows everyday scenes and events in an unexpected way. Shooting on film is partly a reaction to the abundance of photo-manipulation software and AI imaging, so I can show the original negative to prove the integrity of the image is exactly as-shot and not in any way manipulated. The images are multiple-exposures, with between 5 and 10 exposures onto a single frame of 4 x 5 negative film, scanned and digitally printed. Facebook. Instagram.
Silvi Glattuer
Dissolving Landmarks. Two plate Photogravure with colour from one plate. Edition of 3. 110 x 76 cm. Website.
James Niven
Great Otway National Park. 4×5 negative scan. Website. Facebook.
Murray White
THE SLOW REVEAL 20 x 25 cm silver gelatin print from 6 x 7 negative Recent drizzle and some sympathetic lighting was hard to resist when I came across this subject along the Surf Coast in Victoria. Printing at grade four and some minor burning probably helped concentrate attention on these constantly evolving coastal rocks. Website.
What an interesting and varied online exhibition from landscapes and dynamic multi exposed images to photogravure etchings. Keep up the excellent curation David.
David, Once again an interesting collection of photographs!
It inspires me to pull my finger out and get some new material to submit for new exhibitions!
Craig Watson’s multiexposure image of the Geelong Show is very dynamic. Craig did you underexpose each of the 10 exposures by around 3 stops?
Cheers Peter
Hi Peter. Sorry for the delay responding. The film was Ilford FP4, rated at 400iso, so under-exposed by two stops. The resultant negative was surprising only about a stop over-exposed.
What an interesting and varied online exhibition from landscapes and dynamic multi exposed images to photogravure etchings. Keep up the excellent curation David.
Thanks very much Peter.
David, Once again an interesting collection of photographs!
It inspires me to pull my finger out and get some new material to submit for new exhibitions!
Thank you Ray.
And Bianca Conwell’s Daguerreotype of a feather is so detailed and evocative – I really like her art.
Thank you so much Peter.
Craig Watson’s multiexposure image of the Geelong Show is very dynamic. Craig did you underexpose each of the 10 exposures by around 3 stops?
Cheers Peter
Hi Peter. Sorry for the delay responding. The film was Ilford FP4, rated at 400iso, so under-exposed by two stops. The resultant negative was surprising only about a stop over-exposed.