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 Photography and the Law...
Will it soon be illegal to take a photograph in public? Heading up this issue of
Photofile Martyn Jolly and Katherine Giles sort out the legal fact from the paranoid
fiction. Meanwhile Adam Cuthbert highlights the danger of battlefield photography
becoming a pornography of violence and Tarryn Gill and Pilar Mata Dupont satirise
the simplistic polarising of good and evil portrayed in wartime propaganda.
Other featured artists include James Geurts who tells of his recent solo trip around
the world's equator to create an image that symbolically and conceptually integrates
humankind and environment. Closer to home, a poignant series by Angela Blakely and
David Lloyd documents the hopes and fears of young Aboriginal people of Mount Isa
while experts from various professions argue to pros and cons of US artist Jill
Greenberg's controversial images of tearful toddlers. There is, of course, much
more besides - an interview with Darren Sylvester, imagery by William Yang, Anne
Noble, Bridgit Anderson, Murray McKeich, Joachim Froese and skater-artist guru Ed
Templeton. In quieter vein, Helen Ennis reflects upon mortality on the eve of her
forthcoming exhibition Reveries.
NEW The Third Degree: we tied William Yang into a chair, shone the desk lamp in his
eyes and demanded some answers...
NEW Previews: a critical appraisal of some of the upcoming shows nationally and internationally
Interview: Gen Y oracle Darren Sylvester talks about packaging emotion, risk aversion and
the challenge of becoming Kate Bush
NEW Points of View: four perspectives on Jill Greenberg's controversial images of crying children
Features:
* Panic and Paranoia: the Law and Photography in Australia Martyn Jolly and Katherine
Giles sort the fact from the fiction
* 90 Degree Equatorial Project James Geurts unfolds the epic story of making of an artwork
that frames the world
* On Death Helen Ennis reflects on the post-mortem images of Bridgit Anderson, Anne Noble
and William Yang
Portfolios:
* We're Talking, Anyone Listening? Angela Blakely and David Lloyd give a voice to the
Aboriginal children of Mount Isa
* Zombie Theory Murray McKeich unleashes a machine-made army of the un-dead
* Ed Templeton the world's most famous skater-artist searches for physical and emotional
extremes
* Heart of Gold Tarryn Gill and Pilar Mata Dupont boost morale during the Australian Civil
War
* Warporn Adam Cuthbert destroys all to make his art
* The Passion of Christ Joachim Froese recreates the great paintings of the Renaissance
with his daughter's discarded toy animals
Exhibition Reviews:
Sam Haskins: Portraits and Other Stories at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra / The
Anne Landa Award at the Art Gallery of New South Wales / Centre Pompidou Video Art 1965-2005
at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney / The Fifth Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary
Art, Brisbane / Eyes, Lies and Illusions at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image,
Melbourne / Zero at Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand / Chobi Mela IV: Boundaries
Dhaka, Bangladesh / Meeting Place Fotofest Beijing 06, China
Book Reviews:
Contact: Photographs from the Australian War Memorial Collection by Shaune Lakin / Paul
Thomson: Shards of Silver / Jane Burton: Qui E Li. Here and There / Light Sensitive:
Contemporary Australian Photography from the Loti Smorgon Fund by Isobel Crombie
Rant: American writer and academic James Elkins wonders if theorists ever listen to each other
Image Credits (Photofile Cover): Murray McKeich pzombie 118x 2006
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