Showing posts with label Sydney Life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sydney Life. Show all posts

Sunday, July 31, 2016

Portraits - You can't ask more of any portrait - Reciprocity Failure (Mon 09 Jul 2013)

portrait - Deng Adut - Archibald Prize / Art Gallery of NSW (Fri 22 Jul 2016)

Reciprocity Failure on Portraits:

[portraits] gives us reason to pause, focus and reflect at the wonder and challenges of their lives... as well as our own. You can't ask more of any portrait. [previously here]
via Russell Frederick by Reciprocity Failure.

Entered this photo in the Art and About 2016, Australian Life Competition. A great quote about portraits and it is what inspired me to enter a portrait this year.

Saturday, July 2, 2016

Sunday, March 9, 2014

On being an Observer - Mike Peters (Sun 09 Mar 2014)

Sydney Central - Broadway / Sydney (Fri 07 Mar 2014)

Mike Peters (*) writes On Being an Observer (*):
I like the fact that I’m still on the outside (*) looking in, and isn’t that what being an observer (*) is all about?
via With regards to my previous post... (*) by Mike Peters (*).

Mike I know how you feel. I receive a similar email each year (*).

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Sydney Life 2012 (21 Sep - 21 Oct 2012)

Cover - Sydney Life - Art and About 2012

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21 SEPTEMBER - 21 OCTOBER 2012
CENTRAL WALKWAY
HYDE PARK NORTH

With a unique lens on who we are and the city we live in, the finalists in this year’s much-loved Sydney Life exhibition capture our city in fresh and surprising ways.From a close-up on the personal to a wide-angle view on our collective joys and sorrows, the stunning large-scale photographs of this year’s 22 finalists are as diverse, interesting and exciting as Sydney itself. Wander beneath the canopy of leaves and see images that reveal a city which never ceases to fascinate.

Sydney Life Tours

Join Sydney Life judge Sandy Edwards for a free tour of this year’s exhibition.

Meet at Archibald Fountain.

Friday 21 September, 7-8pm
Saturday 13 October, 2-3pm

Hyde Park North
Free

Sydney Life judging panel

Liane Rossler

Known as a passionate ambassador for issues relating to design and the environment, Liane presented Happy Talk with Heidi Dokulil at last year’s Art & About Sydney. Other recent work includes Supercyclers, a design project focused on clever and beautiful re-use of waste shown at Milan Design Week. Liane was also a co-founder and former designer and director of Dinosaur Designs.

Moshe Rosenzveig

Moshe Rosenzveig is the founder and director of Head On Photo Festival, the world’s second-largest event of its kind which runs in Sydney annually in May.

His career spans over 30 years as a photojournalist, commercial photographer, educator and an award winning television producer/director whose work has been screened, published and exhibited in Australia and overseas.

Sandy Edwards

Sandyis the founder of ARTHERE – an organisation that provides services to photographers for exhibitions and projects in Sydney and Australia. She is also a curator at Stills Gallery,Sydney’s most established photography gallery
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The Sydney Life Prize

Congratulations to Sally McInerney, the 2012 winner of the Sydney Life Prize. The judges determined that Sally’s image ‘Shark in pool, Dover Heights’ was the most outstanding work in the selection of 22 finalists, and have awarded her the prize of $10,000.
The 2012 Sydney Life Prize - Sally McInerney - Shark in pool


The Finalists

  1. 01 Adrian Cook (*) / blog (*): Dog Day Afternoon. Winner of the Wenty Park Mongrel Cup 2011.

  2. Marco Bok (*) / SMH:Tue 10 Jan 2006 (*): Lifesavers Bondi Beach. Candid photo of a lifesaving exercise. From a large unpublished series on Bondi Beach made whilst living there.

  3. Garry Trinh (*) / Google (*): Super Size Hamburger. A re-examining of everyday life in Sydney.

  4. Graham Monro (*) / blog (*): Modern Family. A typical Sydney family in 2012, everyone is connected, but no one is talking.

  5. Jennifer Blau (*) / blog (*): It’s time to wake up and become sustainable. Walking in the bush opposite her home on Sydney’s North Shore, Robyn calls for a more sustainable life.

  6. Maylei Hunt (*) / Google (*): Let Them Eat Wedding Cake. Sydney residents have been taking the streets to protest for the Equal Rights for Gay Marriage in Australia. It’s time.

  7. Ingvar Keene (*): Cormac Malabar Pool. Last light and last swim after a long hot summer day.

  8. Louise Whelan (*) / Google (*): By the Pool. Kira Hula Hoops beside the pool for the 75th Anniversary of North Sydney Pool.

  9. Lyndal Irons (*) / blog (*): Wash n’ Wax Ronaldinho. Youths spend Saturday night playing football at a late night carwash in Concord. From the series Parramatta Road.

  10. Jenny Evans (*) / Google (*): Above Sydney. Dudley Page Reserve in Dover Heights provides a stunning view of Sydney Harbour.

  11. Hugh Peterswald (*) / Google (*): Celebrity Wave Sydneysiders crowd to see US television celebrity Oprah as she leaves from her lunch in Bondi.

  12. Matt Kaarma (*) / Google (*): Contact. Whilst Sydney parties, dines and dances, soldiers stationed on the outskirts of the city train hard for war.

  13. Tamara Dean (*): Chelsea & Caroline Hibernian House. From my new series depicting images of young contemporary Australian women within their environments.

  14. Daniel Gibbs (*) / blog (*): Secret Women’s Business. Girls on a school excursion in Botany Bay National Park huddle around an Aboriginal Elder to learn some secrets; I was excluded!

  15. Roman Balla (*): Winter Sunseekers. My mother is 86 this year. On sunny winters days she tries to warm herself and her guinea pig "Squeek".

  16. Richard Payne (*): Women Shopping in Auburn. Sydney is a diverse city and I wanted to show the diversity of life through an image of an every day activity.

  17. Sally McInerney (*) / Google (*): Shark in pool, Dover Heights. Someone had added a shark to an estate agent’s auction sign overlooking the ocean.

  18. Alex Davies (*) / Google (*): Hubub. Justin Shoulder drifts through Hyde Park as Hubub during APEC protests Sydney.

  19. Ann-Maree Moodie (*) / Google (*): Bunnies on the Line. Sometimes there is such a thing as too much lovin’ and intervention is required – warm, soapy water and a day in the sun hanging from the quintessential icon of the Australian backyard.

  20. Bryce Watanasoponwong (*): We look great. Three Sikh followers view their self-posed image, taken on a mobile phone, during the Vaisakhi festival at Martin Place.

  21. Cassandra French (*): Historic Chinese Market Gardens. I would love to see these heritage gardens protected and preserved. They are under serious threat from the neighbouring cemetery which is looking for more land for burial plot

  22. Deb Kent (*): Cake on a Hot Summer’s Day. On a sweltering hot summers day the rosy cheeked party girls stand watching their cakes melt away.

Saturday, October 6, 2012

Collage - Hyde Park / Sydney Life 2012 (Mon 24 Sep 2012)

Collage - Hyde Park / Sydney Life 2011 (Mon 24 Sep 2012)

Tamara Dean's photo is stunning when viewed on the large canvas in Hyde Park.

Saturday, August 25, 2012

Sydney Life 2012 Collages - The Finalists plus a few Pretenders - Art and About 2012 / Sydney (24 Aug 2012)

Sydney Life 2012 Collage - Red Pretender - The Finalists plus a few Pretenders - Art and About 2012 / Sydney (24 Aug 2012)

Sydney Life 2012 Collage - Black Pretender - The Finalists plus a few Pretenders - Art and About 2012 / Sydney (24 Aug 2012)

Above - a few variations of a Picasa Contact Sheet Collage of this year's upcoming Sydney Life (*) Finalists, plus my own two unsuccessful entries (Red and Black) at the end. Just dreaming - think I have too much time on my hands..

Now the real selection, with my initial favourite as the background:

Sydney Life 2012 Collage - Rabbits - The Finalists - Art and About / Sydney (24 Aug 2012)

Photographer and photo details:
  1. Adrian Cook (*) / blog (*): Dog Day Afternoon. Winner of the Wenty Park Mongrel Cup 2011.

  2. Marco Bok (*) / SMH:Tue 10 Jan 2006 (*): Lifesavers Bondi Beach. Candid photo of a lifesaving exercise. From a large unpublished series on Bondi Beach made whilst living there.

  3. Garry Trinh (*) / Google (*): Super Size Hamburger. A re-examining of everyday life in Sydney.

  4. Graham Monro (*) / blog (*): Modern Family. A typical Sydney family in 2012, everyone is connected, but no one is talking.

  5. Jennifer Blau (*) / blog (*): It’s time to wake up and become sustainable. Walking in the bush opposite her home on Sydney’s North Shore, Robyn calls for a more sustainable life.

  6. Maylei Hunt (*) / Google (*): Let Them Eat Wedding Cake. Sydney residents have been taking the streets to protest for the Equal Rights for Gay Marriage in Australia. It’s time.

  7. Ingvar Keene (*): Cormac Malabar Pool. Last light and last swim after a long hot summer day.

  8. Louise Whelan (*) / Google (*): By the Pool. Kira Hula Hoops beside the pool for the 75th Anniversary of North Sydney Pool.

  9. Lyndal Irons (*) / blog (*): Wash n’ Wax Ronaldinho. Youths spend Saturday night playing football at a late night carwash in Concord. From the series Parramatta Road.

  10. Jenny Evans (*) / Google (*): Above Sydney. Dudley Page Reserve in Dover Heights provides a stunning view of Sydney Harbour.

  11. Hugh Peterswald (*) / Google (*): Celebrity Wave Sydneysiders crowd to see US television celebrity Oprah as she leaves from her lunch in Bondi.

  12. Matt Kaarma (*) / Google (*): Contact. Whilst Sydney parties, dines and dances, soldiers stationed on the outskirts of the city train hard for war.

  13. Tamara Dean (*): Chelsea & Caroline Hibernian House. From my new series depicting images of young contemporary Australian women within their environments.

  14. Daniel Gibbs (*) / blog (*): Secret Women’s Business. Girls on a school excursion in Botany Bay National Park huddle around an Aboriginal Elder to learn some secrets; I was excluded!

  15. Roman Balla (*): Winter Sunseekers. My mother is 86 this year. On sunny winters days she tries to warm herself and her guinea pig "Squeek".

  16. Richard Payne (*): Women Shopping in Auburn. Sydney is a diverse city and I wanted to show the diversity of life through an image of an every day activity.

  17. Sally McInerney (*) / Google (*): Shark in pool, Dover Heights. Someone had added a shark to an estate agent’s auction sign overlooking the ocean.

  18. Alex Davies (*) / Google (*): Hubub. Justin Shoulder drifts through Hyde Park as Hubub during APEC protests Sydney.

  19. Ann-Maree Moodie (*) / Google (*): Bunnies on the Line. Sometimes there is such a thing as too much lovin’ and intervention is required – warm, soapy water and a day in the sun hanging from the quintessential icon of the Australian backyard.

  20. Bryce Watanasoponwong (*): We look great. Three Sikh followers view their self-posed image, taken on a mobile phone, during the Vaisakhi festival at Martin Place.

  21. Cassandra French (*): Historic Chinese Market Gardens. I would love to see these heritage gardens protected and preserved. They are under serious threat from the neighbouring cemetery which is looking for more land for burial plot

  22. Deb Kent (*): Cake on a Hot Summer’s Day. On a sweltering hot summers day the rosy cheeked party girls stand watching their cakes melt away.

Looking forward to it as usual. It is just across the road from where I work. It is fun to see the photos in situ amongst the trees and how they play with the early morning and mid afternoon light and shadows. More when the exhibition begins.



Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Dragons Abreast Sydney - Glebe / Blackwattle Bay (Sat 15 May 2004)

Dragons Abreast Sydney - Glebe / Blackwattle Bay (Sat
15 May 2004)

Early days back then. Brings back lots of memories looking at this photo which I submitted as my entry for the 2004 Sydney Life Photo Exhibition.

Saturday, October 1, 2011

Sydney Looking Forward (2002-2003) and Sydney Life (2004-2011) Programme Covers

Cover - Sydney Life 2011 - Art and About 2011

Cover - Sydney Life 2010 - Art and About 2010

Cover - Sydney Life 2009 - Art and About 2009 (picasa)

Cover - Sydney Life 2008 - Art and About 2008 (picasa)

Cover - Sydney Life 2007 - Art and About 2007 (picasa)

Cover - Sydney Life 2006 - Art and About 2006 (picasa)

Cover - Sydney Life 2005 - Art and About 2005 (picasa)

Cover - Sydney Life 2004 - Art and About 2004 (picasa)

Cover - Sydney Looking Forward 2003 - Art and About 2003 (picasa)

Cover - Sydney Looking Forward 2002 - Art and About 2002 (picasa)

Sydney Life 2011 (23 Sep - 23 Oct 2011)

Cover - Sydney Life - Art and About 2011


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Art and About
Sydney Life

23 Sep - 23 Oct 2011
Central Walkway
Hyde Park North

Ten years ago (*), the first Sydney Life exhibition captured our city in a series of striking large-scale photographic images, on show in the beautiful central walkway of Hyde Park North. A decade later, Sydney Life is a much-loved annual event bringing friends and families to delight in images that look beyond the iconic. This year, 22 finalists bring their own unique vision to Sydney to this stunning exhibition.

Sydney Life Judging Panel

  • Andrew Quilty (*) - Andrew has won a World Press Photo Award and a Walkley Young Photojournalist of the Year Award. His work has been commissioned by The New York Times, The Guardian, Time Magazine and others, and has been exhibited extensively.

  • Anna Davis (*) - Anna is an artist and Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art. She has worked with numerous Australian and international artists on a range of projects and exhibitions, and contributes regularly to to MCA publications and public programmes.

  • Moshe Rosenzveg (*) - Moshe is the founder and curator of the Head On Prize, one of Australia's major photographic exhibitions. He is a photojournalist, commercial photographer, educator and an award winning producer/director.

  • Sand Edwards (*) - Sandy is the founder of ARTHERE, an organisation providing services to photographers to have exhibitions in Australia. She is also a Curator at the Stills Gallery, Sydney's most established photogallery.

Sydney Life Tours

Take a tour of this year's entries with Sydney Life judge Sandy Edwards. Meet at Archibald Fountain.

Fri 23 Sep 2011, 7pm
Sat 15 Oct 2011, 2pm
Hyde Park North
Cost: Free

The Sydney Life Prize

Awarded to the most outstanding work in the exhibition, the $10,000 Sydney Life Prize comprises $5,000 cast from the City of Sydney and $5,000 from Major Sponsor Olympus.

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The Photographers and their Photographs

  • Jacinta Van Lint (*) - Avoca Street

  • Louise Whelan (*) - Backyard BBQ

  • Adrian Brown (*) - Mother, Maya & the Markets

  • Gary Trinh (*) - Looking Back

  • Gemma Quilty (*) - Disposable Days

  • Dean Sewell (*) - The Wait

  • Dean Tirkot (*) - Fish Head

  • Will Williams (*) - It's Like Sunlight Dripping

  • Barry Slade (*) - Just Maybe they Do

  • Bruce York (*) - George and Hay

  • Brent M V Winstone (* and *) - Australia Square

  • Lyndal Irons (*) - Friday Afternoon at Dog Groomers Inner West. From the Series Parramatta Road. (*)

  • Peter Morgan (*) - Dinner of Kings

  • Franky Tsang (*) - Couples

  • Julie Sundberg (*) - Lunchtime at TAFE

  • James Bickwood (*) - VOID (Sydney Life Prize Winner)

  • Fiona Morris (*) - Suzan and Gum pose outside their home

  • Luc Remond (*) - The Front

  • Janie Barret (*) - Oliver

  • Liam Potts (*) - Busk... Before...

  • Janie News (*) - Sydney Harbour Storm

  • John Fryz (*) - Gnome of Narrabeen

Sydney Life, Sydney Life 2011

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Bruce York and Sandy Edwards - Sydney Life 2011 (Fri 23 Sep 2011)

Sandy Edwards and Bruce York - Sydney Life 2011 (Fri 23 Sep 2011)

Attended the opening of Sydney Life 2011 (*) with Michelle, Billy and Jacob last Friday night.

Here Bruce York, who is a full-time photographer with the State Library of NSW, talks about his photo - George and Hay, shown below in better detail.

Sandy liked the centered hand of the Lady, so of course I then tried to wait until Bruce's hands were in the right place. Used my iPhone as I did not have my S95 with me that day.

George and Hay - Bruce York - Sydney Life 2011 (Fri 23 Sep 2011)

Hand Detail - George and Hay - Bruce York - Sydney Life 2011 (Fri 23 Sep 2011)

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Sydney Life 2009 Collage (Oct 2009)

Sydney Life 2009 Collage - Oct 2009 (picasa)

The 3x2m photos always look great in Hyde Park. Each year I take a photo of all the photos in situ. Gradually putting them together in my picasa account and creating a collage with my favourite photo from the year's photos as the background photo - Tamara Dean The Bride in this case, though I was undecided and put together another collage with Dean Tirkot's - Self Portrait ..

Sydney Life 2009 Collage - Oct 2009 (picasa)

Monday, October 11, 2010

Sydney Looking Forward (2002-2003) and Sydney Life (2004-2010) Programme Covers

Cover - Sydney Life 2010 - Art and About 2010 (picasa)

Cover - Sydney Life 2009 - Art and About 2009 (picasa)

Cover - Sydney Life 2008 - Art and About 2008 (picasa)

Cover - Sydney Life 2007 - Art and About 2007 (picasa)

Cover - Sydney Life 2006 - Art and About 2006 (picasa)

Cover - Sydney Life 2005 - Art and About 2005 (picasa)

Cover - Sydney Life 2004 - Art and About 2004 (picasa)

Cover - Sydney Looking Forward 2003 - Art and About 2003 (picasa)

Cover - Sydney Looking Forward 2002 - Art and About 2002 (picasa)

Sydney Looking Forward 2002 (16-29 Sep 2002)

Cover - Sydney Looking Forward 2002 - Art and About 2002

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This large format photographic exhibition displayed along the grand central walkway of Hyde Park North turns Hyde Park into an open air gallery. These stunning images and the park's natural beauty complement each other to create and impressive visual treat. Stroll through the park on your way to work, amble home as the ligth fades or return at the weekend with all the family.

Artists were invited to portray a single image, a representation of Sydney. Their brief was to create an image which would make a unique and contemporary statement about the city and its inhabitants - its mood, vitality, celebrations, natural or man-made environment - in essence to evoke and uplifting sense of the present and towards the future.

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"I am delighted to have this opportunity to curate this exhibition that so beautifully profiles the work of both emerging and better known Australian photographers. To curate this exhibition I specified themes of light and life. I was seeking images that use light in an unusual way to make a striking and unique statement about Sydney life and culture."

Curator, Sandy Edwards

The Photographers

Michael Amendolia
Narelle Autio
Paul Blackmore
Patricia Casey
Peter Collie
Christine Gleisner
Matt Glenn
Emil Goh
Tim Hixson
Lisa Hogben
Sophie Howarth
Meagan Leece
Junko Miyama
Trent Parke
Anita Mathews Pollard
Emma Reilly
Peter Solness
Anke Stacker
John Williams
Anne Zahalka

Meet the artists on location in Hyde Park from
2pm-4pm, Saturdays 21 and 28 September.

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Sydney Life 2010 (23 Sep - 24 Oct 2010)

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Sydney Life

Sydney is a captivating canvas, a city of varied moods and colours, a place of both darkness and light.

This year’s stunning Sydney Life exhibition shows us the many sides of the city through the eyes of some of our most exciting photographers. Their striking large-scale images are on display in the beautiful leafy central walkway of Hyde Park North – a unique location for a unique and much loved exhibition.

Sandy Edwards (Creative Producer, Arthere and Curator, Stills Gallery), Robert McFarlane (photographer and writer), and Ace Bourke (curator) chose 22 finalists from 500 entries. Using portraiture, landscape, the staged and the candid, these photographs capture moments of playfulness, humour, melancholy and peace.

Sydney Life Artist Conversation

Wednesday 6 October
Join Sydney Life photographers past and present as they discuss photographing Sydney’s environment & characters.
6.30 – 7.30pm
Burdekin Hotel
Oxford Street, Darlinghurst


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The Photographers and their Photographs

Geoff Harvey - My Shed In St Peters - A Self Portrait
Paris Spellson - Bondi Beach Local
Steve Christo - Cole Classic
Stephen Wiessner - ANZAC Day 2010
Jenny Templin - Carmen, Elizabeth Street
Adrian Cook - That Summer
Ernest Fratczak - Based on a True Story
James Hill - The Five Ways Theatre
John McRae - The Young Photographer
Christopher Lawrie - Mikhail and the Dust Storm (more here)
Tom Williams - The Osman Family, Southerly Storm Approaching Brighton Beach
Kelly-Ann Denton - Donna
Ian Darling - The Twins
Nicholas May (winner) - Australia Day, 2010
Fiona Morris - Circus Children Dakota and Cody outside the Big Top, Tempe
Andrew Quilty - Cronulla to Central
Tamara Dean - The Pack
Jon Love - New Life
Dean Sewell - Sydney Dust Storm
Gregory McBean - Cattlemen and Charolais, Homebush 2010
Deborah Clare Veronica West - Sydney Harbour Sunday
Lynn Smith (flickr) - Blue Man

At cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au - Programme