http://www.ccp.org.au/ Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) is one of Australia’s premier venues for the exhibition of contemporary photo-based arts, providing a context for the enjoyment, education, understanding and appraisal of contemporary practice. en-au 2009 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:13:58 +0900 http://www.ccp.org.au/lecture_series.php http://www.ccp.org.au/podcasts/ChristopherStewart.mp3 Christopher Stewart will discuss how the tensions between content and concept and the transition in relation to dissemination and destination for documentary photography have continued to play out in recent photographic culture. He will include examples from his own practice. Christopher Stewart is Associate Professor in Photography at RMIT University. He is the Director of the Cultures of Photography research hub in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University. He is represented by Gimpel Fils in London where he exhibited Super Border, a solo exhibition, in 2009. His work is included in the Thames and Hudson publication The Photograph as Contemporary Art and he is currently showing in the group exhibition Darkside at the Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland. Podcasts Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:13:58 +0900 http://www.ccp.org.au/lecture_series.php http://www.ccp.org.au/podcasts/LloydHusseySmith.mp3 David Lloyd and Kelly Hussey-Smith will discuss the latest edition of The Australian PhotoJournalist: Picturing Human Rights. Compiled in response to the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the editorial board sought to evaluate the success of the declaration and to expose the stories of those who have fallen through the cracks of this most noble vision. The Australian PhotoJournalist (APJ) is a crusading journal provoking debate, challenging entrenched orthodoxies and seeking to position journalism and documentary practice within its more noble traditions. Importantly the APJ seeks to give voice to those marginalised, forgotten or ignored. Podcasts Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:13:58 +0900 http://www.ccp.org.au/lecture_series.php http://www.ccp.org.au/podcasts/Editioning.mp3 What are the considerations for artists when editioning paper or screen-based work? What underpins market confidence in editioning practices? This panel of experts from the commercial, education and public gallery sectors will explore the issues surrounding the editioning of photography and video art. Speakers will address principles, practices and problems within the arenas of analogue and digital media drawing upon local and international experience. Podcasts Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:13:58 +0900 http://www.ccp.org.au/lecture_series_08.php http://www.ccp.org.au/podcasts/MelissaMiles.mp3 Although we have invested heavily in light as a symbol of photographic truth and clarity, it has acted as a strangely volatile force in photography. This lecture will explore some of these dazzling qualities of light in an effort to rethink the possibilities of photographic practice and history. Dr Melissa Miles is a lecturer in the Faculty of Art and Design at Monash University. Melissa's research on photography has been published in The Journal of Visual Culture, Word and Image, Southern Review and Eyeline. Her book, The Burning Mirror: Photography in an Ambivalent Light, will be published by Australian Scholarly Press in 2008. Podcasts Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:13:58 +0900 http://www.ccp.org.au/lecture_series_08.php http://www.ccp.org.au/podcasts/ShauneLakin.mp3 This presentation considered the notion of the photographic historical record—a wonderful Victorian artefact predicated on the idea that it is possible to produce a comprehensive and reliable record of a part of the world or an event through photographs. The presentation will use as its example the Australian War Memorial’s extraordinary photographic archive, paying attention to the way that record has been produced and used. The paper will consider some of the issues that now test both the ‘comprehensiveness’ and the ‘reliability’ of the photographic record. Shaune Lakin was recently appointed the Director of Monash Gallery of Art. Before this appointment, Shaune Lakin was Senior Curator of Photographs at the Australian War Memorial, where he worked on a number of major exhibitions and published the first sustained account of Australian war photography and the institutional history of the Memorial’s extraordinary photographic collection. Before joining the Memorial in 2005 he was Curator of International Painting and Sculpture at the National Gallery of Australia. Podcasts Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:13:58 +0900