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.