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Public Space and Its Discontents
In addition to a lot of predictable Banksy spottings, there are some interesting images in this Flickr group, including this one: Group description: This group is interested in how people use, abuse and subvert ‘public’ spaces. Now that we lead sedentary indoor lives, public spaces are often neglected or strictly controlled and regulated. We are…
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Conference: Art and the real
Some readers might be interested in this Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (NSW) Conference: Art and the real: Documentary, Ethnography, Enactment 12-14 July 2007 Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney Australia Presented by AGNSW and Artspace Sydney With keynote speakers: Geoffrey Batchen, Professor of the History of Photography and Contemporary Art, The City University…
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MIT5 ahoy
Wonderful to see the tentative program for MIT5: creativity, ownership and collaboration in the digital age has now been posted – it looks jam-packed with very good stuff, actually. Our panel, Produsing Culture (not ‘producing’ as Axel was very, very quick to point out to the organisers!) has been scheduled for 9.00 Saturday morning…not usually…
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it’s new, it’s now.
Kodak-au-go-go!
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normal room
Some everyday cosmopolitanism at a project called normal room. Normal Room shows you interior design and home furniture from all around the globe. Search our image database and explore the differences and similarities in architecture and home decoration between people in different countries. via boing boing.
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Australian Snapshots
I’ve just caught up with the 2006 Australian Snapshots exhibition: The Australian Snapshots initiative began in August 2004, when 150 disposable cameras were sent to Local Radio listeners across regional Australia with a request to photograph sports, leisure and daily activities that connected their communities. The rationale behind using disposable cameras was to create an…
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Urban Brisbane Photo Exhibition
Yay! A showcase of work from three members of the Brisbanites Flickr group: Manfreds Bar, The Valley Thursday 20th July, 7:00pm A collection of photographs will be on display which seek to explore Brisbane and some of it’s lesser-known areas both above and below the city streets. These may be the things you walk past…
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Sleepy City: urban photography exhibition
A couple of years back (how time flies!), I got very interested in urban exploration photography, and even published an interview with the then-anonymous local artist known as dsankt who is behind Sleepy City, a project that has yielded some quite beautiful photographs of subterranean Brisbane. Recently Sleepy City joined forces with other like-minded artists…
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seductive mistake-ography
I’ve just uploaded some of the images from my very first rolls of medium format film, which I butchered in a Holga ‘toy’ camera and a Lubitel (a bit less of a toy, but still plastic). I shot off the first few rolls pretty much just as I wandered around the house. I love the…
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Vernacular photography
Geoffrey Batchen defines vernacular photography like this: The term ‘vernacular’ literally means the ordinary and ubiquitous but it also refers to qualities specific to particular regions or cultures. Its attachment to the word ‘photography’ allows historians like myself to argue for the need to devise a way of representing photography’s history that can incorporate all…