Bookings for all FotoFreo 2010 events are now open. Bookings are open for specific events at different times. Enjoy special FotoFreo 2010 'Mates Rates' when booking a large selection of ticketed events and enjoy discounts at local partner outlets when you get to Fremantle! Registration is free with the only requirement being to provide minimal information about yourself when registering. Details of local discounts will follow. Payments are accepted through PayPal, with the allowance for credit card, debit card or use of a PayPal account.
The Discussions
The Virtues and Vagaries of Online Photography
Andy Adams, Jon Levy, Kyla McFarlane, Amy Stein
How are online photography galleries and curated art blogs changing the way we receive and view photography? What does it mean that newcomers from all over the globe can participate? Is it stimulating innovation, fresh ideas and talent or are we facing visual overload and global mediocrity. What does this broad access do to individual sensibility? And what of the role of digital curators - important filters or replicating the gallery system?
Making It: photography at the ♥ of Today's Culture
Kapil Das, Jack Pam, Aaron Rose
The momentum is with those who just do it! Forget the funding applications, Philip Blenkinsop
the gallery systems, the editors and publishers…. this is about taking art into
your own hands and getting it out onto the street. And whatever your method, if it’s transitory, transgressing or downright illegal, OR you’re under 30, you’ll capture it on camera. So how good is the work that’s coming from this ‘activity? Who’s seeing it and who cares?
Journals - Private lives in public realms
Philip Blenkinsop, Max Pam, Carrie Levy
Many photographers keep journals – travelogues, visual diaries, memory joggers, personal outpourings. Any or all of these can be the natural by-product of a creative journey. So what function do they fulfil in the creator’s life and work? What impulses prompt the journal entry? And what happens or changes when the private journal goes public?
Publish or Perish?
Andy Adams, Gianni Frinzi, Carrie Levy, Mark McPherson, Blow Up Delhi, Blindboys.org & Kapil Das
Are photography books still important? Is this still the ultimate prize for the professional photographer? What distinguishes a ‘good book’ these days and what is being canonized through book publication? What is the role of text and design?
Bruno Barbey/Magnum Photos
Tall Poppy Syndrome - Amy Stein & Stacy Mehrfar
Crossing over photojournalism and/or art photography? - Narelle Autio, Marta Daho, Sohrab Hura
Involve Me - Alasdair Foster
FotoFreo Projections 1 and 2
curated by David Dare Parker
Selected from: Conor Ashleigh, Blair Barclay, Vidura Jang Bahadur, Paula Bronstein – Getty Images, Denis Dailleux – Agence VU, Sumit Dayal, Andy Drewitt, Rennie Ellis - Rennie Ellis Photographic Archive, Adam Ferguson, Anoek de Groot, David Hogsholt – Getty Images, Jason P. Howe, Pawel Jaszczuk, A.K. Kimoto, Laurent Weyl Collectif – ARGOS, Jens Olaf Lasthein, Maximishin – Cosmos, Kosuke Okahara – Agence VU, Louie Palu, Christian Poveda – Agence VU, Juan Manuel Castro Prieto, Steven Siewert, Scott Thode, Munem Wasif – Agence VU, Tom Williams, Zalmai
An idea of Europe: visions from young European photographers
curated by Marta Daho
A slideshow and lecture by Marta Dahó presenting the work of Marianna Bastashevski (Russia), Hermine Bourgadier (France), Mohamed Bourouissa (France), Mathias Bruggman (Switzerland), Dieuwertje Komen (Netherlands), Kathrin Krur (Germany), Vesselina Nikolaeva (Romania), Lucia Nimcova (Slovakia), Aleix Plademunt (Spain), Bas Princen (Netherlands), Leonie Purchas (UK), Vera Schoepe (Spain/Germany), Clare Strand (UK), Manuel Vazquez (Spain/UK), Herbet Weber (Switzerland), Tobias Zielony (Germany).
My Asian Heart - Documentary feature film about photographer Philip Blekinsop directed by David Bradbury
Photography Hijacked - premiere screening of a documentary about photographers from the Hijacked projects written and directed by Jack Pam
culture, directed by Aaron Rose and co-directed by Joshua Leonard
The FotoFreo Portfolio reviews are a valuable opportunity for photographers to present their work for comment and critique by leading figures in the photography industry. Each photographer will be assigned four sessions with Australian & International photography experts who will offer feedback and guidance over one-on-one 20 minute sessions.
Reviews include: Narelle Autio, Marta Daho, Phil England, Lee Grant, Jeff Moorfoot, Michael Proud, Julian Tennant, Andy Adams, Alasdair Foster, Eva Fernandez, Gianni Frinzi, Graham Howe, Carrie Levy, Jon Levy, Kyla McFarlane, Isabelle Rouvillois
FotoFreo is a month long international photography festival held every
two years in Fremantle, Western Australia. The festival is organised
and managed by FotoFreo Inc. To date there have been four successful
festivals, the last of which was held in late March early April 2008.
The next festival will be held in 2010, from the 20th of March through
until the 18th of April.
Since the first FotoFreo festival in 2002, the event has more than
doubled in scale and scope each time it has been held. The festival has
established a national reputation and is also now well known throughout
the international photographic community. The 2008 festival attracted
more than 68,000 visitors, 16% of whom were from interstate and
overseas.
Bookings for all FotoFreo 2010 events are now open. Bookings are open for specific events at different times. Enjoy special FotoFreo 2010 'Mates Rates' when booking a large selection of ticketed events and enjoy discounts at local partner outlets when you get to Fremantle! Registration is free with the only requirement being to provide minimal information about yourself when registering. Details of local discounts will follow. Payments are accepted through PayPal, with the allowance for credit card, debit card or use of a PayPal account.
