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

2006 Festival Photographers

The following Festival Photographers have agreed to participate in
the FotoFreo 2006: City of Fremantle Festival of Photography

Group Exhibitions
Exhibiting Photographers
FotoFreo Fringe
FotoFreo Perth

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Group Exhibitions

Transformations: New Chinese Photography Fremantle Arts Centre March 25 - April 30 10am - 5pm	A group show of 12 of China’s leading contemporary photo artists. The artists are: Shi Guorui (and curator), Shaoyinong and Muchen, Bai Yiluo, Miao Xiaochun, Zeng Li, Jiang Jian, Chang Qing, Qu Yan, Wu Gaozhong, Zhu Hao, Xu Yong, and Zheng Nong. Their exhibition credits range form the Pompidou Centre Paris, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Center of Photography New York to name a few.
1+1=3 Collaboration in Recent British Portraiture Moores Building March 25 - April 25 10am - 5pm	Curated by U.K. author Susan Bright, this show of contemporary British portraiture will explore the ideas of collaboration and the different ways in which that can work. Photographers include: Emma Critchley, Melanie Manchot, Wiebke Leister, Paul Jeff, Sara Haq, and Anna Fox.

Exhibiting Photographers

Emmanuel Angelicas Moores Building March 25 - April 25 10am - 5pm	Born in Sydney, Emmanuel Angelicas spent his childhood in Marrickville and while still young was greatly marked by the death of his father. At the age of six he took up photography and began a story in square black and whites of his family in Greece and Australia. Eventually the family was replaced by the people he shared the streets with in Marrickville. He produced a clear vision of their particular psychology, an 'in your face' sexuality. When Emmanuel Angelicas travels to other cultures he takes Marrickville with him.
Machiel Botman Moores Building March 25 - April 25 10am - 5pm	Machiel Botman’s work has been descibed as autobiographical, mostly black and white, sometimes obscure, intuitive photography – in fact, photography undertaken without much thinking or planning. His work has also been identified as personal, warm, emotional and with people and portraits being an ongoing and dominant theme. A large part of Botman’s exhibited works have been the maquettes he makes for his books and these have featured significantly in his recent exhibitions. Since 1979, Botman has had 25 solo exhibitions and about 40 group exhibitions in France, USA, Australia, Japan, Italy, and in Germany.
Patrick Brown Fremantle Prison March 25 - April 25	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 the region, he has covered stories which have included the drug trade in Thailand and Burma, and the rebel Shan State Army. More recently he has working on a book about the pan-Asian trafficking of endangered animal species.
Daniel Bruyn Fremantle Prison March 25 - April 25	Daniel Bruyn says that he had a fortunate upbringing, born into a hotel family in country New South Wales and where the other ‘businesses’ on the main street were his neighbours. Consequently, he spent a lot of time in workshops and sheds, and saw the ‘back-rooms’ of them all. Daniel says, "I came to love the sights, sounds and smells of their workplaces and still have a great fondness for a well worn shed." Daniel has spent much of his photographic life photographing the sort of people he met in his youth, photographing mostly in black and white.
Antoine d'Agata Moores Building March 25 - April 25 10am - 5pm	Antoine d’Agata (France) is a photographer with Magnum Photos based in Paris. In 1990 an interest in photography lead him to undertake courses at the ICP in New York the same year as Larry Clark and Nan Goldin. Subsequently, he undertook an intern with the Editorial Department at the New York Magnum office from 1991 to 1992. Antoine returned to France in 1993 but between 1993-1996 he put photography aside. Then, in 1998, he published his first book: De mala muerte, distributed by Galerie VU. In 1999, Antoine published his second book, Hometown and in 2001 he was the recipient of the Niépce prize. In September 2003, his exhibition 1001 Nuits opened in Paris and was accompanied by the publication of Vortex and Insomnia. In 2004 he joined Magnum Photos and published the book Stigma. In October 2004 he started shooting of his first short feature film in video, Ventre du Monde.
David Doubilet Maritme Museum, Victoria Quay March 25 - April 25 9:30am - 5pm	David Doubilet (USA) is a National Geographic magazine and internationally acclaimed underwater photographer. David has authored seven books on the sea. The most recent are: Fish Face by Phaidon Publishers (2003), The Kingdom of Coral: Australia’s Great Barrier Reef by National Geographic Books (2002) and Water Light and Time by Phaidon Publishers (1999). He is the recipient of the many prestigious awards, including: The Sara Prize, The Explorers Club Lowell Thomas Award and the Lennart Nilsson Award in Photography. David is a member of both the Royal Photographic Society and International Diving Hall of fame.
Mohamad Iqbal Kulcha March 23 - April 25	Mohamad Iqbal is a freelance photojournalist based in Jakarta. His work is included in many Indonesian and international magazines and newspapers including Tempo Newspaper, Pantau Magazine, Sinar Harapan News Paper, Neo Magazine, Latitudes Magazine, Der Spiegel, and National Geographic. He has exhibited widely throughout Asia and the world.
Douglas Kirkland Maritime Museum, Victoria Quay March 25 - April 25 9:30am - 5pm	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.
Anthony Luvera In windows throughout the streets of Fremantle	Originally from Western Australia, Anthony Luvera is currently based in London. Anthony’s practice is primarily concerned with issues around the construction of documentary representation, reconsidering production methodologies and modes of dissemination for the documentary photography project.
Ricky Maynard Indigenart March 23 - April 9	Aboriginal photographer Ricky Maynard is acknowledged as one of Australia's finest documentary photographers. Over recent years he has produced a series of remarkable images that have provided a clear and compassionate insight into the nature of aboriginality. The images reflect Maynards' commitment to representing his people. These series included: Returning to Places that Name Us (2001) featuring large scale black and white portraits of Wik elders; and No More Than What You See (1994) in which Maynard documented prisoners in a variety of South Australian institutions. In 2003 Ricky Maynard was awarded the Kate Challis RAKA Award for Contemporary Indigenous Arts, the accompanying exhibition, Returning to Places That Name Us, held at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, is currently touring nationally (2004-2006).
Graham Miller Gino's Cafe	Graham Miller (b.1966) is a photographic artist whose work has been exhibited throughout Australia, including the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney, the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, and the Photography Gallery of Western Australia. He lives and works in Fremantle.
Montalbetti + Campbell Fremantle Prison March 25 - April 25	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.
Matthew Sleeth Fremantle Prison March 25 - April 25	Matthew Sleeth is a Melbourne based photographer. His work is widely collected and has been exhibited throughout Australia and in New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Cologne and Berlin. Matthew’s work is held in the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, the National Library of Australia, State Libraries of NSW and Victoria, Monash Gallery of Art, the National Portrait Gallery and various private collections.
Helen Smith Moores Building March 25 - April 25 10am - 5pm	Helen Smith graduated from Curtin University of Technology with honours in 2000, receiving the Outstanding Achievement Award, Graduating Student in Painting. Since then she exhibited extensively, both-large scale, generally monochromatic paintings and photographic work. She has exhibited her photography in Amsterdam and more recently in the exhibition "The Golden Apple" at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art.
Bohdan Warchomij Fremantle Prison March 25 - April 25	After a First Class Honours degree in English Literature and a Diploma of Education from the University of Western Australia, Bohdan Warchomij worked as a teacher before embarking on a career as a photographer in 1988. He has worked as a free lance photographer, in the Western Australian newspaper industry and taught photojournalism at Curtin University. He currently works as a photojournalist in Australia and Eastern Europe. He is also working on a book on the Ukraine that will be published in 2006. Visit his website at www.warchomij.com
Anne Zahalka Maritime Museum March 25 - April 25 9:30am - 5pm	Anne Zahalka is a Sydney based artist who early in her career was the recipient of the Australia Council’s Kunstlerhaus Bethanien studio and stipend in Berlin where she developed her memorable and successful Resemblance series. The National Gallery of Australia acquired works from this series for their exhibition Australian Photography: The 1980’s. Since then her work has been included in numerous exhibitions overseas such as Prospect - Photography in Contemporary Art, Frankfurt Kunstverein, 1996, Photographica Australis at ARCO in Madrid and later toured in Asia in 2003 and Supernatural Artificial which opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo in 2004. Anne Zahalka is represented by the Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney

FotoFreo Fringe

John Austin Greg James Studio J Shed, South Mole	The majority of John Austin's photographic output over the last ten years has been documentation of the destruction and defense of the tattered remnants of the once magnificent Western Australian south-west forests. And this work is ongoing with the continued logging of these ancient forest. Austin's subject areas include karri and jarrah forest, landscapes, forest protest actions, portraits and recently a series of naked performers working high in the forest canopy.
Patrick Baker WA Maritime Museum Cliff Street	Patrick Baker has been a professional photographer since 1963. His speciality is in photography for Maritime Archaeology although his photographic interests and skills are much wider than this. He has been a two times winner in the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition and was picture editor for John Dowson’s superb 2003 book ‘Old Fremantle’. He has been employed at the Western Australian Maritime Museum since 1973, as photographer, film and video make. Patrick has, in fact, been photographer for over 60 expeditions and major projects, recording the natural underwater environment as well as its shipwrecks and is very widely published.
Glen Cowans The Salt Store Gallery Rottnest Island March 25 - April 12
Jay Heifetz Acqua Di Sandrino Restaurant 93 Market Street, Fremantle
Meagan Lewis Japingka Gallery 47 High Street	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.
Adam Monk Finelight Gallery 62 High Street, Fremantle	Adam Monk’s path to becoming a photographer began during his travels through Central and South America and Europe in the early 1990s. In the next 8 years he honed his skills in commercial photography and production, whilst he pursued his passion for photographing Australian landscapes. Adam’s work, which now has a home at Adam Monk Gallery on High St in Fremantle, captures the true essence and unusual beauty of WA’s contrasting landscapes.
Fiona Morris	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.
Void W Richards & Terry Mathews Freight Gallery 21 Beach St Fremantle	Void W. Richards started his career as an illustrative photography but several years ago he started painting and then began to incorporate both mediums together. In this way, Void lays image and paint medium constantly over each other, scoring, scribing and pasting his works together. Terry Mathews takes photographs dealing with themes such as identity and memory, and photographs that fit within the documentary photographic tradition of people such as Walker Evans, Lee Friedlander and Steven Shore.
Site Unseen East workshop Fremantle Prison	Fujifilm Site Unseen 2006 presents an exhibition of the best of Australia’s tertiary photography students. Inaugurating Site Unseen’s first year as a national student competition, two hundred images of exceptional quality were chosen from over a thousand entries. The Site Unseen 06 exhibition will be launched in WA, as part of FotoFreo, at the Fremantle Prison before touring nationally. Fujifilm Site Unseen provides a unique opportunity for tertiary photography students to have their work exhibited and published. The hardcover book of these photographs will be for sale at the exhibition.
The Inner Edge Various venues around Fremantle (See venue map)	Group show from members of the Perth Centre for Photography including: Matt Bedford, Jeremy Blank, Renee Doropoulos, Matthew Goddard-Jones, Mike Gray, Kristine Hellemo, Maree Henry, Thomas Larsen, Adam Lewis, Elle Murray, Daniel Nevin, Marius Nilsen, Karl Ockelford, Katherine Papas, Mahmudal Raz, Sarah Rees, Vicky Sheehy, Kieran Stewart, Talhy Stotzer, Belle Verdiglione, Neil Wallace
WAUPS Cliff Street Gallery, Fremantle Maritime Museum of WA	An exhibition by the WA Underwater Photography Society

FotoFreo Perth

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	Roger Garwood (b. 1945, England) is a photojournalist who emigrated to Australia in 1975. He worked for eleven years on the staff of Paris Match and has worked on assignments for numerous magazines and newspapers. His work is represented in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, the National Library, the National Gallery of Victoria, and The Art Gallery of Western Australia.
Rebecca Ann Hobbs Johnston Gallery 20 Glyde St, Mosman Park	Rebecca Ann Hobbs was born in Townsville, Queensland and has recently moved to Auckland, New Zealand. After receiving the Samstag International Arts Scholarship in 2002, Rebecca travelled to the US and completed a Masters of Fine Art at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia. She has exhibited in numerous shows in Melbourne, Los Angeles, Sydney, Adelaide and Tasmania. In her first solo exhibition in Perth she 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 24^th March-21^st April Mon-Fri 12-6pm	Tony Nathan worked as a professional photographer for 16 years. Has exhibited in Holland and Japan as well as several solo and group shows in Perth and Sydney including Night Visions at the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney and Clouded over at the Lawrence Wilson Gallery (2004). He was winner of the inaugural City of Perth Photomedia award and the Sir Charles Gardiner Hospital award, 2005.
David Dare Parker Murdoch University Art Collection Gallery	Walkley Award winning photojournalist David Dare Parker has been 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 and is currently a director of FotoFreo Inc.
Andrew Pritchard Code Red Photography 24 Brisbane St, Perth	Andrew Pritchard (b.1969) is a photographer based in Perth, Western Australia. Originally from the UK, he gained his Masters degree with distinction in Fine Art and a BA with honours degree in Photography at Staffordshire University. He has worked with ‘Common Culture’ a British group of artists and exhibited in Liverpool, Manchester, London, Portugal and Australia
Miriam Stannage John Curtin Gallery Campus of Curtin University 9/2/06-14/4/06	Miriam Stannage is one of Western Australia’s most influential artists. Since 1989 Stannage has continued to work on many fronts, principally in photography but also in video, painting, printmaking and sculptural installations. Over the past three decades Miriam Stannage has consistently challenged her audience and drawn them along with her in a joint quest to understand the nature of perception and the ways in which our vision constructs the parameters of our world.
The Space Between Perth Centre for Photography Brisbane Street Perth	Group show from members of the Perth Centre for Photography including: Matt Bedford, Jeremy Blank, Renee Doropoulos, Matthew Goddard-Jones, Mike Gray, Kristine Hellemo, Maree Henry, Thomas Larsen, Adam Lewis, Elle Murray, Daniel Nevin, Marius Nilsen, Karl Ockelford, Katherine Papas, Mahmudal Raz, Sarah Rees, Vicky Sheehy, Kieran Stewart, Talhy Stotzer, Belle Verdiglione, Neil Wallace

FotoFreo Photographic Festival