Cities are Like Oceans explores the place of human beings in cities that are increasingly chaotic and where modernity takes over traditions that have been established over time. Man as a social being no longer has a place here. Human scale has been reduced to nothing. Man, with an individualistic future is lost like a drop in the urban ocean. Houses crumble, skyscrapers grow, the ground is filled with urban communication networks. The world marches on. Cyrus is guided by the feeling that links the individual to everything else. The light is that of dawn or dusk, of neon or storms, to dramatise the seemingly unavoidable evolution.
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World Press Photo conducts an annual, international competition to acknowledge the very best photojournalism in the world. Each year, an independent international jury, consisting of thirteen members, judges the entries in ten different categories, submitted by photojournalists, agencies, newspapers and magazines from all corners of the world. This year’s competition attracted 5,508 photographers from 124 countries. In total 96,268 images were entered in the contest. The annual exhibition is shown this year at about 100 venues all over the world. This year’s exhibition contains 196 photographs. It is an annual public showcase f...

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FotoFreo 2010: The City of Fremantle Festival of Photography is delighted to announce the opening of bookings for the Magnum Workshop Fremantle, an Australian first and a unique photography experience held in the beautiful port city of Fremantle in Western Australia.

As part of FotoFreo 2010, Magnum Photos will present an intensive, practice oriented five-day photography workshop from 15th – 19th March. Three international photographers from the renowned photography agency, Trent Parke, David
Alan Harvey and Chien-Chi Chang, will lead intimate groups of twelve individuals through a program of gr...

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Born in 1979, Carrie Levy is a New York based photo editor, curator, professor of photography and photographer. She has worked in recent years as photo editor for Newsweek, The New Yorker, Random House, The New York Times Magazine and Vogue. Currently Director of Education at the Hudson Center for Contemporary Art in Peekskill, New York, Levy is also part-time faculty at Parsons The New School for Design. Levy’s photographic work is based on confinement, authority and control. Her series of images, Domestic Stages was exhibited at DCFA in 2005 and Impaired in 2007. Levy has been included in exhibitions at the Howard Yezerski Gallery,...

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Pat Brassington (b 1942), artist, was born in Hobart and studied at the Tasmanian School of Art. One of Australia's foremost photo-based artists, she has been exhibited and collected extensively in Australia and overseas and featured in such prestigious events as Australian Perspecta 1989 and the Sydney Biennale 2004.
Brassington's work references surrealism, feminism and fetishism. Photographic motifs, collaged or digitally manipulated, create disconcertingly ambiguous imagined states which fascinate and disturb. Images evoke uneasy tensions between bizarre, sinister intimations of menace and weirdly beautiful, benign harmonies. Op...

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Narelle Autio’s vibrant and award-winning images of Australian coastal life have won her impressive national and international acclaim.  Since they were first exhibited at Stills Gallery in 2000, her vivid images have also captured the hearts and imaginations of viewers.  One beauty of Autio’s work is its ability to speak to so many people about their own experience of being coastal dwellers.  Another is the play of colour and light in the photographs, giving them a magic and painterly quality that transcends the usual depictions of the beach.  Autio’s images give back to the coastline the complexity, ...

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The Nikon-Walkley Awards are the highest honour for Australian photojournalists. With categories for news, daily life, feature and sport photography, and special prizes for portrait and community/regional photography. The Walkley Awards recognise excellence in journalism - from the most senior levels of the Australian media and photography, to non-fiction authors, young journalists and student journalism.

Finalists 2009

Daily Life / Feature Photography - Gallery

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Stephen Dupont, Monster Children, “Port Moresby”

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Simon Obarzanek was born in Israel in 1968 and currently lives and works in Melbourne. Graduating with a Bachelor of Photography in 1989 from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, his first solo show Simon Obarzanek 96-02 was at Max Bernstein Gallery, Melbourne in 2002. Since then he has had a string of solo shows including Portraits, Max Bernstein Gallery, 2005; 80/137 Faces, 2006, Centre for Contemporary Photography, 2006; 80 faces, Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne, 2006 and 10pm-1am, Karen Woodbury Gallery Melbourne, 2007. Obarzanek has also exhibited in numerous group shows in Australia and overseas since 1999. Obarzanek's work...

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During the past two years the Dutch photographer Annet van der Voort called her atelier a floral laboratory. Here she observed the transformation of flowers, especially tulips, which she kept in order to use them in their various states of decay for her art. Her technique for producing these images is modern and completely without camera. In a complex process, she scanned the wilting splendor of the flowers and in doing so created a special visual space that corresponds to her understanding of vanitas, the philosophical idea of the transience of everything mundane. Her images are first and foremost constant attempts to home in on the issue...

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°SOUTH is a photographic collective of Australia’s most creative and award-winning documentary photographers who have covered conflicts from Vietnam to present day Afghanistan.  These photographers live a very unique lifestyle and often perform at great risk to themselves to tell the story. The dedication of ‘°SOUTH’ is to record ‘evidence’ in a fair, truthful and informative way, following on the great Australian tradition of Frank Hurley, Hubert Wilkins, George Silk, Max Dupain and Damien Parer.  Wars are complex situations that defy easy answers.  With the courage of a soldier and the...

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Yiloga! Is an exploration of the importance of football in the life of remote Aboriginal community. The exhibition by Peter Eve and Monica Napper captures the way in which footy has become an integral part of Tiwi culture and highlights not just the Tiwi community’s passion for the game of AFL (Australian Rules) football but also its
positive influence on community life.

In co-production with ArtBack Northern Territory

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Donna Bailey, James Brickwood, Tamara Dean, Jesse Marlow, Nick Moir, Jeremy Piper, Andrew Quilty, Dean Sewell, Steven Siewert, Tamara Voninski

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Everything turns problematic, questionable, subject of analysis and doubt: Progress and Revolution. Youth. Motherhood. Even Man. And also Poetry...

Life is Elsewhere (Milan Kundera)

It was in the summer of 1999 when my mother was diagnosed with an acute case of Paranoid Schizophrenia. I was 17 then. The doctors, in retrospect, had said that she had already started developing the symptoms many years prior to that. Symptoms that nobody had noticed. But it was the break up with my father that caused her condition to suddenly come alive and then deteriorate. Over the years, the walls of our home started to peel of...

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Beginning with the United States government's failed response to the flooding of New Orleans in 2005, the American people suffered through a series of devastating corruptions of their traditional structures of support. Stranded is a meditation on the despondence of the American psyche as this collapse of certainty left the country stuck in an unfamiliar space between distress and relief. In this series the car serves as both figurate symbol of American destiny and a literal representation of the personal breakdowns on the road to that promise. The images live in the road photography tradition of Robert Frank, Stephen Shore and Joel Sternfe...

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Women in the DR Congo suffer from Sexual and Gender-based Violence (SGBV) by different militia groups and civilians. According to UNFPA, 13,247 cases a year, and an average of 1,100 cases are reported each month in the country. One of the reasons for the highest sexual violence in the world is the notion of impunity on perpetrators, who, in the case of rebels, escape back to the jungle after committing the crime. However, there is an increasing number of women speaking out, trying to arrest the perpetrators. There are both military and civil courts in Goma that deal with rape cases, and without the DNA or age tests, the tribunals struggle ...

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Slab City has been created by a small but committed squatter’s community. It lies in the Colorado Desert in South Eastern California and takes its name from the concrete slabs that remain from an abandoned World War II base. It is a truly horrific and romantic landscape that commands residents to possess the same balance of beauty and beast. Unbearable temperature highs in the summer weed out the many who inhabit the free space in the winter, leaving only the most resilient, or the most unfortunate to become permanent residents. It is also these people who maintain the ad-hoc infrastructure that makes it such a desirable community to...

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Viviane Dalles was born in France in 1978. Passionate about the history of art, she studied applied art at the University Paul Valéry in Montpellier. In 1999 she entered the National School of Photography in Arles. After graduating, she worked in Paris at the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation where she archived the famous photographer’s prints. Following that, at the Magnum agency. At the beginning of 2005, following the tsunami, she quit her job at the archives of the Magnum agency and bought herself a ticket to the Tamil Nadu region in India. Here she witnessed the victims’ lives as the media coverage faded out. She spe...

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In 1999, after 25 years of Indonesian rule, the people of East Timor went to the polls to vote in a referendum offering Independence or self-autonomy. The resistance and protracted guerrilla war that ensued Indonesia’s invasion in 1976 had resulted in an estimated 100 000 people dead and the East Timorese overwhelmingly voted for full independence. In response, military backed Militia, loyal to Indonesia, went on a rampage, destroying 70% of the country’s infrastructure and forcing an estimated 300 000 people across the border into Indonesian West Timor.

Order was returned after the intervention of the Australian...

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Memory and cultural idiosyncrasies inform the photographic works by Brad Rimmer. The recollection of growing up in rural Australia, the quietness of the landscape and the silence of the unspoken word. The series Silence alludes to the shifts in rural expansion and its demise, the changes in the social structures where the advent of the car, transport, better road infrastructures opened the way for new experiences. Where the once insular town has slowly lost its youth, its lifeblood and now exists as a residue of memory.  Through contemplative and introspective images Brad Rimmer searches for the familiar; the recognisable elements whi...

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The Blue Room Eugene Richard’s first colour project, a moving, highly personal project that brings together the themes that encompass all of Richards’ work – what he describes as the ‘transient nature of things’. The photographs are portraits of the abandoned and forgotten houses of western America in areas such as the plains of Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico and the Dakotas. In the early twentieth century, railroads lured settlers west with the promises of homesteads and towns rose across the plains. But in the wake of the Depression and the dust storms of the 1930s the towns faltered then failed. Richards enig...

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Commissioned by FotoFreo, this project will look at six of Fremantle’s social clubs, which have played such a vital role in the community’s history but are now facing declining and ageing membership. Award-winning photojournalist David Dare Parker will produce the exhibition and combine with writer Ron Davidson to produce a limited edition book, which will be launched during FotoFreo 2010.

I am sitting at one end of the freshly painted bar at the Fremantle Workers Social and Leisure Club. It is lunchtime. The bar is busy over all of its 30 metres; as is the café and TAB which in another age was the club li...

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Southern Africa: A portrait in black and white' by Joy Harwood-Cooke. Joy studied photography in South Africa under John Everand then in London at the Regent Street Polytechnic. Here she served an apprenticeship under Angus McBean and Marcus Adams, the Royal Family photographer, in the early 1950s. After returning to South Africa in 1953 Joy photographed for TIME and LIFE which included covering the Royal Tour of Rhodesia. This magazine work was in conjunction with commercial contracts with leading South African companies and the Tourist Commission. The South African Department of Information approached Joy to produce a collection of photo...

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The project In the Shadow of Photography is eminently photographical in a twofold sense: it talks about a presence which is also an absence, in the sense that it reflects on the medium of photography with very few actual photographs; and it considers its own self-reference in a natural, innate way, without forcing any awkward situations. This reflection is carried out from an essential yet (or possible necessarily) invisible position. It considers the way in which the appearance, democratisation and extension of photography has changed our social behaviour.

This set of thirty objects includes drawings, photographs taken from...

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This expansive inter-generational exhibition records the wide-ranging changes to the built environment which are underway in China today. Showcasing Ma Laing’s ‘wonderlands’, Ji Zhou’s futuristic representations of traditional Chinese architecture, and Qinwen’s account of the destruction of the old, stories traditional and contemporary intermingle. Another Story further extends the ongoing dialogue between FotoFreo and Pingyao International Photography Festival, one of China’s eminent photography events.

Zhang Guotian has been the Chief Artistic Director of Pingyao International Photograph...

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Having taken up amateur photography at the age of 21, the younger Dwyer followed his own fortune to the remote Goldfields of WA in 1892. Dwyer established his own studio in Kalgoorlie in 1901 and by the time he sold his studio in 1917, Dwyer had amassed a collection of some almost 11,000 glass plate negatives. Dwyer’s broad oeuvre captured the remarkably rapid urbanization and industrialization of the Western Australian desert and the people that populated it.

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FotoFreo is a month long international photography festival held every two years in Fremantle, Western Australia. The festival is organised and managed by FotoFreo Inc. To date there have been four successful festivals, the last of which was held in late March early April 2008. The next festival will be held in 2010, from the 20th of March through until the 18th of April.

Since the first FotoFreo festival in 2002, the event has more than doubled in scale and scope each time it has been held. The festival has established a national reputation and is also now well known throughout the international photographic community. The ...

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