2003 Nikon Summer Salon
dal 5/2/2003 al 1/3/2003
Segnalato da
Centre for Contemporary Photography
5/2/2003
2003 Nikon Summer Salon
Centre for Contemporary Photography - CCP, Fitzroy
Open-Entry Photomedia Exhibition & Competition. Regularly featuring over 200 artists, the Salon is one of the largest open-entry photomedia exhibitions in Australia. The white walls of the gallery burst into colour during this event and audiences are offered the chance to view diverse and experimental approaches to contemporary photography.
Open-Entry Photomedia Exhibition & Competition
Gallery 1 & 2
Now in its 11th year, the Summer Salon is the Centre for Contemporary
Photography's annual mammoth showcase of current photomedia practice
- including all types of analogue and digital photography.
Opening on 6 February (6 to 8pm), the exhibtion runs from 7 February
to 1 March 2003 in CCP's two main gallery spaces in Johnston St,
Fitzroy and entry is free.
Regularly featuring over 200 artists, the Salon is one of the largest
open-entry photomedia exhibitions in Australia. The white walls of
the gallery burst into colour during this event and audiences are
offered the chance to view diverse and experimental approaches to
contemporary photography.
As Felicity Allen of the Herald Sun reported in 2001, the Summer
Salon "celebrates the abundance of talent emerging from darkrooms
around Australia".
The Salon is supported by leaders in the photographic industry
including Nikon, Kodak and Polaroid - in 2003 over $3700 worth of
prizes will be awarded in 8 different categories on opening night by
a panel of judges.
Dates:
7 February - 1 March
Opening Thursday 6 February 6-8pm
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George Kannavas
Yiorgalletos
Project Space
Yiorgalletos is the character I have devised to explore themes of
isolation, solitude and a longing for love. He is a peculiar creature
who is a survivor in a world that has lost its sense of compassion.
In many ways he is a hero because, although different in appearance,
he never gives up his quest for life, love and happiness.
Yiorgalletos' reconstructed costume and persona becomes a metaphor
for the loneliness created by society's intolerance for people who
veer from the mainstream and that which is accepted. My images depict
this sense of hopelessness, futility and solitude. Yet, it is my hope
the character of Yiorgalletos becomes endearing to us because we get
to know him and despite his eccentricities, let him into our heart in
ways we would not a complete stranger. (George Kannavas, 2002)
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Ryszard Dabek
1989
e-Media Gallery
1989 is a CD-ROM artwork that uses images and footage retrieved from
the archive some twelve years after their creation. Primarily shot by
the artist in November and December 1989 around a stretch of the
Berlin Wall near the Brandenburg Gate, the work also includes
snippets of contemporary news footage. The result is an elegy to the
twentieth century: a conversation with history that privileges memory
- not just a memory of events - but a slippery field of relations and
drives. When images bump into one another and dissolve into nothing,
and seemingly random details appear from the depths to be subsumed
again, the past becomes something not so much to be re-presented as
to be drifted through.
Gallery hours:
Wednesday - Saturday 11am - 5pm
Image: David Smith, KatePhoebeSarahBelinda (detail) 2001 - Inkjet Print
Note: Winner of the 2002 Ilford Excellence in Digital Printing Prize
Media Contact:
Rebecca Chew
Program Manager
B 03 9417 1549
AH 0438 425 547
Venue Details:
Centre for Contemporary Photography
205 Johnston St Fitzroy, Melbourne 3065
T 03 9417 1549
F 03 9417 1605