FotoFreo 2008 Fringe Exhibitions

 

The exhibitions listed below are arranged in alphabetical order by the photographer's surname.

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Florence Allain, Colimaçon
Christophe Canato, Un dimanche en famille (a family Sunday)
The Alliance Francaise presents two photographic installations by two Perth resident French photographers, Florence Allain and Christophe Canato. Both artists reveal their sense of France as a response to their expatriation.

Venue: Alliance Francaise, 75 Broadway, Nedlands. April 4-May 4
Launch: Sat 12th April, 5 pm
Open: Mon-Fri: 9am- 7:30 pm, Sat: 8:30am-1 pm.

Arlene Bax
Jiwa (documentary/portraiture)
Jiwa is an exhibition that gives voice to the the orphaned, destitute children and villagers surrounding the ‘Harapan Baru home’ in Noelbaki, West Timor. Portraits and documentary photographs accompanied by the thoughts and feelings of the subjects present a powerful insight into their lives and hopes.
Venue: Harvest Restaurant, 1 Harvest Rd., North Fremantle, April 4 – May 4, Launch: Wed 9 April
Open Tue-Thur 6pm-11pm; Fri: 11am-11pm; Sat: 8am-11pm; Sun: 8am-3pm

Nicole Boenig-McGrade
Love ... Laughter ... Life (soulful portraiture)
Love… Laughter… Life is a black and white photographic print exhibition representing a collection of images celebrating life’s intricate moments – to see what is often overlooked. The collection includes a selection of environmental and contemporary lifestyle portraiture of various age groups in both indoor and outdoor settings.  These photographs have not been premeditated. They are moments that happen anytime anywhere, which often go unnoticed in today’s hectic life.
Venue: The Herdsman, 2 April to 4 May, 8am-8pm daily.
Launch 1 April 8:15pm

 

Luke Briffa
Red & Blue (abstract)
Red & Blue is an exhibition of vivid colour and powerful contrast presented in an environment of exquisite furniture. Luke Briffa confronts his viewers with abstract composition using single, bold colour set on solid black background.
Venue: Brooker Furniture Gallery, 43 High Street, Fremantle, April 1 – 30.
Open Mon-Thu: 10am-5pm; Fri: 10am-8pm; Sat: 10am-4pm; Sun: 11am-3pm

Amanda Brown
The Wild It Was Beautiful
The wild it was beautiful chronicles journeys by Greyhound Bus around America and through Indian country. An immense curiosity of wanting to see the real America, the view through windows, places to stop, the desire to keep moving to see always what could be around the corner and just the total wonderful urge to wander.
Venue: Remedy, 95, High St, Fremantle, 5 April – 4 May, Mon - Sat 9.30-5pm, Sun 12.00-5pm.

Amanda Brown, Natalie Blom, Andrew Kurek
Sky Etching (Skyscapes)
Life has a sense of the contained and the very few look to the skies. Cranes, bridges, buildings, light poles, ships silhouetted against the night and day sky, portraying a depth of beauty and story that is sometimes overlooked against what is viewed through the eye as the perfection of the completed.
Venue: Sohosoho Coffee Bar, 85 High Street, Fremantle, 5 April – 4 May, Mon-Fri: 7am-5pm

Brett Dorron
Unadorned (Fine art nudes)
We are all equals in the nude... The attraction to the art nude is more about the removal of meaning than it is about any established semiotics of the nude. It’s about control … the control of meaning. These images, to me, are about the paring down, or removal of the meanings of the clothes. To clear the canvas, so to speak. A nude can be imbued with gender – or not. It can signify race – or not, but unadorned, in our basic form, we are all equals in the nude. No culture or wealth. No status, occupation, or education. A blank canvas, that basic form, pared down to the individual person. To me that is exciting. A starting point, a simplicity, a purity … from which I can add meaning, like colour to a canvas, to construct narratives of beauty.
Venue: Up on High Photographic Studio and Gallery, 133 High St, Fremantle (upstairs between House and Dymocks), Sunday 6th to Saturday 12th April, 11am-4pm daily.

Caitlin Harrison
Dhal Char
A projection of images taken recently on Dhal Char, a small island in the Bay of Bengal, documenting the day-to-day lives of climate refugees that have lost their land and livelihood due to river erosion. The work focuses on the women and children of the colony.
Venue: ArtSource, Level 1, 8 Phillimore St, Fremantle, 5 April  – 4 May; Monday – Friday 10am – 4pm; Saturday – Sunday 12pm – 4pm
Official launch April 5, 4pm – 6pm

Roel Loopers
A Day in the Life of Fremantle Ports (documentary)
A Day in the Life of Fremantle Ports is a photo-reportage by Roel Loopers that shows the round the clock activity at both the inner harbour in Fremantle and the outer harbour at Kwinana. The port of Fremantle is a vital trading gateway linking Western Australia with the rest of the world. This exhibition shows all the vibrancy and the ever changing face of the port. It is about hands on work and modern technology, from the tiny line boats to the huge container vessels, cruise liners and car carriers. Business at Fremantle Port is 24/7. It never sleeps.
Dutch born Roel Loopers started his career as a press photographer in Germany working for daily newspapers and press agencies, before migrating to Australia in 1982. He established his commercial photo business Profile Photography in Perth in 1984, specialising in mining, corporate, PR, architecture and industrial photography. Roel has extensively exhibited his fine art photography in Australia and Europe in solo and group shows and is represented in many corporate and private collections around the world.
Venue: Fremantle Ports Administration Building, Victoria Quay, April 4 – May 2, Monday – Friday 9:30am – 5pm

Veronica Mauri
Spectral Sightings (documentary/conceptual)
Spectral Sightings is an exploration of the world via a much-loved Polaroid Spectra instant camera. The beauty of this is that each image was pre-conceptualised and revealed almost immediately with the simple press of a button. Pre-production without the added complication of post-production.
Venue: Soto Espresso, 507 Beaufort St Highgate, 5th April-4th May, Daily 7am - late.

Veronica Mauri, Rob McLellan and Julian Tennant
Instant Gratification(Conceptual)
Before the advent of digital photography there was… The Polaroid! Instant Gratification presents the work of photographers who choose the Polaroid as an immediate record of their ideas & space.   It provides a perfect tool for Veronica Mauri whose mantra, “No post production!” means all technical and aesthetic decisions must be decided before pushing the button! Julian Tennant likes the way the film responds to low light and the soft dream-like state produced by a ‘cheap’ low-tech lens. For Rob Maclellan, it is his visual diary, documenting the physical and emotional world.
Venue: Vultures Restaurant, Cnr Francis & William St., Northbridge, 5 April – 4 May, Open 7 days, 8am till late.

Jacqui Moran
Remembering 9/11 (Reportage)
Jacquie Moran had been recently living in the USA where, amongst other artistic concerns, she became very aware of the conspiracy theories regarding the American Government seemingly felt by much of the US population. She witnessed great passion surrounding these theories at a number of events she photographed, including the 5th Anniversary of September 11 in New York City 2006. These images comprise her ‘Remembering 9/11’ Series at FotoFreo08.
Venue: Ginos Cafe, 1 South Terrace, Fremantle, 5 April – 4 May, 6am – late, daily.

Dale Neill
Freo Faces (portaiture)
Freo Faces is about people who live, work and play in Fremantle: some famous, some infamous, some just ordinary and lovable but all real images of real people. Dale Neill at his best.
Venue: Tasty Express, 310 South Tce, South Fremantle, 5 April to 4 May, 7am-3pm daily (closed Sun)

Dale Neill
Shimmy with Salome
Dale Neill has been photographing belly dancers in Western Australia for many years. He captures the erotic and exotic with the beauty and style of this Egyptian and Turkish performance. According to Dale, "There’s nothing complicated about bellydancing. Its simple, natural, joyful and loving. There’s no secret women’s business here. And there’s nothing too complicated about my photography. There are no hidden messages or meanings. All I’m doing is, hopefully, capturing the essence of the dancer."
Perhaps the final say is from that famous belly dancer, Emma Boulton, “If I can’t dance, I don’t want your revolution”
X-Wray Cafe is sponsoring Sheik to Sheik to provide Belly Dancing at selected times during FotoFreo.
Official opening and Bellydancing at X-Ray Café 7pm Friday, April 11.
Venue: X-Wray Cafe, 3-13 Essex Street, Fremantle, 5 April to 4 May, 7 am to 6 pm Sun  to Wed. 7 am till late Thu, Fri., Sat.

Dale Neill
Hunters aren’t Cooks
Hunters aren’t Cooks is a series of eclectic, fine-art images that pay tribute to Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908 - 2004) and the art of image manipulation within the camera rather than in the computer.
Venue: Il Cappricio, 390 South Tce, South Fremantle, 5 April to 4 May, 7am-5pm daily.

Janette Newman
Swan Reflections (Abstract landscapes)
A visual exploration of reflections and the Swan River which gives viewers an opportunity to explore the world of colour and light. When walking beside a river or lake our attention is usually drawn to what is on it or beside it, reflections come and go and are perhaps not even noticed.  Swan Reflections is a selection of images providing opportunity to explore how water, colour and light can interact. Each image is a moment in time, influenced by the tide, time of day, the breeze, the weather and the abundance of subject matter found when walking along the Swan River in East Fremantle.
Venue: Sandcastle Organic Restaurant, 396 South Tce, South Fremantle, opening April 8 through to 4th May, Tuesday to Sunday from 6pm – late, Saturday to Sunday 8am -1pm.

Photographers in Perth (PIP)
Worn with Pride (group show)
Worn with Pride is a photographic tribute to the men and women who have served in the Australian Armed Forces, which honours their contribution in war and peace. Focusing on the theme of mateship, courage and sacrifice, the exhibition is an interpretation of the theme by the online Flickr group, Photographers In Perth.
Venue: Wyola Club, 81 High, Fremantle; 5 Apr – 4 May, 12pm – 6pm daily

Heather Reading & Bo Janmaat
Blue Skies, Red Steel (Documentary)
The idea for this exhibition was promted by a statement found sprayed on a side walk of Fremantle's High Street, "The Wild I Tell You Was Beautiful". In their photographs, Heather Reading and Bo Janmaat relate this statement to their subject: the Fremantle Ports, both from their own and very different perspective. The result is an exhibition with pairs of images which stretch from 'no way back' confrontation to visual poetry.  
Venue: L2 Cafe, 2 Market Street, Fremantle, 1 to 20 April, Sun to Tue: 7am - 5 pm, Wed to Sat: 7am – late.

 

Janelle Ryan
Ta’ala mae (Documentary)
Ta’ala mae (come with me), is a collection of images taken during travels through Syria and across the border to Beirut in the last months of 2006. The images look at another culture in a familiar way. Janelle Ryan says of her exhibition, "This is in opposition to the images we usually see, imbued with agenda that the newsroom sends home. Suffering from an endless restlessness that only travel seems to cure, photography allows me an outlet to explore into places I would feel no reason to be in otherwise. My only intentions are to photograph what I see and whom I meet along the way. Travel has always been an important focus to seek influence and experience and to remove myself from the mindlessness that we always seem to find ourselves in."
Venue: Little Creatures Brewery - Upstairs Gallery, 40 Mews Road, Fremantle Opening Monday 7th April at 6:30pm, until Saturday 27th April 2008, Weekdays 10am – midnight, weekends 9am – midnight

Jennifer Schulz
Understanding China
Having lived in China for 17months Schulz presents China to us in a way that only personal attachment can:  the eyewitness of a sky burial, climbing 10,000 steps and traversing the country from north, south, east and west.  Using both images and words Understanding China takes us from the diversity of cities to the rural countryside where a ‘small provincial town’ has a population of five million people.  In Understanding China, Schulz captures the Chinese people through the lens with a naturalness that defines an open and honest photographic style that also flows through in the images that give us an understanding of the unique Chinese culture and its history.
Venue: Plaza Imaging - Epson Gallery, 120 Beaufort St, Northbridge  29th March to 12th April. Monday to Friday 8.30am – 5.30pm.  Saturday: 9am – 1pm.

Kamma Jade Spring
When I Turned Around
A study of texture and form in rural China, ‘When I Turned Around’ is an intimate glance into the environments of those living on the north eastern foothills of the Tibetan plateau. From torn notices plastered across street lights to weary pilgrims spinning prayer wheels, photographer Kamma Jade Spring has captured images that celebrate the beauty inherent to the ‘mundane’, the small often overlooked fragments of our daily surroundings which together construct our worlds.
Venue: Little Creatures – Loft, 40 Mews Road, Fremantle, 4 April – 4 May, 10 am to midnight weekdays, 9 am to midnight weekends.

Fiona Stokes
Never End Peace and Love (Reportage)
Irish born Fiona Stokes spent the early part of 2007 in Nepal, where she captures these images. Using a Holga camera (an inexpensive Chinese medium format camera) and 120mm film, she set out to capture the tranquility, peace and love of the land and its people, despite the hardships endured in daily life. Printed on silk and hung as a large scroll, the presentation has been influenced by Buddhist Thangka scrolls.
Venue: Merchant Teahouse, 17 South Terrace, Fremantle, April 5 - 30, daily, 7am to midnight.

WA Camera Clubs
Eye Populi
An eclectic and surprising exploration of the way the world is perceived and interpreted by people who do not have to make their photographs conform to the requirements of others. The exhibition features a display of creative works, allowing the authors to express abstract notions interpretively. Photography has moved far beyond its origins as a mere objective record. John Citizen is artistically empowered!
Venue: The Epson Gallery (at Plaza Imaging)
120 Beaufort st (cnr Aberdeen), Northbridge
14 April 2008 to 4 May 2008 inclusive
Open Monday to Friday: 9:00am - 5:00pm; Saturday: 9:30am - 12:30pm

WA Underwater Photographic Society (WAUPS)
Sealife in Sequence (Nature)
Sealife in Sequence, presented by the WA Underwater Photographic Society shows the diversity of marine life from around the world. All major groups from seaweeds to mammals are represented in a diverse range of stunning images that will entrance divers and land dwellers alike.
Venue: Naturaliste Marine Discovery Centre, 39, Northside Drive, Hillarys. 4 March – 2 May,
Launch: 4th March, Open Monday 7 days 10am - 4pm. (closed public holidays).

 

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