Jones finds life in the ‘old dogs’
CON BOEKEL reviews two new photographic exhibitions at At M16 Artspace.
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CON BOEKEL reviews a photographic exhibition by Judith Martinez Estrada that focuses on migration, memory and identity.
"Everything in this splendid exhibition encourages reflection about human impact on the environment," writes reviewer BRIAN ROPE of Hilary Wardhaugh's photo exhibition.
CON BOEKEL reviews artist George Pople's photographic "guerrilla memorial" exhibition to the Afghanistan War.
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The photographers who couldn’t help themselves
"Focus is an excellent lens into the work of the government photographers who bequeathed us a store of priceless and irreplaceable imagery and, withal, some wonderful creativity," writes photography reviewer CON BOEKEL.
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A life navigated through photography
"Words cannot convey the sheer pleasure of holding this book and going back and forth through it, turning the pages,..." writes photography reviewer CON BOEKEL.
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‘Tasty’ offerings in too-varied exhibition
CON BOEKEL reviews a "smorgasbord" exhibition at PhotoAccess.
CON BOEKEL reviews “Dark Matter 2023”, exhibitions by Isabella Capezio, Rowena Crowe, Odette England and Janhavi Salvi at the Huw Davies Gallery.
CON BOEKEL reviews photographer Graham Gall's "Woden Valley – the Full Spectrum” exhibition.
"Perhaps Evans sometimes aimed to create works that are, as compositions, deliberately off centre. Why are so many of the verticals not vertical?". CON BOEKEL reviews an exhibition by photographer Joyce Evans.
The winners of this year’s Canberra Museum and Gallery Art Prize for Secondary Students have been announced. HELEN MUSA has the names.
Canberra photographer Sammy Hawker has won the $2000 first prize in the inaugural Canberra Contemporary Photography Prize for her work “Caterpillars in Metamorphosis".
The medieval town of Hameln (Hamelin) in Germany is world-famous because of its legendary pied piper, but it also numbers among its native daughters one of Australia's (and Canberra’s) leading photographers – Heide Smith.
CON BOEKEL reviews three photographic exhibitions offering "so much to absorb, consider and appreciate".
Based around the acquisition of 3560 silver gelatin photographic prints, “Capturing Canberra: CMAG’s Press Photography” is the first time these photos have gone on display – 139 in all, drawn from 1913-1994, before the digital era.
BRIAN ROPE reviews American photographer Nan Goldin's exhibition “The ballad of sexual dependency”, at the National Gallery until January 28.
The winner of this year’s National Photographic Portrait Prize is Melbourne photographer Shea Kirk, reports HELEN MUSA.
Photographer Rory King's journey to the interior became a metaphor for a journey into the self, into contemplation of loss, death, loneliness and longing, writes reviewer CON BOEKEL.
David Cossini’s portrait of Ugandan man Godfrey Baguma has been announced as the $2000 Art Handlers’ Award for the 2023 National Photographic Portrait Prize.
