| ACP Photofile Issue 84 - Distortions |
| Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
 In Maree Alexander's world, everyday objects take on a mysteriously erotic frisson. A jug pushes a glass into a corner with clearly erogenous intent, fruit squeezers prepare to copulate - the everyday becomes a sensual orgy. Cold, utilitarian glass and plastic are caught out in the heat of the moment, leaving one wondering what happens on the kitchen bench when we are away. "It is the animation of the inanimate... |
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| ACP B&W Darkroom Masterclass |
| Monday, 11 August 2008 |
 Take advantage of this weekend masterclass to learn advanced darkroom techniques from Chris Reid of Blanco Negro. The topics covered on Saturday will include choosing premium developers and paper for printing, as well as demonstrating dodging and burning, pre-flashing and density control. Sunday will cover the liquid emulsion process, salt, gravure and lith printing as well as how to make toners and bleach. Chris will demonstrate... |
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| ACP Winter Events Calender |
| Tuesday, 10 June 2008 |
 The ACP presents a range of events over Winter to expand your understanding of contemporary photography. The ACP Gallery Talks allow audiences to hear first-hand from artists and curators in the exhibition program. Afternoon Teas are relaxed and informal panel discussions focussing on key issues in photomedia. In Talking Shop events, established photographers talk in-depth about their... |
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| ACP Master Class Creating Digital Composite Images |
| Wednesday, 21 May 2008 |
 ACP Workshop is pleased to present this one off master class with award winning photographer and digital artist Alexia Sinclair. Alexia's captivating multilayered art presents contemporary notions of fashion and beauty through an innovative use of digital media. Alexia's years of experience as both fine art photographer and digital retoucher, have seen the development of some ingenious techniques now employed in the production of her elaborate digital images... |
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| ACP Photofile Issue 83 - The Erotic Imagination |
| Friday, 18 April 2008 |
 The body haunts this issue of Photofile. At times, as in the works of Helen Pynor, Peta Clancy, Ben Cauchi, Jacqui Stockdale and Kristian Burford, it is there in all its visceral, and sometimes gory, glory. At times it is morphing into a strange technological presence in Second Life as seen in the works of BABELSWARM. Elsewhere it is hauntingly absent; in a place where the body, and all too often bodies, are an ever-present factor... |
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| ACP Photography Exhibition - Phantasia |
| Friday, 11 April 2008 |
 Vivid, complex and magical, the works in this exhibition abandon the traditional realm of the photographic - the real world - to conjure images of the fantastical. From Magdalena Bors' fairytale scenes to Alexia Sinclair's regal women of history and Simon Strong's dreamscapes; from Andrew Mamo's phantasmagoria... |
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| Wednesday, 12 March 2008 |
 The ACP presents a range of events over the autumn to expand your understanding of contemporary photography. Our Gallery Talks allow audiences to hear first-hand from the artists and curators in the exhibition program. Afternoon Teas are relaxed and informal panel discussions focussing on key issues in photomedia. In Talking Shop events, established photographers talk in-depth about their practice... |
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| ACP Snowy Mountains Photographic Adventure |
| Friday, 07 March 2008 |
 The Snowy Mountains Photographic Adventure is designed to develop your skills and further your passion for landscape photography. Landscape photographers Murray van der Veer and Mark Lang will lead you through a course focused on developing your pre-visualization and photographic skills to enable you to create landscape images that tell the story that you want to tell... |
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| Tuesday, 12 February 2008 |
 The ACP presents a range of events over the Summer to expand your understanding of contemporary photography. 'Our Gallery Talks' allow audiences to hear first-hand from the artists and curators in the exhibition program. 'Afternoon Teas' are relaxed and informal panel discussions focussing on key issues in photomedia. In 'Talking Shop' events, established photographers talk in-depth about their practice... |
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| Friday, 18 January 2008 |
 Reality and fiction. Truth and falsehood. The authorisation of meaning. Photography seems forever caught up in the vortex that swirls between these concepts. This issue of Photofile has no formal theme, but these concerns with reality, fiction and authorisation are all here. The traditions of documentary witness are to be found in the work of the artist-run photo agency Oculi and in the harsh realties made evident in... |
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| ACP Photography Exhibitions |
| Monday, 14 January 2008 |
 The ACP have released four new exhibitions with the dates running from 12th January 2008 through to 8th March. The exhibitions do not all run for the same duration. Spread out over 3 galleries and a foyer you will be treated to a wide variety of photographer's works, both local and international... |
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| ACP Digital Imaging Workshop |
| Friday, 12 October 2007 |
 ACP Workshop is pleased to bring you this one off master class with acclaimed new mediaartist and lecturer Murray McKeich. Murray McKeich has been working with art-based digital media for ten years, since leaving an extensive career in New Zealand and Australia as an illustrator/designer and art director... |
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| Tuesday, 07 August 2007 |
 The construction of identity and the sense of place are themes that duck and weave their way through this issue of Photofile. The gender gap is addressed variously by Julie Rrap, Samantha Everton, Pat Brassington, Shaun Gladwell and Ray Cook. Meanwhile top of the arts league table this year are the Venice... |
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| ACP Photography Exhibition |
| Tuesday, 24 July 2007 |
 The Brotherhood is an exhibition of works from artists featured in the Melbourne-based, international and homosexually orientated art journal They Shoot Homo's Don't They? As its title suggests, the exhibition connects gay artists across time... |
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| ACP Photography Exhibition |
| Friday, 06 July 2007 |
 d/Art/07 is the tenth anniversary of Australia's premier screen and digital media arts events presented by d/Lux/MediaArts. d/Art/07 examines the increasingly fragmented edges of the digital media world... |
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| Tuesday, 19 June 2007 |
 Known as the King of Fake, Joan Fontcuberta creates elaborate and persuasive photofictions that probe the relationships between nature and culture, lies and photographic objectivity, representation and ambiguity. A rare opportunity to hear one of the most significant artists to emerged from the...
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| Saturday, 26 May 2007 |
| Following an overwhelmingly positive response to ACP Workshop field trips run in 2006 and the resulting exhibition held at the Jindabyne Visitors Centre, the Australian Centre for Photography is pleased to announce a stimulating new weekend workshop - The Blue Mountains Photographic Experience... |
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| ACP Three New Exhibitions |
| Wednesday, 09 May 2007 |
| Three very different exhibitions, including the work of internationally renowned photojournalists and Australian photographers, look at selected moments, social messages, and the narrative found both within and surrounding the photograph. Each exhibition shows how diverse methods are employed to produce images that impact upon the psyche and public consciousness... |
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| Wednesday, 11 April 2007 |
| The Kodak Salon is an annual event celebrating the latest developments in photo-based practice. An open-entry exhibition and competition 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... |
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| ACP Photography & Legal Rights |
| Friday, 30 March 2007 |
| Very rarely do we personally recommend talks or lectures but on this occasion the ACP have prepared what looks like a facinating and very interesting free talk on picture taking in public and your right to use (or not) those images. The speaker, Martyn Jolly will be accompanied by lawyer Katherine Giles and photo-activist Andrew Nemeth... |
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| Tuesday, 13 March 2007 |
| TALKING SHOP is a new series of Wednesday evening talks by artists for artists and those interested in how they do what they do. For details on the talks andto registter your interest click... |
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| Wednesday, 13 December 2006 |
| The Second International Festival of Photography to be held in Daylesford and throughout the Hepburn Shire in June 2007 has confirmed the Main Program exhibitions. The depth and diversity of the program is substantial and features work from across the globe... |
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| ACP Pet Project Exhibition |
| Friday, 17 November 2006 |
| Pet Project, an exhibition of international and Australian photomedia art, looks at the personal bonds we forge with animals. With the total number of pets in Australian households fast outnumbering our own offspring (8 million pets : 4.8 million children) this exhibition is particularly poignant in unravelling our growing, curious and intimate relationships with our chosen companions from... |
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| ACP Dutch Dare Exhibition |
| Thursday, 12 October 2006 |
| Dutch Dare was commissioned by The Mondriaan Foundation for showing at the Australian Centre for Photography to mark the 400-year anniversary of the first Dutch landing in Australia. The exhibition is accompanied by a 136-page book published by NAi Publishers, Rotterdam... |
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| ACP Photofile 78 Magazine |
| Thursday, 07 September 2006 |
| Blowing dust off the Solander boxes and re-booting the hard-drive, Photofile 78 takes a wide-ranging look at the archive and its relationship to contemporary visual culture. From storage solutions to advanced search criteria on Google; from archive anxiety to collection fetish, guest editors Sarah Goffman and Elvis Richardson assemble a talented group of writers and artists to discover refreshing modes and innovative agendas in the organisation and creation of archives... |
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| Friday, 18 August 2006 |
| In The Black Islands the vast archipelago of the southwest pacific region becomes interconnected with images and stories of post-colonial resistance, religious fervour, traditional custom, guerrilla warfare, environmental catastrophe and urbanisation. Renowned Australian photojournalist Ben Bohane's commitment to illuminating the struggles and spirit worlds behind news from Melanesia is clearly evident... |
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| ACP Photography Exhibition |
| Tuesday, 18 April 2006 |
| Australian Centre for Photography is proud to present a mini-retrospective of work by Melbourne-based photographer, Paul Knight. Curated from his last six years of practice, Don't be Something Strong confirms Knight's status as one of Australia's most impressive and significant young photomedia artists. Large-scale colour prints that match searing intensity with disquieting sensitivity dominate the exhibition which consists of landscape photographs... |
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| ACP Photography Workshops |
| Friday, 14 April 2006 |
| The education schedule for Term 2 2006 is now online and open for enrolments. The term starts Monday 1 May (please note, change of date from 24 April). We are offering a full program of regular part time courses, as well as a selection of advanced and specialist courses, including Fashion, Lighting 2 and Photojournalism. We are also running Graphic Design Essentials, a new course for photographers interested in designing their own self-promotional material or just... |
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| ACP Photofile #77 Magazine |
| Monday, 10 April 2006 |
| Photofile 77 questions the relevance and value of outmoded notions such as authenticity and originality in contemporary culture: from Islamic Hip-Hop to the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games; from CCTV to tribute bands. Editor Gary Carsley deploys a fearless gang of writers and artists who hack away at the pious platitudes of the cultural elite and the vested interest of the art market. In an issue that brings... |
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| ACP If You Leave Me, Can I Come Too? |
| Tuesday, 21 March 2006 |
| Tuning-in to a zeitgeist that is up-on-the-downside If you leave me, can I come too? brings together contemporary Australian artists that convey a sense of humour-tinged melancholy through their practice. Taking its title from the deadpan irony of a Mental as Anything break-up song (1982), this exhibition considers broad social themes from personal failure to environmental disconnection, across a range of photomedia. In his new series, Melbourne-based... |
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| ACP Special Photo Workshop |
| Wednesday, 15 February 2006 |
| The Australian Centre for Photography Workshop offers an stimulating range of part-time courses, special workshops, seminars, lectures and master classes for more than 1000 students annually. The ACP are very pleased to announce a special opportunity to be a part of a master class with the celebrated Dutch photographer, Erwin Olaf. This 4-week intensive will focus on building... |
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| Monday, 02 January 2006 |
| A surfing odyssey, Magicians of the Sea takes a plunge into post-fifties Australian surf culture - from the ocean waves and beach shacks of the east coast to the squats of Bondi - through a range of photomedia practices. Featuring Albert Falzon's seminal surfing movie, Morning of the Earth, and George Greenough's footage shot inside the barrel of a wave - a world first at the time - this exhibition... |
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| ACP Photofile 76 Shifting Ground |
| Sunday, 01 January 2006 |
| Photofile 76 fixes its gaze on the horizon and faraway places as guest editorial team Natasha Bullock and Lily Hibberd explore land and the landscape - one of photography's great themes. From tourism to Wolf Creek, from New Media to ancient wilderness, from the road trip to the war zone the issue takes an unconventional and challenging look at what photographing the landscape means today... |
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| ACP Beyond Real Exhibition Pt.2 |
| Friday, 02 December 2005 |
| Visual puzzles, Arcadian idylls, gothic nightmares, dysfunctional families, wistful dreams. The artists in the concluding part of Beyond Real create whole new worlds - sometimes strangely familiar, at others totally alien. While some images are created through digital manipulation or darkroom trickery, many involve the creation... |
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| ACP Beyond Real Exhibition |
| Friday, 14 October 2005 |
| Surrealist mannequins, mythological heroes, a transgender Andy Warhol and an extraterrestrial pope. These are just some of the cast of characters assembling in this, the first of a two-part exhibition exploring artifice and theatricality in photomedia across the past century. Bringing together stunning work by contemporary Australian practitioners with that of acclaimed international artists from Man Ray to Cindy Sherman, the exhibition addresses the interface between fantasy and identity... |
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| Tuesday, 09 August 2005 |
| Photofile #75 takes to the streets as guest editor Reuben Keehan finds every mode of cultural production is up for grabs, even the magazine format itself. Focusing on the more unorthodox means of making and showing work, featured artists include TV Moore, Yasuhiko Uchihara, pvi collective, Paul Knight, Kate Dickson, Peter Burke, Lyndal Walker, Darren Sylvester, Yeb Weirsma, Chris Handran, Tatsuo Miyajima and many more... |
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| ACP Elegance and Perversity Exhibition |
| Tuesday, 05 July 2005 |
| Erwin Olaf: Elegance and Perversity is an exhibition curated from photographic series undertaken between 1999 and 2005 by Dutch artist Erwin Olaf. An exuberant and imaginative photographer and film maker, Olaf has carved a career from staging his own realities, and revealing an ambiguous world where the division between fiction and fact has dissolved... |
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| ACP Photography Workshop News |
| Friday, 10 June 2005 |
| News from the ACP: "After some unforseen and unavoidable delays with the building renovations we are now finally pleased to announce that the new digital media suite and improved Workshop facilities are open and fully operational. The official launch will take place at the Term 2 Student Show opening, Wednesday 6 July, 6-8pm. Members of the community are welcome to attend"... |
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| ACP Mirror Worlds Exhibition |
| Tuesday, 31 May 2005 |
| Mirror Worlds offers a different world view. Selected from across Asia, the artists in this exhibition use video as an imaginative tool to engage with the contemporary condition. The exhibition invites its audience to interrogate the constant stream of moving-images we habitually turn to for news, entertainment and information. From the whimsical to the shocking to the complex, each artwork engages with contemporary life... |
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| ACP Photography Exhibition |
| Thursday, 07 April 2005 |
| Papua New Guinea. A land of striking beauty, mountain ranges, lush rainforests and some of the most spectacular coastlines on earth. A land of eight hundred tribes and languages. A land where security is the country's biggest growth industry. A land that has long been represented as a risky place to holiday and do business... |
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| ACP Photography Exhibition |
| Wednesday, 23 March 2005 |
| The ACP have release an update on their activities covering: an 'advanced exposure, processing and printing techniques' workshop, a 'professional development class with two of Australia's leading photojournalists', a 'Pinhole Photography' course to coincide with World Pinhole Day, a Digital Camera workshop and more... |
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| ACP Photography Workshops |
| Friday, 11 February 2005 |
| The ACP has just released a new schedule for the following workshops and exhibitions: digital camera workshop, cut 'n' paste, night light, trent parke master class & events, extended darkroom hours, job opportunities, exhibitions & events, submissions & competitions... |
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| ACP Photography Workshops |
| Friday, 11 February 2005 |
| The ACP has just released a new schedule for the following workshops and exhibitions: digital camera workshop, cut 'n' paste, night light, trent parke master class & events, extended darkroom hours, job opportunities, exhibitions & events, submissions & competitions... |
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| ACP Photography Exhibition |
| Thursday, 03 February 2005 |
| Satirical, subversive, fantastical and fetishistic - for generations the simple art of cut'n'paste has been harnessed to shock, amuse and amaze. Today 'cut' and 'paste' describe two software routines initiated by the simple click on the icons 'scissors' and 'clipboard'. But, while computer programs have made the seamless amalgamation of pictorial elements a virtual breeze, some prefer the physicality of blade and adhesive. Is there any real difference in the end result?... |
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| ACP Minutes to Midnight Exhibition |
| Thursday, 06 January 2005 |
| Trent Parke is one of the most innovative and exciting photographers around. He is the only Australian photographer in the celebrated Magnum group, and he won America's prestigious W Eugene Smith Award for humanistic photography in 2003. This major new body of work will form the basis of a book to be published in America later in 2005... |
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| Tuesday, 14 December 2004 |
| Photofile is Australia's leading photo-art magazine. It is the essential reference for anyone who is passionate about photography :: This Issue: Interview with Bill Henson, 5 features, 5 portfolios, exhibition news, book reviews, a rant and much more... |
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| Tuesday, 14 December 2004 |
| Chasing Summer, a new book by Ingvar Kenne will be launched at the Australian Centre for Photography on Thursday 16 December from 7 - 9pm. Chasing Summer is a journey in images of people and places as documented by photographer Ingvar Kenne, throughout his two-year global motorcycle road-trip. The images are accompanied by and introductory text by Paul... |
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| Saturday, 20 November 2004 |
 Photofile is Australia's leading photo-art magazine. It is the essential reference for anyone who is passionate about photography :: This Issue: "Fashion photography has formed some of the most striking images of our visual culture in recent years, and fashion’s presence, influence and powers of absorption appear limitless. Celebrating this fact, a special issue of Photofile, Australia's premier art photography magazine published by the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, is devoted to the work of Australian and New Zealand fashion photographers. This is the first issue of Photofile in the magazine’s 20-year history solely on fashion photography"... |
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| ACP Exhibition: Changeling |
| Wednesday, 17 November 2004 |
 The ACP from 19 November - 24 December will be hosting the Changeling exhibition. "Images of childhood beguile but they can also disturb, especially when the imply te adult yet top come. And adolescence, the period of metamorphosis, can be a strange and troubling time... |
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| ACP Two Photography Workshops |
| Wednesday, 10 November 2004 |
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The ACP is now offer two additional workshops, a second course scheduled for Pin Hole cameras - by popular demand, and the other course is for teenagers - which as been designed to compliment the current high school curriculum... |
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| ACP Digital Photography Workshop |
| Thursday, 28 October 2004 |
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Just bought a digital camera and want to know how to get the best results? Or about to buy a camera and don’t know what to look for? This is a general introductory course covering all the basics of digital photography, from purchasing a camera to printing out lasting images. Learn all about the camera’s many features, capabilities and resolution settings. Understand the difference between file formats, how to make the photos jump off the page with software techniques and the best way to save your work on a computer and removable discs... |
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| ACP Photography Workshop News |
| Thursday, 07 October 2004 |
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The ACP in NSW has released an update for its latest workshops. There is also a feature now showing the past work of ACP members along with student work, plus information on one off workshops, job opportunities and a call for submissions to competitions and events... |
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| ACP Nightvision Exhibition |
| Monday, 27 September 2004 |
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What is the colour of the night? From the streets of thirties Paris, via New York swingers clubs and the Hawaiian jungle to suburban Perth and the Iraq War, this exhibition explores the ways in which photographic processes have altered and enriched our understanding of the night. It brings together a dazzling array of historical and contemporary photography exploring specifically photographic qualities such as flash, the colour intensification... |
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| ACP Advanced Colour Printing |
| Monday, 26 July 2004 |
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The ACP runs part-time courses for more than five hundred students annually. These span five distinct levels: Foundation, Basic, Intermediary, Specialist and Professional Development. In order to ensure you and your fellow students get the best out of each course, we require that you complete at least one course in each level before moving to the next. Where there are specific prerequisites for a given subject, these are specified in the following course outlines. Alternatively you can apply for an interview and portfolio review by a member of the ACP workshop team who will... |
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| ACP 30 years of exhibition at ACP |
| Monday, 26 July 2004 |
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This winter we celebrate 30 years of exhibition at ACP. To mark the occasion we are staging Zeitgeist, a spectacular exhibition of new work by Australian photomedia artists selected by eleven collectors, critics and curators around Australia. Each selector was invited to nominate an artist they tip as an important future player in the cultural life of this country. The result is a stimulating, eclectic and at times challenging mix of media and ideas – from fine prints to plasma screens; from anti-war protesters to drag kings... |
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| ACP Alternative Processes Weekend |
| Wednesday, 30 June 2004 |
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The ACP Workshop is very excited to be holding an Alternative Processes Weekend with acclaimed international guest lecturer and photographer, Stephen Chalmers. In Australia to present his latest body of work at a symposium at the University of New England, Stephen will be sharing his vast knowledge of alternative processes in an interactive one-off workshop experience. Come along and discover the delights of centuries old practices with a contemporary sensibility... |
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| ACP 30th Anniversary Exhibition |
| Thursday, 24 June 2004 |
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The Australian Centre for Photography (ACP), the leading Centre for the education, exhibition and publication of photomedia art, is celebrating its thirtieth anniversary this year, making it the longest running contemporary art space in Australia. To mark this occasion ACP is staging a spectacular exhibition of photomedia by artists from around Australia, who have been selected by high profile collectors, curators and critics. Looking to the art of tomorrow, the exhibition will showcase work by the artist each selector tips for future success. The selectors and artists will be announced at the end of June... |
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| Tuesday, 01 June 2004 |
 The Australian Centre for Photography is proud to announce the presentation of the work of one of Australia's most individual and widely known photographers, Max Pam. His highly charged works reflect the many places he has visited and people he has met, melding kitsch with grace, desire with diginity, serendipity with purpose. The show has been assembled by the Perth-based curator and skater, Robert Cook, reflecting a younger generation's newfound fascination with Pam's work. Entitled stripTEASE, the exhibition brings a provocative flare... |
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| Thursday, 06 May 2004 |
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The ACP are now taking applications for its term two (2nd Intake). If you missed out last round, visit the ACP online to find out more details. Term two start on the 24th May 2004 with the ACP operating four ten-week terms each year. Each course is a self-contained module. You can take a single course to improve a given skill or undertake a long-term program of learning by building up modules. Their expert staff will be happy to advise you on the best way to achieve your personal goal... |
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| ACP Exhibition: Crime & Corruption |
| Thursday, 22 April 2004 |
 23 April - 6 June. Sicilan Chronicles by Franco Zecchin, Curated by Pierre Chevalier. Franco Zecchin was one of the first photographers to methodically document the activities of the Mafia in Sicily. Now an internationally celebrated photographer, this exhibition brings together the work of the seventies and eighties that made him famous... |
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| Wednesday, 07 April 2004 |
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Looking beyond the stereotype of bungalow and bowling club, this web-based book focuses on photomedia that reflects the edgier realities of Australian suburbia today. It explores two emerging concerns for many young people – the affirmation of the self through challenge and the construction of identity through mass media. From extreme skating to body piercing, from teenage sexuality to hooning, the site brings together photography, video, installation and performance work in a dramatic and at times provocative experience. An exhibition of this work is currently showing at the Australian Centre for Photography before touring Australia... |
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| Wednesday, 17 March 2004 |
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Photofile is Australia's leading photo-art magazine. It is the essential reference for anyone who is passionate about photography :: This Issue: "Fashion photography has formed some of the most striking images of our visual culture in recent years, and fashion’s presence, influence and powers of absorption appear limitless. Celebrating this fact, a special issue of Photofile, Australia's premier art photography magazine published by the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, is devoted to the work of Australian and New Zealand fashion photographers. This is the first issue of Photofile in the magazine’s 20-year history solely on fashion photography"... |
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| ACP Exhibition Invitation |
| Wednesday, 03 March 2004 |
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On Thursday 4 March 6.00 - 8.00pm the ACP will play host to the exhibition opening of: 'Suburban Edge'. Refreshments will be served. Exhibition runs from 5th March to 18th April 2004. About: Looking Beyond The Stereotype of bungalow and bowling club, this exhibition focuses on photomedia that reflect the edgier realities of Australian suburbia today. It explores two emerging concerns for many young people - the affirmation of the self through challenge and the construction of identity through mass media. Form extreme skating to body piercing, from teenage sexuality to hooning, the exhibition brings together photogrpahy, video, installation and performance work in a dramatic and at times provocative experience... |
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| Thursday, 18 December 2003 |
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Photofile is Australia's leading photo-art magazine. It is the essential reference for anyone who is passionate about photography :: This Issue: Deborah Paauwe discusses memory, self-revelation and the ambiguity of art :: Plus: 9 feature stories, 3 portfolios, exhibition reviews, book reviews and loads more... |
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| ACP Photography Courses & Workshops |
| Monday, 01 December 2003 |
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The ACP [Syney] runs part-time courses for more than five hundred students annually. These span five distinct levels: Foundation, Basic, Intermediary, Specialist and Professional Development. The ACP operates four ten-week terms each year. Each course is a self-contained module. Specialist courses are also run, ranging from studio-based practices such as Portraiture and Still-life, through courses such as Fashion which combine studio and location learning, to the disciplines of shooting Documentary, Landscape and the built environment... |
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| ACP Courses & Workshops Update |
| Monday, 01 December 2003 |
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The ACP [Syney] runs part-time courses for more than five hundred students annually. These span five distinct levels: Foundation, Basic, Intermediary, Specialist and Professional Development. The ACP operates four ten-week terms each year. Each course is a self-contained module. Specialist courses are also run, ranging from studio-based practices such as Portraiture and Still-life, through courses such as Fashion which combine studio and location learning, to the disciplines of shooting Documentary, Landscape and the built environment... |
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| ACP Photography Student Of The Year 2003 |
| Wednesday, 26 November 2003 |
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24 finalists have been selected by the Managing Director of Maxwell Optical Industries, John Swainston and Alasdair Foster, Director of the ACP for 'Student Of The Year 2003'. The ACP foyer gallery will exhibit these entries from 28 November 2003 - 18 January 2004. The winner will receive a Nikon Award for ACP Student of the Year 2003 - which is a Nikon F100 camera valued at $3200 and a certificate. The runner-up will receive a Nikon voucher to the value of $1500 and a certificate. The announcement of the winners and the presentation of the award will be made at the official opening on the evening of 27 November... |
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| ACP Photography Course Enrolments |
| Wednesday, 22 October 2003 |
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Covering everything from beginners to specialist courses the Australian Centre for Photography provides an opportunity to learn in a fun, creative and supportive environment from some of Australia's leading photographers and photo-educators. There are a limited number of places left for the mid-term intake starting 3 November and enrolments are also now being accepted for Term 1 2004, but hurry, places are limited... |
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| ACP October Event Calender |
| Thursday, 09 October 2003 |
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Join Madrid-based writer and curator Paco Barragán as the work in Antirrealismos: Spanish Photography Now. Exploring such stategies as performance, narrative and digital manipulation, this floortalk will highlight the richness of the anti-documentary emerging in the Spanish scene today... |
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| Wednesday, 10 September 2003 |
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Photofile is Australia's leading photo-art magazine. Now in large-format and full-colour it is the essential reference for anyone who is passionate about photography... This Issue: Interview - Anne Zahalka discusses spectacle, suburbia and the best place to view a natural wonder. Features: Suburbia Revisited: Chris McAuliffe | Boys and Cars: Lee-Anne Richards, David van Royen and Bronwyn Wright | Lunar Language: Robert Cook | Look Sharp: Carol Jerrems & Peter Robertson | Mad Nomads: A team of young writers & photographers | Rant: Glenn Sloggett... |
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| Sunday, 10 August 2003 |
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With MORE pages, More pictures, MORE reviews and articles, in FULL colour and in a new LARGER format it is essential reading for anyone who is PASSIONATE about photography... |
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| Thursday, 10 July 2003 |
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The Photo Technica Award for Australian Photo-Artist of the Year is presented to the best work submitted by an emerging Australian artist (an artist who has trained but not yet received a solo exhibition in a public space or secured representation by a dealer). Exhibiting from 15 November - 22 December 2002... |
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Landscape photographers Murray van der Veer and Mark Lang will lead a group on an exciting weekend based in the Snowy Mountains High Country. The course is designed to develop skills in the practical aspects of outdoor photography and enable you to photograph landscape narratives which come from a deeper understanding of the region. The workshop is conducted in...