Issue 14- January 26- 2012

FotoFreo Update: January 2012

FotoFreo 2012 is approaching fast and so, a few important announcements and reminders.

FotoFreo has extended the deadline for the WA Life photographic competition until midnight of Sunday, 5^th of February. There is a prize pool of $10,000 and a first prize of $5,000 cash.

Places in the Magnum Workshops, with Magnum photographers Antoine D’Agata, Trent Parke and Donovan Wylie as workshop leaders, are filling and if you are considering coming to FotoFreo for that event we urge you to make your booking now.

Applications close on 6^th of February. The cost of tuition is £800, plus VAT which is about AUS$1,200, but does not include travel, accommodations or ‘on the ground’ expenses. You can book by clicking here.

More details can be obtained from the FotoFreo website.

Also, a reminder that applications for the Magnum Scholarships to attend the Magnum Workshops for three Western Australian photographers closes next Tuesday, 31^st of January, at 5:00 p.m. WST. These scholarships are supported by the WA Department for Culture and the Arts. For more details, click here.

FotoFreo is also pleased to announce that a book entitled No Worries by Martin Parr about the recently completed photographic project undertaken by Martin in Western Australia for FotoFreo will be published and available during the Festival. The exhibition No Worries: Martin Parr will be held at the WA Maritime Museum on Victoria Quay and Martin will be in attendance. Details of the book and advanced purchases at an attractive pre- publication discount will be announced shortly.

And we are still in need of volunteers. To volunteer click here. For those who have already signed up we are now planning the Orientation Day for Sunday, 12^th of February.

Finally, if you are coming to the Festival, especially from interstate or overseas, we urge you to Register to get Mates Rates for ticketed events and other benefits. To Register click here.

Fremantle Markets Project

The Fremantle Markets are an iconic destination in Fremantle and have a history of change, upheaval, revival and survival. The Fremantle Markets Project, a FotoFreo 2012 photographic project, marks a summer in its history through the eyes of WA photographer, Bo Wong.

Rather than focussing on the objects for sale, the project is a meditation on the quiet, quirky objects and spaces that make this peripheral visual feast. Outside the historic walls of the markets, Bo Wong photographs people emerging into the hard, unmistakeable West Australian light from the cool inner sanctum of the Fremantle Markets.

An exhibition of the photographs from this project will be shown at the Fremantle Markets during the Festival hanging from the roof in The Shed and in The Yard. This will be a must see event

Supporters of this FotoFreo project include the Fremantle Markets and Camera Electronic.

FotoFreo Workshops

More FotoFreo workshops have been included in the programme. The workshops on offer for 2012 include:

Vintage Glamour Photography, by David Woolley on Tuesday, 27 March
Introduction to Underwater Photography, by Glen Cowens on Wednesday, 28 March
Photographing Children, by Craig Cooper, on Saturday, 31 March
Natural Light Walking Tour, by Shareen Vantull, on Saturday, 31 March
The Art of Landscape Photography, by Christian Fletcher on Wednesday, 4 April
Lomography, by Yolanda Stapleton, on Saturday, 7 April
The Studio Nude, by Seng Mah, Friday, 13 April

For full details of these courses and to make bookings go to the FotoFreo website by clicking here.

Richard and Famous

Richard Simpkin is, unashamedly and in his own words, a “celeb snapper” and a “star hunter”.

Simpkin’s exhibition, Richard and Famous, consists of a 1000-strong archive of images stretching back to 1989 (when he was 15) and in which Richard has managed to contrive to have himself photographed with many of the worlds celebrities from all works of life and over a long period of time – Michael Hutchence, Boris Becker, Posh Spice, Michael Jackson, Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama and the list goes on.

But this exhibition is as much about Simpkin’s own life as it is about the changing world of popular culture, the people that inhabit it and the western world’s preoccupation with it.

It is a bit cheeky and there is an underlying sense of humour and this makes Richard and Famous an exhibition to be enjoyed and is showing at the Fremantle Arts Centre.