FotoFreo Update- 30 March, 2012

The main Festival events are now over and most of our overseas and interstate guests have returned home. However, there are quite a few FotoFreo workshops yet to take place so there is still good reason to check out the workshop programme to see what is on offer.

FutureGen 2012

FutureGen is a collaborative project between FotoFreo and the Pingyao International Festival of Photography (PIP). It involves the selection of the best work from recent graduates and undergraduates from Australian and Chinese schools of photography and a joint exhibition of their work. The exhibition is at the John Curtin Gallery at Curtin University.

FotoFreo 2012 was the inaugural exhibition for this project.

The exhibition includes the work of 10 Chinese students chosen by PIP and two of these students, Wang Chao and Ning Ziran along with PIP Deputy Director Cui Jun, were invited to FotoFreo as guests of the Festival.

Of the 24 nominees chosen by the 12 Australian teaching institutions that took part in the FutureGen 2012 exhibition, the images from the following 10 nominees were selected by Sam Stourdzé (Director of the Musee d’Elysee in Lausanne, Switzerland, a museum and gallery devoted entirely to photography), for showing in Pingyao:

Paul Batt, Monash 

Jeremy Collins, ANU 

Giles Crook, RMIT 

Joseph Landro, ECU

Hardy Lohse, ANU 

Oliver Mai, UNSW COFA

Benjamin McLaren, TAFE SA 

Kirstyn McMullen, ECU

Georgia Metaxas, Monash, and

Jessica Meyerink, PSC Melbourne

The nominees going to China, again selected by Sam Stourdzé, are: 

Paul Batt, Monash, and Giles Crook, RMIT 

The FutureGen exhibition consists of 176 images, including a 6m long image from the Nanjing Art Academy. The show is beautifully presented and is a highlight of FotoFreo 2012.

The FutureGen exhibition and project will be a regular event at future FotoFreo festivals.  

IMAGES:  Wang Chao, Untitled

                  Ning Ziran, Untitled

                  Paul Batt, Untitled 10

                 Giles Crook, Untitled 20

           

WA Life photographic Competition

The WA Life competition attracted entries from over 100 photographers and a total of 203 images were considered for judging. Thirty six (36) images made it to the finals and are on display in shop windows throughout central Fremantle. 

The winners are:

First Prize of $5,000 cash Mike Wishart for his photograph Fishing Freo Harbour

Runner up, with a 'super new beaut' Nikon camera, Melinda Ison-Poor for her photograph, A Swan Moment

Maps showing the locations of the WA Life images in shop windows around Fremantle are now vailable in the shops and can be downloaded from the FotoFreo website. 

Mike Wishart, Fishing Freo Harbour

Melinda Ison-Poor, A Swan Moment