Travel Photographers Feature At BIFB 2015

Three internationally recognised travel photographers, one local and two from France, will feature their work at this year’s Ballarat International Foto Biennale.

One Sydney based and two French photographers, who have made names for themselves within the travel and documentary genre, will present their latest work as part of this year’s 10^th anniversary Ballarat International Foto Biennale, launching on August 22 for a month-long celebration of contemporary Australian and international photography.

The BIFB Core Program is made up of a series of exhibitions by 21 invited artists, representing some of the best and most innovative contemporary photographic practice currently on show.

Sydney based travel and documentary photographer Mitchell Kanashkevich will present his photographic series ‘Summer Days in Braslav’. Kanashkevic returned to his native country of Belarus to explore the area and the people and the result is a series of nostalgic and personal images of Braslav, a region with over 300 lakes which he first visited with his parents when he was four years old.

French artist and photographer Nicolas Dhervillers series ‘Road Movie’, originally commissioned for the 2014 International Automobile Festival in Paris, should attract Australian audiences with his carefully constructed visual narratives. It features legendary cars speeding, racing and skilfully manoeuvring solitary and sometimes arid roads, or exploring great lush landscapes set against dark and moody skies.

Michele Vannier, also from France, will also present ‘Car Graveyard’, a photographic series which pays homage to her father. Connecting the intimate and the universal, curators say she creates work which becomes a two-way mirror, with “an acute perception of the fragility of physical existence”. Organisers say the sixth biennial BIFB is the most respected event of its kind in Australia and the only internationally significant regular photographic event in regional Victoria.

The Ballarat International Foto Biennale runs from August 22 to September 20. For more information see www.ballaratfoto.org


BMW by Nicolas Dhervillers.


Citoen SM Maserati by Nicolas Dhervillers.


Traction with a Citroen 1934 by Nicolas Dhervillers.


Untitled 2, by Michel Vannier.


Untitled 3 by Michel Vannier.


Untitled 4 by Michel Vannier.