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Concept to Publication, 2022
Concept to Publication, 2022
Review of Photobooks Exhibition Concept to Publication| Beata Tworek, Caroline Lemerle, Claire Manning, Con Boekel, Grant Winkler, Ian Houghton, Jamie Hladky, Louise Grayson, Rob Lee, Sara Edson, Yvette Morris Photo Access | 13 – 22 October 2022 PhotoAccess recently launched numerous independently published photo-books, all made during its inaugural workshop program Concept to Publication.…
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Urban decay
Photo Access Week 1 diary
Wed 18 Feb
Two tasks were:
identifying stuff - what's in the black bags and boxes?
torch light printing from neg to Orwo P2 ASA 4 developing with D76
So what were the results?
Bag/box audit:
Harman pos paper - white Harman box; yellow Kodak box, some unused stock paper pos, one exposed but not developed (Pete and David on McQuoids c. 2021).
Cyanotype unexposed - 2 x coated rag paper, c. 5 A5 paper sheets (have coffee grounds on them).
16mm - 3 daylight reels in boxes, two Namadgi 2020, one Bolex subject unknown found Nov 2025, seems to be Burrawang.
16mm - black bag, c. 200 ft Orwo P2 4ASA stock (from Laura Hindmarsh's photoaccess residency).
X-ray risk to Bolex Unknown and to the bag of c. 200 ft of Orwo P2 stock.
Torch printing 16mm neg 'Louise portrait' made for Big River, Kanchanaburi Dec 2025.
Exposure
The torch was very close to the film and I wound the film through the synchroniser using the knob. Result is over exposed.
Developing
To test if the development worked okay, I put three strips in the tank: the torch print, a strip of a Namadgi roll and a strip from Bolex unknown. Results on Namadgi and Bolex are okay. Problems with torch print - 1) film stuck to itself in the tank (tank was single reel 35mm Paterson tank with no reel) 2) very little image.
However, the edge marking are okay ORWO and numbers so this tells me the error is not the development, also supported by good results for Namadgi and Bolex Unknown. Problem is exposure.
Top row: torch and synchroniser
Middle row: frames of Namadgi and Bolex Unknown (B&W neg)
Bottom row: frames of torch light print
Day 2 Thurs 19 Feb
Here's the plan:
change torch luminance, change use of synchroniser - pull the film through rather than use the knob
first development D76 stock solution 5 mins 23 degrees C, constant agitation, then try D76 1+1 7 min, slower development, finer result.
10 June 2026
Thinking about my tenure here in Kambah, it's a lease, 99 years in the ACT for property belonging to the Commonwealth. How does that work when there was no treaty with Ngunawal/Ngambri, no purchase. UOW equity, diversity and inclusion policy fact sheet on terminology gives this definition of decolonise:
The active and intentional process of unlearning values, beliefs and conditions that have caused physical, emotional or mental harm to people through colonisation. It requires a recognition of systems of oppression.
So 1) you have to know what values, beliefs and conditions have caused harm - physical, emotional and mental. That's the truth telling part and the truth listening part. I believe the truth listening is the current important work. 2) can you/I identify systems of oppression? Incarceration and housing are two that spring to mind immediately. But racism is very high on this list.
The terminology fact sheet provides a definition of oppression:
The systematic and pervasive nature of social inequality woven throughout social institutions as well as embedded within individual consciousness.
Un/known
Un/known
Photography Exhibition Review Un/known | Susan Bell, Emily Blenkin, Fiona Bowring, Andrea Bryant, Saini Copp, Sophia Coombs, Annette Fischer, Lucy Found, Saskia Haalebos, Kristian Herman, Lia Kemmis, Eunie Kim, Kathy Leo, Louise Maurer, Kleber Osorio, Margaret Stapper, Beata Tworek, Sarah Vandermar Photo Access | 15 SEPTEMBER – 8 OCTOBER 2022 Featuring works created during PhotoAccess’ Concept…
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It was a delight to see the interestingly composed portraits by Mikhalia Jurkiewicz at having seen earlier the National Photographic Portrait Prize exhibit earlier. I was disappointed at the few that were in the Prize that displayed any complexity of composition. That is not a complaint you can point to in the Seen&Heard exhibition at Photoaccess
Angus McGrath in his exhibition titled Semiotics Club at Photoaccess Manuka, explores issues of queer culture through a set of works centring on bricks, photos and other materials.The one above includes a tshirt attached to bricks.
Tessa Rex recently had a residency in the Sub Arctic Yukon River region of Canada. She has a set of black and white images and videos on display at Photoaccess Manuka. This type of phot seems to drop the temperature in the room
Remnant Review
After 10 days of showing my exhibition ‘Remnant’, Kon Kudo’s ‘Pop’ and Ellen Hewitt’s ‘The Death’s Maiden’, the three come to an end on the 29th of November. It has been a fantastic year and a massive thanks goes out to Photo-access in Manuka for the opportunity to work in their space and learn from their workshops and visiting artists. With their support we have been developing an independent…
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