Curator’s Choice: Every Picture Tells a Story – Free Online talk State Library 28/8/2020 1pm
Curator’s Choice: Every Picture Tells A Story… on Friday 28 August at 1pm.
Bookings for this event are now open: https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/curators-choice-every-picture-tells-story
If you are unable to book online or should you have any further questions, please contact bookings@sl.nsw.gov.au or via phone number 02 9273 1414.
Curator’s Choice: Every Picture Tells A Story…
With Margot Riley
Friday 28 August, 1pm, Online Admission: Free
The collections of the State Library hold over a million images — each one capturing a moment in time.
Join curator Margot Riley as she unlocks the story behind just one…
by Diane Schofield, August 27, 2020
Congratulations Terina Vale
One of Terina’s photographs has been chosen for a current exhibition at the Museum of Art and Culture Lake Macquarie.
The exhibition, Reconnected: a recovery story is open from 4 July – 11 October. Visitors are encouraged to vote for their favourite artist.
The exhibition aims reconnect artists and the community directly, in the physical sense, beyond the digital and distanced world they’ve inhabited over the past months. Inclusive of recent painting, sculpture, photography, video and installation, installed inside the Art Museum and out, the exhibition looks on the brighter and more positive side of life.
by Diane Schofield, July 15, 2020
Mawson’s Photographers in Antarctica – Free Webinar
State Library of New South Wales is offering this free webinar on Friday 19 June at 1pm. Bookings are essential: https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/curator-talk-mawsons-other-photographers-1911-14
Curator Talk: Mawson’s other photographers, 1911–14
With Geoffrey Barker
The Australian Antarctic Expedition was the first Australian-led expedition to the Antarctic. It took place during what is commonly referred to as the ‘Golden Age’ of Antarctic exploration and arrived while Scott and Amundsen were conducting their famous race for the South Pole. While Frank Hurley is the best-known expedition photographer, he was based at Cape Denison and the Library’s collection contains the work of 19 other photographers, who were camped at the two other bases. This talk will introduce works by these lesser-known photographers and discuss the thousands of photographs and drawings collated by Mawson and donated to the Library between 1923 and 1947.
by Diane Schofield, June 11, 2020
JUNE SET SUBJECT – D. Schofield
I have received some enquiries concerning the definition of the June set subject:
“Focus is to be on the cook at home in the kitchen – not a BBQ. The cook must be at work in the process of creating a dish – not just posing with a finished product. The image should tell a story about the love of cooking”
The focus is on the cook – not just hands and arms The viewer should be able to see the expression on the cook’s face.
The cook should be working at home in a kitchen – not a BBQ (either inside or outside).
The cook should be shown creating a dish – not just posing with the finished product.
The image should tell a story about the love of cooking.
by Diane Schofield, June 1, 2020
Vale – Rob Miller
It is with great sadness that the club has been informed of Rob Miller’s passing on 25 March 2020 at Gosford Hospital.
Rob had been in and around photography from a very young age. His father, being a cinema cameraman in both the Far East and Hollywood, was a great influence on him. Under his tutorage Rob became adept with both the camera and photographic processing. Rob and his Mother were interred in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in the Philippines during WWII. These were difficult times.
After university Rob went on to study aerial mapping with further training in the U. K. before being posted to the Middle East and later to Nth. Borneo. On completion of his contract he returned to the Philippines where his family were in business. Rob started a small photographic company specialising in producing classy annual reports allowing him to travel extensively throughout South East Asia. He sold is business in 1968 and subsequently migrated to Australia with his family.
Rob was a popular member of our club. He was always smiling, even in adverse times. He enjoyed the company of our members and took an avid interest in their photographic achievements. He was quick to praise and encourage others and he was slow to condemn. Rob was a very creative and talented photographer and will be greatly missed.
Rob Miller was without a doubt, nature’s quiet gentleman.
Our condolences go out to Rob’s family.
by Diane Schofield, April 19, 2020
