[From Photo Review Issue 44] Whether she's at home with friends or meeting strangers while travelling the world, Flavia Schuster's photography is about her personal interaction with her subjects.
... [more]When it comes to visual signatures, there are few more distinctive than that of photographic team Montalbetti and Campbell.
Their sumptuous, meticulously orchestrated photographic creations are instantly recognizable. Intricately detailed, often multi-layered, their work has the high-gloss finish and exacting colour palette of elite advertising photography. But there is something mysterious at work, something that hints at the psyche's deeper currents. Little wonder then that Montalbetti and Campbell have picked up a swag of awards, and their work is represented in the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery and the National Gallery of Australia.
... [more]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] |