| From the Old Parliament House in Canberra, now home for the Australian National Portrait Gallery, to the Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery in Fremantle, Western Australia, the “Contact/s: The Art of Photojournalism” exhibition is pursuing its tour of the big island that began in Sydney at the Australian Center for Photography on June 1, 2007. At the OPH, in the country‚Äôs capital, the full exhibition opened on June 3 for a 2-month run, a day before a shorter version with large-sized prints was presented as part of 30 official exhibitions invited by Australian photo-entrepreneur Bob Hewitt to the fourth edition of the month-long 2008 FotoFreo biennial photography festival near Perth. Stephen Dupont was also present at the festival with twenty life-size prints from “Axe Me Biggie,” his exhibition of black and white Polaroid portraits from Afghanistan.
Robert Pledge who officially opened the festival, chaired a 2-day “Picture Editing and Photojournalism - Future Challenges” seminar at Western Australia’s University of Notre Dame before lecturing on contact sheets as historical artifacts in the Old Parliament House’s venerable Chamber of Representatives. |
© Stefan Postles
© Stefan Postles
