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Archived FotoFreo 2006 webpage. See also the FotoFreo 2008 website.
2006 Festival Exhibitions
The following exhibitions listed below are all a part of
the FotoFreo 2006: City of Fremantle Festival of Photography
| FotoFreo Exhibitions |
FREMANTLE ART CENTRE
March 25 - April 30, 10am-5pm
FREE
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Group exhibition including:
Shi Guorui (and curator), Shaoyinong & Muchen,
Bai Yiluo, Miao Xiaochun, Zeng Li, Jiang Jian, Chang Qing, Qu Yan, Wu Gaozhong, Zhu Hao, Xu Yong, and Zheng Nong. |
Transformations: New Chinese Photography Contemporary China is undergoing incredible transformation. Rapid economic growth and frantic urban development sees the geographical and cultural landscape changing on a daily basis. Such dynamism is reflected in the work of a new wave of Chinese photographic artists who have only recently started to emerge onto the international scene since the start of the new millennium. This exhibition includes works that are ambitious in scale and experimental in form from twelve of China’s leading photographic artists. It presents us with a complex picture of a culture in transition, as artists adventurously come to terms with a loss of traditional values, and the rise of popular culture and new technologies. |
WA MARITIME MUSEUM
Victoria Quay
March 25 - April 25, Daily 9:30am - 5pm
FREE March 25 - April 2
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Douglas Kirkland
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Face to Face An exhibition of iconic images from Douglas Kirkland who candidly says that he has had a great deal of fun and occasional frustration working in the world of movie stars. "I have enjoyed them, fallen in love with them, occasionally been irritated by oversized egos, and on a few occasions they have become personal friends. But finally, for me, working in this world is most importantly about making the images rather than being impressed by any names. Frequently, my subjects have gotten as excited about an image as I have when we’ve achieved success together. They become part of the creative process as much as I have been and we celebrate together." |
David Doubilet
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The Edge of the Big Island Australia is an island that masquerades as a continent. Next to its collection of strange and wonderful creatures, Australia is best known for the Great Barrier Reef. Yet this magnificent reef system is only a small part of a vast and varied coastline that stretches from the blood warm waters of the Arafura Sea to the cold clear waters beneath the cliffs of Tasmania. Descending into the waters along the edge of this great island is like diving into different oceanic countries.
This exhibition is the result of continuous work in progress that spans 25 years and 15 National Geographic assignments. The waters, like the land of Oz have a dream like quality where everything is not always what it seems. The southern edge is a place of gentle Australian sea lions and patrolling white sharks. Giant whale sharks glide silently along her western coast and legions of green sea turtles migrate thousands of miles to mate at Raine Island on the northern Great Barrier Reef. Australia’s seas are a place of pearl farms, deadly box jellies, black cods guarding ship wrecks and sea dragons hiding in giant kelp forests. Each dive into this water empire is a constant surprise. |
Anne Zahalka
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Welcome to Wonderland A survey exhibition of recent work by Anne Zahalka and which will include works from Leisureland, Natural Wonders and her new exhibition Wonderland. |
MOORES BUILDING
March 25 - April 25, Daily 10am-5pm
FREE
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Group exhibition including:
Emma Critchley, Melanie Manchot, Wiebke Leister, Paul Jeff, Sara Haq, Anna Fox and Broomberg & Chanarin. |
1+1=3 Collaboration in Recent British Portraiture Curated by U.K. author Susan Bright, this show of contemporary British portraiture explores the ideas of collaboration and the different ways in which that can work. |
Antoine d'Agata
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Until the world no longer exists It has been said that, "Antoine d'Agata (1961) makes pictures about people on the edge of society, who's only task in life is to survive." He also looks at his own life in much the same way. This exhibition shows his intuitive and experiential approach, where there are no pre-conceived ideas and where the photo work can be read as essential auto-biographical. |
Emmanuel Angelicas
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Silent Agreements: Sex, travel and Marrickville When Emmanuel Angelicas travels to other cultures he takes Marrickville with him. The Ginza, Pat-Pong or Mykonos form part of his global Marrickville; a jigsaw in photos which more than likely suggest what Australia will look like in the year 2025. |
Helen Smith
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The Golden Apple The photographs document traces of activity within elaborately constructed interiors, resulting in a mediated glimpse of spaces designed to entice and
tantalize. |
Machiel Botman
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Rainchild This exhibition is an insight into the personal life of the photographer. In essence, it is a portrait of him - where he comes from, whom he meets, where he goes. The people whom he meets are of a certain kind: not automatically smiling for the camera, not telling only happy stories in their eyes. The images span about twenty-five years, mostly in and after the 1990s and many were taken in Australia, during five trips since 1993. |
FREMANTLE PRISON
March 25 - April 25, Daily 10am - 5pm
FREE but visits are by groups departing on the hour
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Montalbetti+Campbell
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Significant Others is a collection of personal favorite’s from the last decade of creative collaboration by Montalbett+Campbell. Immigrating to Australia from Canada in 1988 MontalbettI+Campbell brought with them their innovative photographic style that has earned them wide recognition throughout the photographic and advertising industries in this country and abroad. Specialists in photographing people, this pair come together working in tandem behind the camera using their combined talent to capture unique portraits of leading personalities from political leaders to celebrities in both North America and Australia. In this exhibit, photographs created to captivate magazine and advertising audiences will be displayed as fine art prints alongside their published counterparts, presenting Montalbetti+Campbell’s images from divergent viewpoints. |
Patrick Brown
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Black Market An exhibition 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. |
Matthew Sleeth
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Rosebud - and the title of the exhibition - is a seaside town on the Mornington peninsula southeast of Melbourne. Until Matthew was about 13, he and his family spent summers there, on the same caravan site and with the same neighbours every year. Between 2003 and 2005 he went back to take these pictures and found a sense of community and continuity still remained, but the underlying currents of boredom and slight menace were also familiar. |
Bohdan Warchomij
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Portrait of a Revolution: Ukraine In 2004 Warchomij photographed Ukraine’s Orange Revolution for English and Canadian papers, including the Times, the Sunday Times, The Sunday Telegraph, the Guardian and the Globe and Mail. The revolution became Europe’s political story of the year. |
FILM & TELEVISION INSTITUTE
March 25 - April 25, Daily 10am - 5pm
FREE
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| Douglas Kirkland |
Looking into the World of Movies Over the last 50 years Douglas Kirkland has worked on the set of more than a 100 motion pictures, travelling all over the world. He says that it has been exciting, invigorating and occasionally boring… but always a great adventure. "One never knows what surprise will lie around the next corner, from a lion walking through the camp at night during the filming of ‘Out of Africa’ to balancing off the top of the highest building in San Francisco with Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas." These images are a selection of some of these moments. |
OTHER CORE VENUES
March 23 - April 25, Daily
FREE
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Anthony Luvera
The streets of Fremantle
March 25 - April 25 |
Photographs and Assisted Self-Portraits is the culmination of over three years work for Anthony Luvera who has concentrated on collaboration and facilitation as a means of producing a relational approach to documentary photography projects. This project involved Anthony working with over 250 homeless and ex-homeless people throughout London. |
Ricky Maynard
Indigenart
March 23 - April 9 |
Selected Works 1997 - 2001 This exhibition features work selected from two of Ricky Maynard's series - Urban Diary (1997) and Returning To Places That Name Us (2001). ‘Returning’ features powerful large scale portraits of Wik elders which, when presented together, work conceptually, whereas ‘Urban Diary’ is a documentary series telling a story about a drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre in Melbourne and its indigenous inhabitants. |
Mohamad Iqbal
Kulcha
March 25 - April 25 |
Faces of Survivors The Indonesian province of Aceh was one of the most devastated areas affected by the Tsunami catastrophe of December 2004. Over 220,000 people were killed, with hundreds of thousands of others made homeless and left to struggle for survival. The flood of distressing images by the international media highlighted the extent and magnitude of the disaster, and contributed significantly to rallying strong support for the relief effort. The victims, however, in most cases were reduced to an amorphous and anonymous presentation of suffering and misery. Mohamad Iqbal’s images are the result of many weeks in Aceh, where he worked closely with the survivors, listening to their stories, and building relationships with them to deliver images which are quieter, more pensive and which give the individuals a face, an identity and a personality which radiates a sense of hope and respect. |
Graham Miller
Gino's Cafe
South Terrace |
Suburban Melancholy As Australians, we are told everyday to strive harder, to embrace economic prosperity, to earn more, to buy bigger houses and faster cars, and to get as much material wealth as we can gather. This, they tell us, is the road to happiness. Most people comply and, in fact, the western world is richer than it has ever been. But if we earn so much then why do we feel like shit? For me, part of the frustration is waking up and hearing about "children overboard" and the Tampa Crisis, the Iraqi War, Abu Ghraib prison tortures, Camp X-ray at Guantanomo Bay, the treatment of refugees by the Australian government, our apathy to the environment… the list goes on. No one ever seems accountable.
Meanwhile individuals lock themselves inside with a dull resignation that most of their cherished hopes and dreams will not be realised. Health professionals say there is an epidemic of unhappiness, a pervasive melancholy that will see depression the major health issue in Western Countries by the year 2020. These images are a reflection of these concerns, visual metaphors portrayed as psychological dramas within familiar suburban environments. They are stories of ordinary people doing the best they can with what they have, people who are feeling their way in the dark and who dream that perhaps next week things will get better. |
Daniel Bruyn
Tropicana Cafe
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The Gardeners In the suburb of Spearwood, immediately south of Fremantle, just a few years ago there were fields of carrots and onions and men and women cultivating the earth. Now there are neat streets of modern homes. Daniel Bruyn has documented this transition since the early 1990’s. The men and women in these pictures played a large part in the history of this area, quietly going about their business year after year. |
| FotoFreo Fringe Exhibitions |
John Austin
Greg James Studio
Studio 2, J Shed,
Fleet St & South Mole |
Canopy Dance These pictures of aerialist Nelly Simpson and others were made in the karri canopy of the forests of the south west of Western Australia during 2005. Crucial to the success of the project was the rigging work by Jerome Keighly. Jerome has put in rigging work in the attempts to defend Ludlow Forest and Palmer Forest from destruction by the Forest products Commission; at an ecological and financial loss to the Western Australian public. |
Pat Baker
Western Australian Maritime Museum
Cliff St, Fremantle |
Shipwrecks At the Shipwreck Galleries of the Western Australian Maritime Museum the permanent maritime archaeology displays will be enhanced with a series of large photographs, selected from the 36 year career of museum photographer, Patrick Baker. A fascinating collection of historic underwater cameras is also on display and Patrick Baker will be giving floor talks on his maritime archaeology photography throughout the month of FotoFreo 2006 |
Glen Cowans
The Salt Store Gallery
Rottnest Island
March 25 - April 12 |
Contemporary Underwater Photo Art Cowans’ subjects in this exhibition are the breathlessly beautiful life forms of the ocean. His philosophy is to allow Nature to be the artist and let the shapes, colours and life forms dictate to his images and in so doing, Cowans’ ‘photo art’ is taking photography to a new level by bridging the gap between photography and art. |
Group exhibition of
award-winner photography from members of the AIPP
Fremantle Prison
March 25 - April 25
10am - 5pm daily |
The Canon Australian Professional Photographer's Awards 2005
Professional photographers from Australia and New Zealand compete annually for a number of industry awards by submitting four images, which are judged by a panel of their peers. The Canon APPA attracts over 1800 entries and, apart from the premier award of "The Canon Australian Professional Photographer of the Year", there are a range of special categories that include Advertising; Biomedical; Commercial/Industrial; Illustrative; Landscape; Press; Portrait and Wedding. Each year selected winning images are published in an Awards Book, and get included in the Canon AIPP Travelling Exhibition. |
Group exhibition of selected works by tertiary photography students from around Australia
Eastern Workshop,
Fremantle Prison
March 27 - April 15
10am - 5pm daily
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Fujifilm Site Unseen 06 200 stunning photographs from Australia’s tertiary photography students. Inaugurating Site Unseen’s first year as a national student competition, the 1000 plus entries saw an exceptional quality, befitting the cream of Australia’s best photography students. The Site Unseen 06 exhibition will be launched in WA at the Fremantle Prison before touring nationally. The hardcover book of these photographs will be for sale at the exhibition. |
Group exhibition of work by photographers from the
Perth Centre for Photography |
The Inner Edge is an event where the work of more than 20 contemporary photographers is placed in Fremantle venues outside of the normal gallery circuit, that is, in venues that might otherwise appear "off limits". These diverse locations include the various clubs in the historic West End of Fremantle (the Fremantle Club, the Workers Club, the Buffalo Club, the Wyola Club and the Navy Club), sex shops and tattoo parlours, to view work from a new wave of Western Australian and New Zealand photographers. The subject matter will be on the theme of The Space Between, exploring the nexus between Fremantle and Perth (see below). A map will guide viewers through the many venues around town. |
Group exhibition by members of the Western Australian Underwater Photographic Society (WAUPS)
Western Australian Maritime Museum
Cliff St, Fremantle |
Kaleidoscope of Colour An exhibition of underwater images from the Australian and Southeast Asian region. The images will include unusual and unique pictures of rarely seen macro organisms and other stunning aspects of the marine world. |
Jay Heifetz
Acqua Di Sandrino Restaurant
93 Market Street, Fremantle
March 24 - April 25
10am - Late, daily |
Fresh This suite of images celebrate the abundance of fresh, pure foods available in Western Australia. The pictures are either shot in naturally lit market surroundings, in sunlight, or with obvious lighting enhancements to dramatize the subject material. Opening March 24; phone 9430 6126 |
Historical Exhibition
Fremantle Light and Sound Discovery Centre
Fremantle History Museum
Finnerty Street, Fremantle
March 18 - end of May.
10am - 5pm daily |
From Daguerreotype to Digital (A brief history of photographic technology) An exhibition of rare and historic cameras and other photographic technologies, including the Daguerreotype, Ambrotype, Ferrotype, etc. The display also includes a range of unusual stereoscopes, 3D photos, magic lantern projectors, and examples of early colour photographic systems. |
Meagan Lewis
Japingka Gallery
47 High Street
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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. |
Adam Monk
Finelight Gallery
62 High Street, Fremantle
March 23 - April 25
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A beleza do Brasil An inside look with antipodean eyes at Brasil’s culture, music, dance and people. In 2002/2003 Adam Monk spent a year exploring the amazing diversity of Brasil. Learning the language, the dances, playing the music and most importantly, getting to know the people. In the process he took almost 2000 images! This exhibit is a small sample of that work. |
| Fiona Morris |
The Meter Maids When Fiona was a child she and her family would head north to Surfers Paradise for their annual family holiday. What stood out in her memory was an image of pretty girls in bikinis and sashes, smiling and towering above her. Dressed in gold bikinis, cowboy hats and stilettos the iconic Gold Coast Meter Maids have been putting money into expired parking meters to stop tourists getting fined since they were introduced in 1965. On April 7 of 2005 they celebrated forty years and Fiona decided to go up and find out what had become of them. |
Void W Richards &
Terry Mathews
Freight Gallery
21 Beach St, Fremantle |
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| FotoFreo Perth Exhibitions |
Anthony Browell
Temple Dog Gallery
301 Onslow Road,
Shenton Park |
Well known Sydney photographer Anthony Browell used his home-made pinhole camera to produce a series of haunting, classical nudes which Lewis Morley has described as "Astonishing, Astounding, Amazing, and Beautiful". Frustrated with the accuracy of the conventional photographic process, Browell turned to the pinhole camera to be rewarded with its great gift of unpredictability. "Working without a viewfinder, there is no guarantee that anything will appear on a negative where you think it should be, and, therefore, there is always the risk that nothing at all will result from a photographic session other than the experience itself. But in fact it is the experience, precisely, which is the essence of this work." Both the photographer and the subject, Rita Horth, were servants to the simplicity of the pinhole process which required long exposures, even in bright sunlight. "As a photographer, in these circumstances, what emerges from these images in the darkroom is a matter of faith, subject to the laws of chance, but which opens up a miracle world of new possibility. |
Roger Garwood
Gallery East
Stirling Hwy,
North Fremantle
10 March - 2 April 2006 |
Landscapes and Cannedscapes In this exhibition, Roger Garwood works with traditional materials and techniques as a voyage through the rural landscape of Western Australia. In particular he shows the barren nature of the Eastern Goldfields pioneered by the original Diggers and their own accidental works of art - cans left to weather and rust, in many cases for well over a century. |
Group Exhibition
Perth Centre for Photography
91 Brisbane St, Perth
March 23 – April 9
Wed - Sun 12 - 5pm |
The Space Between The photographers in this exhibition (and who are also involved in the FotoFreo Fringe project, The Inner Edge) explore the nexus between Fremantle and Perth. The Space Between delves into the inner workings of this zone, with artists approaching the thoroughfares as a void deprived of the life of the two cities. Alongside the artists work will be photographs taken on disposable cameras by randomly selected inhabitants within ‘the space between’. |
Rebecca Ann Hobbs
Johnston Gallery
20 Glyde St,
Mosman Park |
In her first solo exhibition in Perth, Ann Hobbs is submitting a new body of photographic work that presents the idea of falling over and concentrates on the diagonal which correlates with her long-term fixation with the "Corporeal Kodak Moment". |
Tony Nathan
The Church Gallery
452 William St, Northbridge
24th March-21st April
Mon-Fri 12-6pm |
New works - Contemporary Landscapes A new series of works by Tony Nathan featuring landscapes and the
bush of Western Australia, more reminiscent of colour field paintings than traditional landscapes. |
David Dare Parker
Murdoch University Art Collection Gallery
Level 4, Library Bldg
March 17 - May 19
10am - 5pm daily |
Indonesian Transitions The Indonesian Archipelago has it all - extremes of poverty and wealth, corruption, tension, the ethnic and cultural diversity of its people and historic 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. These images reflect this situation. |
Andrew Pritchard
Code Red Photography
24 Brisbane St, Perth |
Retail Landscape Andrew Pritchard’s photographic works explore curious spaces occupied by British out of town shopping centres. These worlds of uniform materials and standardised appearance seem designed to go unnoticed with the architecture and landscape being essentially retail devices. Pritchard says, "it is this space of retail parks that my work tries to explore by photographing the ordinary and mundane, places and things the eye normally skates over without pausing to look. I also try to represent a particular notion of social landscape with which we feel vaguely familiar, yet I hope try to generate a sense of curiosity in the image." |
Miriam Stannage
John Curtin Gallery
Campus of Curtin University
Febuary 9 - April 14 |
A survey exhibition: Since 1989 Stannage has worked on many fronts, principally in photography but also in video, painting, printmaking and sculptural installations. Miriam Stannage’s work exposes the fear that lies below the surface of contemporary life. Crime scenes and acts of terror distort everyday experience, transforming the commonplace into images of danger and dread. In her work over the past twenty years Stannage underscores the fragility of our lives and the potential for the mundane and ordinary to trigger our deepest fears. |
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