BELARUS: Minsk Month of Photography
IN SEPTEMBER 2016, the work of four Australian artists featured as a centre piece to the Month of Photography in Minsk. The artists were Hoda Afshar, Ray Cook, Simon Harsent and Owen Leong. Entitled ‘Fables of Change’ the exhibition explored diverse understandings of change: personal, social, cultural and environmental. Each artist approached the subject through … Continue reading
BRAZIL: FestFoto
IN MAY 2016, Alasdair Foster attended FestFoto in Porto Alegre. As the Australian delegate, he undertook portfolio reviews and interviewed the festival director. He also interviewed the three directors of Houston FotoFest, who were attending the Brazilian event. Both interviews were later published in the Chinese magazine PhotoWorld. Subsequently, Alasdair Foster was invited to join … Continue reading
Art and Industry
On Being Industrious CHINA: on 23 April 2016 Alasdair Foster delivered a short speech on behalf of the international delegates attending the grand opening of the Shenyang Festival of Industrial Photography. Below is an extract from that speech setting a wider philosophical frame for considering the many diverse works in the festival. FOR MORE THAN … Continue reading
GUATEMALA: GuatePhoto
> IN 2015, Alasdair Foster was invited by the organisers of GuatePhoto festival to create an exhibition introducing some examples of Asian art photography to the country. The resulting exhibition, ‘To Seem and to Be’ was an exploration of the challenges of how photography, as an art of surfaces, might lead viewers to seek deeper … Continue reading
To Seem and to Be
IN 2015, Alasdair Foster was invited by the organisers of GuatePhoto festival to create an exhibition introducing some examples of Asian art photography to the country. The resulting exhibition, ‘To Seem and to Be’ was an exploration of the challenges of how photography, as an art of surfaces, might lead viewers to seek deeper insights … Continue reading
A Conversation of Memories
: :: Patricia Casey :: Erika Diettes :: Tomoko Hayashi :: Paula Luttringer :: :: Suk Kuhn Oh :: Wendy Sacks :: Diana Thorneycroft :: ~ :: curator and writer: Alasdair Foster :: : This is the catalogue to an exhibition presented at the 2015 PhotoVisa photography festival, Krasnodar, Russia. The exhibition brings together artists from Argentina, … Continue reading
Dream Home
:: Dream Home :: Sian Bonnell :: Magdalena Bors :: Hillerbrand+Magsamen :: Suk Kuhn Oh :: Viktoria Sorochinski :: curator and writer: Alasdair Foster :: This is the catalogue to an exhibition presented at the 2015 Pingyao International Photography Festival, China’s largest and longest-running festival of photomedia arts. Here four artists and one artistic partnership explore that most … Continue reading
Dream Home, China
:: DREAM HOME This year, CDC will present the work of four artists and one artistic partnership at China’s largest and longest-running photo festival, the Pingyao International Photograph Festival. Each explores the psychological dislocations between the consumerist ‘dream’, domestic convention and the complex, sometimes dissonant, interior life of the individual. Hailing from four continents, they … Continue reading
The Art of Domestic Compulsion
: :: Magdalena Bors :: Curator and writer: Alasdair Foster This is the catalogue for an exhibition by the Australian artist, Magdalena Bors. The exhibition is currently touring in Europe through a partnership between Galleri Image in Denmark and Cultural Development Consulting in Sydney, with support in Spain from the Centro Andaluz de la … Continue reading
Fables of Change
: :: Hoda Afshar :: Ray Cook :: Simon Harsent :: Owen Leong :: :: curator and writer: Alasdair Foster :: : FABLES OF CHANGE Presented at the Krasnodar Institute of Contemporary Art back in 2013, this exhibition introduced Russian audiences to the work of four Australian artists. Each uses the photographic image to explore … Continue reading
Ouroboros: a Mexican Cycle
: :: Pablo López Luz :: Fernando Montiel Klint :: Dulce Pinzón :: :: curator and writer: Alasdair Foster :: : Ouroboros: a Mexican Cycle OUROBOROS explores the work of three distinguished Mexican photographic artists: Pablo López Luz, Fernando Montiel Klint and Dulce Pinzón. Drawing on the traditions of landscape, social documentary and surrealism, they each … Continue reading
11th Aleppo International Photo Festival
For update, see foot of page… ~ Syria: a Culture of Peace in Time of War “Art and culture do not need a visa to bring nations to meet each other.” Issa Touma ANY ARTIST, GALLERIST OR FESTIVAL ORGANISER in the West who feels life is tough; spare a thought for Issa Touma, the founder … Continue reading
Imagining the Everyday
:: Narelle Autio :: Pat Brassington :: Peta Clancy :: Rebecca Dagnall :: Marian Drew :: Peter Fitzpatrick :: Hayden Fowler :: Murray Fredericks :: Petrina Hicks :: Garth Knight :: Bronek Kozka :: James Mellon :: Denis Montalbetti & Gay Campbell :: Deborah Paauwe :: Polixeni Papapetrou :: Scott Redford :: Luke Roberts :: David Stephenson :: … Continue reading
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