Awaiting Answers – Natalie Grono
Awaiting Answers
The movement of the 400 villages has formed to put pressure on the government to investigate and resolve land disputes in the eastern state of Vera Cruz, Mexico. They are accusing Dante Delgado, the former Vera Cruz governor in 1992, of stealing their land and of human rights violations. They have decided to come to Mexico City to demand he be investigated and their land returned.
Approximately 120 people are camped out on top of a car parking station in front of the Monumento a la Madre in the middle of the city. Every day the farmers and their families protest naked for 4 hours to state that they are naked of their justice.
I was interested in capturing the daily lives of the community of the movement, from the unusual and eye-catching protest to how they survive squatting in the middle of one of the world’s biggest cities.
Natalie Grono
Natalie loves to cover cultural themes and issues.
Before starting work full time for the Newcastle Herald in 2007 she worked briefly in wedding photography, retail, public relations, and picture sales and spent some years traveling. While in South America she completed a Foundry Photo Journalism Course in Mexico City and has completed a BA Communications at the University of Newcastle and a Photography Certificate at Ultimo Tafe.
Natalie has been awarded 1st place in Feature Photography in the “Northern NSW Journalism Awards” in 2008 and has been featured in several exhibitions and competitions such as the “Moran Prize 2009”, “Head On Portrait Prize 2008”, “Olive Cotton Award and Reportage in 2006.”
Journey of the Cross – Billy Law
Journey of the Cross
World Youth Day (WYD) is the largest youth event in the world and was held in Sydney, Australia in 2008. From 1 July 2008, the WYD Cross and icon followed a fifteen day walking pilgrimage through Greater Sydney, encompassing Wollongong, Parramatta, Broken Bay and Sydney CBD, culminating in the WYD Cross being carried into the Opening Mass of WYD08.
I wanted to experience this event from a non-Catholic perspective without prejudice and unbiased point of view. I gained their trust and was allowed to spend three days following the pilgrims on the last haul of this journey, trying to understand the true meaning of Catholicism. The spirit and devotion of the prayers are undoubtedly admirable.
What happens on the big day is not important because from this experience, I understand the only one thing that can unite everyone in this world as one is to ‘Believe’.
Billy Law
Billy Lawwas born in 1976 in Malaysia and now resides in Sydney, Australia. After many years as an art director in advertising, Billy has decided to pursue photography full time. Billy uses photography as the medium to record the extraordinary from the ordinary. His fast growing portfolio within the last few years has earned him a solid base of clients and projects.
Billys photographs have gained recognition through major awards and have also featured in exhibitions including ACMP Trampoline Projections 07 and Head On Contemporary Portrait Prize 2008. He is currently working on his first solo exhibition.
The Burn – Craig Proudford
The Burn
This series is a look into one of the most dramatic harvesting practices in Australia.
The cane burn only takes fifteen minutes out of a two year crop cycle. For such a small part of cane farming, those fifteen minutes are some of the most intense undertaken by any farmer and could make or break two years worth of hard work for the farmer or their neighbour which is why the techniques of cane burning are not as simple as just lighting a fire. Soon to be replaced by harvesting and milling methods that don’t require the cane to be burnt, the cane burn will shortly be extinguished as a farming practice.
Craig Proudford
Craig was born in Sydney’s south western suburbs and demonstrated a love for visual arts at an early age.
After completing a Bachelor of Visual Arts and a Graduate Diploma in Graphic Design, Craig went on to work as a Graphic Designer in Australia and the UK.
Having always maintained an interest in photography, after returning from overseas in 2005, Craig decided to pursue it full-time.
He has since been working as a photographic assistant with a range of photographers and developing his own style through his personal work.
What Craig enjoys most about photography is the opportunity it gives him to look at the world in a different way and focus his attention on the smallest details giving them a new perspective.
Inventions – Kristian Taylor-Wood
Inventions
Commissioned by McCann Erickson for their Stare gallery, “Invention” is a look into Kristian Taylor-Wood’s wonderfully diseased mind. Influenced by a love for 70’s and 80’s horror films such as “The Shining” and “American Werewolf in London” and recalling his fond memories of a childhood spent breaking into abandoned buildings, Kristian has conjured up a quirky new post apocalyptic world of Lonely people and their Inventions.
Kristian Taylor-Wood
Born in Croydon, south east of London, Kristian Taylor-Wood began his photography career at the cult UK based magazine Dazed & Confused. And so began a life long love affair with the world of photography.
“It’s the way photos can change someone’s perception of the world we live in. Photographs are the materialization of my imagination.”
It is this imagination that has captured the attention of clients and galleries nationally and internationally. Through his photography Kristian brings humour and beauty to even the most unsettling subject matters.
McCann WorldGroup’s Stare Gallery invited Kristian to be one of the first artists to exhibit in their space.
“I don’t want people to just pass my pictures by. I want them to stop and think about what’s going on and then make up their own story.”
The FilmMosaic Project – Shane Rozario
The FilmMosaic Project
The “FilmMosaic” project is a way of seeing with my camera and mimicking the way I observe everything everyday. I find that my eyes dart to various parts of the subject that grab my attention and make sense of the big picture.
I wanted to reflect this way of ‘seeing’, in the portraits of these musicians who see fragments of the world through the people and the places on which their tours take them. They also have to make sense of the big picture from the segments they see while on tour.
Shane Rozario
Shane was born in Bombay, India in 1972. At the age of 11 he migrated to Sydney with his parents and 2 sisters.
While travelling the UK from 1998 to 2001, he photographed many bands and music festivals, such as Ben Harper’s “Will to Live” tour.
When he returned to Sydney Shane began working as full time Assistant for the Advertising Photographer Ian Butterworth and became involved in digital photographic reproduction on a Durst LAMDA.
Continuing his close work with independent bands, artists and music communities, Shane began to explore concepts and ideas which have led to the FilmMosaic series shot on film, of major music acts from Sydney and around the world.
Projection 2009 Print Exhibition
See the work of Projections 09 finalists up close!
As an extension of the extremely successful Projections 09 screenings in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra and Brisbane, ACMP in association with Sony and Saatchi & Saatchi are proud to announce the launch of the Projections 09 Photographic Print Exhibition in Sydney.
The exhibition opening will be held on September 10th 2009, 6:30pm at Saatchi & Saatchi gallery, 70 George St, The Rocks and will feature limited edition prints from the finalists going up for auction.
Projections 09 Winners
Congratulations to the Projections 09 finalists and winners!!
A huge well done to our 2009 overall and art category winner Lee Grant with her series Belco Pride. Congratulations also to our other category winners Kristian Taylor-Wood (Commercial) and George Voulgaropolous (editorial) for their awesome work. Not forgetting our other finalists Shane Rozario, Dan O’Day, Stewart Leishman, Stephen David, Ward Roberts, Mikael Wardhana, Andrew Barbaczy, Craig Proudford, Billy Law, Natalie Grono, Hamish Gregory and Harrison Saragossi who without exception have created work of the highest quality. Check it out yourselves be following the finalists link on the left. Don’t forget to vote for your favourite series in the peoples choice awards and win yourself a Sony camera.
Entries is now closed
Entries are now officially closed so thank you to all who entered and best of luck. We’ve had a big increase in entries again this year with entries from every state except tassie. Judging is about to commence and finalists will be announced in mid April. Screenings and announcement of the 2009 winners will be happening at the end of may so stay tuned for more details.
