Show Us Ya Tits – Gemma-Rose Turnbull
Show Us Ya Tits
My photographic project “Show Us Ya Tits” looks at the role breasts play in women’s lives. This series combines portraits of women relating some of the defining experiences of having breasts, and their attitudes toward them. With images of breasts displayed in public, I am most interested in how breasts are perceived within popular culture and how individuals and groups respond to this.
I am also interested in the way women see the role and function of their breasts, and how they judge their aesthetic appearance compared to media stereotypes. I intend to continue the series by looking at the role breasts play in the lives of women who make a living with them.
Gemma-Rose Turnbull
Gemma-Rose graduated with first class Honours in Photojournalism/Social Documentary from the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University (QCA) in 2005. After completing months of work experience at The Sydney Morning Herald and The Northern Star she started a full time position as a photographer with The Northern Star, a regional daily newspaper based in Lismore, Australia.
She is currently working as a freelance photographer in Brisbane, Australia. During the course of her degree she travelled to Vietnam to work as technical support on the Indochina Media Memorial Foundation workshop with Tim Page who is an adjunct proffessor at Griffith University. She returned again in 2007 to supervise the tech- nical systems and to design the IMMF magazine. Gemma is tutoring photography at Griffith University this year.
Email: info@gemmarose.com.au
Website: www.gemmarose.com.au
Knackery – Kristian Scott
Knackery
For the last couple of years I have enjoyed the experience of entering into different environments through photography. I have met people from all walks of life and through my images and technique, I hope to show a creative glimpse into the lives of others. The Knackery is a place not many of us would usually get to see; through my images I wanted to show the dark brutality of the place.
Kristian Scott
Kristian was born in 1974. He has finished a photography degree at RMIT at the end of 2007 in which he specialised in photojournalism/documentary photography and graduated with high distinction. The ACMP has awarded him Best Industry Folio.
Now he is working as a photography assistant and freelance photographer and sees his future in the editorial area of photography and long term documentary work in Australia and Overseas.Email: kscottphoto@gmail.com
Website: www.kristianscott.com
Grandma – De Sheng Lim
Grandma
My grandmother, she doesn’t even know her own birthday. She tells me back then people never recorded birthdays lest somebody use it for black magic. She has lived in Melbourne for thirty-odd years. She doesn’t speak English. Her house is always so cold I tell her to turn on the heater. She collects many things, or rather she doesn’t throw out old stuff. I didn’t meet her until I was 5 years old. I remember walking up to her, a round big lady. She gave me a red pocket. I didn’t see her again for another few years. My mother and grandmother were estranged. Who is my grandmother?
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
Untitled – Hayden Golder
Untitled
The ‘selective focus’ technique that runs throughout the twelve portraits in my series “Untitled” allows the viewer to focus on the subjects’ individuality amidst their busy environments. I chose subjects that not only looked interesting but lead interesting and eccentric lives. I wanted to show something of their personality by capturing them in their natural surroundings – bedrooms, living rooms, hang-outs – wherever they spend most of their time or go to relax and get away from the outside world.
Hayden Golder
Melbourne based photographer, Hayden Golder entered the photographic industry shooting for international skate magazines One, Rolla, Be-Mag and Slam.
In 2007, Golder graduated from RMIT University attaining his BA Photography with Distinction and has since shot for premier engineering companies Cardno and Tomkinson and surf/skate giant Rip Curl.
Between assisting commercial photographer Louis Petruccelli, Golder is currently photo editor for Rolla magazine and maintains his position as Australia’s leading inline skate photographer.Email: me@haydengolder.com
Website: www.haydengolder.com
Lest We Forget – Danny Eastwood
Lest We Forget
I shot this series of portraits on ANZAC Day, 2007. In meeting and talking with these guys I got a real sense of what an extraordinary day this is for them. These men put our history of war and conflict in a far more familial context. Their faces reflect a living connection to this tradition, and for them ANZAC Day is a time of remembrance and camaraderie. Lest we forget.
Danny Eastwood
Danny Eastwood completed a Bachelor of Design at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Having intended to study Industrial Design he ended up majoring in photography instead.
After completing his degree Danny moved to Christchurch to work full time in a commercial photographic studio for two and half years.
Danny moved to Sydney in 2002 where he has worked with some of Australia’s best advertising photographers as well international photographers such as Wim Wenders. His work has taken him throughout Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Singapore.
At the end of 2007 Danny made the decision to start shooting full time for himself. Commercially, he focuses on advertising and conceptual work, while his personal work covers a broad range of subjects, each linked by a desire to reveal the extraordinary in the everyday. Email: mail@dannyeastwood.com
Website: www.dannyeastwood.com
Of Droughts and Flooding Rains – Rodney Dekker
Of Droughts and Flooding Rains
Australia is experiencing one of its worst droughts on record. This photo story reveals the heart of the resilient farmer, the desperation of the parched landscape and the deliverance of drought-breaking rain. In some ways it is a snapshot of the current state of farming in Australia. This series is part of a year-long project that I have been shooting as a committed member of the Beyond Reasonable Drought photography project.
Shooting this series has taken me to the dry lands of South Australia, central NSW and western Victoria and to central Queensland and Gippsland in Victoria to capture further hardship after severe flooding.
Rodney Dekker
Born 1974 in Canberra, Australia, Rodney Dekker is a self-taught Australian photographer whose passion is photographing environmental, humanitarian and social stories to inspire hope for change with drama and reality. The importance of documentary photography to Rodney is the stuff of providing reflexivity between a historical record and our definition of now.
In just two and a half years, Rodney is already making quite a name for himself by winning a number of national and international awards. He was nominated by his peers as one of the top ten Australian photojournalists – Australian’s Top Photographers 2008.
After receiving a Bachelors Degree in Environmental Science he is now completing a Masters Degree in Environmental Analysis and International Development. He has secured a grant by SEARCH for a documentary project commencing in 2008 to photograph the effect of sea level rise on island communities and is currently seeking additional funding and collaborators.
Email: rodney.dekker@gmail.com
Website: www.rodneydekker.com
In Between – Abhijit Chattaraj
In Between
Three and a half decades after the war in Indo-China officially came to an end, Vietnam stands at a point when history is turning a page. As it moves away from the scars of conflict to embrace the promise of prosperity, one Vietnam strains at the fetters of poverty and deprivation, the other winces from memories of living nightmares. The iron fist of an authoritarian regime has softened, but its grip remains, and fears of uncertainty linger like ghosts in the shadows of the mind. These photographs are glimpses into the lives of Vietnamese people: images from bustling cities and sleepy villages nestled among mangrove swamps, of people who have endured and persevered, who have faced adversity with temperance, and hardship with resolve. People who toil today in the hope of a better tomorrow.
Abhijit Chattaraj
Abhijit has had an extensive University career starting in 1995 at the University of Calcutta, India, achieving an bachelor of Commerce. He then moved to Australia and continued studying at RMIT where he mastered in Technology Computing and finished his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in computer Science in 2005.
2006 he decided to give photography a shot and visited a Certificate Course in Studio Photography at RMIT, followed by a Certificate of Professional Photography. Since 2007 Abhijit is working on his Bachelor of Arts in Commercial Photography.
Email: abjet@abjet.net
Website: www.abjet.net
Deni Ute Muster – Cara Bowerman
Deni Ute Muster
Since 1999, the rural town of Deniliquin, affectionately known as ‘Deni’, in New South Wales has claimed the Guinness Book of Records title for the largest parade of utes in the world. The Deni Ute Muster is a two-day festival celebrating the good, the bad – and the dusty – of Aussie ute culture. 2007 was no exception, with Deni welcoming 6235 utes and more than 18,00 people to admire this icon of the outback.
Cara Bowerman
Cara Bowerman is a freelance photographer specialising in documentary photography and photojournalism.
In 2007, she graduated with Distinction from the BA Photography (Arts) program in 2007, receiving the University’s Kallman Feital Award for High Achievement in a Professional Sphere. Late in 2007 she also received a Silver Award in the Australian Professional Photography Awards.
Cara specialises in photojournalism – in particular, documentary photography – and her work aims to look deeply into the identity of people, and of the places they inhabit. She is currently undertaking a comprehensive documentary study of Chewton, a small town in the Victorian Goldfields.
Email : cara@carabowerman.com
Website: www.carabowerman.com
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.
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.”
