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With more than a reverential nod to Katsushika Hokusai and his 100 Views of Mt Fuji\, PhotoAccess is pleased to announce its major Centenary of Canberra project\, 100 Views of Canberra.
Supported by the ACT Government’s Community Centenary Initiatives Fund\, 100 Views of Canberra is a project inviting Canberra region photographers to submit images showing Canberra in all of its guises—the public face\, the homely\, the grungy\, the youthful and everything that makes our vibrant contemporary city tick.
100 images by 100 photographers will be selected for an August 2013 exhibition in the HUW DAVIES GALLERY at the Manuka Arts Centre accompanied by a high quality book.
Entries will be received from 9 July to 30 November 2012.
Terms and conditions and instructions for submitting entries\, including image requirements\, are in the [inline\:100 Views of Canberra information.pdf=100 Views of Canberra information sheet] you can download here.
Entry is free but entrants must be or become PhotoAccess members and agree to comply with the PhotoAccess Constitution and Code of Conduct. If you are not a current member you will need to apply for membership and pay the $20 membership fee at Enrol Now.
If you are a current member or have applied for membership and paid the membership fee you can submit one image and your brief biography and artist statement by email to 100Views@photoaccess.org.au (copy this address to your email account)
Please put 100 Views of Canberra in the subject line.
We look forward to seeing your take on the Canberra only Canberrans really know.
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Wedding photography seemed an odd career choice for Dan O’Day following his very successful 2006 exhibition 'Still' in the HUW DAVIES GALLERY. Variously a painter\, singer in a rock band\, occasional bureaucrat and emerging photo artist at that time\, 'Still' looked set to put him on course to a different career.
We can be grateful O’Day’s runaway success as a wedding photographer over the past six years hasn’t distracted him from the importance of creating and showing evocative new work. 'I closed my eyes and saw this' is the result of his latest imagining\, an imagination he applies to and which is\, I am certain\, the reason for his success as a commercial photographer.
In a conversation with him some years ago O’Day said he approached all of his weddings as if he was shooting for an exhibition. This approach has resulted in a large body of outstanding wedding images that could themselves make for an inspiring exhibition.
Canberra continues to provide a base for O’Day when he is not travelling in Australia and overseas for wedding assignments or to pick up awards. He has maintained contact with PhotoAccess and contributes to our work generally and to group exhibitions from time to time. His solo exhibitions have kept him in touch with the gallery world\, particularly in Melbourne through the CATHERINE ASQUITH GALLERY\, and his work is represented in private and corporate collections in Australia and overseas.
Writing about his 'Still' exhibition in 2006 I said that\:
'While the tradition of storytelling in photography is a time honoured one\, going back almost to its beginnings\, Dan O’Day’s approach to pictorial narrative is unmistakeably of his time … While there is beauty on the surface of these evocative\, occasionally menacing and at times whimsical images\, they are richly suggestive of the vast dimensions of stillness and being alone— and of the occasionally dark implications of both. … Questions of meaning and intention can’t be avoided in the face of Dan O’Day’s images'.
Those comments apply equally to the work in 'I closed my eyes and saw this'\, where O’Day continues to reflect on life and his experience of it. Perhaps things are improving\: as he says in his brief Artist Statement ‘To be here in this moment is easier than it used to be\, and that ‘stillness’ I used to run from\, I now find myself running toward’. We are pleased Dan O’Day continues to embrace life in all its light and darker dimensions and delighted to welcome him back to the HUW DAVIES GALLERY at the Manuka Arts Centre.
David Chalker
[inline\:Dan O'Day catalogue.pdf=Catalogue]
[inline\:Dan O'Day small prints list.pdf=Small prints list]
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SNAP is a survey of photographic work by students from 13 ACT senior secondary schools and colleges—the first time teachers and students across the ACT education system have come together to present work in the HUW DAVIES GALLERY and\, most likely\, any public gallery in Canberra. PhotoAccess is pleased to have played a part in this ground breaking exhibition.
SNAP has allowed young artists to experience the process involved in conceiving and making work for an exhibition. Through the exhibition they will share ideas\, techniques and approaches with their peers and visitors to the gallery and\, we hope\, gain skills and confidence to go on making and showing work.
All ACT schools and colleges offering the BSSS (Board of Senior Secondary Studies) photography course as part of a Tertiary or Accredited package were invited to submit up to three entries from current Year 11 and 12 photography students. Works in the exhibition were selected by school photography teachers.
The schools and the teachers who worked with their students to present this survey exhibition are\:
• Burgmann Anglican School\, teacher Cherie Robinson
• Canberra College\, teacher Stephanie Smith
• Canberra Girls Grammar School\, teacher s Elizabeth Chase and Tara Shield
• Dickson College\, teacher Lisa Styles
• Erindale College\, teacher Mark Will
• Gungahlin College\, teacher Doug Hendry
• Hawker College\, teacher Richard Baldwin
• Marist College\, teacher Alister McDonald
• Melba Copland Secondary School\, teacher Terry Eveston
• Radford College\, teacher Jonquil Mackey
• St Clare's College\, teacher Hetty Neil
• St Francis Xavier College\, teacher Joanne Dougherty
• UCSSC Lake Ginninderra\, teachers Samuel Townsend and Mary Woodhouse
Visitors to the HUW DAVIES GALLERY will come to their own conclusions about the diverse interests and concerns of this very talented group of young Canberra artists. PhotoAccess is proud to have helped give them a platform for sharing their engaging and thoughtful images. We hope they will continue to do so through the group exhibition opportunities available to PhotoAccess members and\, as an incentive\, we have offered each of the artists a free one year PhotoAccess membership.
Tara Shield was particularly instrumental in conceiving and organising SNAP. Peter Blackshaw Real Estate assisted with the costs of the exhibition.
David Chalker
[inline\:SNAP catalogue for web.pdf=Catalogue]
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