View Camera Australia: Online exhibition December 2022
View Camera Australia’s sixth online exhibition features recent work by: Alex Bond, Murray White, Ellie Young, Shane Booth, Danny Tasmakis, Janet Naismith, Peter de Graaff, Zhan Teh, Lorraine MacLarty, Mick Lord, Bianca Conwell, Justine Roche, Ian Raabe, Stuart Murdoch, Keiko Goto, Peter McDonald, Gary Sauer-Thompson, Daisy Noyes, Andrew Green, Wendy Currie, Greg Soltys, Zo Damage, Peter Kinchington and Gary Chapman.
Cloudy Morning. 20 x 25 cm platinum/palladium print from 8×10 negative.
My friend, Rob Crapnell, and I make regular visits to Tin Can Bay to photograph the town’s foreshore. The best time is in the morning when all is still. I have taken many images of this tree, using a variety of film formats and in a range of weather conditions and tides. To date I think this is as good as I have got. However, this tree has more to reveal, and I plan to revisit it to see it in a different light.
Bianca Conwell
Rivulets, 2022. 25 x 20 cm salt print, wet plate collodion negative. Website. Instagram. Folio.
Indian Lily. 22 x 14 cm cyanotype toned in fenugreek from 8×10 negative.
Gary Sauer-Thompson
In Memoriam. Scan of 5×7 negative. We had to put down Kayla, our 8 year old silver standard poodle, due to cancer of the lymph nodes, on Tuesday 22nd November. Kayla and I spent many of our morning poodlewalks in the local Waitpinga bushland, Ngarrindjeri country. It was her favourite spot, she helped me see the detail in the bushland, and many of my photos were made with her. This photo is in her memory. Website. Instagram. Facebook. In Memoriam.
Thanks David for putting together another interesting online exhibit of work by film photographers from around Australia. It is always fascinating to see other people’s unique perspective on landscapes and portraits.
Thanks very much, Gary. The images from my Perth Waterways Series are all from readily accessed metro areas, possibly overlooked as too every day to be of photographic interest. But under certain light, in certain conditions, they reveal themselves in a way I find quite interesting.
“under certain light, in certain conditions, they reveal themselves in a way I find quite interesting”.
The waterways certainly disclose their world in those light filled conditions. Your use of a high tone palette is more suitable than the dark and gloomy palette favoured by 19th century European Romanticism, or the early 20th century Australian Pictorialists.
Thanks David, as always some great work here it’s always refreshing to see enclaves of people working using film in this highly stratified digital era.
Yep, analogue photography is an enclave in the era of the networked digital image but it is a highly diverse and productive one. There is a richness to some of these images: you stop and look at them rather than flick past them as we habitually do with the images we see on Facebook.
It is great to see these wonderful images in this December online exhibition. Refreshing to see a couple of urban images making an appearance. Thankyou for all the work you do David for making this exhibition happen. It shows that the various kinds of analogue photography being made in Australia is alive and well and has some depth.
Another great selection of work, congratulations to all the contributors. Thanks as always David for your continuing work to bring these exhibitions together. Gary, a really poignant image along with your story behind it.
Thanks Mark. I have yet to return to that bushland in Waitpinga. We will be in Melbourne 28-31 January to check out a new silver female standard poodle from a kennel in Cranbourne.
Thanks David for putting this together.
I am new to large format photography but a long time lurker of the site. Looking forward to contributing more to this community!
Stuart, ,
re your b+w image from the ‘Under the flight path’ series. What Melbourne suburbs are we referring to? Is it past Sunshine North, and near the M80 Ring Road close to the Maribyrnong River? Or is it closer to Tullarmarine Airport?
Thanks David for putting together another interesting online exhibit of work by film photographers from around Australia. It is always fascinating to see other people’s unique perspective on landscapes and portraits.
Thank you Alex.
I love the tonality of your Winter morning, Bannister Creek image Alex. Your ‘Perth Waterways Series’ is very inspirational. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks very much, Gary. The images from my Perth Waterways Series are all from readily accessed metro areas, possibly overlooked as too every day to be of photographic interest. But under certain light, in certain conditions, they reveal themselves in a way I find quite interesting.
“under certain light, in certain conditions, they reveal themselves in a way I find quite interesting”.
The waterways certainly disclose their world in those light filled conditions. Your use of a high tone palette is more suitable than the dark and gloomy palette favoured by 19th century European Romanticism, or the early 20th century Australian Pictorialists.
Thanks David, as always some great work here it’s always refreshing to see enclaves of people working using film in this highly stratified digital era.
Thanks Stuart.
Yep, analogue photography is an enclave in the era of the networked digital image but it is a highly diverse and productive one. There is a richness to some of these images: you stop and look at them rather than flick past them as we habitually do with the images we see on Facebook.
It is great to see these wonderful images in this December online exhibition. Refreshing to see a couple of urban images making an appearance. Thankyou for all the work you do David for making this exhibition happen. It shows that the various kinds of analogue photography being made in Australia is alive and well and has some depth.
Thank you Gary.
Some fine work here, well done everyone!
Cheers David for having us and for the curation.
Thanks Danny.
Some lovely images. Thanks again David for putting this together.
Thank you Greg.
Another great selection of work, congratulations to all the contributors. Thanks as always David for your continuing work to bring these exhibitions together. Gary, a really poignant image along with your story behind it.
Thank you Mark.
Thanks Mark. I have yet to return to that bushland in Waitpinga. We will be in Melbourne 28-31 January to check out a new silver female standard poodle from a kennel in Cranbourne.
Thanks David for putting this together.
I am new to large format photography but a long time lurker of the site. Looking forward to contributing more to this community!
Thanks very much Zhan.
Stuart, ,
re your b+w image from the ‘Under the flight path’ series. What Melbourne suburbs are we referring to? Is it past Sunshine North, and near the M80 Ring Road close to the Maribyrnong River? Or is it closer to Tullarmarine Airport?