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
This Side Up – Michael Kai
This Side Up
The series “This Side Up” features optical illusions, designed alternatives and manipulated room perceptions. The spatial arrangement of the images can be interpreted in contradictory ways – a phenomenon that is based on the way in which we can perceive two-dimensional images as being three-dimensional. In images that use a three-dimensional “parallel” perspective, objects can tip over or invert themselves. A concave room, for instance, may thus seem convex, because a person or object that is also shown in the picture can only exist in a convex room. Apart from being entertaining, the intention of the series is to encourage viewers to wonder: Is the world really the way I see it? Is it the way I believe that I see it? Or is it only a mental construction of how I perceive the environment?
Michael Kai
Born 1980 in Frankfurt, Germany, Michael explored and developed an enthusiasm for photography at a young age. On completion of high school he took the opportunity to work as a journalist and documentary photographer in former Yugoslavia immediately after the war. He then studied photography, completing his master in Photo Design at the University of Applied Science Dortmund, Germany in 2007 and intermediately studied at RMIT, Melbourne, Australia.
Michael is a keen traveller. Prior to moving to Melbourne he lived and worked in Vienna, Austria where he gained further experience in the photography industry, specifically in managing digital workflow and professional retouching. Email: michael@miphotodesign.com
Website: www.miphotodesign.com
The Murder Series – De Sheng Lim
The Murder Series
This is a series influenced more so by cinema and film noir. The intention was to create a series of dynamic images that would explore colour and physical expression. An effort was made to avoid mimicking the plethora of over-Photoshopped images that has saturated contemporary photography.
De Sheng Lim
De Sheng comes from a cinematography and film background (Foundations Certificate inFilm& Television.Victorian College of the Arts). Before that he was studying business management at RMIT.
The decision to take up photography was by chance: he enrolled into a local photography college midway through 2005 (Advanced Diploma in Photography. Photography Studies College). He has since left the course to focus on more personal work. I have had my work exhibited a number of times receiving a silver medal in Traditional Portraiture at the AIPP Australian Professional Photography Awards 2007. Email: deshenglim@gmail.com
Hellfire Club – Kellyann Denton
Hellfire Club
The site of my current research is the Hellfire Club in Sydney. It started as a home for freaks, weirdos and the straight voyeurs who like to watch, and is now a recognised brand name. The characters in this body of work carry the physical wounds of a tribe, a people who adorn their bodies with piercing, tattoo’s and highly personal costumes. It is a subculture that celebrates the grotesque body. I have developed these themes in an emerging understanding of the role of personal power and individualism in culture, religion, art, philosophy and psychology.
Kellyann Denton
Kellyann Denton, is vocationally & classically trained in photography, completing her BVA Honors (PhotoMedia) in 2000 from Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney.
Having worked as an assistant photographer and later a digital artist Kellyann has for the past six years been involved with photographic education. Resume includes having written and tutored the digital photographic component for the Australian Centre for Photography 2002 – present, and currently the Digital Visualisation & Master of Documentary Photography course at Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney. In 2008 she commenced lecturing at National Art School. Kelly Aann Denton is currently undertaking a Master of Visual Art, and on completion in 2009 hopes to have her first solo exhibition.
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.”
Between the lines – Mikael Wardhana
Between the lines
“Between the lines” is one of my recent editorial projects inspired by some elements of Greek culture combined with tribal styling. What I wanted to portray here is sophistication and elegance in an unusual way. I wanted to depict an oddness and androgyny-look in this series, hence all the not-so-complete poses from the model. I chose to shoot this project with my Hasselblad V series camera on Kodak Tri-X films.
Mikael Wardhana
Mikael Wardhana is a young fashion photographer recently completing his art degree from RMIT University, Melbourne. He purchased his first camera in 2004 and instantly fell in love with photography as a medium to express himself.
Having studied commercial photography, fashion photography has been his focus for the last 3 years. Mikael’s fashion work has been published in a variety of printed and electronic media, such as The Shutterbug Magazine, The Light Magazine, Capture Magazine and Fallen Magazine. His work has recently been published in major fashion magazines worldwide. Mikael has recently moved to Sydney to pursue his career in Fashion photography.
