From the Archive: Photo Review Dec/Jan 2004:
When Jesse Marlow was eight or nine his mother would encourage his early interest in picture-taking by driving him around Melbourne to photograph graffiti walls.
Now 25, he is still compelled to go out into the street to take pictures. Pictures that tell stories about the city and the society in which he lives. "Telling stories" is a phrase he uses a lot to describe where he is going with his photography.
... [more]From the Archive: Photo Review Dec/Jan 2004:From Mozambique to the remote and icy shores of Norway, Ted Grambeau has created his own brand of surfing photography.
From the late 1970s into the early 1990s Ted Grambeau lived the life thousands of aspiring surf photographers think they'd like to have. He travelled around the world shooting the best surfers in the best conditions at the best surfing breaks.
... [more]From the Archive: Photo Review Dec/Jan 2004:
We emailed Australian photographer Mark Bramley to find out how his freelance career was going in London. Quite well, apparently. He replied: "I'm literally about to leave for the airport, for a four day shoot in Italy, so I'm going to be brief. Feel free to elaborate on my behalf."
... [more]Q: Tell us a little about your current photographic project(s):
A: Long-term projects in East Timor and Indonesia, adding to previous bodies of work, and now starting to work in South East Asia, commuting between Perth and a recently set-up base in Bangkok. ... [more]In the history of photography, and more particularly, in the history of American photography, Alfred Stieglitz looms large. Born in 1864, a year or so before the American Civil war ended, Stieglitz died not long after the atom bombs ended World War II. When he was a boy growing up in Hoboken, New Jersey, photography was a complex and even dangerous art. The Daguerreotype was just giving way to the tintype and roll film wouldn't be invented for another 20 years. But, by the time he died, colour film was an established technology and photography itself had been a medium of the masses for 50 years. ... [more]Q: Tell us a little about your current photographic project(s):
A: My work Life is Elsewhere that is being shown during FotoFreo [at the Perth Centre for Photography -Ed.] is about my connecting my inner world, comprising my most immediate environment of my family, especially my mother, my dog, my home, my friends and my love to my outer world which is everything else that I see when I go out. ... [more]From the Archive: Don's Editorial, Photo Review Issue 11 Jun/July 2003.
Fountain pens have long appealed to me. In fact, this editorial started out as a series of disconnected thoughts and notes jotted down on the back of an envelope with a cheap, but functional, midnight blue plastic model.
There's something peculiarly satisfyinga bout using a nib to put ink on paper. The act of writing is smooth and flowing. The best result comes from caressing the paper lightly, instead of pressing into it. Even if your pencraft isn't remarkable, writing with a fountain pen still makes you feel like a calligrapher.
... [more]Q: Tell us a little about your current photographic project(s):
A: Beginning with the government's failed response to the flooding of New Orleans in 2005, the American people suffered through a series of devastating corruptions of their traditional structures of support. Stranded is a meditation on the despondence of the American psyche as this collapse of certainty left the country stuck in an unfamiliar space between distress and relief. In this series the car serves as both figurative symbol of American destiny and a literal representation of the personal breakdowns on the road to that promise. The images live in the road photography tradition of Robert Frank, Stephen Shore and Joel Sternfeld, but where they sought to capture the American experience through 'the journey', my photographs seek to tell the story of this time through the journey interrupted. ... [more] |