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CCP Lecture Up Against The Wall |
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Sunday, 15 June 2008 |
 CCP is pleased to present a talk by Dr David Bate, writer, academic and photographic artist.
This talk explores what we do with an image and what an image does to us. The talk uses
Jeff Wall’s work as an example of the relationship between theory and practice.
Dr David Bate is a writer and photographic artist, and teaches at the
University of Westminster, London...
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CCP Winners Announced 2008 Kodak Salon |
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Wednesday, 28 May 2008 |
 Including over 450 photo-based artworks Kodak Salon is Australia’s largest open-entry photo-based exhibition and competition. Fourteen artists have been awarded prizes from industry leaders including Kodak Professional, Adobe, Kayell Australia and Sandisk. Images of award winning artworks can be viewed online at www.ccp.org.au The Kodak Salon is a truly democratic event, wherebyartists at all levels of experience and practice are invited to exhibit work at CCP. The resulting...
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Thursday, 21 February 2008 |
 The Kodak Salon is an annual event celebrating the latest developments
in photo-based practice. An open-entry exhibition and competition the
Kodak Salon provides an excellent opportunity to exhibit work in a
professional, high profile context. The Kodak Salon
is one of the largest and most renowned photographic award exhibitions
in the country, including artists from all around Australia...
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CCP Photography Exhibitions |
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Tuesday, 10 July 2007 |
 Presenting work by contemporary artists from Australia, France, Germany,
New Zealand and South Korea, and curated by participating artist David
Thomas, Composite Realities Amid Time and Space: Recent Art and...
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Wednesday, 18 April 2007 |
 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...
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CCP Photography Exhibitions |
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Monday, 22 January 2007 |
 The CCP in Melbourne have released a series of new photography
exhibitions. The variance of different styles cover arial
photography of new suburbia in the far western edges of Sydney to
the landscape, society and architecture of France...
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CCP Book & Print Specials |
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Wednesday, 13 December 2006 |
 Presenting inspiring and affordable gifts for those who make,
collect, study, critique or just adore Photography. Select from
second-hand and new books on photography, editioned prints by
contemporary Australian artists, LOMO cameras and artist gift
cards all available at CCP...
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CCP Photography Exhibitions |
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Wednesday, 22 November 2006 |
 The CCP in Melbourne have released news on a series of new photography
exhibitions running to the 16th December. Works from 5 exhibitors,
Christian Thompson, Roger Hanley, Gavin Hipkins, Simpryn Gill and Dorota
Mytych in the galleries and Immo Klink in the Summer Projection room...
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CCP 2006 Colour Factory Award |
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Friday, 22 September 2006 |
 Judges for the 2006 Award are Rupert Myer AM, Chairman National
Gallery of Australia and art collector; Darren Sylvester, Artist
and Phil Virgo Director, Colour Factory. Proudly supported by
Colour Factory, the winner has the opportunity of working with
Colour Factory to produce a suite of type C exhibition prints for
a solo exhibition in Gallery Two at CCP from 27 October–16 December
2006. Following the exhibition, the prints will be retained...
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CCP STELLAR Fundraising Auction |
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Friday, 18 August 2006 |
 CCP’s STELLAR Fundraising Exhibition & Auction, will present over
50 of Australia’s most highly sought after artists, including
emerging stars such as Siri Hayes and Paul Knight; highly sought
after supernovas Darren Sylvester, Polixeni Papapetrou, Deborah
Paauwe and Jane Burton; through to luminaries such as Callum Morton,
Lewis Morley and Wolfgang Sievers...
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Tuesday, 04 July 2006 |
 The CCP, Melbourne's leading venue for photo-based art has announced
5 new exhibitions, along with free artist talks. Opening night for the
exhibitions is Thursday 6th July 6-8pm, with the free artist talks starting
Saturday 8th July at 12pm...
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CCP History of Photography Seminars |
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Tuesday, 04 July 2006 |
 The Joyce Evans History of Photography Seminars return to CCP in
2006. Presented by Dr Daniel Palmer, this introductory series will
examine key themes in the history of photography over a sustained
five week season...
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Wednesday, 28 June 2006 |
 Places are still available for the upcoming Weekend Workshop at CCP
with Les Walkling, Introduction to Digital Imaging on 1 & 2 July.
This weekend workshop presents a comprehensive introduction to the
principles and practice of digital imaging. It is specifically
designed for photographers and artists relatively new to...
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CCP 2006 Colour Factory Awards |
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Thursday, 08 June 2006 |
 CCP is pleased to present the 2006 Colour Factory award for an emerging
photographic artist to exhibit. An integral part of CCP’s program is to
provide opportunities for emerging photo-based artists through education,
professional development and exhibition. As part of this commitment, CCP
presents a national award for emerging photographers sponsored by Colour
Factory....
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CCP Photography Exhibitions |
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Tuesday, 16 May 2006 |
 Gallery One: SIMON OBARZANEK 80/137: Faces tackles the complex issue of
photographing teenagers during their tender years of transition from
childhood to adulthood... Gallery Two & Three: KODAK SALON: Australia’s
largest open-entry, photo-based exhibition and competition, the Kodak
Salon is an annual event celebrating... Gallery Four: CHRISTOPHER KOLLER
MIZUNO D301: A series of blue-white golf balls launches out into the dark
space of a warm Tokyo night in Mizuno D301. The hard ‘tack’ and ‘tonk’...
Projection Window: KIM DONALDSON KEEP CLEAR: Beginning as a small child I
collected objects but logistically over the years this impulse became a
storage problem. Now I work...
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Friday, 21 April 2006 |
 The Kodak Salon is an annual event celebrating the latest developments in
photo-based practice. An open-entry exhibition and competition with over
$7,700 worth of prizes, the Salon provides an excellent opportunity to exhibit
work in a professional, high profile context. The Salon is one of the largest
and most renowned photographic award exhibitions in the country, presenting
over 350...
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CCP 5 Diverse New Exhibitions |
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Saturday, 18 March 2006 |
 Melbourne’s leading venue for photo-based art, the Centre for Contemporary
Photography opens this Thursday night, 16 March at 6pm with five exciting
new exhibitions; including a live installation, white collar fantasies and
a bumper curated exhibition. Grant Hobson comments on Australia’s...
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Wednesday, 25 January 2006 |
 The CCP have released information for the first of their
photography exhibitions from 20 January - 11 March 06. The
exhibitions include a wide and diverse range of work spread over
4 gallery spaces and a project window...
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CCP Lecture with Justin Clemens |
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Monday, 07 November 2005 |
 Justin Clemens discusses an advertising poster, which he describes as
the most graffitied image in Paris over the New Year period 2003–4. The
advertisement is a photograph of a couple on a couch, the woman in
lingerie, the man reclining with a camera; a familiar and perhaps even
innocuous image these days...
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Sunday, 06 November 2005 |
 The winner of the inaugural CCP/Colour Factory Award for an emerging
photographic artist has been announced today. Sydney based Leyla Stevens
won the award for her series, Pale Worlds, which opens to the public on
Friday 28 October in Gallery Two, Centre for Contemporary Photography...
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CCP Beyond Real Exhibition |
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Friday, 14 October 2005 |
 Between October and December the CCP will be running 5 new exhibitions
featuring subjects ranging from rockabilly subculture to the dark side of
urban environments and includes an exhibition by the winner of the inaugural
ccp colour factory award...
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CCP Leica Call For National Entries |
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Sunday, 02 January 2005 |
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Are you a documentary photographer, photo-journalist or photomedia artist?
Would you like to win a new Leica M series camera and lens valued at
over $13,000? See the CCP website for a chance to view the world through
a new lens.
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CCP At Melbourne Art Fair |
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Friday, 17 September 2004 |
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CCP is pleased to announce a Project Room at the Melbourne Art Fair 2004, to be held
at the Royal Exhibition Building, Nicholson St, Carlton, from Thursday 30 September –
Sunday 3 October. Concettina Inserra will present a series of intimate portraits
featuring contemporary Melbourne artists, titled Lives and Works in Melbourne...
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Wednesday, 23 June 2004 |
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In 2004, CCP presents a bumper six sessions in its highly respected and annual series
of lectures. In partnership with The Australian Centre, four keynote lectures and two
panel sessions will be held at the University of Melbourne while CCP’s new Fitzroy
galleries are under construction... For more details click
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CCP May - June Photography Exhibitions |
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Monday, 29 March 2004 |
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The CCP over May & June will be featuring works from four people. Read the following:
Paul Knight’s work traditionally displays the human environment as an unpopulated
tableau - a place of potential for the viewer. His prints act as portholes for interiors ||
Marcia Lochhead is exhibiting 'Mirror', a body of photographic work documenting Canberra's
institutional swimming pools and change rooms, exploring an aspect of Australian National
Identity || Julie Vinci's work is about representation and beauty, calling upon and
questioning genres of classical still-life and the nude. Marks on her skin from underwear
and rolls of flesh, coupled with || Isobel Knowles presents a comprehensive back catalogue
of animations and video by Melbourne-based Isobel Knowles - the inspiration for which comes
from sources as diverse as arcade games, children's book...
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CCP March 12 - April 24 Photography Exhibitions |
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Friday, 13 February 2004 |
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During March and April, the CCP have the following exhibition: SUSAN PURDY:
New Branches on an Old Tree -New Branches on an Old Tree is a unique project
that combines oriental botanic specimens with elements from diverse sources
to tell stories about a culture in which plants form the central motif ||
PETER ROBERTSON: Beyond Xanadu -In 1980, leaving the Sharpies gang behind,
Peter Robertson moved to Melbourne to start a new life for himself modelling;
the next few years were a fusion of fashion, nightclubs and art. Beyond Xanadu
chronicles a time of great change for Robertson and Australia || KOKY SALY: How
Much Longer Will You Live Like This -Koky Saly’s series How Much Longer Will
You Live Like This explores the notion of displacement through the eyes of his
mother, whose status has changed from fisherwoman to refugee, to Australian
citizen to ‘Asian-Australian’...
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Friday, 30 January 2004 |
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The Nikon Summer Salon is an annual event celebrating the latest developments
in contemporary photo-based art. It is an open-entry exhibition and competition
supported by leaders in the photographic industry. The Salon provides an
excellent opportunity to exhibit work in a professional, high-profile context.
Thousands of visitors attend the event each year, recommending it as one of the
largest and most renowned photographic award exhibitions in Australia. The 2004
Exhibition dates are: 30 January - 28 February 2004...
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Saturday, 13 December 2003 |
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The Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) welcomes the significant increase
in public funding announced on Wednesday as part of the national Visual Arts and
Craft Strategy. Through this initiative the CCP will receive an additional $90,000PA
from January 2004. The Strategy was announced in a joint statement issued by Senator
the Hon Rod Kemp, Minister for the Arts and Sport and Mary Delahunty, Victorian
Minister for the Arts...
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CCP January - February Photography Exhibitions |
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Monday, 08 December 2003 |
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2004 Nikon Summer Salon: Featuring recent works by over 300 photomedia artists
from across the country, the 2004 Nikon Summer Salon is testament to the ongoing
popularity and diversity of contemporary photographic practice...| Laki Sideris -
Empty(Project Space) At the eastern end of the incredibly vast Prohibited Area,
South Australia's Woomera region is a desolate place of monumental salt lakes and
endless plains of ragged shrubs...| CCP Photoblog (e-Media) In keeping with the
democratic spirit of the Nikon Summer Salon, this month in the e-Media Gallery we
are trying something different. Instead of exhibiting a finished art work, this
time it is up to you, the CCP community, to create it!...
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CCP Nikon Summer Salon Entries |
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Friday, 14 November 2003 |
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The Nikon Summer Salon is an annual event celebrating the latest developments
in photomedia practice. An open-entry exhibition and competition supported by
leaders in the photographic industry, the Salon provides an excellent
opportunity to exhibit work in a professional, high profile context. The Salon
is one of the largest and most renowned photographic award exhibitions in the
country. Presenting over 250 artists from around Australia working in analogue
and digital photography including animation, interactive work and video
installation, this exhibition guarantees to be one of Australia’s biggest for
2004 - and with over $9,000 worth of prizes it’s one of the most generous! The
Centre for Contemporary Photography is now accepting entries for the 2004 Nikon
Summer Salon...
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CCP Stellar Fundraising Auction |
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Tuesday, 14 October 2003 |
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Have you ever thought, ‘Drats, I should have purchased that
Patricia Piccinini when I had the chance? Or a Bill Henson? Or a
Tracey Moffatt?’ And have you ever thought, ‘Drats, I wish I could
do more for a premium Australian photographic gallery, such as the
Centre for Contemporary Photography? Sometimes in life all your
wishes come true! CCP’s truly STELLAR bi-annual
Fundraising Exhibition & Auction, presenting over 55 of Australia’s
most highly sought after artists, from emerging stars such as Darren
Sylvester, Selena Ou and Jane Burton; to major mid career stars such
as Patricia Piccinini, Bill Henson, Tracey Moffatt and Ros Piggott;
through to supernovas such as Wolfgang Sievers, Lewis Morley and
Olive Cotton begins on Saturday 8 November at 3pm...
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CCP October Photography Exhibitions |
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Friday, 19 September 2003 |
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CCP has a number of exhibitions in October concerning people: their
history, identity and displacement. Peter Milne is one of Australia’s
best known photographic artists. His new exhibition 'When Nature Forgets'
features in 'gallery one' | Recently voted one of Australia’s top ten
collectable photographic artists, Deborah Paauwe’s exhibition 'Beautiful
Games' features in 'gallery two' | Also featured at CCP is Keely
O’Shannessy’s 'Alice’s Conversations in Cyberspace' (e-MEDIA) is not
‘Artificial Intelligence’...
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CCP New Photography Installation |
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Sunday, 14 September 2003 |
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The exhibition combines disparate cultural and artistic practices
incorporating elements of low contemporary subcultures and high classical
art, including horror cinema, Dadaist collages, fanzine art and classical
interior design and decoration. The exhibition runs until Saturday
September 27, 2003. CCP is open Wednesday to Saturday 11-5pm...
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CCP Photogenic Lecture Series |
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Sunday, 10 August 2003 |
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September 3 | Ian North | "Spooked! Art Museums, Photography
and the Problem of the Real" - Photography, to the curator, is just
another art medium, right? Wrong. Museums perpetuate confusion after
confusion in defining art, a problem compounded with respect to
photography by questions about the real. Both the computer's historical
dissolution of postmodernism and recent probings in philosophical
aesthetics create new levels of complication. The curator's job just
got harder... Ian North is an Adelaide-based artist and writer...
Tickets $7/$5. Bookings essential...
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CCP July - August Photography Exhibitions |
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Saturday, 12 July 2003 |
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ART+FILM Scheduled to coincide with the 52nd Melbourne
International Film Festival, Art+Film is an exhibition
that evaluates the effect of cinema and filmmaking on
contemporary artists and art practices... FARM Focusing
on the artist's grandparents, their animals and their
land, Farm considers rural experience, its representation
in art and its relevance to contemporary life.. . INTERSECTION
Intersection is an interactive work that explores the
reconstruction of the everyday urban architectural environment.
The user is invited into an immersive virtual world
that acts as both an expansion and escape into possible
encounters with space, texture and time... PHOTOGENIC
2003 Lecture Series This free public forum accompanies
the Art+Film exhibition at CCP, and is part of the Talking
Pictures program of the 2003 Melbourne International
Film Festival...
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CCP June - July Photography Exhibitions |
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Thursday, 10 July 2003 |
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The CCP have now released a list of exhibitions to be held during June and
July 2003...
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CCP May - June Photography Exhibitions |
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Tuesday, 10 June 2003 |
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Gallery 1. ALEX KERSHAW (Geodetic Monuments) Geodetic Monuments presents
a series of images and video sequences based on the construction of
survey markings by the NSW Land and Property Information Service. These
structures are used by surveyors to determine... | Gallery 2. ANGELA
BLAKELY (Keep passing the open windows) "I am involved with eight mothers
whose children have suicided. We worked collaboratively, each of these
women placing their trust in me, to make their children less invisible"...
| PAUL BATT (Untitled Spaces) The Untitled Spaces series presents a
photographic exploration of spaces that relate to art practice, their
evolution and the way they adapt to different pressures and requirements...
| SIMON BIGGS (Babel) A net.art work exploring the taxonomy of knowledge
contained within libraries and the Internet, Babel is a site specific
work for a 'non-site' information space. In the work, the Dewey Decimal
numbering system is...
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CCP April - May Photography Exhibitions |
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Saturday, 10 May 2003 |
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NICOLA LODER Wild Thing: Using digital imaging techniques to explore
ideas about Australian identity, juxtaposing rural landscape scenes
with urban tourist sites, sheep with human hordes... BRONWYN COUPE The
Neighbour's House: Objects, events, emotions and daydreams - all equally
real - inhabit the place of childhood... DARRAN McCRANN After the War:
Is a collection of photographic images and mutant objects. The central
theme explores a mindscape, post trauma... JOYCE RUDINSKY Information
Narrative: An interactive digital art project, Information Narrative
consists of three stories collaged from found mass media material -
from newspapers, magazines, radio, television and the Internet...
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CCP Leica Documentary Photography Award |
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Thursday, 10 April 2003 |
NATIONAL CALL FOR ENTRIES: Registrations Due: 1 April 2003
Are you a documentary photographer, photo-journalist or photomedia artist?
Would you like to win a new Leica M series camera and lens valued at
over $13,000? The biennial Leica/CCP Documentary Photography Award presents
a survey of contemporary Australian documentary photography. It supports
excellence in documentary work executed in series format. Finalists
will be selected for exhibition at the Centre for Contemporary Photography
in mid 2003, and subsequent tour during 2003/2004. The latest Leica
M series camera (your choice of M6 camera for M7 version plus extras)
valued at over $13,000 will be awarded to the most outstanding series...
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CCP March - April Photography Exhibitions |
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Monday, 10 March 2003 |
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The Line Up:: 'Just a Girl' - DONNA BAILEY: Featuring twenty large-scale
photographic prints, Just a Girl is part of an ongoing series of documentary
images... 'Not Only Skin and Fabric' - FASSIH KEISO: Over recent years,
Keiso's practice has examined tensions between current Middle-Eastern
& Western perceptions of the body and sexuality. Working with a range
of different media... 'Stalker' - MARIA PULERA: US photographer, performance
artist and writer Maria Pulera presents a mixed media installation documenting
her personal stalking experience over a three year period... 'Sequence'
- SHANNON WINNELL: Sequence is an interactive CD-ROM artwork that examines
the ritualistic, almost subconscious nature of the everyday movement,
and how we flow through constructed spaces...
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Monday, 10 February 2003 |
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The Centre for Contemporary Photography's mammoth Nikon Summer Salon
opened on the 6th February to a record crowd. The 2003 Salon is bigger
than ever before, presenting a massive three hundred photomedia artworks
(a fifty per cent increase on 2002) - testament to the enthusiasm and
talent of Australia's photographic community. The Salon runs until 1
March and entry is free. Most works are on sale at very affordable prices
(ranging from $75 to $2500) presenting a great opportunity for budding
collectors. As CCP Director Tessa Dwyer states, "There is something
for everyone at this year's Salon, from custom-made underwear and kangaroos
to hand-printed black and white photography to expansive digital colour
fields" at...
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CCP Nikon Summer Salon Entries |
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Wednesday, 05 February 2003 |
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Now in its 11th year, the Summer Salon is the Centre for Contemporary
Photography's annual showcase of current photographic practice - featuring
all types of analogue and digital photography as well as mixed media
works all inspired by photographic culture and processes. Prizes in
eight categories (totalling over $3700) will be announced at the opening
of the exhibition on the evening of 6 February 2003 when John Swainston,
Managing Director of Maxwell Optical Industries (distributors for Nikon
throughout Australia) will personally present Nikon's 'Excellence in
Photomedia' Prize. Featuring up to 200 artists...
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CCP February Photography Exhibitions |
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Sunday, 05 January 2003 |
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The Line Up:: 'Just a Girl' - DONNA BAILEY: Featuring twenty large-scale
photographic prints, Just a Girl is part of an ongoing series of documentary
images... 'Not Only Skin and Fabric' - FASSIH KEISO: Over recent years,
Keiso's practice has examined tensions between current Middle-Eastern
& Western perceptions of the body and sexuality. Working with a range
of different media... 'Stalker' - MARIA PULERA: US photographer, performance
artist and writer Maria Pulera presents a mixed media installation documenting
her personal stalking experience over a three year period... 'Sequence'
- SHANNON WINNELL: Sequence is an interactive CD-ROM artwork that examines
the ritualistic, almost subconscious nature of the everyday movement,
and how we flow through constructed spaces...
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Friday, 03 January 2003 |
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During 2002 CCP [Melbourne] offered four popular weekend workshops over
two semester programs, as well as a one-off special workshop on fine
art black & white photography. These workshops revolved around a series
of studio based demonstrations with the emphasis on a practical approach
to the concepts being covered. Adobe Photoshop versions 4, 5 and 6 are
covered as well as both Macintosh and Intel-based computers. These workshops
filled quickly and will be back again in 2003.
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CCP November - December 2002 Exhibitions |
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Thursday, 05 December 2002 |
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For the 5th time since 1995, CCP presents the RMIT MEDIA ARTS GRADUATE
EXHIBITION in it's two main gallery spaces. Media Arts focuses on the
relationship between arts and technology, new media systems of representation,
identification and practice. The exhibition features 16 recent graduates...
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The CCP in Melbourne has released dates and details for a series of new
exhibitions. Running from 12 September — 25 October 2008, exhibitors
featured areAnne Noble with Ice Blink: Antarctic Photograps, in Gallery One and Gallery Two, Steven Sebring with Objects of Life in GalleryThree, Liv Barrett, James Deutsher, Christopher LG Hill, Chris Kraus and Evergreen Terrace with Foto-Ography in Gallery Four and Helen Grogan and Tanja Kimme in the Night Projection Window...
