20th May to 14th June
The aim of the FPP is to celebrate the best in contemporary portrait photography from all over the world.
The competition caters for a diversity of photographic styles and has attracted entries from gifted amateurs and students as well as established professionals.
So have a look at this stunning series of portraits, get inspired and get your entries in for the 2013 FIPP competition.
If you want to get details on entering here’s the link
OK its better late then never. We have a few formalities to finalize for the Golden Shopping Trolley Awards 2012.
One is the people choice awards voted on by people who visited and voted at The Epson Print Gallery and the winner is Saul Visual’s “Central Park”. What did they win Custom Photo Imaging in Rockingham are supplying a 40 x 60″ stretched Canson HD canvas. Congrats to the Saul Brothers.
Also if any of the finalists want to collect their prints feel free to drop in to Team Digital and collect them. If you cant drop in then we can post the prints back to you , there will be a postage charge though.
Lastly our over all winner of 2012 Ben Clegg has spent his 2 weeks with our Phase One IQ180 kit. Here are some comments that Ben made about his experiences with the Phase One IQ180 kit.
“When it came to opening up the images in Capture One I was blown away by the definition in the images! I had never seen anything like it, is very hard to explain the quality as it is almost 3D, I think my wife said it the best “this camera see’s better than the human eye”.
I have now printed a few images on my Epson Pro 7900 and I have to say they are the best quality prints that I have done to date.”
The second Golden Shopping Trolley Awards were held at The Epson Print Gallery last night & it was a great evening of urban landscape images.
At this point we’d like to thank a few people. Firstly Christian Fletcher and Tony Hewitt for all their enthusiasm for the Shopping Trolley concept and being great shopping trolley handlers (Judges). I know you’d all agree that we simply couldn’t have gotten 2 better judges for an Urban Landscape competition. Love your work, guys.
Thanks to Jo for doing all the running around for the catering, plus all those who helped keep everyone watered and feed during the course of the gala evening.
If you weren’t able to attend last night, don’t panic as the 30 finalists will be on display in The Epson Print Gallery until the 26th January at Team Digital. For those of you who did get along we hope you had a great night. Please let Ben know if you have any feedback regarding the competition.
Custom Photo Imaging in Rockingham are supplying a 40 x 60″ stretched Canson HD canvas to the winner of the People’s Choice award. The only way to register your vote is at The Epson Print Gallery in person.
Anyway, enough of this, how about the images?
Firstly the winner of the Shopping Trolley category : Stuart Westmore
The overall 1st Place : Ben Clegg
The Second Place : Saul Visuals
Equal 3rd Place : Sue-Ann Tilby
Equal 3rd Place : Sheldon Pettit
The Golden Shopping Trolley awards are on again. This year they are bigger and better than ever. For those who don’tknow what the awards are about, put simply it’s a Photo Competition with the theme of Urban Landscape. The judging is done live on Gala night at Team Digital. Did we mention the prize pool is over $10 thousand including cash prizes?
So what can you win?
1st Prize $1500 Cash plus a 2 week loan of the amazing PhaseOne IQ180 camera kit valued at over $ 6400.00
2nd Prize $750 Cash
3rd Prize $ 400 Sandisk memory voucher
Best Shopping Trolley image $ 750.00 Cash
Plus some more to come.
Don’t know what a urban landscape is? Here’s the competition definition:
Urban Landscape is something relating to or concerned with cities, city life or densely populated areas. Urban landscape photography is usually associated with imagery within contemporary mediums, cities, buildings, streets, subways and just about anywhere human life exists and lives. It represents and expresses experiences that exist among these areas and it can sometimes focus more on the patterns or processes of those areas rather than the people.
Here’s the full Terms and Conditions
This year we will also have the 30 finalists on display in The Epson Print Gallery, printed on Canson Platine Fine Art media.
There are a few places left for this opportunity to see some of the best image makers in Australia. Dont miss out !!!
Here’s the link to book or for more information
FRIDAY – 2nd November 2012 – 6pm – 8pm, Garden Art Studio, Marrinyup Drive, Yallingup
Join us on Friday night 6pm for an advanced viewing of the South West Light Exhibition. Enjoy a drink on us and have exclusive access to all the photographers in a relaxed social setting. Join us again on Saturday night for the official opening.
SATURDAY & SUNDAY 3rd & 4th November 2012 – 9.30am – 4pm
Presentations from the six photographers over two days covering a broad range of topics..
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
Dr Les Walkling : Colour management, Contemporary Art Photography
Tony Hewitt : Inspiration, Vision, Creativity
Michael Fletcher : The South West Light Documentary full screening
Nick Rains :Lightroom, RAW Conversion
Christian Fletcher : Fletchers Freaky Photoshop
Peter Eastway :Layers, Creating Photographs
Team Digital are attending The Digital Show in Melbourne this week and over the course of the next few days, we plan to bring you all the latest news from this important event. There will no doubt be a number of exciting new product releases and show promotions to whet the appetite and these will be posted over the course of the week.
Also in conjunction with the Show will be the judging of the APPA Awards, the results of which will be eagerly anticipated by many of Australias leading photographers. Good luck to all of our WA entrants.
Team Digital will take this opportunity to introduce a number of exclusive offers of our own commencing with some unbelievable pricing on Ilford media. Stay tuned.
Over the next few months we will be giving regular updates on whats happening at FotoFreo 2012, here’s the first installment.
FotoFreo 2012 Festival will be comprised of a series of photographic exhibitions curated by FotoFreo Inc. (the Core Exhibitions) in dedicated venues which include the Fremantle Arts Centre, the Western Australian Maritime Museum, the Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery, the Fremantle Prison and a number of commercial art galleries. The Festival will also host evenings of audio visual projections, panel discussions, floor talks, book launches, portfolio reviews, screenings of films about photography and a number of workshops, including three run by photographers from Magnum Photos.
Most of the events that involve visiting photographers and speakers will take place during the first 10 days of the month long Festival period.
CancelFollowing on from the 2008 and 2010 Festivals, FotoFreo has again commissioned new photographic projects for the 2012 Festival and these include a major commission to be undertaken by Martin Parr, in which he will visit and photograph in Broome, Port Hedland, Fremantle and Albany, and a commission by W.A. photographer Bo Wong to investigate the Fremantle Market, a local destination icon. It is the expectation that these exhibitions will tour interstate and possibly overseas after the conclusion of FotoFreo 2012.
A major focus of FotoFreo 2012 will be photography from India. The programme will feature a solo exhibition of the work of Raghu Rai showing at the WAMM on Victoria Quay, a group exhibition of six photographers (including Bharat Sikka, Dileep Prakash, Ketaki Sheth, Gauri Gill, Vidura Jang Bahadur and Pushpamala) curated by Devik Daulett-Singh showing at the Fremantle Arts Cantre and an audio visual projection involving 20 emerging and mid career Indian photographers curated by Sohrab Hura.
In addition there will be a group exhibition of New Zealand photographers, which will include Mark Adams, Joyce Campbell, James Lowe, Richard Orjis and Greg Semu and show at the Fremantle Prison.
A major new initiative set to become a regular feature of ongoing FotoFreo festivals is the FutureGen project showing the work of the best graduating photographers from Australian photography courses and involving an exchange with China and the Pingyao festival where a similar project involving more than 50 Chinese universities is being undertaken.
Submissions for the Fringe Exhibition programme close on 30 November, 2011 :
For 2012, FotoFreo now has an agreement with FORM for the use of the Midland Junction Railway Workshops, referred to as the Atelier, to be used as an exhibition space for the FotoFreo Fringe. The attraction is that a large number of exhibitions will be possible all in the one space and the Atelier is walking distance from the Midland Junction railway station – which is at the opposite end of the railway line connecting directly to Fremantle.
Full details are HERE
€œWe all view the world differently. €
AIPP Western Australian photographer of the Year 2011 James Simmons will showcase his award-winning work in a new exhibition opening at the Orangery Fine Art Gallery in Shenton Park on November 22.
In his first solo exhibition, How Eye Sea, James expresses his perspective of the world through evocative, fine art, and storytelling imagery.
James’ photographic career is already starting to soar after just 5 years in the industry. As well as being named AIPP WA photographer of the Year, he was also named the AIPP National Illustrative Photographer of the Year for 2011. The signature images that brought him these amazing accolades will feature in the exhibition alongside other award winning images.
Supporting artist Olivia Davies also contributes to the exhibition with a selection of her street and abstract photography. In an exploration of sound and still image, Olivia has also composed music to accompany some images in the exhibition.
€˜How Eye Sea’ is open to the public Tuesday 22nd November — Sunday 4th December. It will be held at The Orangery Fine Art Gallery in Shenton Park. Gallery opening times are 11am to 5pm Tuesday to Sunday.
