Archived FotoFreo 2006 webpage. See also the FotoFreo 2008 website.

AUDIO VISUAL PROJECTIONS
FotoFreo 2006 Festival Event

The audiovisual projections will all be held at the University of Notre Dame Australia Drill Hall in Mouat St. There are three evenings,

Saturday the 25th of March (following on from the opening at the Moores Building),
Sunday the 26th and on the following weekend,
Saturday the 1st of April.

Doors will open at 7:30pm and the shows will start at 8pm. There will be a licensed bar in the courtyard at the side of the Drill Hall.

$15 entry, free to Friends of FotoFreo

SATURDAY MARCH 25, 8pm

Magnum Photo Agency

Raghu Rai - Bhopal
Carl De Keyzer - Zona
Chien Chi Chang - Chinatown
Jonas Bendikson - Transdniester
Alec Soth - Bogota
Larry Towell - No Man's Land
Lise Sarfati - La Vie Nouvelle
Philip Jones Griffiths - Vietnam at Peace
Paolo Pellegrin - Vigil at the Vatican
Martin Parr - Brighton Beach
Trent Parke - Minutes to Midnight
Antoine d’Agata

Founded in 1947, Magnum Photos is a photographic co-operative of great diversity and powerful individual vision, created to give photographers the freedom and independence to work outside of the restrictive formulas of commercial journalism. Working on projects for years and resisting trends and sensationalism, the members of Magnum are still considered the premier photographers in the world.

FotoFreo will also be showing a projection featuring the work of Magnum’s latest nominees.

$15 entry, free to Friends of FotoFreo

SUNDAY MARCH 26, 8pm

Stephen Dupont - The 173 Airborne and US Marines in Afghanistan
Jack Picone - State of Place
Patrick Brown - Black Market
Tom Williams - After Dark
Tony Reddrop - Rosie’s Coffee Van
Brad Rimmer - Silence
David Dare Parker - Indonesian Transitions
Tim Page
Reiner Riedler - Fake Holidays
Megan Lewis - Conversations with the Mob
Robert McFarlane

The projections on this night will be followed by a panel discussion with photojournalists Jack Picone, Tim Page, Patrick Brown and Michael Coyne

$15 entry, free to Friends of FotoFreo

SATURDAY APRIL 1, 8pm

John Stanmeyer - Islam in Asia
Tamara Voninski - Metropolis 2004-2005
Andrew Moore - Hong Kong and The Delta: 2003 to 2005
Chris Gleisner - Russian Debutante Ball, Cabramatta, 2005
Fiona Morris - Girls
Tanya Lake - Sydney Waterways
Warren Clarke - Ethiopia
Moshe Rosenzveig - The Tango
Walkley Awards 1956 - 2005

$15 entry, free to Friends of FotoFreo

Patrick Brown
Black Market

Black Market is a projection that explores and reveals the nature of the pan-Asian trafficking of endangered species and a global business where it is estimated that wildlife traders export 25,000-30,000 primates every year - along with 2-5 million birds, 10 million reptile skins, and more than 500 million tropical fish.

After leaving Australia for Thailand in 1999, Patrick Brown has worked as a photographer drawn to socially based issues. His time in Asia, especially along the Thai-Burma border, has sparked an enduring fascination with the jungles of Asia and the events and issues surrounding them.

In this photo essay from the later part of 2005 the focus is on a cross section of Ethiopia’s vast cultural richness, from the World Heritage listed lower Omo Valley were the many tribes that inhabit the area are said to be the most unique on the African continent, to the religious centre of Lalibela were Ethiopian Christians still make pilgrimages of a biblical sense the to intricate rock hewn churches.

Warren Clarke has been working as a Photojournalist for the last 16 years starting his career on a suburban newspaper in London. He has since covered Assignments in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and the South Pacific.Warren is a founding member of Oculi Photographers – a current collective of Australia’s most renowned photojournalists.

Stephen Dupont presents us with graphic images of a recent embed with US Forces in Afghanistan.

Stephen Dupont has won many international photography prizes including World Press Photo and Pictures of the Year International. His work has been exhibited in London, Paris, New York, Sydney, Tokyo, Perpignan's Visa Pour L'Image Festival and Reportage (a Photojournalism Festival he co-founded). He works on assignment for The New Yorker, Newsweek, GQ, French and German GEO, Le Figaro, Liberation, The Sunday Times Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Stern, Time, The Financial Review Magazine and Vanity Fair. He has two published books, STEAM - India's Last Steam Trains and FIGHT. He is represented by Contact Press Images.

On 27 May 2005, sixteen young Russian Australians participated in a traditional debutant ball at the Crystal Palace in Cabramatta, NSW. Every two years the Cabramatta Russian School hosts the event where graduates celebrate their achievements and perform traditional Russian dances for their family and friends. The night is the culmination of years of training and practice, and represents a coming of age for the young people involved.

Chris Gleisner is a freelance social documentary, landscape photographer and teacher. She has numerous group shows and several solo shows to her credit.

"I shot these images with a Nikonos camera using highly saturated slide film, most of them shot after work during summer after a day spent cooped up in an office. I focused on the feelings the ocean gave me and the unpredictability of slow shutter speeds, rather than setting out with a distinct finished product in mind…" Tanya Lake.

Tanya Lake completed a BA in photojournalism in Gothenburg, Sweden has spent three years as a staff photographer for The Australian Financial Review. She now freelances for The Sydney Morning Herald and is represented by the Panos agency in London. She won a world press photo award for the Sydney’s Waterways series in 2004.

Megan Lewis
Conversations with the mob

This photographic essay is an insight into the everyday community life of The Martu "Mob", with whom Megan lived in their Western Desert communities for two and a half years. The Mob, as they call themselves, only number about 850 people, and live in Western Australia’s Great Sandy Desert, an extremely remote and tough stretch of country, which covers 258,000 square kilometers (roughly the size of Tasmania). They are one of the last Aboriginal groups to come into contact with Westerners. These images look beyond our remote personal understandings to give us a more truthful and balanced look at Martu humanity.

Megan Lewis worked at The Australian newspaper (News limited) as a senior news photographer from 1998 to 2002 in the Perth bureau. She featured on the newspaper's front page on numerous occasions, including the "Tampa incident", where her photographs dominated the front pages of News Limited papers around the country. Megan was also the paper's official photographer for Queen Elizabeth's national tour of Australia in 2000. She also covered Former Indonesian President Suharto's resignation and the preceding riots in 1998. She then traveled to East Timor and was one of the first western photographers since the 1970s to portray the violence inflicted on the East Timorese by the Indonesian Military. Despite her career accomplishments and senior position, in 2002 Megan left The Australian to follow a dream. She went to live full time with the Martu Aboriginal people of the Western Desert, who had given their consent for her to portray their disappearing way of life.

Magnum Photos

The Magnum Photos is a photographic co-operative of great diversity and distinction owned by its photographer-members. With powerful individual vision, Magnum photographers chronicle the world and interpret its peoples, events, issues and personalities. Through its four editorial offices in New York, London, Paris and Tokyo, and a network of fifteen sub-agents, Magnum Photos provides photographs to the press, publishers, advertising, television, galleries and museums across the world.

Raghu Rai - Bhopal
Carl De Keyzer - Zona
Chien Chi Chang - Chinatown (work in progress)
Jonas Bendikson - Transdniester
Alec Soth - Bogota
Larry Towell - No Man's Land
Lise Sarfati - La Vie Nouvelle
Philip Jones Griffiths - Vietnam at Peace
Paolo Pellegrin - Vigil at the Vatican
Martin Parr - Brighton Beach

FotoFreo will also be showing a projection featuring the work of Magnum’s latest nominees.

Andrew Moore
Hong Kong and The Delta - 2003 to 2005

These images reflect on the lives of the people of Hong Kong as they come to terms with their status and position within greater China.
Since reunification with mainland China, the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong has had to contend with many challenges. Just as the territory was approaching recovery from the Asian financial crisis it was hit by SARS.
Widespread dissatisfaction with government handling of this epidemic added fuel to the pro-democracy movement which was frustrated with the seeming backtracking on the timetable for universal suffrage. After a short period of apparent conciliation from Beijing the official line abruptly hardened, with the democrats being denounced as "unpatriotic". A constant backdrop to this unsettling period has been the growing confidence and influence of Hong Kong's immediate neighbours in Guangdong Province. Many people believe that The Pearl River Delta power balance has irrevocably shifted to those on the mainland.

Andrew Moore has been a photographer since the mid-80s, specialising in current affairs, and have worked for most of the major news and business publications: Time, Newsweek, Business Week, Stern, Der Spiegel, Liberation, etc.. He has been the recipient of a number of awards and bursaries, including the Mother Jones Award for Documentary Photography (2000) for his long-term work documenting The Troubles in Northern Ireland. After many years of being based in Europe he is currently living in Hong Kong and predominantly working in Asia.

This intimate work in progress was taken over a two year period in 2004/05 on women and girls including friends/family members and strangers from all walks of life. Some of the girls are Fiona’s sisters and close friends, others she photographed through projects on Jelly Wrestling/amateur stripping, Miss World Australia and Meter Maids in Surfers Paradise. The Oxford Tavern in Petersham, Sydney has been holding jelly wrestling and amateur stripping for several years. The Meter Maids from Surfers Paradise are a Gold Coast icon and have been putting coins into expired parking meters for tourists for forty years. All these women and girls have inspired Fiona.

Fiona Morris is a Sydney based freelance photojournalist and documentary photographer. She has exhibited work in numerous group shows including: Representing The Real at the Stills Gallery, She Saw at Phototechnica and Reportage a prestigious photojournalism festival three years running. Her work has also been displayed in Art and About at Hyde Park in both 2004 and 2005. She has been included in many publications and her photographs are in a number of private collections. 

Minutes to Midnight is the result of a two year road journey around Australia during the years of 2003 & 2004.Travelling by 4WD and living in a tent, it is a very personal attempt to document from beach to bush, the current state of the nation at a time when Australia’s future has never been more uncertain. The main concept of the work deals with the emotions of our time. Real life images are used as a document but also to create an imaginary story through the use of symbolism and the sub-conscience.

Trent Parke, is a Magnum Photos nominee and the first Australian to be represented by the agency. He is a photojournalist who has won numerous national and international awards including the prestigious W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography in 2003. Trent Parke is represented by Stills Gallery, Sydney.

The Indonesian Archipelago has it all - extreme poverty and wealth, corruption, tension, ethnic and cultural diversity. Historical events, such as the fall of the Suharto regime after 32 years in power and the re-birth of a nation with East Timor bravely voting for its independence provides an inspirational backdrop for David Dare Parker’s challenging  projection.

Walkley Award winning photojournalist David Dare Parker has published in many national and international magazines. In January 2002 he was asked to co-ordinate a safety awareness course for Afghan Journalists in Peshawar, Pakistan for the International Federation of Journalists. During April and May of 2003 he was the Official War Photographer for the Australian War Memorial during Operation Falconer during the Second Gulf War. In 2004 he was appointed journalist in residence at Murdoch University. He is represented by OnAsia Images.

Jack Picone
State of Place

Hundreds of thousands of displaced Burmese and ethnic minorities live precarious lives on the Thai/Burma border. They have fled persecution by Burma’s brutal military government, whose soldiers have burned their villages to ground, razed their crops and destroyed their livelihoods. The junta has crushed their communities through a relentless campaign of violence: murdering men, raping women and girls, and orphaning children. Survivors who make the long and dangerous journey through dense jungles, and across mountains and rivers, in their flight from oppression often illegally cross the border into Thailand.
On the porous, shambolic border of Thailand they scrape a living as cheap labour, in sweatshops and in rice fields, on building sites and in grimy brothels.
With no official status or "state of place", their existence is suffused with fear and hardship. At any time they may be captured and deported on the whim of the Thai authorities, and returned in cattle trucks to the evil regime in Burma they have fled. Yet still they flock here to the Thai-Burmese border, striving to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives.

Jack Picone is an Australian born photographer. Over the last fifteen years his images have featured regularly in most international magazines and newspapers Worldwide. His clients include Time, Newsweek, life, Liberation, Der Spiegel, Stern, L'Express, Tempo, Granta, Independent(UK) and The Observer(UK). He has won many awards including American Photographer of the Year, World Press Photo, and the Fifty Crows award for Documentary Photography.

Rosie’s Coffee Van is run entirely by volunteers from a youth organisation called Rosie’s Oblate Youth Mission. Two nights a week they go out to Flinders Street station in Melbourne and give out free coffee, hot chocolate and during the summer months, cordial, to whoever turns up. For the most part it’s the social contact that people really go there for. Most are loners who usually have little to do with the mainstream public.

Tony Reddrop did not take up photography until he was in his late thirties. Rather than a hindrance, he sees his life experience as a benefit when undertaking difficult projects, including documenting the S – 11 protests at Melbourne’s Crown Casino, and the Woomera and Baxter Detention Centre Easter Protests. He is working on a long term project about Australia’s Vietnam War Veterans.

Reiner Riedler’s photographs document places which give the illusion of being on holiday- artificial places created within the real world to provide some relief from the mundane of the everyday. In these "exotic" spaces you can dream you are in the perfect paradise: artificial beaches in the cities of Europe, skiing halls and tropical Islands.

Reiner Riedler (b.1968) lives and works in Austria. Primarily a documentary photographer, he has travelled to many countries in Eastern Europe, Russia, Africa and India. Reiner Riedler is represented by the Anzenberger Agency.

Brad Rimmer
Silence

Through contemplative and introspective images, Brad Rimmer searches for the familiar; the recognisable elements which shape the Western Australian wheat belt and it's people. These images question the 'familiar' beauty of our environments and gently scrutinize Australia's perception of itself,
affirming that our cultural identity is based on empathy and understanding of our environment and the indelible binary link we have with it. Paola Anselmi

Brad Rimmer (b. 1962), a Perth based photographer, has received the City ofPerth Photo Image Award 3 times and was a recipient of a 1997 Santa Fe Assignment Earth Prize for Photography in the USA. His work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions locally and abroad including the 2005  Perth International Arts Festival  2004 and 2005 Pingyao International Photography Festival in China.

Moshe Rosenzveig
The Tango

Dancing the Tango is an increasingly popular sub-cultural activity in Sydney. This projection reveals the visual music of passionate love and the dance of loneliness and lust.

Moshe Rosenzveig is a photojournalist, commercial photographer, educator and an award winning television producer/director, whose career in the visual arts and the media spans 25 years. His television work has been screened on SBS TV, ARTE, and other overseas networks, and his photographic work has been exhibited at the 2004 Sydney Festival, Sydney Looking Forward 2003, Sydney Life 2005, and in Cross Projections 2004 and 2005. Moshe is currently teaching at the School of Communication, Design & Media, University of Western Sydney

John Stanmeyer
Islam in Asia

Focusing on the Asian Muslim world and covering eight different countries (Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and the Philippines), Stanmeyer’s images depict the daily life of Muslim’s in a post September 11 world from large Asian cities right down to small communities in Bali.

John Stanmeyer (b.1964) is a co-founding member and president of the VII photo agency and a contract photographer with Time Magazine since 1998. For nearly a decade he has been focusing on Asian social issues and the rapid changes taking place throughout the entire region. Stanmeyer has been the recipient of numerous honours including the Robert Capa Award, Magazine Photographer of the Year, numerous World Press Awards and Picture of the Year.

Real life is like a theatre when you wander the same streets everyday. The scenes change in the blink of an eye as reality blends with my memories and dreams. Metropolis… Sydney non-fiction.

Tamara Voninski is a Sydney based photographer. She is a founding member of Oculi, an Australian collective of photographers and her work has won several international awards including the inaugural Alexia Foundation Award for World Peace Award, William Randolph Hearst Photojournalism, International Pictures of the Year Awards and Best of Photojournalism. Her work is represented in Europe by Agence VU and in North America by Redux Pictures.

The Walkley Awards Projections

50 Years of Walkley Photography 1956 – 2005. An historic look at Australia’s premier journalism awards through the eyes of Australia’s award winning photographers.

Tom Williams
After Dark

Tom Williams documents the streets of Sydney at night. Many of the people he photographs survive outside the ‘mainstream of society’, inhabitants of the city who express their individuality and character more visibly ‘after dark’.

Tom Williams is a Sydney based documentary and editorial photographer. His work to date has been driven primarily by social issues, such as gambling and public housing, and the desire to record those affected by economic and cultural change within contemporary Australia.

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Archived FotoFreo 2006 webpage. See also the FotoFreo 2008 website.