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Archived FotoFreo 2006 webpage. See also the FotoFreo 2008 website.
2006 FESTIVAL SPEAKERS
The following Festival Speakers have accepted an
invitation to participate
as part of the FotoFreo 2006 festival
Conference Speakers | Seminar Speakers | Forum Speakers
| Lectures | Presentations
The FotoFreo 2006
Conference will be held in the Drill Hall at the University of Notre Dame
Australia, Mouat Street on Saturday the 25th of March
Shahidul Alam
(Bangladesh)
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Shahidul Alam’s photographs and articles have been
published in leading media outlets like Time Magazine, Newsweek, The New York Times, The
Guardian, The Observer, Liberation, Paris Match and The New Straits Times. Alam founded
Drik Picture Library in 1989, the Bangladesh Photographic Institute in 1990, Pathshala,
the South Asian Institute of Photography in 1998, Meghbarta , Bangladesh’s first
webzine in 1999, Chobi Mela, the first festival of photography in Asia in 2000 and
Bangladesh Human Rights Network in 2001. Shahidul has been a jury member of numerous
international photographic competitions including World Press Photo where he has been a
judge on four occasions, Alam was the first non-western chairperson in World Press
Photo’s history. He was awarded the Andrea Frank Foundation Award and the Howard
Chapnick Award in 1998 and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society. A
prominent social activist Alam is also a promoter of new media and has lectured and
published widely on photography, new media and education, in the USA, Europe, Africa,
Asia, Australia and Latin America. He is currently involved in setting up a regional
centre for investigative journalism and public information access booths in Bangladesh. |
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Susan Bright
(United Kingdom)
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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. 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 recently published in five languages by Thames and Hudson.
She recently programmed a series of National conferences around the history of British
Photography and is currently working on an event in Olso to bring together leading
practitioners, writers and theorists to discuss the role of video in photographic
practice. Recent and current curatorial projects include exhibitions for The London
Library (2005) and the National Portrait Gallery (2007). |
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Sandy Edwards
(Australia)
Conference speaker |
Sandy Edwards is a leading documentary photographers and
her images have been widely published. Her photographic work reflects a commitment to the
portrayal of women and Aboriginal issues. Her best known work Paradise is a Place is
an evocative black and white series about a young girl's growth to adulthood set on the
far south coast of NSW. This highly successful exhibition was published by Random House
with an accompanying story by Gillian Mears. Her series Welcome to Brewarrina, is
an intimate portrait of the Aboriginal community in the NSW country town of Brewarrina.
Her work is held in collections at the Art Gallery of NSW, Parliament House Canberra and
the National Gallery of Australia. Sandy Edwards is also the curator of two major
photographic public art programs - Sydney Airport 2000 Art Project with Linda Slutzkin,
and Sydney Looking Forward, part of AMP and Sydney City Council's project Art & About.
Sandy Edwards is currently a co-director of the Still Gallery in Sydney |
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Alasdair Foster
(Australia)
Conference Convenor
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Alasdair Foster is director of the Australian
Centre for Photography, Sydney - Australia’s longest running
contemporary art space - and Managing Editor of Photofile magazine. He was formerly
the founding director of Fotofeis, the award-winning international biennale of
photo-based art in Scotland. Born in the UK in 1954 he has a hybrid background in
photography, physics, history and film and has worked as an artist, curator, writer and
commercial photographer. |
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Mark Haworth-Booth
(United Kingdom) |
Mark Haworth-Booth (UK) is Visiting Professor of
Photography at University of the Arts London and Honorary Research Fellow at the V&A
as well as a regular contributor to The Art Newspaper, Aperture and History of
Photography. Mark worked at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, from 1970 until 2004,
serving as senior curator of photographs from 1977-2004. He has curated many photographic
exhibitions, beginning with The Compassionate Camera: Dustbowl Pictures (1973)
– the first UK exhibition devoted to the US Farm Security Administration. He
published a history of the V&A photography collection, Photography: An Independent
Art in 1997. Mark Haworth-Booth retired from the V&A in August 2004. His next
book, Things: A Spectrum of Photography 1850-2001, will be published by the V&A
in association with Jonathan Cape in March 2005. He is curating a centenary retrospective
of Lee Miller’s photographs for the V&A (2007). |
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François Hébel
(France) |
François Hébel is the current director of the Arles Renconres de la Photographie - the
oldest, most famous and arguably the most important photographic festival in the world.
François Hébel is also a past director of Magnum Photos Paris and Magnum Photos
International. |
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Graham Howe
(USA) |
Graham Howe is the principal of Curatorial Assistance, a creative arts
organisation that brings cultural exhibitions and art-related services to clients and
audiences worldwide. Curatorial Assistance creates, produces, and manages art exhibitions
and art-related projects from concept to completion. Since 1987 the organisation has
collaborated with over 4,000 museums, galleries, arts institutions, corporations, and
private clients worldwide, helping them realise their exhibition projects including the
Museum of Modern Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery of
Australia, Canberra; and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. |
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Prof Stephen Muecke
(Aus) |
Stephen Muecke holds a personal Chair in Cultural Studies
in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney. He has
research interests in Indian Ocean Cultural Studies, the popular Captain Cook and
Indigenous Australian Studies, focussing on Aboriginal Literature, and the Kimberley
region of North-West Australia. Stephen has published extensively as an author, co-author,
editor and is currently a co-editor of the Cultural Studies Review published by University
of Melbourne. In 2003 Professor Stephen Muecke and the photographer Max Pam made a one
month field trip to Madagascar where they both worked on the idea of how the contingency
of their presence skewed, modified and amplified every aspect of their contact with the
people and the culture. The results are to be published as a book of text and photos
titled Contingency in Madagascar in France, 2006. |
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Gael Newton
(Australia) |
Gael Newton was appointed Senior Curator of Photography in
charge of Australian and International Photography at the National Gallery of Australia in
early 1999. She previously held the positions of Curator of Australian Photography and
Visiting Curator Bicentennial Photography Project at the NGA and from 1974-1985 was the
foundation curator of photography at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Gael has curated
many exhibitions - chiefly on Australian photography both historical and contemporary,
and in the past 2 years several international photography exhibitions including the
Natural Causes exhibition. She is the author of the standard reference work on the
history of Australian photography; Shades of Light: Photography and Australia 1838-1988
and monographs on Australian photographers; Harold Cazneaux, Max Dupain, John Kauffmann
and Tracey Moffatt. |
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The FotoFreo 2006 Seminar on Portrait Photography
will be held in the theatrette at the new Maritime Museum of Western Australia on Victoria
Quay on Saturday the 1st of April and repeated again the following day, Sunday the 2nd of
April.
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. |
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Susan Bright
(United Kingdom)
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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. 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 recently published in five languages by Thames and Hudson.
She recently programmed a series of National conferences around the history of British
Photography and is currently working on an event in Olso to bring together leading
practitioners, writers and theorists to discuss the role of video in photographic
practice. Recent and current curatorial projects include exhibitions for The London
Library (2005) and the National Portrait Gallery (2007). |
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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. |
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Sandra Byron
(Australia)
Forum keynote speaker |
Sandra Byron is an independent curator and writer and a
Director of the Sandra Byron Gallery, a commercial gallery in Sydney. Byron has played a
leading role in advancing the cause of photography in the Museum field in Australia and in
the development and advancement of photography in the fine art photography market in
Australia. Byron founded the commercial gallery, Byron Mapp Gallery which opened in
Paddington in 1995. She had spent the previous thirteen years as Curator of Photography at
The Art Gallery of New South Wales. Sandra Byron has also worked as a specialist for
Bonhams Auction House, and has played a major role in encouraging philanthropy and
managing business arts partnerships including setting up programs for The National Gallery
of Australia’s Photography Circle, The Photography Collection Benefactors Scheme at
the Art Gallery of New South Wales and for Campbelltown Bicentennial Art Gallery. She is a
member of AIPAD (Association of Independent Photography Art Dealers) the ACGA (Australian
Commercial Galleries Association) and a valuer for the Cultural Gifts program. |
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Sandy Edwards
(Australia)
Conference speaker |
Sandy Edwards is a leading documentary photographers and
her images have been widely published. Her photographic work reflects a commitment to the
portrayal of women and Aboriginal issues. Her best known work Paradise is a Place is
an evocative black and white series about a young girl's growth to adulthood set on the
far south coast of NSW. This highly successful exhibition was published by Random House
with an accompanying story by Gillian Mears. Her series Welcome to Brewarrina, is
an intimate portrait of the Aboriginal community in the NSW country town of Brewarrina.
Her work is held in collections at the Art Gallery of NSW, Parliament House Canberra and
the National Gallery of Australia. Sandy Edwards is also the curator of two major
photographic public art programs - Sydney Airport 2000 Art Project with Linda Slutzkin,
and Sydney Looking Forward, part of AMP and Sydney City Council's project Art & About.
Sandy Edwards is currently a co-director of the Still Gallery in Sydney |
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Mark Haworth-Booth
(United Kingdom)
Forum convenor |
Mark Haworth-Booth (UK) is Visiting Professor of
Photography at University of the Arts London and Honorary Research Fellow at the V&A
as well as a regular contributor to The Art Newspaper, Aperture and History of
Photography. Mark worked at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, from 1970 until 2004,
serving as senior curator of photographs from 1977-2004. He has curated many photographic
exhibitions, beginning with The Compassionate Camera: Dustbowl Pictures (1973)
– the first UK exhibition devoted to the US Farm Security Administration. He
published a history of the V&A photography collection, Photography: An Independent
Art in 1997. Mark Haworth-Booth retired from the V&A in August 2004. His next
book, Things: A Spectrum of Photography 1850-2001, will be published by the V&A
in association with Jonathan Cape in March 2005. He is curating a centenary retrospective
of Lee Miller’s photographs for the V&A (2007). |
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Graham Howe
(USA) |
Graham Howe is the principal of Curatorial Assistance, a creative arts
organisation that brings cultural exhibitions and art-related services to clients and
audiences worldwide. Curatorial Assistance creates, produces, and manages art exhibitions
and art-related projects from concept to completion. Since 1987 the organisation has
collaborated with over 4,000 museums, galleries, arts institutions, corporations, and
private clients worldwide, helping them realise their exhibition projects including the
Museum of Modern Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery of
Australia, Canberra; and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. |
Robert McFarlane
(Sydney) |
In his more than 40 year career in photography, Robert
McFarlane has concerned himself primarily with social issues, with a long, but
intermittent involvement with the Aboriginal community and the disabled. McFarlane has
also extensively documented the world of performance in Australian Film and Theatre since
1980.
McFarlane's approach has consistently used the grammar of photojournalism to get as close
as possible to his subject - intellectually, spiritually, emotionally and, where
necessary, physically. His objective is to achieve an intimate level of understanding of
the images he creates. W. Eugene Smith once stated, in a 1973 NY interview with McFarlane,
that "he doubted any objective truth in his pictures," adding a phrase with
which McFarlane agrees, that "photographs (can) provide a paper-thin evidence of a
fragment of the truth." |
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Anne O’Hehir
(Canberra) |
Anne O’Hehir is Assistant Curator of Photography at
the National Gallery of Australia. She has studied art history, specialising in 12th
century Italian architecture, travelled in Europe, came back and hosted a radio program on
the arts and has had her own photographs included in a number of exhibitions. She has
written articles on photography and curated exhibitions at the NGA, most recently a survey
show around WH Fox Talbot’s Pencil of Nature. She has just been on a trip to
India where she researched photography with the aim of building the collection in that
area, as well as working on a project with photographer Robyn Beeche in Vrindavan. |
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Anne Marsh
(Melbourne) |
Dr. Anne Marsh is Associate Professor in Theory of Art
& Design in the Faculty of Art & Design at Monash University. Her research areas
include: photography, performance art, feminism, postmodernism and psychoanalysis. She is
author of Body and Self: Performance Art in Australian, 1969-1992 (Oxford
University Press, 1993), The Darkroom: Photography and the Theatre of Desire
(Macmillan, 2003) and numerous articles and exhibition catalogue essays on contemporary
Australian art and photography. Her essays have been translated into French, German and
Spanish. |
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Tim Page
(Brisbane) |
Renowned British photojournalist Tim Page travels back to the
land where he nearly lost his life to meet with North Vietnamese war photographers,
revealing remarkable, never-before-seen photos and personal stories long hidden by time
and tragedy.
Page went everywhere and covered everything. He found himself in Vietnam photographing the
first and last war with no censorship. In 1967 he covered the Six Day War in the Middle
East. His images were used by Time-Life, Paris Match, UPI and AP. Wounded four times; Page
is the recipient of 10 Awards, subject of many documentaries, two films and author of nine
books |
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Michael Coyne
(Melbourne) |
For the past 25 years Michael Coyne has travelled throughout the world
working as a photojournalist. He has covered wars, revolutions and international events in
places such as Indonesia, the Philippines, East Timor, Central Africa and Latin America.
He also spent eight years in the Middle East documenting the rise of Islamic
fundamentalism, the Iranian Revolution, the Iran/Iraq war and in-depth stories on the PLO,
including reporting on the life of Chairman Yasser Arafat. His assignments have appeared
in magazines such as Newsweek, Life, Time, National Geographic, German Geo, and the London
Observer.
He has published a number of successful and award winning books including his latest People
Photography (2005) by Lonely Planet. Michael will present a compelling
presentation of his vivid images, offering a fascinating insight into the life of one of
Australia's most respected photojournalists. |
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