| CCP Lecture Up Against The Wall |
| Sunday, 15 June 2008 |
 CCP is pleased to present a talk by Dr David Bate, writer, academic and photographic artist. This talk explores what we do with an image and what an image does to us. The talk uses Jeff Wall’s work as an example of the relationship between theory and practice. Dr David Bate is a writer and photographic artist, and teaches at the University of Westminster, London... |
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| CCP Winners Announced 2008 Kodak Salon |
| Wednesday, 28 May 2008 |
 Including over 450 photo-based artworks Kodak Salon is Australia’s largest open-entry photo-based exhibition and competition. Fourteen artists have been awarded prizes from industry leaders including Kodak Professional, Adobe, Kayell Australia and Sandisk. Images of award winning artworks can be viewed online at www.ccp.org.au The Kodak Salon is a truly democratic event, wherebyartists at all levels of experience and practice are invited to exhibit work at CCP. The resulting... |
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| Thursday, 21 February 2008 |
 The Kodak Salon is an annual event celebrating the latest developments in photo-based practice. An open-entry exhibition and competition the Kodak Salon provides an excellent opportunity to exhibit work in a professional, high profile context. The Kodak Salon is one of the largest and most renowned photographic award exhibitions in the country, including artists from all around Australia... |
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| CCP Photography Exhibitions |
| Tuesday, 10 July 2007 |
 Presenting work by contemporary artists from Australia, France, Germany, New Zealand and South Korea, and curated by participating artist David Thomas, Composite Realities Amid Time and Space: Recent Art and... |
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| Wednesday, 18 April 2007 |
| Will it soon be illegal to take a photograph in public? Heading up this issue of Photofile Martyn Jolly and Katherine Giles sort out the legal fact from the paranoid fiction. Meanwhile Adam Cuthbert highlights the danger of battlefield photography becoming a pornography of violence and Tarryn Gill... |
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| CCP Photography Exhibitions |
| Monday, 22 January 2007 |
 The CCP in Melbourne have released a series of new photography exhibitions. The variance of different styles cover arial photography of new suburbia in the far western edges of Sydney to the landscape, society and architecture of France... |
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| CCP Book & Print Specials |
| Wednesday, 13 December 2006 |
 Presenting inspiring and affordable gifts for those who make, collect, study, critique or just adore Photography. Select from second-hand and new books on photography, editioned prints by contemporary Australian artists, LOMO cameras and artist gift cards all available at CCP... |
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| CCP Photography Exhibitions |
| Wednesday, 22 November 2006 |
 The CCP in Melbourne have released news on a series of new photography exhibitions running to the 16th December. Works from 5 exhibitors, Christian Thompson, Roger Hanley, Gavin Hipkins, Simpryn Gill and Dorota Mytych in the galleries and Immo Klink in the Summer Projection room... |
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| CCP 2006 Colour Factory Award |
| Friday, 22 September 2006 |
 Judges for the 2006 Award are Rupert Myer AM, Chairman National Gallery of Australia and art collector; Darren Sylvester, Artist and Phil Virgo Director, Colour Factory. Proudly supported by Colour Factory, the winner has the opportunity of working with Colour Factory to produce a suite of type C exhibition prints for a solo exhibition in Gallery Two at CCP from 27 October–16 December 2006. Following the exhibition, the prints will be retained... |
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| CCP STELLAR Fundraising Auction |
| Friday, 18 August 2006 |
 CCP’s STELLAR Fundraising Exhibition & Auction, will present over 50 of Australia’s most highly sought after artists, including emerging stars such as Siri Hayes and Paul Knight; highly sought after supernovas Darren Sylvester, Polixeni Papapetrou, Deborah Paauwe and Jane Burton; through to luminaries such as Callum Morton, Lewis Morley and Wolfgang Sievers... |
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| Tuesday, 04 July 2006 |
 The CCP, Melbourne's leading venue for photo-based art has announced 5 new exhibitions, along with free artist talks. Opening night for the exhibitions is Thursday 6th July 6-8pm, with the free artist talks starting Saturday 8th July at 12pm... |
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| CCP History of Photography Seminars |
| Tuesday, 04 July 2006 |
 The Joyce Evans History of Photography Seminars return to CCP in 2006. Presented by Dr Daniel Palmer, this introductory series will examine key themes in the history of photography over a sustained five week season... |
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| Wednesday, 28 June 2006 |
 Places are still available for the upcoming Weekend Workshop at CCP with Les Walkling, Introduction to Digital Imaging on 1 & 2 July. This weekend workshop presents a comprehensive introduction to the principles and practice of digital imaging. It is specifically designed for photographers and artists relatively new to... |
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| CCP 2006 Colour Factory Awards |
| Thursday, 08 June 2006 |
 CCP is pleased to present the 2006 Colour Factory award for an emerging photographic artist to exhibit. An integral part of CCP’s program is to provide opportunities for emerging photo-based artists through education, professional development and exhibition. As part of this commitment, CCP presents a national award for emerging photographers sponsored by Colour Factory.... |
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| CCP Photography Exhibitions |
| Tuesday, 16 May 2006 |
 Gallery One: SIMON OBARZANEK 80/137: Faces tackles the complex issue of photographing teenagers during their tender years of transition from childhood to adulthood... Gallery Two & Three: KODAK SALON: Australia’s largest open-entry, photo-based exhibition and competition, the Kodak Salon is an annual event celebrating... Gallery Four: CHRISTOPHER KOLLER MIZUNO D301: A series of blue-white golf balls launches out into the dark space of a warm Tokyo night in Mizuno D301. The hard ‘tack’ and ‘tonk’... Projection Window: KIM DONALDSON KEEP CLEAR: Beginning as a small child I collected objects but logistically over the years this impulse became a storage problem. Now I work... |
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| Friday, 21 April 2006 |
 The Kodak Salon is an annual event celebrating the latest developments in photo-based practice. An open-entry exhibition and competition with over $7,700 worth of prizes, the Salon provides an excellent opportunity to exhibit work in a professional, high profile context. The Salon is one of the largest and most renowned photographic award exhibitions in the country, presenting over 350... |
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| CCP 5 Diverse New Exhibitions |
| Saturday, 18 March 2006 |
 Melbourne’s leading venue for photo-based art, the Centre for Contemporary Photography opens this Thursday night, 16 March at 6pm with five exciting new exhibitions; including a live installation, white collar fantasies and a bumper curated exhibition. Grant Hobson comments on Australia’s... |
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| Wednesday, 25 January 2006 |
 The CCP have released information for the first of their photography exhibitions from 20 January - 11 March 06. The exhibitions include a wide and diverse range of work spread over 4 gallery spaces and a project window... |
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| CCP Lecture with Justin Clemens |
| Monday, 07 November 2005 |
 Justin Clemens discusses an advertising poster, which he describes as the most graffitied image in Paris over the New Year period 2003–4. The advertisement is a photograph of a couple on a couch, the woman in lingerie, the man reclining with a camera; a familiar and perhaps even innocuous image these days... |
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| Sunday, 06 November 2005 |
 The winner of the inaugural CCP/Colour Factory Award for an emerging photographic artist has been announced today. Sydney based Leyla Stevens won the award for her series, Pale Worlds, which opens to the public on Friday 28 October in Gallery Two, Centre for Contemporary Photography... |
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| CCP Beyond Real Exhibition |
| Friday, 14 October 2005 |
 Between October and December the CCP will be running 5 new exhibitions featuring subjects ranging from rockabilly subculture to the dark side of urban environments and includes an exhibition by the winner of the inaugural ccp colour factory award... |
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| CCP Leica Call For National Entries |
| Sunday, 02 January 2005 |
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Are you a documentary photographer, photo-journalist or photomedia artist? Would you like to win a new Leica M series camera and lens valued at over $13,000? See the CCP website for a chance to view the world through a new lens.
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| CCP At Melbourne Art Fair |
| Friday, 17 September 2004 |
| CCP is pleased to announce a Project Room at the Melbourne Art Fair 2004, to be held at the Royal Exhibition Building, Nicholson St, Carlton, from Thursday 30 September – Sunday 3 October. Concettina Inserra will present a series of intimate portraits featuring contemporary Melbourne artists, titled Lives and Works in Melbourne... |
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| Wednesday, 23 June 2004 |
| In 2004, CCP presents a bumper six sessions in its highly respected and annual series of lectures. In partnership with The Australian Centre, four keynote lectures and two panel sessions will be held at the University of Melbourne while CCP’s new Fitzroy galleries are under construction... For more details click |
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| CCP May - June Photography Exhibitions |
| Monday, 29 March 2004 |
| The CCP over May & June will be featuring works from four people. Read the following: Paul Knight’s work traditionally displays the human environment as an unpopulated tableau - a place of potential for the viewer. His prints act as portholes for interiors || Marcia Lochhead is exhibiting 'Mirror', a body of photographic work documenting Canberra's institutional swimming pools and change rooms, exploring an aspect of Australian National Identity || Julie Vinci's work is about representation and beauty, calling upon and questioning genres of classical still-life and the nude. Marks on her skin from underwear and rolls of flesh, coupled with || Isobel Knowles presents a comprehensive back catalogue of animations and video by Melbourne-based Isobel Knowles - the inspiration for which comes from sources as diverse as arcade games, children's book... |
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| CCP March 12 - April 24 Photography Exhibitions |
| Friday, 13 February 2004 |
| During March and April, the CCP have the following exhibition: SUSAN PURDY: New Branches on an Old Tree -New Branches on an Old Tree is a unique project that combines oriental botanic specimens with elements from diverse sources to tell stories about a culture in which plants form the central motif || PETER ROBERTSON: Beyond Xanadu -In 1980, leaving the Sharpies gang behind, Peter Robertson moved to Melbourne to start a new life for himself modelling; the next few years were a fusion of fashion, nightclubs and art. Beyond Xanadu chronicles a time of great change for Robertson and Australia || KOKY SALY: How Much Longer Will You Live Like This -Koky Saly’s series How Much Longer Will You Live Like This explores the notion of displacement through the eyes of his mother, whose status has changed from fisherwoman to refugee, to Australian citizen to ‘Asian-Australian’... |
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| Friday, 30 January 2004 |
| The Nikon Summer Salon is an annual event celebrating the latest developments in contemporary photo-based art. It is an open-entry exhibition and competition supported by leaders in the photographic industry. The Salon provides an excellent opportunity to exhibit work in a professional, high-profile context. Thousands of visitors attend the event each year, recommending it as one of the largest and most renowned photographic award exhibitions in Australia. The 2004 Exhibition dates are: 30 January - 28 February 2004... |
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| Saturday, 13 December 2003 |
| The Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) welcomes the significant increase in public funding announced on Wednesday as part of the national Visual Arts and Craft Strategy. Through this initiative the CCP will receive an additional $90,000PA from January 2004. The Strategy was announced in a joint statement issued by Senator the Hon Rod Kemp, Minister for the Arts and Sport and Mary Delahunty, Victorian Minister for the Arts... |
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| CCP January - February Photography Exhibitions |
| Monday, 08 December 2003 |
| 2004 Nikon Summer Salon: Featuring recent works by over 300 photomedia artists from across the country, the 2004 Nikon Summer Salon is testament to the ongoing popularity and diversity of contemporary photographic practice...| Laki Sideris - Empty(Project Space) At the eastern end of the incredibly vast Prohibited Area, South Australia's Woomera region is a desolate place of monumental salt lakes and endless plains of ragged shrubs...| CCP Photoblog (e-Media) In keeping with the democratic spirit of the Nikon Summer Salon, this month in the e-Media Gallery we are trying something different. Instead of exhibiting a finished art work, this time it is up to you, the CCP community, to create it!... |
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| CCP Nikon Summer Salon Entries |
| Friday, 14 November 2003 |
| The Nikon Summer Salon is an annual event celebrating the latest developments in photomedia practice. An open-entry exhibition and competition supported by leaders in the photographic industry, the Salon provides an excellent opportunity to exhibit work in a professional, high profile context. The Salon is one of the largest and most renowned photographic award exhibitions in the country. Presenting over 250 artists from around Australia working in analogue and digital photography including animation, interactive work and video installation, this exhibition guarantees to be one of Australia’s biggest for 2004 - and with over $9,000 worth of prizes it’s one of the most generous! The Centre for Contemporary Photography is now accepting entries for the 2004 Nikon Summer Salon... |
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| CCP Stellar Fundraising Auction |
| Tuesday, 14 October 2003 |
| Have you ever thought, ‘Drats, I should have purchased that Patricia Piccinini when I had the chance? Or a Bill Henson? Or a Tracey Moffatt?’ And have you ever thought, ‘Drats, I wish I could do more for a premium Australian photographic gallery, such as the Centre for Contemporary Photography? Sometimes in life all your wishes come true! CCP’s truly STELLAR bi-annual Fundraising Exhibition & Auction, presenting over 55 of Australia’s most highly sought after artists, from emerging stars such as Darren Sylvester, Selena Ou and Jane Burton; to major mid career stars such as Patricia Piccinini, Bill Henson, Tracey Moffatt and Ros Piggott; through to supernovas such as Wolfgang Sievers, Lewis Morley and Olive Cotton begins on Saturday 8 November at 3pm... |
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| CCP October Photography Exhibitions |
| Friday, 19 September 2003 |
| CCP has a number of exhibitions in October concerning people: their history, identity and displacement. Peter Milne is one of Australia’s best known photographic artists. His new exhibition 'When Nature Forgets' features in 'gallery one' | Recently voted one of Australia’s top ten collectable photographic artists, Deborah Paauwe’s exhibition 'Beautiful Games' features in 'gallery two' | Also featured at CCP is Keely O’Shannessy’s 'Alice’s Conversations in Cyberspace' (e-MEDIA) is not ‘Artificial Intelligence’... |
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| CCP New Photography Installation |
| Sunday, 14 September 2003 |
| The exhibition combines disparate cultural and artistic practices incorporating elements of low contemporary subcultures and high classical art, including horror cinema, Dadaist collages, fanzine art and classical interior design and decoration. The exhibition runs until Saturday September 27, 2003. CCP is open Wednesday to Saturday 11-5pm... |
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| CCP Photogenic Lecture Series |
| Sunday, 10 August 2003 |
| September 3 | Ian North | "Spooked! Art Museums, Photography and the Problem of the Real" - Photography, to the curator, is just another art medium, right? Wrong. Museums perpetuate confusion after confusion in defining art, a problem compounded with respect to photography by questions about the real. Both the computer's historical dissolution of postmodernism and recent probings in philosophical aesthetics create new levels of complication. The curator's job just got harder... Ian North is an Adelaide-based artist and writer... Tickets $7/$5. Bookings essential... |
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| CCP July - August Photography Exhibitions |
| Saturday, 12 July 2003 |
| ART+FILM Scheduled to coincide with the 52nd Melbourne International Film Festival, Art+Film is an exhibition that evaluates the effect of cinema and filmmaking on contemporary artists and art practices... FARM Focusing on the artist's grandparents, their animals and their land, Farm considers rural experience, its representation in art and its relevance to contemporary life.. . INTERSECTION Intersection is an interactive work that explores the reconstruction of the everyday urban architectural environment. The user is invited into an immersive virtual world that acts as both an expansion and escape into possible encounters with space, texture and time... PHOTOGENIC 2003 Lecture Series This free public forum accompanies the Art+Film exhibition at CCP, and is part of the Talking Pictures program of the 2003 Melbourne International Film Festival... |
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| CCP June - July Photography Exhibitions |
| Thursday, 10 July 2003 |
| The CCP have now released a list of exhibitions to be held during June and July 2003... |
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| CCP May - June Photography Exhibitions |
| Tuesday, 10 June 2003 |
| Gallery 1. ALEX KERSHAW (Geodetic Monuments) Geodetic Monuments presents a series of images and video sequences based on the construction of survey markings by the NSW Land and Property Information Service. These structures are used by surveyors to determine... | Gallery 2. ANGELA BLAKELY (Keep passing the open windows) "I am involved with eight mothers whose children have suicided. We worked collaboratively, each of these women placing their trust in me, to make their children less invisible"... | PAUL BATT (Untitled Spaces) The Untitled Spaces series presents a photographic exploration of spaces that relate to art practice, their evolution and the way they adapt to different pressures and requirements... | SIMON BIGGS (Babel) A net.art work exploring the taxonomy of knowledge contained within libraries and the Internet, Babel is a site specific work for a 'non-site' information space. In the work, the Dewey Decimal numbering system is... |
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| CCP April - May Photography Exhibitions |
| Saturday, 10 May 2003 |
| NICOLA LODER Wild Thing: Using digital imaging techniques to explore ideas about Australian identity, juxtaposing rural landscape scenes with urban tourist sites, sheep with human hordes... BRONWYN COUPE The Neighbour's House: Objects, events, emotions and daydreams - all equally real - inhabit the place of childhood... DARRAN McCRANN After the War: Is a collection of photographic images and mutant objects. The central theme explores a mindscape, post trauma... JOYCE RUDINSKY Information Narrative: An interactive digital art project, Information Narrative consists of three stories collaged from found mass media material - from newspapers, magazines, radio, television and the Internet... |
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| CCP Leica Documentary Photography Award |
| Thursday, 10 April 2003 |
NATIONAL CALL FOR ENTRIES: Registrations Due: 1 April 2003
Are you a documentary photographer, photo-journalist or photomedia artist? Would you like to win a new Leica M series camera and lens valued at over $13,000? The biennial Leica/CCP Documentary Photography Award presents a survey of contemporary Australian documentary photography. It supports excellence in documentary work executed in series format. Finalists will be selected for exhibition at the Centre for Contemporary Photography in mid 2003, and subsequent tour during 2003/2004. The latest Leica M series camera (your choice of M6 camera for M7 version plus extras) valued at over $13,000 will be awarded to the most outstanding series... |
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| CCP March - April Photography Exhibitions |
| Monday, 10 March 2003 |
| The Line Up:: 'Just a Girl' - DONNA BAILEY: Featuring twenty large-scale photographic prints, Just a Girl is part of an ongoing series of documentary images... 'Not Only Skin and Fabric' - FASSIH KEISO: Over recent years, Keiso's practice has examined tensions between current Middle-Eastern & Western perceptions of the body and sexuality. Working with a range of different media... 'Stalker' - MARIA PULERA: US photographer, performance artist and writer Maria Pulera presents a mixed media installation documenting her personal stalking experience over a three year period... 'Sequence' - SHANNON WINNELL: Sequence is an interactive CD-ROM artwork that examines the ritualistic, almost subconscious nature of the everyday movement, and how we flow through constructed spaces... |
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| Monday, 10 February 2003 |
| The Centre for Contemporary Photography's mammoth Nikon Summer Salon opened on the 6th February to a record crowd. The 2003 Salon is bigger than ever before, presenting a massive three hundred photomedia artworks (a fifty per cent increase on 2002) - testament to the enthusiasm and talent of Australia's photographic community. The Salon runs until 1 March and entry is free. Most works are on sale at very affordable prices (ranging from $75 to $2500) presenting a great opportunity for budding collectors. As CCP Director Tessa Dwyer states, "There is something for everyone at this year's Salon, from custom-made underwear and kangaroos to hand-printed black and white photography to expansive digital colour fields" at... |
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| CCP Nikon Summer Salon Entries |
| Wednesday, 05 February 2003 |
| Now in its 11th year, the Summer Salon is the Centre for Contemporary Photography's annual showcase of current photographic practice - featuring all types of analogue and digital photography as well as mixed media works all inspired by photographic culture and processes. Prizes in eight categories (totalling over $3700) will be announced at the opening of the exhibition on the evening of 6 February 2003 when John Swainston, Managing Director of Maxwell Optical Industries (distributors for Nikon throughout Australia) will personally present Nikon's 'Excellence in Photomedia' Prize. Featuring up to 200 artists... |
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| CCP February Photography Exhibitions |
| Sunday, 05 January 2003 |
| The Line Up:: 'Just a Girl' - DONNA BAILEY: Featuring twenty large-scale photographic prints, Just a Girl is part of an ongoing series of documentary images... 'Not Only Skin and Fabric' - FASSIH KEISO: Over recent years, Keiso's practice has examined tensions between current Middle-Eastern & Western perceptions of the body and sexuality. Working with a range of different media... 'Stalker' - MARIA PULERA: US photographer, performance artist and writer Maria Pulera presents a mixed media installation documenting her personal stalking experience over a three year period... 'Sequence' - SHANNON WINNELL: Sequence is an interactive CD-ROM artwork that examines the ritualistic, almost subconscious nature of the everyday movement, and how we flow through constructed spaces... |
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| Friday, 03 January 2003 |
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During 2002 CCP [Melbourne] offered four popular weekend workshops over two semester programs, as well as a one-off special workshop on fine art black & white photography. These workshops revolved around a series of studio based demonstrations with the emphasis on a practical approach to the concepts being covered. Adobe Photoshop versions 4, 5 and 6 are covered as well as both Macintosh and Intel-based computers. These workshops filled quickly and will be back again in 2003.
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| CCP November - December 2002 Exhibitions |
| Thursday, 05 December 2002 |
| For the 5th time since 1995, CCP presents the RMIT MEDIA ARTS GRADUATE EXHIBITION in it's two main gallery spaces. Media Arts focuses on the relationship between arts and technology, new media systems of representation, identification and practice. The exhibition features 16 recent graduates... |
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The CCP in Melbourne has released dates and details for a series of new exhibitions. Running from 12 September — 25 October 2008, exhibitors featured areAnne Noble with Ice Blink: Antarctic Photograps, in Gallery One and Gallery Two, Steven Sebring with Objects of Life in GalleryThree, Liv Barrett, James Deutsher, Christopher LG Hill, Chris Kraus and Evergreen Terrace with Foto-Ography in Gallery Four and Helen Grogan and Tanja Kimme in the Night Projection Window...