The ACP presents a range of events over the autumn to expand your understanding of contemporary photography. Our Gallery Talks allow audiences to hear first-hand from the artists and curators in the exhibition program. Afternoon Teas are relaxed and informal panel discussions focussing on key issues in photomedia. In Talking Shop events, established photographers talk in-depth about their practice.

GALLERY TALK
Robert Knoth
Saturday 15 March 1pm

Robert Knoth talks about his experiences working with people affected by nuclear accidents in the former Soviet Union. His images offer us an insight into their lives without making a spectacle of their misfortune.

      
PANEL DISCUSSION
Photoactivism
Wednesday 26 March 6pm

As our society becomes increasingly media-numb, some images are still able to penetrate the public psyche. Join photographer Robert Knoth, Dean Sewell and Michelle Thomas from Greenpeace Australia who, with other guests discuss what it is that makes some images so powerful.

   
GALLERY TALK
New Scientist Eureka Prize for Science Photography
Saturday 29 March 1pm

Rachel Nowak (Australasian Editor, New Scientist) and Alasdair Foster, both judges of the 2007 New Scientist Eureka Prize for Science Photography, talk about the works in this exhibition, the ways they were captured and the scientific phenomena they represent.

        
TALKING SHOP
Manit Sriwanichpoom - Pink Man and Other Adventures in Photography
Wednesday 2 April 6pm

Thai photo-artist Manit Sriwanichpoom is best known internationally for his iconic Pink Man series; a high gloss commentary on contemporary Asian aspirations. In this presentation he will talk about the 'Pink Man' as well as some of his less familiar projects.

       
GALLERY TALK
Phantasia
Saturday 3 May 1pm

Artists from the Phantasia exhibition talk about their work; the processes that underpin their creative practice and some of the ideas behind their fantastical imagery.

        
GALLERY TALK
Head On
Saturday 10 May 1pm

Head On founder and curator Moshe Rosenveig talks about the development of this project. Now in it's fifth year, Head On began as a salon des refuses of the Citigroup Portrait Prize, and has now become Australia's most critically acclaimed portrait prize.

         
TALKING SHOP
Alexia Sinclair
Wednesday 14 May 6pm

Working with a live model and award winning makeup artist in the ACP's front gallery, Alexia Sinclair talks about the processes she has used, both in the studio and in digital post production, to create the stunning images included in the Phantasia exhibition.

    
PANEL DISCUSSION
Creatives vs. Artists
Wednesday 21 May 6pm

Advertising creatives have the budgets, the new technologies and the big ideas that have enabled them to become key drivers of innovation in contemporary photomedia. But are they artists? In this panel discussion we attempt to bridge this complex and highly charged divide.