FotoFreo Update: 16 March, 2012

By the time you open up this newsletter there will be only one month to go until the opening of FotoFreo 2012: The City of Fremantle Festival of Photography.

In fact, things are starting to happen this week.

On Friday night, Hijacked III will be launched at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA) in the Perth Cultural Centre. Proceedings commence at 6.00 pm. You do have to let them know if you are attending, by emailing invite@pica.org.au. Hijacked III will run through the Festival until 8^th of April and is a part of the Festival core programme. During the first week of the actual Festival, one of the curators of Hijacked III, Louise Clements, will be out from the UK and speaking about the UK component of the exhibition.

There are quite a few book launches expected to occur during the Festival and to accompany Festival exhibitions. If you are a part of the Open Exhibition Programme and planning to launch a book relating to your exhibition, let us know and we will include it on the Bookshop page of the FotoFreo website.

The Martin Parr book, NO WORRIES, will be launched at the opening of the exhibition, No Worries: Martin Parr, and signed copies purchased pre-publication for the amazing price of only $55 (only until March 16^th) can be collected from the exhibition venue. So buy your copy now.

IMAGE: Book cover No Worried: Martin Parr

A reminder to keeping checking the FotoFreo Workshop Programme. A new workshop to be listed in the next few days is a Dance Photography workshop. Others are still in the pipeline. Click here to see the current list of workshop programmes.

Even at this late stage we are still looking for volunteers to join the Nikon Volunteer Programme. The volunteers had their first meeting last weekend and it was great to see so many people from the last festival and even some from many festivals ago.

Finally, it is very important to register on the FotoFreo website, especially if you are coming from interstate or overseas, as there are great discounts from our sponsoring accommodation provider the Esplanade Hotel.

Fair Game by Eric Bridgeman

The exhibition ‘Fair Game’ surveys Bridgeman’s photographic and video practice from the beginning of his professional career in 2008 to the present. Photographic portraiture and performance-for-video have been the primary areas of focus in his short career, although throughout the years he has also developed and produced works in the fields of live performance, sculpture, installation and painting.

Bridgeman’s Australian and Papua New Guinean heritage has been a constant driving force behind his practice; two nations of extreme difference that have motivated his interests in social and cultural critique.

The title ‘Fair Game’ has been chosen to summarise his practice to date, using satire and humour as a way of responding to real and experienced scenarios of hyper tension, predominantly in matters of race, sexuality, cultural performance and representation.

Fair Game is showing at the Fremantle Arts Centre