Feature Gallery for February

This month I am highlighting my images from the January 26 "Rage Against Racism" Concert at Musgrave Park in West End

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Queensland Festival of Photography

BRIEF:

The state we're in: Contemporary Queensland photography is the first exhibition to kick off the third Queensland Festival of Photography (QFP3), and it opens Saturday 29th January at 6pm at The University of Queensland Art Museum, University Drive, St Lucia.

A month long festival presenting the finest photography the state has to offer. In its third edition the festival has expanded to include more than 25 participating venues, from Cairns to Toowoomba. Art museums and galleries will present an exciting program of events showcasing the diverse nature of contemporary photographic practice across Australia.

Jugglers Art Space will be one of the participating venues for this years festival, we are currently seeking applications from you!

If you are a photographer and are interested please contact Jugglers Art Space with images of your work and a bio to:

info@jugglers.org.au
Ph:32 522 552
check us out online: www.jugglers.org.au

Photographic Solidarity With The People of Haiti

 Mwen Pa Fou

Over a year ago, the association of L'Arche communities in Quebec (AAQ - Association des Arches du Québec) and L'Arche Canada-Communications began to work together to create a photo exhibit that would illustrate life in L'Arche in Haiti and in Quebec through the artistic eye of photographer Jonathan Boulet-Groulx.

Jonathan Boulet-Groulx is a young reporter-photographer who has been involved with L'Arche as a volunteer and an assistant for more than five years. He has been living in Chantal, Haiti, since May 2009. When he isn't busy with L'Arche Chantal's work-expansion project, he might be nestled in his hammock, or he might be taking photographs that illustrate the living conditions of people with intellectual disabilities in this, his adopted country. He intends to continue this work of photo-documentation indefinitely, in order to paint a portrait of intellectual disabilities in the world ...

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.
You 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

A bit of story

My interest in photography was nurtured by my parents who always had a camera handy to record and document our family life. In recent years I have taken an interest in digital photography and have been recording community gatherings and events in Brisbane.

My images have been published in print and online by Brisbane City Council, the Australian Democrats, the Gay and Lesbian Welfare Association, Queensland Peace Network, various University Student groups, The Catholic Leader, Kiaros Magazine, St Philip's Church Annerley, Junction Park The Annerley Primary School, Oxfam Australia and Senator Andrew Bartlett's web.

Use the menu on the sidebar to explore some of my work and learn about photographers that inspire me.

Locally in Brisbane I invite you to explore the Ted Riethmuller's images of social protest going back 30 years