FotoFreo 2010 e-Newsletter
Issue 1: 18 April 2009
Mark the date - FotoFreo 2010
Get out your diaries – FotoFreo 2010: The City of Fremantle Festival of Photography will take place from March 20th to April 18th 2010!
The official Festival opening party will be on the evening of Friday the 19th March at the Fremantle Arts Centre. We are finalizing the programme as we speak and will hold a Programme and Media Launch in late October. Stay informed by reading our newsletters as it’s the one place for the latest FotoFreo info.
It is also worth noting that the success of FotoFreo 2008 has resulted in the Festival being recognized as an important cultural event by the City of Fremantle and Eventscorp and who have agreed to provide substantial additional funding for the 2010 event. This new funding will enable the organisers to engage professional staff, support significant Festival programmes and undertake comprehensive national and international marketing of the event.
Enjoy the dispatch,
Editor
Fringe Opening at Kurb Gallery, FotoFreo 2008
Photo by Seng Mah
FotoFreo 2010 Fringe Festival - Call for Submissions
It’s that time of year again! Do you want to be part of FotoFreo? Exhibit at the Fringe Festival!
Over the last few Festivals the FotoFreo Fringe Festival has been steadily growing and has truly come into its own. In 2008 there were a total of 59 exhibitions in 49 separate venues involving 71 photographers, our biggest Fringe Festival yet.
The Fringe exhibitions take place in Perth, Fremantle and other metropolitan venues during FotoFreo. The Fringe Festival showcases the works of emerging and established photographers in a range of venues including galleries, community centres, studios, restaurants, cafes, pubs and retail stores. Venues from the last Fringe Festival included establishments as diverse as The Little Creatures Loft in Fremantle, The Harvest Restaurant in North Fremantle, the Naturaliste Marine Discovery Centre in Hillarys, Soto Cafe in Highgate and the Kurb Gallery in Northbridge.
Our dedicated Fringe committee has been hard at work vetting new venues and getting ready for what we hope will be an onslaught of applications! If you’re an overseas or interstate photographer we would like to particularly encourage you to apply – the Fringe Committee can assist you with finding a venue.
Keep your eyes peeled for the very eye catching Fringe poster and flyers to hit the streets of Perth and Fremantle very shortly…
For full details about the Fringe Festival and how to apply click here.
FotoFreo Safari 2010
See Australia’s magnificent south west with fresh photographic eyes. Join two of Australia’s experienced photographers, Dale Neill and Greg Hocking, on a unique photographic adventure.
The FotoFreo Safari 2010 will take place immediately before the opening of FotoFreo 2010, departing Fremantle on Sunday March 14 and returning on Thursday the 18th (5 days and 4 nights). Register your interest now at safari@fotofreo.com. When registering please indicate where you are based.
Where have the 2008 shows gone to? A quick update
Have you ever wondered what happens when a show gets taken down at the end of FotoFreo? A lot of our international exhibitions don’t head straight homeand instead go on an Australian journey, travelling to other venues in the country.
Robert Pledge, Edward Burtynsky and Paolo Pellegrin
at the WAM opening, FotoFreo 2008
Photo by Brad Rinmer
Two of our partners have been the Australian Centre for Photography (ACP) and the Brisbane Powerhouse.
Following FotoFreo 2008 the Hijacked show, Marian Drew and Denis Darzacq were exhibited at the ACP. Our key exhibition and commissioned work by Edward Burtynsky Australian Minescapes will open at the ACP in July for what is scheduled to be a big show.
In Brisbane, the Powerhouse welcomed both Paolo Pellegrin’s work As I Was Dying and Jodi Bieber’s Las Canas.
The upcoming Ballarat Foto Biennale will be exhibiting two of our 2008 photographers with core shows by Chen Nong and Mindaugas Kavaliauskas.
We hope to keep forging ties with like minded organizations in the rest of Australia to continue touring FotoFreo shows which in many cases are being exhibited in Australia for the first time. Just remember where you saw it first!
Burtynsky exhibition at the WAM, FotoFreo 2008
Photo by Brad Rimmer
Australian Minescapes by Edward Burtynsky
A major new initiative for FotoFreo 2008 was the commissioning of new photography by the internationally renowned Canadian photographer, Edward Burtynsky, who during 2007 came to Western Australia to photograph in the Eastern Goldfields and Pilbara. The series of commissioned photographs entitled Australian Minescapes and exhibited at the Maritime Museum during FotoFreo 2008 was generously donated by Edward to the Western Australian Museum. This was done on the understanding that the photographs would tour and that there would be a book published.
The Museum has advised that the book is currently being prepared in time for the first showing of the work at the Australian Centre for Photography in July this year. Other touring venues in the eastern states are yet to be announced.
FotoFreo 2008 - A few numbers
Core shows: 31 venues, 26 solo shows, 5 group shows, 19 venues; Fringe shows: 59 exhibitions, 49 venues, 71 photographers – a total of 90 exhibitions in 68 venues. In addition there were 2 audio visual projections, 1 conference, 1 seminar, 8 informal lectures and presentations, 2 book launches, 6 workshops, 9 floor talks and a film screening.
All of this involved 68,000 visitors and a total spend of $610,000.
End Note
Exhibition news
Transient States will be open at the Lawrence Wilson Gallery on 10th May 2009. The exhibition presents “a range of creative responses to the urban landscape of Perth, a city whose physical fabric appears to be in a state of continual and often radical transition”. Eleven Perth based photographers will be featured in the group show examining “their sustained meditation on place, memory, and collective and individual identity”.
The photographers include - Kevin Ballantine, Rebecca Dagnall, Eva Fernandez, Karin Gottschalk, Michael Gray, Mark MacPherson, Graham Miller, Tony Nathan, Max Pam, Juha Tolonen, Toni Wilkinson.
The Lawrence Wilson Gallery is at The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA, Australia 6009 Dates -10/5/09 – 12/7/09
Artist talk
Head down to the Perth Centre of Photography this Sunday 19th April at 2pm – exhibiting photographer Grace McKenzie will talk about her work The Last Residents and the floor will be open for discussion. Entry is free.
The Perth Centre for Photography is at 91 Brisbane Street, Perth WA, Australia 6000
Workshop news
The Australian Institute of Professional Photography (AIPP) is holding their Mini-Merits & Judges Workshop on 12th and 14th May 2009 in Northbridge, Perth. Need some feedback on your images? This is a great opportunity especially for students and new/emerging members to be ‘eased’ into the professional judging process. More info...
Technical corner
Are you after a graphics' tablet? Team Digital invites you to a one on one demonstration of Wacom's newest products and how they can improve your creativity and productivity.
Demonstrations will take place from May 11th to 15th at Team Digital, 268 Lord St, Perth, WA, Australia 6000 Tel - 93283377
Ballarat International Foto Biennale (BIFB 09)
BIFB 09 is a month long festival of photography staged at multiple venues across Ballarat and the Hepburn Shire in Victoria. BIFB 09 will comprise of more than 120 separate photographic events, including exhibitions, seminars, audio visual projections, workshops, portfolio reviews, and special events. It will take place between Friday 4 September 2009 and Sunday 4 October 2009.
FotoFreo on Facebook
We now have a Facebook group so we’re inviting you all to come and become members and tell all your friends about it!
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