The Sunday Mail's Summer Festival of Photography

Queensland. The Sunday Mail is calling on the state's army of amateur photographers to submit their best pictures on a variety of topics.
Today, we launch our annual Summer Festival of Photography, which will present exclusive Award of Excellence certificates to those entrants who capture interesting and outstanding photographs.
Those judged to be at the top of their game will have their image mounted in a stylish frame. Readers will be invited to submit photographs under four subject categories over the next eight weeks. The best 50 entries in four categories will go into our Hall of Frame, with each winning photographer receiving a prized Sunday Mail Summer Festival of Photography certificate.
Our judges will then pick the sectional winner in each category to be framed.
The opening category is "Queensland in colour", with the interpretation left up to your imagination.
The topic could cover the an orange sunset spreading across the desert or maybe a happy snap of a colourful Queenslander.
Last year we received thousands of outstanding pictures celebrating Queensland. Judges were impressed by the individuality, quality and clever interpretation of the themes.
To enter "Queensland in colour", email your photo with your name, address and contact number to smphotos @qnp.newsltd.com.au
"Queensland in colour" runs over the next two weeks, after which we will announce our winners and reveal the next exciting category in The Sunday Mail's Summer Festival of Photography

Queensland Centre for Photography 2010

If you would like to be considered for the first half of the QCP 2010 exhibition program, please make sure your application is at the QCP by Sunday 6th December. You can either email, post or deliver your application in person to the QCP Gallery. The forms and application information is online at the QCP website, and then click on the proposal tab, or if you are a QCA student - the QCA student proposal tab.
We look forward to seeing your work!

The QCP gallery will be closed for installation from Monday 30th November and will re-open on Saturday 5th December 5-8pm with exhibitions by Alannah Gunter, Liam O'Brien, Alix Perry, Tara Callaghan, Katie Mitchell, Emily Hornum and Audrey Lam. You are all warmly invited to this last exhibition opening at the QCP in 2009.
Remember, QCP is now on Facebook and Twitter, join us!

Feature Gallery for November

This month I am highlighting my Images of Melbourne.

2009 Photography Competition highlighting Poverty in Australia

Photography Competition highlighting Poverty in Australia

I submitted a few entries in this event and hope it gets enough support to be presented again next year. Congratulations to Welfare Rights for this initiative.At the exhibition at Brisbane City Hall I was able to meet some of the other photographers and celebrate our work for justice making through art.
Youo can view and comment on the images on this flickr site

Images Featured in 2009 NAIDOC Poster

NAIDOC Week is celebrated every year around Australia. NAIDOC stands for National Aboriginal and Islander Day Observance Committee. NAIDOC Week is a celebration of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.

I am pretty proud of this poster as it uses my images from NAIDOC Family Day 2008.

As a Non-Indigenous Person I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute to the process of Reconciliation through my photography and the invitation to engage in cross-cultural sharing.

I invite you to join me in supporting moves to encourage the Federal Government to remove what are seen as areas of discrimination in the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER) legislation.and invite you to look at some of my work with Indigenous Communities in the Northern Territory confronting the cultural cost of the Intervention.

Bearing Witness: Philip Blenkinsop

ABC Late Night Live June 15 2009

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Photographer Philip Blenkinsop has been based in Bangkok for the last twenty years, travelling throughout Asia documenting forgotten conflicts, rebel groups and life and death on Asian streets. His images, that have been published and exhibited around the world, have won him numerous awards. In particular, his photographs of the forgotten people, the Hmong tribe in Laos. Philip is the subject of a documentary about his work.

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Guests

Philip Blenkinsop Photographer based in Bangkok

Further Information Documnentary: "My Asian Heart"

Story Researcher and Producer Kate MacDonald

Pictures to keep you in stitches

The Department of Education and Training is celebrating 2009 as the Year of Creativity (YOC), recognising creativity as an essential 21st century skill.

To help celebrate, the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) is holding a funny photo competition, Re-Framed, taking place in the lead-up to In Stitches - Laughter Stimulus Package from 24 June to 4 July 2009.

Following the success of the 2008 Framed funny photo competition, Re-Framed has returned with prizes worth a total of $2000.

Divided into two categories, the secondary school category is open for students in Years 8 to 12, and the open category for all ages.

All entrants need is a digital photo combining creativity and humour, and access to the internet. Images should be JPEG files, no more than 1MB, at 300dpi resolution. The open category prize money is $1000, and the secondary schools category prize is $500 for the entrant(s) and $500 for their school. School students can enter as individuals or as a group. Re-Framed entries close at midnight on 23 June 2009.

See the In Stitches website for more details, and the Year of Creativity website for other YOC events.