LIGHT JOURNEYS

Lee Grant’s Belco Pride launches on home turf

lee — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 07:38:00 +0000

Light Journeys founder and co-curator Lee Grant is exhibiting a selection of her series Belco Pride on home turf at the Belconnen Arts Centre from 28th September to 14th October 2012. A small number of advanced copies of the book will also be available ahead of the release date of late November. Pre-orders are being taken, please contact Lee via her website:

SPECIAL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – WINTER

fred — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 04:01:26 +0000

Yeti, 2010 U.K. Frederick

The Season of Tall Shadows
It slips up on us slowly, first emerging as dwindling daylight and stretching shadows. Gradually it turns to fog, cloudy skies, skeletal trees and in some places frost on the windscreen. In the north of the continent it comes as something of a respite from the humidity and heat. Winter occupies an awkward presence in the Australian imagination. How do we reconcile our experience of this season against the iconic image of bright light and heat? Is there anything distinctly Australian about this time of year?

Light Journeys is seeking submissions for a group feature on the topic of Winter. All women working in Australian photography, including previously featured artists, are invited to submit 1-3 photographs for consideration. Submissions are due September 1, 2012.

See Jane Run

lee — Wed, 02 May 2012 07:53:28 +0000

Support this innovative and important project:

See Jane Run is a new photographic project exploring gender roles, beauty ideals and body image. Established by four female photographers – Emma Phillips, Julie Sundberg, Anna Warr and Fiona Wolf – our aim for this project is to evoke dialogue about how we see and perceive ourselves, and how society and the media influences that perception, especially towards women.

Our first group show, See Jane Run, is a featured exhibition in the 2012 Head On Photo Festival, opening at Depot ll, Danks St, Sydney on May 15th. We have each sought to examine issues of gender roles and body image, through our own unique approach and photographic style. We hope the shake up the traditional roles and media portrayals of both men and women. Our vision for this project is long-term. Aligning with other organisations that support and empower women, we plan to run multimedia workshops and courses, as well as ongoing exhibitions, so stay tuned.

If you would like to join the dialogue and keep updated with interesting facts on gender stereotyping have a look on our Facebook page and hit the LIKE button.

Our blog gives you a little more to read, with guest authors talking about gender roles and the influence media has had on female body image.

We have set ourselves a goal of 60 days to cover the costs for our exhibition through crowdfunding. You can donate to the project here.

Hijacked III: Australia and the UK

lee — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 22:39:44 +0000

Light Journeys artists Petrina Hicks, Michelle Tran and Katrin Koenning are all featured in BigCityPress’ new publication Hijacked III.

Currently exhibiting at PICA in Perth, WA and QUAD in Derby, UK.

Robyn Stacey: “House” book launch and exhibition

lee — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 08:23:36 +0000

House, a new book and an exhibition opening 15 October 2011 at the Museum of Sydney features the stunning still-life photography by Robyn Stacey, showcasing the extraordinary and everyday objects from the Historic Houses Trust’s collections and properties.

: The fall of the House of Rouse, 2011 from Tall Tales and True. Type C print 90 x 120cm, edition of 5 + 3 AP. Courtesy Robyn Stacey /Still Gallery.

These exquisite photographs are the result of a four-year collaboration between the Historic Houses Trust (HHT) and Stacey who gained unprecedented access to the more than 29,000 objects held in the collections of Elizabeth Bay House, Vaucluse House, Rouse Hill House & Farm and the Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection.

The exhibition will feature over 15 of Stacey’s striking images, a selection of objects from each of the properties and a slide-show revealing the intricate process behind each photograph.

Vikky Wilkes at QCP

lee — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 08:08:51 +0000

Vikky Wilkes will be exhibiting her series Last Light in Gallery 2 at the Queensland Centre for Photography from 24th September through to 23rd October 2011.

Last Light is a series of photographs investigating the final hour of light on the shores of Lake Ginninderra in Canberra. Photographed between January and March 2009, which included the Australia Day long weekend, the series documents the cultural and social diversity of the people who visit the lake and the ways they interact with it. The photographs capture the mood associated with the season and time of day. In a world suspended between night and day we find a place familiar to all: declarations of love on a tree trunk; couples embracing; people seeking a leisurely pace. These moments are a testimony to a passage in time, a connection between past and present elaborated through the landscape.

Untitled 2 (courtesy Vikky Wilkes)

Claire Martin’s “Slab City” at the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney.

lee — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 08:04:32 +0000

Claire Martin is showing her series Slab City at the ACP in Sydney. Opening is Thursday 1 September (tomorrow!) from 6pm and the exhibition opens to the public on Friday, running through to the 25th September.

All welcome…

In the Colorado Desert of South Eastern California, Slab City serves as a refuge for what society may ordinarily perceive as misfits or outcasts yet with her lens Australian photographer Claire Martin discovered a community of people who understood each other. Unberable temperature highs in summer weeded out the many who inhabited the free space in winter leaving only the most resilient, or the most unfortunate, as residents.

Taking its name from the concrete slabs that remain from an abandoned World War II base it is a tragic yet romantic landscape that commands this small but committed group of squatters to possess the same balance of beauty and beast.

Michelle Tran’s “Southline” at Kings ARI, Melbourne.

lee — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 22:15:46 +0000

Light Journeys artist, Michelle Tran is exhibiting new work at Kings Artist Run Initiative in Melbourne. The show opens on the 8th July and runs through to the 30th July.

Georgia Metaxas: The Mourners

lee — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 11:34:09 +0000

Georgia Metaxas will be exhibiting her new series The Mourners in the intimate space of Gallery 4 at the Centre for Contemporary Photography from 17th June through to 7th August 2011.
The Mourners is a series of portraits documenting the ritual of wearing black as a signifier of perpetual mourning. In remembrance of those they have lost, all that sit for a portrait in the series wear black everyday for the rest of their lives.

Georgia will host a floortalk on Saturday 18th June at midday.

Tamara Dean wins the 2011 Olive Cotton Award!

lee — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 11:27:56 +0000

a BIG congratulations to Tamara Dean who has picked up Olive Cotton Award for her photograph Damien Skipper.