A photo essay by Darrin Zammit-Lupi illustrating the plight of refugees in the Mediterranean Sea is one of the Core exhibitions on display at BIFB 2015.
The remaining weeks of the Ballarat International Foto Biennale 2015 will be packed with workshops, talks, and exhibition launches.
With a little over two weeks left of the Ballarat International Foto Biennale 2015 the remaining weekends will be busy with workshops, artist talks, conversation programs, as well as all the Australian and international exhibitions.
Core exhibition photographer Darrin Zammit-Lupi will open his exhibition Islelanders at the Mining Exchange in central Ballarat on Saturday September 12, at 2.30pm. Guest speakers for the event will include David Manne and Victor Grech (Consulate General of Malta). There will be a Q&A, an artist’s talk and a book signing.
Islelanders is an exhibition which documents the lives of asylum seekers and migrants during their journey across the Mediterranean Sea. Darrin Zammit-Lupi has spent nearly a decade covering this issue, creating a series that covers everything from rescues at sea to the refugees’ life in detention camps and their settling into new homes.
Also over the remaining weekends, the AIPP Workshops give photographers the chance to learn new ideas and enhance their photography skills. The workshop The Art of the Nude Duet with Brett Dorron and Mark Hillyer will be held on Saturday, September 12. The two professional shooters explore a wide range of shapes and forms not possible with a single model in fine-art nude. Participants will work with experienced art nude models individually, then the models will work together to explore their intertwined shapes.
On the same day, Silvi Glattauer will run From Photography to Etching – The Photogravure. Melbourne artist Glattauer, an acknowledged authority on the Photopolymer Photogravure process, will demonstrate how to use photopolymer plates with digital photography to create photogravures. This workshop will allow participants to gain an insight into the hybridisation of digital techniques with hand-made printing processes.
On Sunday, September 13, three Fringe Festival artists’ talks will take place, and the timing will allow visitors to attend all three. At 12 noon Richard White will discuss Inspiration and Motivation in Landscape Photography, at 1pm Kim Percy will look at Pushing the Bounds of Photography, and at 2pm Andrew Campbell will discuss Starstruck – Journeying into Astrophotography.
This year BIFB celebrates a 10-year milestone and is the only internationally significant photographic event in regional Victoria. The Core Program features exhibitions from 21 Australian and international photographers showing at seven major venues throughout Ballarat. The Fringe Program is open entry, and it includes citywide exhibitions staged at venues such as cafes, restaurants, galleries and commercial and community spaces. The Fringe Program will showcase work from 120 artists.
Ballarat International Foto Biennale will continue until September 20. For more details see www.ballaratfoto.org
Mediterranean refugees receive assistance, part of a series by photographer Darrin Zammit-Lupi.
An elderly man recieves a hand up. Image by photographer Darrin Zammit-Lupi.
A sign of the times – a refugee passes graffiti. Image by photographer Darrin Zammit-Lupi.
A photo essay by Darrin Zammit-Lupi illustrating the plight of refugees in the Mediterranean Sea is one of the Core exhibitions on display at BIFB 2015.
