Our student's work at Penrith City Library

 The images installed at the Penrith City Library

The fantastic images made by our students for the Queen Street Riches and Textures project are on display again: this time at the Penrith City Library. If you missed the first exhibition, you now have an extended opportunity to see the work, including the large format images on the panels constructed by Anita Nau-Kleinmann, and Nuri Susamci from DEEFA and the Design section at NADC.

 Congratualtions again to Photo Imaging students Barbara Glover, Kira Ogston, Sevket Ufuk Guden and Yvonne Larkins. Full details below:

 

Art Everyday Space at Penrith City Library presents over hundred portraits of St Marys residents who participated in Faces of St Marys - Queen Street Riches and Textures 2013 project.

The images were taken by photographer Chris Peken during his residency a St Marys Corner from April to June this year. In addition twenty four selected images of Queen Street selected for this exhibition reveal creative results achieved with four TAFE students involved in mentorship program which is critical part of Queen Street Riches and Textures projects.

Artists: Chris Peken, Barbara Glover, Kira Ogston, Sevket Ufuk Guden and Yvonne Larkins.

Exhibition: 12 December 2013 - 13 March 2014

Visiting address: Penrith City Library 601 High Street Penrith

Phone: 02 4732 7891

Opening hours: Monday to Friday 9 am - 8 pm, Saturday 9 am - 5 pm, Sunday 10 am - 5 pm

Exhibition catalogue access: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xe30x835qyo628r/Queen%20Street%20Riches%20and%20Textures%20Catalogue%202013%20WEB.pdf

During the Holidays Season the lower library area will be home to nine enlarged photographs from Faces of St Marys - Queen Street Riches and Textures 2013.

Queen Street Riches and Textures is a cultural initiative of St Marys Corner.

Generous support for the project has been provided by the Community and Cultural Development Department of Penrith City Council, Nepean Arts and Design Centre TAFE NSW-Western Sydney Institute and the community of St Marys. For more information please contact stmaryscorner@penrithcity.nsw.gov.au

Transition opens-awards announced

From the Diploma in PhotoImaging show Transition, which opened December 5th @ N.A.D.C. 
It is open until Thursday December 12th, from 8.30-4 p.m. 
A full list of prize winners, and their images will be uploaded soon.

Alumini PhotoImaging student wins Walkley award for Sports Photography

PhotoImaging Alumni Wolter Peeters has won a Walkley award for Sports photography in the awards announced last Friday. Fairfax photographers again dominated the awards....

Sports photography winner - Wolter Peeters - '2013 Sydney International Rowing Regatta'. Photo: Wolter Peeters

This is Wolter discussing his work as a Photojournalist in 2012....

Wolter Peeters

Wet Collodian workshop

As 21st century PhotoImagers we like to remember the origins of Photoshop are in the dark room, and our forebears in the PhotoImaging world from the 19th and 20th centuries.
As part of their Diploma studies our students partook in a Wet Collodian workshop run by Studio 1A in Marrickville in Sydney.
They were walked through the chemical process, the preparation of the plate (aluminium) surface, and then the exposure of a portrait.
The two models (two of our teachers) were lit by available early afternoon window light on one side and on the other side by a bank of Led lights(x4).
You can see the set in the background of the image below; where one of the photographers (Chris) is curing the wet plate with a varnish to protect it, before drying it.

      Christopher Getts warming the varnish on the plate

 

     Sally Colechin                              

 

    Arunas Klupsas

 

The exposure for Sally was 45 seconds @ f.8, using a large format wet plate camera.

The photographers were Pania Newport and Christopher Getts who run Studio 1A, and conduct the workshops. 

Yvonne writes about the Queen Street project

As well as being one of the photographers on the project, Penrith City Council harnessed the talents of Yvonne Larkins to shape the text for the catalogue for the 'Faces of St Mary's : Queen street Riches and Textures' project.
You can read Yvonne's reflections on her experiences in her blog:
http://livonne.com.au/2013/11/22/does-this-make-me-an-exhibitionist/

N.A.D.C community collaboration- November 20-22, 2013

Examples of some of the work our Diploma in PhotoImaging students who worked with Chris Peken on the community project and exhibition 

"Faces of St Marys Queen Street Riches and Textures 2013." The images were laid out and printed by the Design section, and framed by our technical officers. Thanks to all involved in this collaborative project.

PhotoImages by Chris Peken + Sevket Ugden

PhotoImages by Kira Ogston + Barbara Glover

 

documentation by Sally Colechin

Transition....graduating exhibition by Diploma in PhotoImaging students

In two weeks our latest crop of graduating Diploma in PhotoImaging students will be presenting their work, here at N.A.D.C. Please join us if you can...

All works will be for sale, so with the xmas/new year season approaching you are bound to find an image you'd like to give. Congratualtions to all our students and their teachers for their hard work, and thanks again for our wonderful  supporters from our photographic industry.

Some interesting news from overseas in the world of Photojournalism...

This is a really interesting thing to have happened in a publication overseas this week...no images, highlighting the power of the image in publications-be it online or in hard copy print.

.http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2307127/french-newspaper-removes-all-images-in-support-of-photographers#ixzz2kflX0AYH

Queen Street Riches and Textures

Several of our Diploma in PhotoImaging students (Barbara Glover, Sevket Guden, Yvonne Larkins, + Kira Ogston) have worked with a local photographer  -Chris Peken- on this collaborative community project, engaging with the community of St. Marys.

It's that time of year again...if you'd like to be inspired by what other photographers out there are doing, this yearly meet/projection is worth considering...November 28th.

https://www.facebook.com/CrossProjections

Sun Studios Visit

In late October this year several Diploma in PhotoImaging students, along with Arunas Klupsas and Sally Colechin visited SUNSTUDIOS Sydney in Alexandria.

"SUNSTUDIOS Sydney is a busy creative hub for professional photography, television and video production image makers, in a beautiful renovated 1930's woolshed in Alexandria. "

There Scott Osborn gave us a guided tour of the shop, printing/post production area, equipment hire area and several studios.

Our students were then given the opportunity to explore working on a portrait set in one of the professional studios, using amongst other pieces of equipment, the Broncolor Para reflector Umbrella.

Please view the Sun Studios website...

Sun Studios Sydney

Robyn Stacey @ Stills Gallery, show closes on Saturday Nov 9th....all images created with a camera obscura (using a lens).


http://www.stillsgallery.com.au/exhibitions/

Entries now due by November 18th.....

http://acmp.com.au/acmp-student-photographer-of-the-year-2013/

ACMP PO Box 779 North Sydney , NSW 2060

If you are interested in Macro photography, this show is worth a look

http://www.thearthousehotel.com.au/exhibitions/coming-up/josie-eldred/

 

 

Call For Submissions HeadOn Photo Festival 2014

http://headon.com.au

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2014

Entries close November 18th...

http://www.portrait.gov.au/site/nppp-callforentries.php


2013 winner....

Photo byJanelle Low....

Yhonnie and Indiana...

Short course in Digital Photography, Advanced Level

 

image by Natalie Duggan, a student from 2010 in Diploma of Photo Imaging at Nepean Arts and Design Centre.

 We have an short course running on Wednesday evenings next term in Advanced Digital photography. This course is suitable for those students who have completed our short intermediate course in digital photography, or who have a similar level of experience.

In this course you will learn more about studio lighting and advanced photoshop techniques. Students will also be expected to complete a number of assignments in their own time, and bring the work to class for critique.

The  Advanced Digital Photography course runs Wednesday evenings  starting October 9 from 6pm-9pm for 8 weeks  in PG35, Kingswood campus, and costs $435. To secure your place, please enrol now via the link below.

https://www.det.nsw.edu.au/eses/registrationRequest.do?Name=enrolHandlerForm&CourseOfferRecordNumber=1225683

The course is a great opportunity to get feedback on your work from class teacher Thilo Pulch, who is an experienced professional photographer. It is expected that students enrolling in this course have a sound knowledge of the manual operations of their DSLR, and a good working knowledge of photoshop.

Our intro or intermediate courses are recommended for those who wish to learn more about how to use their DSLR, and how to use photo shop. Read more about those courses here:

http://nadc.wsi.tafensw.edu.au/photoimaging/course-info/

Our Awesome TVET Photography students!

image by Josh Newbert, TVET 2013

Our wonderful TVET photography students have finished their studies with us for his year. Congratulations to all the students, and to their teacher Jo Rankine, on the high quality of the portfolios they produced.

Check out some of their amazing work in this album. Well done guys, and we hope to see you back for the Certificate IV Photo Imaging!
Our amazing TVETS

image by Shannon Stimpson

Top Vivid Pics!

 

image by DPM Photography

Our part-time Certificate IV Photo Imaging students had a ball at the recent Vivid festival , practicing their night photography skills. You can check  out some of their work on facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.527590080644172.1073741830.113772038692647&type=1&l=075d68f295

Well done Guys!

Carolyn's competition success!

 Lily at its Simplest Form by Carolyn Hope

 More competition success from a recent Diploma of Photo Imaging graduate! Many congratulations to Carolyn Hope, whose Diploma portfolio photograph 'Lily at its Purest Form' was selected from 1000 entries in Australian Photography's recent flower competition.

We are so proud to see our graduate's work recognised- well done Carolyn!

Tanya's portrait success!

Diploma of Photo Imaging graduate Tanya Heather.

Diploma of Photo Imaging graduate Tanya Heather has just been selected as a finalist for the Freemantle International Portrait Prize. The prize attracted over 1700 entries from 29 countries. Tanya was initially delighted to be accepted into the top 200, and even more thrilled when it was announced she made it into the final 75, and will be part of the exhibition to be held at the Moores Contemporary Art Building in Freemantle  later this month.

The exhibition will run from August 24 -September 1, 2013, and the winner will be announced on the opening night of August 24. Tanya;s successful portrait was made as part of her studies in the Diploma of Photo Imaging. As part of the highly successful 'Thru the Lens ' exhibition, Tanya received lots of positive feedback on her work, including having her work purchased by Western Sydney Institute.

Congratulations to Tanya on her success,and good luck for the big night.

Thru the Lens Our next Head On Show!

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The Diploma of Photo Imaging class of 2012/2013, from TAFE NSW, Western Sydney Institute's Nepean Arts and Design Centre, will be graduating mid year.

To celebrate their course completion, they are holding a Graduation Exhibition called ‘THRU THE LENS’, which opens on Tuesday the 18th Of June at 6:30 and runs will to 28th of June. The exhibition will show case the skills acquired by the students during the course. Each student will have four images on display.

THRU THE LENS is an associated show of the prestigious Head On Photo Festival. “Head On Photo Festival, Australia's largest photo festival and the world's second largest festival. Heading into its fourth year, Head On celebrated a wide range of photography across all genres from photojournalism and reportage through commercial to fine-art. With over 200 events at 100 venues, the 2012 festival was a resounding success for everyone who participated: galleries and other venues, photographers, Head On partners and the viewing public. The 2013 festival is already looking like being even bigger!” -from the Head On Web site.

 You can preview the work and find out more details at the exhibition website:

http://www.thruthelens.com.au/
We hope you can join us for this exciting exhibition.

THRU THE LENSOpening Tue 18th June at 6:30pm
Concluding 28th June 2013.

Trapezium Gallery, P Block.
TAFE NSW- Western Sydney Institute
Nepean College (Kingswood Campus)
12-44 O’Connell St Kingswood NSW 2747
Enter grounds via gate 2.

Gallery Hours 9am-4pm
Enquiries: Regina Cooper
Ph: (02) 9208 9484

Our Head on Finalists!

'Reclining Baby'  by Jodi McConaghy

Nepean Arts and Design Centre are thrilled to announce that we have two finalists in the 2013 Head On Portrait Prize. This highly competitive prestigious photographic award has 35 selected finalists from thousands of entries and is currently on display at the State Library of NSW.

Pictured above, is 'Reclining Baby 'by Jodi McConaghy. Jodi is one of our current Diploma of Photo Imaging students.

Also included as a finalist is Jacqui Dean, who teaches Photo Imaging at NADC.Congratulations to Jacqui and Jodi on their fantastic achievements.

Jacqui Dean's Solo Show

NADC Photo Imaging teacher Jacqui Dean is holding a solo show as part of the Head On Photographic Festival. Jacqui was selected as one of the prestigious featured exhibitions for Head On this year.  Congratulations to Jacqui on this fantastic achievement. Her work is a series of still life images of flowers, captured in a combination of science and art. The resulting images are elegant and poignant.

Jacqui's show will be opened by Robert McFarlane, photographer and writer at 7pm on May 28th. For full details, see the invitation below. We hope to see you there!

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Welcome to Photo Imaging : Your WSI Student Guide

Image by Ona Janzen, Diploma Photo Imaging, 2013

Welcome to Photo Imaging in 2013. We hope you have an exciting and inspiring time studying with us.

Please find the link below, which will take you to the 2013 Western Sydney Institute Student Guide. Please take the time to read about your rights, your responsibilities, and the many services and ammenities offered by Western Sydney Institute.
http://wsi.tafensw.edu.au/about-wsi/publications-and-reports/student-guide/

Have a great Semester, from all the Photo Imaging staff at NADC