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

FOTOFREO 2006 SEMINAR
Looking at Portraits
Sunday 2nd April

Seminar Programme Outline | Seminar Abstracts | Biographies of the Speakers
Cost of Registration and Bookings

After the success of FotoFreo 2004 it was decided to expand the discussion activities of the festival into a number of more formalised events including a seminar, a conference, forums and lectures. 

The FotoFreo 2006 Seminar: Looking at Portraits will be a one day event with 2 international and 2 national speakers. The seminar will be held at the Drill Hall at the University of Notre Dame Australia on Sunday the 2nd of April commencing at 10am through until 4pm. However, if you so wish, you can participate for either the whole day or for half a day.

The benefits to participants in the FotoFreo 2006 Seminar: Looking at Portraits will be:

• to provide an insight into the practices of some of the world's most successful portrait photographers,
• to address key issues of interest to photography practitioners, professionals and other interested parties, and
• to provide an excellent opportunity for networking with internationally acclaimed photographers, critics and photography professionals.

Furthermore, the seminar will take place within the context of the FotoFreo Festival and, as such, will provide the conference attendees the opportunity to participate in a wide range of other related activities.

In planning the FotoFreo 2006 Seminar it has been the intention to:

• provide an insight into this most challenging of photographic practices from some of the worlds leading photographers and commentators,
• provide the opportunity to discuss and debate the issues and aspects identified in the presentations, and
• to do so in an enjoyable and relaxed setting.

The organisers of the FotoFreo 2006 Seminar believe the audience for the event should include:

• Professional and commercial photographers,
• Advanced students of photography,
• Serious amateur photographers.
• Curators

Cost of Registration

Cost of registration for the full day is $120 including GST
Cost of registration for a half day is $70 including GST

Registration for a full day will entitle the delegate to a FotoFreo 2006 Festival bag, FotoFreo 2006 Festival catalogue, light lunch and morning and afternoon coffeee or tea.

REMEMBER Friends of FotoFreo are entitled to a 10% discount on the registration fee.

For BOOKINGS please use either the Standard Entry booking form  or  Friends of FotoFreo Discount booking form.

Seminar Programme Outline

Seminar Abstracts

Douglas Kirkland has been photographing for over five decades and his passion in the discovery of beauty never wavers. Photography has been his bride, his companion, his lover, and his confidante throughout his multifaceted career. He is best known for his celebrity portraits but the scope of his work is far wider.
"Douglas Kirkland's portraits go far beyond the physical appearance of his subjects and capture the very essence of their being with disarming honesty and sensuality."
He started his career as a staff photographer on Look then Life magazines during the "60s/70s golden age of photojournalism". Through the years his work has covered a wide variety of subjects from portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Sean Connery, Robert de Niro, Dr. Stephen Hawking and Angelina Jolie to astronomy work in Chile and fashion photography above the Artic Circle. He has worked on the sets of over a hundred and forty motion pictures, from "2001", "Out Of Africa", "Temptress Moon " (in Shanghai)"Titanic", "Moulin Rouge" and "Behind Enemy Lines He has published a number of books among which are "Light Years", "Icons", "Legends" and "Body Stories". He has lectured all over the globe and his work has been shown in museums and galleries around the world. His book, "James Cameron’s Titanic", was on the New York Times best-seller list and sold over a million copies in the United States alone. His latest book, "Una Notte Con Marilyn" is out with major exhibitions in Italy, Germany, England and the USA.
In this two hour presentation, in two parts, Douglas will share his insights into the development of his career, the issues he has confronted, the problems he has tackled and overcome, and the success his career has brought him.
Visit the website of Douglas Kirkland at www.douglaskirkland.com

Susan Bright
Approaches to Contemporary Portraiture

The aim of this seminar is to encourage participants to think about portraiture from different perspectives. In discussing both ones own and other photographer’s strategies in taking portraits, Susan will look at the diverse contracts between photographer and sitter. The presentation will include approaches such as the photo essay, the staged portrait, metaphorical portraiture and the self-portrait. By looking closely at images and discussing approaches Susan will pose the question of whether or not we can really make a portrait say what we want it to say - and reflect on how portraits are aesthetically constructed. This presentation is aimed at people with pre-existing photographic knowledge.

Montalbetti+Campbell
Twentyfourseven

Montalbetti+Campbell declare, as Lennon & McCartney did, "The two of us create something much greater than ourselves".
Montalbetti+Campbell’s distinctive, daring style has attracted the attention of the photography industry in all facets. Their rare talent, professional demeanour and commitment to innovation are matched by their uncanny ability to put their subjects at ease. They refuse to compromise the integrity of their art for the commercial expectations of the industry at large. As such they have created a commercial demand for "their own style".
What fuels and fortifies their creative collaboration?
In their presentation Twentyfourseven, photographers Denis Montalbetti and Gay Campbell reveal how they met, how they think, how they see and how they work in tandem behind a single lens to create extraordinary portraits.
Visit the website of Montalbetti+Campbell at www.montalbetticampbell.com

Biographies of the Speakers

Douglas Kirkland (USA)Douglas Kirkland was born in Toronto, Canada and spent much of his early professional life working in New York, before relocating in Los Angeles in the mid ‘70s. Kirkland’s career started quickly when he joined Look Magazine in his early twenties, and later Life Magazine during the golden age of 60’s/70’s photojournalism. Among his assignments were essays on Greece, Lebanon and Japan as well as fashion and celebrity work, photographing Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor and Marlene Dietrich among others. Through the years, Douglas Kirkland has worked on the sets of over one hundred motion pictures. Among them, "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", 2001 A Space Odyssey, "Out of Africa", "Titanic" and "Moulin Rouge" which was filmed in Australia with Nicole Kidman.
Visit the website of Douglas Kirkland at www.douglaskirkland.com

Susan Bright (United Kingdom) Susan Bright is a writer and curator. She currently works as a consultant for Sotheby’s Institute, London on their forthcoming MA in the History of Photography and on their MA Contemporary Art course. She is regularly invited to give talks and lectures at galleries including the V&A and the National Portrait Gallery and is a course leader at Tate Modern. She previously worked as Assistant Curator of Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery and as curator at the Association of Photographers. She has curated a wide variety of photography exhibitions and writes for a number of journals and magazines including Source, Tema Celeste and Contemporary. Her first book Art Photography Now was published by Thames and Hudson in Autumn 2005 and was translated into four languages. She recently programmed a series of National conferences around the history of British Photography and an event in Olso which brought together leading practitioners, writers and theorists to discuss the role of video in photographic practice. She is currently working on a major fashion show for the National Portrait Gallery, London (2007).

Montalbetti + Campbell (Australia) Sara Dassel, an independent curator, says, "Montalbetti+Campbell’s portraits are uncanny in their ability to externalize the internal."  Montalbetti+Campbell’s images are recognized and sold internationally, and are represented in the Permanent Collections of the National Portrait Gallery and the National Gallery of Australia, in Canberra. They have received numerous awards and substantial industry recognition. Amongst these is the inclusion of their work in the prestigious Communication Arts Photography Annuals (USA), American Photography Annuals (USA), a Gold World Award at the New York Festivals Advertising Awards (USA), and their acceptance into the widely acclaimed FUJI ACMP Australian Photography Collections.
Visit the website of Montalbetti+Campbell at www.montalbetticampbell.com

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