Monash Gallery of Art
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The Bowness Photography Prize has become one of Australia's most important photography prizes. With only 2 weeks to the closing date, MGA is placing a final call for entries to the country's photographers.
The Bowness Photography Prize is also one of the country's most open prizes for photography. In the past, short-listed finalists have included established and emerging photographers, art and commercial photographers. All film-based and digital work from amateurs and professionals is accepted. There are no thematic restrictions.
Shaune Lakin, Director of MGA states: "It is interesting to see that entries this year are coming in from a broad cross section of photographers -- ranging from documentary photographers to fashion and nature photographers, as well as strong representation from contemporary artists. It shows the broad appeal the prize across the country."
This year's prize will be judged by an eminent panel:
Helen Ennis is Australia's most important and widely known curator and historian of photography.
Anne Ferran is one of Australia's leading contemporary photographers collection. She is currently Senior Lecturer in Photomedia at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney.
Shaune Lakin, Director of MGA. Shaune is one of Australia's leading photographic curators and scholars.
Entries close 7 August 2009Entry forms are available from www.mga.org.au
presentation/representation: photography from Germany
On display 2 July – 30 August 2009
MGA is hosting the important international exhibition presentation/representation: photography from Germany, which brings to Melbourne the work of ten of Germany's best contemporary photographers.
presentation/representation is curated by Thomas Weski (curator of Andreas Gursky recently seen at the National Gallery of Victoria), and covers the work of the generation of German photographers that has followed the now-legendary Kunstakademie Düsseldorf generation of Gursky, Thomas Ruff, Thomas Struth and Candida Höfer.
For the artists in presentation/representation, including Matthias Koch, Laurenz Berges and Heidi Specker, photography is a medium that has its own language and characteristics, and their work collectively explores the limits of the medium.
This international touring exhibition was developed by the Institut für
Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) in Germany and is presented in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Australien.
