Judges for Projections 2011 Announced
A big thank you to our judges for offering their time and expertise and taking on the task of choosing our 15 finalists.
Art
Director of CCP, Naomi Cass and Director of Meyer Gallery, Mary Meyer.
Commercial
Advertising photographer, Chris Budgeon and portfolio designer and lecturer, Sally Brownbill
Documentary
Photojournalist, Jason Edwards and Photographic Editor of SMH, Wade Laube
Good luck to all who entered. Winners will be notified by the end of July.
Find out more about Projections 2011 judges or check out last years judges.
It’s a Wrap!
The Projections 2010 national tour wrapped up with an intimate screening at Red Brick Studios in Brisbane on November 23. The screenings in Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra were also a major success with an amazing mix of creative’s and supporters attending and a good time had by all.
For those of you who missed out, the Projections 2010 screening and photographs from the events will be posted on our website very soon.
A big congratulations to all the finalists and especially to Commercial category winner - Katie Kolenberg, Editorial category winner – Hannah Robinson and Art category winner and overall winner Jeremy Blincoe. Also congratulations to Bridget Mac who has received the $10 000 Pool grant.
We would like to thank all our sponsors and the Projections committee for helping us make Projections 2010 the best so far and for all their hard work and passionate support of the awesome initiative that is Projections.
All finalists are invited to attend the Saatchi & Saatchi Master Class in February next year where they will learn more about how an advertising agency works, how to market themselves and get feedback on their portfolios.
But wait, there’s more – the people’s choice winner will be announced shortly. If you voted keep an eye out for the announcement as you could win a limited edition Projections 2010 hard cover book from Momento Pro.
We would love your feedback on any aspect of Projections 2010 as we are already getting ready for Projections 2011 with call for entries to be announced early next year.
If you have a comment, please email projections@acmp.com.au
My Beautiful Shadows – Yiwen Yao
My Beautiful Shadows
My Beautiful Shadows is about memory and the rediscovery of myself from the past to the present. It also contemplates a metaphorical relationship between interior spaces and a state of mind. The inner and the outer; darkness and light are dualities in my own existence. The shadows on the wall reflect the darkness in my heart. However, my exploration of the shadow is not only to retain the sorrow and doubt, but also to highlight a greater appreciation of the positive. As the work has developed, the shadows cast in my room have emerged with new meaning. This creates a metaphor for beauty in nature that grows out of darkness into light as if rediscovering the meaning of life itself. The trees and flowers in the images not only represent the shapes of memories, but also relate to the Chinese philosophy of maintaining a natural state of mind.
Yiwen Yao
After graduating in Beijing at Shifan University in China in 2000, Yiwen Yao emigrated to Australia in 2003.
From 2004-2006 she achieved a “ Diploma of Arts-applied photography” at North Melbourne Institute Tafe, Melbourne, Australia.
Since 2007 she is undertaking “Bachelor of Arts-Fine Art Photography” at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
“My driving force of taking photo is that I always seek to clarify my relationship with the world, either inner world or outer world. Photography gives me the freedom to express and explore, at the same time, it fulfills the life purpose for me, as I believe any form of art could be a universal language to communicate one human being to anther.”
Cityshrinker – Ben Thomas
Cityshrinker
You see amazing things every day. It could be out the window of the train on your way to work, it could be in your back yard, even better it could be somewhere completely foreign, something you didn’t know existed. My aim is to give that feeling of newness with each shot I take. My method is to take what was once large and shrink it down to model size. To take the familiar and get you thinking even if for a second “wait a minute, is that…”
Ben Thomas
Born 1981 in Adelaide Australia, Ben Thomas developed his creative itch playing jazz trumpet then moving onto filming the local bands he grew up admiring. Ben later graduated from the International Design Effects and Animation School (Adelaide) before picking up a still camera and a new city, Melbourne.
Since then he has been working on various projects and became a Featured Artist at the Adobe Design Center and was published in the Sustainability Victoria 06/07 Annual Report just to name a few.
In 2007 he becomes the winner of Redbubble Unleashed photography competition and lands several publications and covershots and feature articles in magazines. Ben is constantly evolving the techniques he employs to bring about a style that is not only creative but fun.Email: ben@cityshrinker.com
Website: www.cityshrinker.com
Isolation – Matthew Batten
Isolation
In this series, I set out to dramatically captured the overpowering awe of complete loneliness, whether in the sheer solitude of the dejected and decaying inanimate objects, or in you, as the viewer of emptiness. Surrounded by the silence, you can feel the inhuman embrace of total seclusion. Standing in that field, at the base of that hill, or deep in the woods, you are certain that you could disappear right there and then. And perhaps you already have. Would anyone notice? This vulnerability is the drama of isolation.
Matthew Batten
Matt graduated as a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in the visual arts of painting and drawing. He exhibited his fine art before pursuing a career in advertising as a designer then as Art Director for the past 8 years.
His passion for creativity took a new turn when he discovered the world through a camera lens. A certificate course from the Australian Centre for Photography cemented the knowledge he needed to flourish as a photographer.
Some would say it’s a dangerous thing when an Art Director starts turning out his own shots, but when you couple the creative spark and the photographic art in the same mind, there are no limits.
Email: jester@saatchi.com.au
Website: www.happyjester.com
Landscapes about Us – Ward Roberts
Landscapes about Us
Ward Roberts’ Landscapes About Us series is a distilling exploration of loneliness and isolation.
Robert’s casts his lens to both natural and urban environments in search of locations of melancholic stillness. Rich in all life but human, a sense of desertion & desolation resonates across these landscapes. Arresting silence fills each frame. The landscape is a character; a flesh-less substitute for a lonely human soul who has endured trying times and relationships, but rests now in solitude. Robert’s employs tight formal compositions, but pure minimalism is frequently disrupted by a single object of significance which punctuates the vacant landscape.
Ward Roberts
Ward Forsyth Roberts was born in Adelaide. He lived abroad in Hong Kong for a number of years and returned to Melbourne, Australia where he studied photography in High School.
Ward went on to study photography at RMIT University and graduated with a Bachelor of Photography in 2008.
In the same year, he was awarded the Victorian Photography Student of the Year award in the portraiture category, the ACMP Les Walkling award for Architectural, Industrial and Commercial Photography, the Irwin Maclaren Landscape Award and the Blindspot exhibition peoples choice award.
Interesting Faces – Stephen David
Interesting Faces
These images are from a series titled “Interesting Faces”. After approaching people in the street I placed them by a nearby wall and took 6-12 images. The whole process from “Hi” to “Bye” took 4-5 minutes, with the actual photography taking less than 1 minute. Taken at busy locations, like Flinders Street, meant that most people were in a hurry and rushing by.
All portraits were shot on 35mm film or digital and some were taken with on-camera flash.
The idea of the series stemmed from the old addage of “looking at the ordinary and seeing the extrodinary”. The simplicity of the headshots relies on the subject and their expressions.
Stephen David
Originally from India, Stephen arrived in Australia in 1969. In 2000, he completed his degree in Photography at RMIT Universtiy, Melbourne.
Having studied commercial photography, he has mainly focused on personal work for the last 9 years, with the exception being a number of weddings he has photographed. He looks forward to exhibiting his personal work in the near future.
Untitled – Stewart Leishman
Untitled
This series is a personal ongoing documentation of urban commuters in their urban environment. My original inspiration started whilst capturing contemporary architectural buildings with daily commuters in their day to day environment.
I began to relate to these people on their quest to reach a destination, a goal, which I guess is what we spend most of our lives doing. I’ve also found in my own experiences that the lightness & darkness in each image somehow represents the 2 sides to most human behavior patterns with all the shades of grey in between.
Stewart Leishman
Stewart was born in Sydney, grew up in Cairns and now lives in Melbourne. His profession for the past 12 years has been cooking, working as a chef. He accidentally discovered photography whilst on a holiday in Hong Kong. With a Sony Cyber shot point & shoot, there was no stopping.
Even now, after two and a half years of photographing, he is surprised to look back at the images that he created without knowing any compositional laws. A friend commented that he had an eye after viewing snap shots, however it needed refining. “It was that moment that could have crushed my hopes and dreams but his encouragement lead me on to the path of photography”.
Untitled – Dan O’Day
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It’s the witching hour. That time of night where everything outside is completely still. My senses are heightened and soon become exaggerated…all thoughts quickly convert to paranoid realizations. Before I know it the pounding coming from inside my chest is the loudest sound in the room, “stop thinking, stop thinking, stop thinking”
Am I alone? Or are there other bedroom soldiers out there at war with their own imagination.
Dan O’Day
Holding his first solo photographic show in 2006, Dan has held a number of solo exhibitions and has participated in many group exhibitions since. His work has been well documented in the Canberra press as well as being included in a number of national publications. He has been lucky to be the recipient of numerous art awards, including the Canberra Critics Circle 2007 Photographic Award and in 2009 being a “Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize“ finalist.
His latest solo exhibition “My Paper Pictures” was held at the Catherine Asquith Gallery in Carlton,Victoria.
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.
Belco Pride – Lee Grant
Belco Pride
Triggered by a piece of graffiti, I find myself lost in the wilderness of where I call Home.
“I always believed it was the things you don’t choose that makes you who you are; your city, your neighborhood, your family. People here take pride in these things, like it was something they’d accomplished. Like the bodies around their souls, and the cities wrapped around those. I lived on this block my whole life; most of these people have.”
(Excerpt from Dennis Lehane’s Gone Baby Gone)
Lee Grant
Based in Canberra, Lee Grant looks after 2 kids, an online gallery called “Lightjourneys” and her photography business. She is also doing her Master of Philosophy (department of Photography and Media Arts) at the Australian National University.
Her work has been exhibited at various shows around Australia and the US, such as the “Kodak Salon“ (Melbourne) and the “PhotoPlus Expo World in Focus” in New York. Her work can currently be viewed at the Australian Center for Photography in Sydney as part of a group exhibition called “Inheritance“, and also as a finalist of the “Head on” Portrait Prize.
