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Centre for Contemporary Photography

Locality: Fitzroy, Victoria

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Address: 404 George St 3065 Fitzroy, VIC, Australia

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25.01.2022 Did you miss it?? Hanna Putz and Andrzej Steinbach, exhibiting artists in CCP's current show 'No True Self', took part in a PHOTO LIVE conversation with exhibition curator David Ashley Kerr on Thursday 17 September. Luckily for those who didn't catch the live feed, the recording lives on on the #photo2021 Facebook feed. You can see our online presentation of 'No True Self' at https://ccp.org.au/exhibitions/all/no-true-self, where you'll also find a link to the PHOTO LIVE talk between Hanna, Andrzej & David. Image: Hanna Putz, 'Untitled' (detail, from the series, 'Everything else is a lie'), 201819. C-Type photograph, dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist. 'No True Self' is exhibited as part of #photo2021.

25.01.2022 Mohini Chandra, Miriam Charlie, Cherine Fahd, Katrin Koenning, Pilar Mata Dupont, Tom Nicholson and Elvis Richardson, curated by Pippa Milne: 'CCP Declares: On the Social Contract, exhibited 27 May 10 July 2016 at #ccp. The artworks featured in this #fromthearchive group exhibition examine or extend the idea of social contract theory; the concept that moral and political obligations and rights are bound upon an intrinsic agreement amongst the various constituents of a so...ciety. The fragility and power dynamics of our social agreements have recently been exposed by the Bla(c)k Lives Matter movement/s both nationally and overseas. As a mainstream public finally starts to recognise the ongoing work of organisers, there are many opportunities for action. Melbourne has recently owed a lot to the Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance for their tireless organising. Many resources can be found at https://www.facebook.com/WARcollective. Image: Pilar Mata Dupont, 'The Embrace' 2013 (video still). Image courtesy the artist. See more

25.01.2022 Show us your work we’re excited to open our EOI callout for our 2022 Artistic Program! CCP is seeking artists to participate in our curated exhibition program in 2022! We are reaching out to gain the best understanding of lens based practice being undertaken today, and we want to see your most compelling project for consideration. Selected artists will work with the CCP team and be provided with an artist fee to develop their projects for inclusion in our 2022 program.... Check https://ccp.org.au/exhibitions/expressions-of-interest for more information. Applications close midnight, Thursday 3 September 2020. We look forward to seeing your work! Images: [1] Opening night of ‘23 and Rising’, Centre for Contemporary Photography. Friday 23 August, 2019. Courtesy J Forsyth. [2] Amalia Lindo, ‘Computer shoulders’ 2019, installation view, Centre for Contemporary Photography. Courtesy Christo Crocker. [3] Guy Grabowski, Ry Haskings & Nina Gilbert exhibited in ‘Image Reader’ 2019, installation view, Centre for Contemporary Photography. Courtesy J Forsyth. [4] Installing Amalia Lindo for ‘Computer shoulders', Centre for Contemporary Photography 2019. Courtesy Adelina Onicas. #ccp #exhibitions #photography #expressionsofinterest #contemporaryart See more

25.01.2022 It exists only for me, he writes. For you, it would be nothing but an indifferent picture. Roland Barthes on the 'Winter Garden' portrait of his mother. #sundayreading returns with Joanna L. Cresswell's review of 'Keeper of the Hearth' by Odette England. In the book, the Australian-British artist reaches out to over 200 Photography-based artists seeking a response to Roland Barthes' 'Winter Garden' photograph an image of Barthes' mother that he never reproduced or shared publicly. In her essay-like response to the book, Cresswell details the diversity in these responses, and unpacks the theory and philosophy behind the 'Winter Garden' image (peppered with example images from England's text). Cresswell's article can be read at: https://www.lensculture.com//odette-england-keeper-of-the-

25.01.2022 "Byngs description of '(indistinct chatter)' as an improvised duet is unlikely to take viewers by surprise. Subtle cues the intermittent piano score chiming as if tuning or warming up; the slight sense of caution in Byng and her fathers hands point to how the artists are discovering their movements alongside the audience." Arini Byng's video work '(indistinct chatter)' is available for the first time in its entirety online as part of CCP's 'Moving Images' series. The exhibition can be accessed via the #linkinbio, or through ccp.org.au on a desktop. Have a read and watch the work in full! Image: Arini Byng, '(indistinct chatter)', 2018, single-channel video 12mins, 58secs. Still, detail.

24.01.2022 Paul Adair, Fleur van Dodewaard, Andrew Hazewinkel, Arini Byng and Georgia Hutchison, Stephanie Lagarde and Stein Ronning: 'Lit from the Top: Sculpture through Photography’, exhibited 24 April 28 June 2015 at #ccp. CCP shows and celebrates 'lens-based practices', but what does this mean when other mediums interject? #fromthearchive, the 2015 group exhibition 'Lit from the Top' used the work of seven local and international artists to consider the ways in which sculpture a...nd photography intersect in contemporary art practice. Curated by Laura Lantieri and Sarah Wall, the exhibition explored the interplay between photography and sculpture, image- and object-making, and how these artists mediate and reimagine each medium through the prism of the other from sculptures re-presented as photographs, to photographs rendered as sculpture. Image: Andrew Hazewinkel 'Portrait 2' 2015, from the series ‘7 portraits (after Niccolo): studies in collective resilience’, fibre-based silver gelatin print, 31 x 39.5cm, courtesy the artist. #fromthearchive #ccpconnects #contemporaryart #photography #sculpture See more

24.01.2022 A striking addition to our #CCPStillLife series! Check out the rest on our Instagram, at @ccp_australia. Image: Irene Proebsting, 'Eucalyptus', 2020. Courtesy the artist.

23.01.2022 Polixeni Papapetrou: 'A Performative Paradox’, exhibited 24 May 14 July 2013 at #ccp. This #fromthearchive post revisits a 2013 exhibition of the iconic artist and founding member of CCP, Polixeni Papapetrou. In 'A Performative Paradox', selected by Professor Anne Marsh in consultation with the artist, a particular thread has been selected across Papapetrou's practicethat of the performativefrom her early documentary work through to her directorial work with her childre...n from 2002 to the present-day. 'A Performative Paradox' presents Papapetrou's earlier, perhaps lesser-known, black and white work in the context of her highly-regarded staged photography, and includes previously unseen images from Papapetrou's early series, such as 'Suzie', pictured. Image: Polixeni Papapetrou, 'Suzie, Elvis fan at home, Melbourne' 1989, courtesy the artist. #fromthearchive #ccpconnects #contemporaryart #polixenipapapetrou See more

22.01.2022 Kiron Robinson: 'We told ourselves we needed separate beds to sleep’, exhibited 24 April 28 June 2015 at #ccp. #fromthearchive, this 2015 Kiron Robinson exhibition revealed that "through a process of flattening, via scanning, re-photographing or both, images are made together. New relationships are forced." The sense of playfulness in this act of montage is offset by an inherent tension. Image: Kiron Robinson, 'Young woman kissing old man while he turns his head away' 2...014 (detail), archival pigment inkjet print on Baryta paper, 42 x 31.5cm. Courtesy the artist and Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne. #fromthearchive #ccpconnects #contemporaryart See more

22.01.2022 ON EXHIBITION NOW "The main thing is... they should be talking very close to all those people that are involved in those camps. If those houses are allocated, seven houses to each camp, thats the way those houses should be going. They shouldnt be playing politics with Aboriginal people." Garrwa, Gurdanji senior elder and cultural advisor Jack Green on the housing crisis in Borroloola, 2015. This month, 'Moving Images' casts our eyes, ears and minds back to a critical ...and compelling series from the CCP archive: Garrwa, Yanyuwa artist Miriam Charlies 'My Country No Home'. Charlies works, comprising documentary shots, portraits and voice recordings, were exhibited in 'CCP Declares: On the Social Contract' between 27 May and 10 July 2016. The 'Moving Images' exhibition series has taken the opportunity of online exhibiting to show works suited to online presentation. For 'My Country No Home', we present Charlie's images along with her recorded conversations with the people of Borroloola. The online presentation of 'My Country No Home' can be found at https://ccp.org.au/exhi//miriam-charlie-my-country-no-home. Image: Miriam Charlie, 'Dinah Norman, Yanyuwa Camp' 2015. Courtesy the artist. #movingimages #ccpconnects #linkinbio #onlineexhibition #miriamcharlie #mycountrynohome See more

22.01.2022 SUNDAY READING In 'A Lucky Survival and Thereafter', artist Haley Millar-Baker's contribution to the latest issue of un Magazine, Millar-Baker maps the trials of a figure only refered to as 'Unknown'. A footnote clarifies: "'Unknown' refers to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander survivors of invasion that had their identity removed and remain unknown in colonial documents, journals, and museums." In this document of the undocumented, Millar-Baker's prose is paired with a striking series of black and white landscape photographs, enriching the writing both in its relationship to place, and aesthetically. 'A Lucky Survival and Thereafter' can be read at: http://unprojects.org.au///issue-14-1/hayley-millar-baker/

21.01.2022 Damiano Bertoli, Mathieu Briand, Anouk De Clercq, Marco Fusinato, Pierre Huyghe, Mabel Juli, NASA, Nick Mangan and Matthew Shannon: 'Event Horizon, exhibited 21 May 18 July 2010 at #ccp. This image of a transformed #ccp come from the 2010 Mark Feary curated group show 'Event Horizon'. The exhibition expands out of events in 1969, during which humankind landed on the Moon, and examines how this immediately shifted ideas of philosophical and physical parameters. At a point... of radical reconsideration of existing societal and cultural structures, this event reinforced a sense of expandable possibilities. We pull this particular exhibition #fromthearchive to coincide with this week's launch of the latest issue of Art + Australia, also entitled 'Event Horizon', and the symposia that University of Melbourne's Centre of Visual Art has coordinated for the occasion. Visit https://sites.research.unimelb.edu.au/cova to learn more. Images: Event Horizon' 2010, installation views, Centre for Contemporary Photography. Images courtesy the artists. Documentation images courtesy the photographer, Oliver Parzer. #fromthearchive #ccpconnects #contemporaryart #installationart #eventhorizon See more

20.01.2022 "Photography offers hard evidence of injustice and colonial violence. For those willing to imagine beyond the frame, narrative can either uphold or dismantle illusions of power." CCP's #sundayreading returns this week with an investigation into the photograph as a record, and it's potential either to bolster or challenge colonialism. Yasmine Espert's article, 'Can Photography Be Decolonial?', maps global trends and movements in photographic practices, with careful attention... to illustrative examples that make this a beautiful read. https://www.publicbooks.org/can-photography-be-decolonial/ #sundayreading #decolonisation #ccpconnects See more

20.01.2022 "Kids from as young as six-years-old to some of the best high school basketball players in the city participate. But the importance of this tournament transcends the arena of sport. Its a metaphor for struggle and perseverance; it embodies hope and the possibility of realised dreams." This week's #sundayreading sees Dazed Magazine interviewing Ari Marcopoulos on his documentation of the Conrad McRae Youth League Tournament a Brooklyn, New York-based youth basketball comp...etition. The portraits speak to the community-building that occurs around sports events such as this, and the value of the "triumphs and disappointments" of intense competition. The article can be read at: https://www.dazeddigital.com//ari-marcopoulos-conrad-mcrae #ccpconnects #sundayreading #documentaryphotography See more

20.01.2022 Jump online for the second part of the 'No True Self' guided tour, led by exhibition curator David Ashley Kerr. Rounding out the introduction to the show we published earlier this month, the second tour video takes you through the remainder of the artists on exhibition, including the striking cluster of "bodies, colours, (and) forms" seen here, by Belgian artist Thibaut Henz. While we look forward to one day soon being able to safely welcome visitors to the gallery and expe...rience the works as intended, were excited to right now be able to share an online presentation of the exhibition, via our website. Follow this link to view the tour: https://ccp.org.au/exhibitions/all/no-true-self Thibaut Henz, 'Untitled' in 'No True Self', installation view at Centre for Contemporary Photography, 2020. Documentation photography by J Forsyth. No True Self' is exhibited as part of #photo2021. See more

20.01.2022 CCP is proud to announce the appointment of Jack Willet as CCP Curator! A graduate of the University of Melbourne's Masters of Art Curatorship program, Willet brings considerable experience from the commercial gallery sector where he led a series of innovative curated exhibitions placing Australian art practice within an international context. Willet's commitment to artist-led exhibition-making and programming can be found in his extensive professional history and critical ...writing, mirroring CCP's values of amplifying the artists' voice and the ideas investigated through their practice. Willet will join CCP in mid-August and will take part in our forthcoming Expression of Interest process to develop CCP's ongoing exhibition and artist-led engagement program. We look forward to welcoming Jack to the extended CCP family. Adam Harding, CCP Director. Image courtesy Jack Willet. See more

19.01.2022 Jacob Raupach: 'Folding the Periphery, exhibited 2 February 11 March 2018 at #ccp. We're taking this #fromthearchive post to remember what it's like to be in the gallery. This beautiful shot of Jacob Raupach's 2018 solo show 'Folding the Periphery' by our hero exhibition documenter J Forsyth captures a striking tension between inside and outside. 'Folding the Periphery' traces the 960km expanse of rail corridor between Sydney and Melbourne, examining liminal spaces alo...ng the line that house and support extractive industries and link them to the global economic market. Mapping these in-between spaces, 'Folding the Periphery' condenses and collapses the complex material, economic and industrial relationships between regional and metropolitan areas into a mesh of images, videos and sculptures within the gallery space. Image: Jacob Raupach, Folding the Periphery' 2019, installation view, Centre for Contemporary Photography. Photograph: J Forsyth. #fromthearchive #ccpconnects #contemporaryart #installationart See more

19.01.2022 Greatest Hits: 'Faux Thrills’, exhibited 21 May 18 July 2010 at #ccp. Many exhibitions #fromthearchive come with a certain level of explanation text written at the time speaking to imagery, intent, and interpretation. The 2010 exhibition 'Faux Thrills' by 'Greatest Hits', a collective made up of Melbourne-based artists Gavin Bell, Jarrah de Kuijer & Simon McGlinn, was no such exhibition. 'Faux Thrills' was presented, in many ways, in the form of a joke. A glass of cok...e sitting unfinished behind exposed scaffolding, or the hastily torn magazine image tacked to a gallery wall served as punchlines to the set-up of the joke, which was perhaps the event of this exhibition itself. We won't ruin the comedy by over-explaining, but it still makes us crack a smile 10 years on. Image: Greatest Hits, 'untitled' 2010 (detail), installation view at Centre for Contemporary Photography, 2020. Image courtesy the artist. #fromthearchive #ccpconnects #greatesthits #fauxthrills See more

18.01.2022 Show us your work were excited to open our EOI callout for our 2022 Artistic Program! CCP is seeking artists to participate in our curated exhibition program in 2022! We are reaching out to gain the best understanding of lens based practice being undertaken today, and we want to see your most compelling project for consideration. Selected artists will work with the CCP team and be provided with an artist fee to develop their projects for inclusion in our 2022 program.... Check https://ccp.org.au/exhibitions/expressions-of-interest for more information. Applications close midnight, Thursday 3 September 2020. We look forward to seeing your work! Images: [1] Opening night of 23 and Rising, Centre for Contemporary Photography. Friday 23 August, 2019. Courtesy J Forsyth. [2] Amalia Lindo, Computer shoulders 2019, installation view, Centre for Contemporary Photography. Courtesy Christo Crocker. [3] Guy Grabowski, Ry Haskings & Nina Gilbert exhibited in Image Reader 2019, installation view, Centre for Contemporary Photography. Courtesy J Forsyth. [4] Installing Amalia Lindo for Computer shoulders', Centre for Contemporary Photography 2019. Courtesy Adelina Onicas. #ccp #exhibitions #photography #expressionsofinterest #contemporaryart See more

18.01.2022 Ophelia Bakowski's 'Embrace; A River Runs Through' is available for viewing in our 'Moving Images' exhibition series presented at https://ccp.org.au//ophelia-bakowski-embrace-a-river-runs-. Alongside their arts practice, Bakowski is also a local DJ, and in conjunction with 'Moving Images' at CCP, they have offered up a mix to accompany Ophelias journey in the arms of the riverbed. The mix is arranged into chapters corresponding to the six flowers Shakespeare's Ophel...ia picks as she walks the river bank. Image: Ophelia Bakowski, 'Embrace; A River Runs Through' 2019 (video still), HD video: 5 min 32 sec, dimensions variable. Still image courtesy the artist. #ccpconnects #movingimages #onlinexhibition #linkinbio #ophelia See more

17.01.2022 Come work with us! CCP is seeking a Curator to join our team. The CCP Curator role is a key artistic position in the organisation. The incumbent will work closely with the CCP Director and the CCP Team to further the depth, breadth, and quality of CCPs exhibition and artist led engagement programs. ... Applications close 5pm, Thursday 16 July. Apply at https://ccp.org.au/about/join-the-team. Image: 2019 ILFORD CCP Salon, opening night. Photography by J Forsyth. See more

17.01.2022 'No True Self' artists Hanna Putz and Andrzej Steinbach will be taking part in a PHOTO LIVE conversation with exhibition curator David Ashley Kerr on Thursday 17 September, at 6pm. The interview will be broadcast live on the PHOTO2021 Facebook page, and you can use this link to set a reminder! If you miss the convo, it will be uploaded to the PHOTO2021 webpage the following day.

17.01.2022 Dear CCP Community We hope youre keeping well, weve been missing you! As the circumstances of this public health crisis are ever-changing, we find our plans changing too. CCPs priority throughout this time has always been the health and safety of our staff, volunteers, and broader community. This is why we will be extending our closure period to reflect State Government guidelines regarding opening to the public. The CCP Team and visiting curator David A. Kerr have been ...working on the upcoming exhibition 'No True Self' throughout closure, and were really excited to share the results with you. In the meantime, stay tuned to our online exhibition program Moving Images (https://ccp.org.au/exhibitions/all), which so far includes artwork from Tracey Moffat, Cecilia Sordi-Campos, Ophelia Bakowski, and Miriam Charlie, with more to come. By subscribing to our newsletter (https://ccp.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe), youll be one of the first to know when well be reopening our doors. Thank you for your patience, and please take care! From all of us at CCP Image: Installing Andrzej Steinbach for 'No True Self', Centre for Contemporary Photography 2020. Photo: D. A. Kerr See more

16.01.2022 Applications closing soon! Applications for the role of CCP Curator will close 5pm, Thursday 16 July. If you think it may be right for you, please read through the position description and consider applying via ccp.org.au/about/join-the-team. The CCP Curator role is a key artistic position, and functions as a leadership role within Melbournes cultural sector . The incumbent will work closely with the CCP Director and the CCP Team to further the depth, breadth, and qualit...y of CCPs exhibition and artist led engagement programs. Image: Image: Amalia Lindo, 'Computer shoulders', 2019, installation view, Centre for Contemporary Photography. Photograph: Christo Crocker. See more

16.01.2022 New Online Exhibition! "The title relates to a caption seen in films when there are multiple audible conversations taking place, but no particular dialogue is discernible... '(indistinct chatter)' is the noise of people who are taking no notice of a soundless, wordless exchange of information taking place in the foreground of the scene, to the left of centre stage." Arini Byng on '(indistinct chatter)'. Arini Byng is a Naarm (Melbourne)-based artist whose body-based w...ork is concerned largely with the affective qualities of materials, gestures, and settings to enter into socio-political conversations. CCP's excited to be able to present her video work '(indistinct chatter)' online in full for the first time as a part of the web-exhibition series 'Moving Images'. On the exhibition page, you can read dual responses to the work, switching between Arini Byngs own response providing biography and context, and an image-reading perspective. You can watch at https://ccp.org.au/exhibiti//arini-byng-indistinct-chatter. Arini Byng, '(indistinct chatter)', 2018, single-channel video 12mins, 58secs. Still. #movingimages #ccpconnects #onlineexhibition #arinibyng See more

16.01.2022 David Rosetzky: 'True Self’, exhibited 26 July 15 September 2013 at #ccp. #fromthearchive, we're taking a look at the first major survey of leading Australian artist David Rosetzky 'True Self: David Rosetzky Selected Works', which took place at CCP in 2013. Rosetzky creates intensely beautiful lens-based works exploring identity, subjectivity and relationships. 'True Self' included a major new video work, 'Half Brother' 2013, commissioned by CCP with support from Iren...e Sutton. This work was shown alongside foundational video works of Rosetzky's, such as 2001's 'Weekender', pictured. Image: David Rosetzky, 'Weekender' 2001 (still), courtesy the artist. #fromthearchive #ccpconnects #contemporaryart #davidrosetzky See more

11.01.2022 SUNDAY READING This week's #sundayreading comes from the June 2020 Artlink issue 'INDIGENOUS Kin Constellations', edited by Kimberley Moulton & previous CCP exhibitor Léuli Eshrghi. In the article 'Knowledge positions in Aotearoa and Turtle Island art museums', Eshrghi mediates a conversation between First Nations curators Kathleen Ash-Milby (Portland Art Museum), Maia Nuku (Metropolitan Museum of Art) and Nigel Borell (Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki).... Visit https://www.artlink.com.au//4020/indigenous-kin-constella/ to read their insights into the opportunities and challenges of institutional curating, and the philosophies informing their practice. Image: Léuli Eshrghi and Sophie Neate exhibited together in 'shadow sites', shown 1 April22 May 2016 at CCP. Photo: J Forsyth. #ccpconnects #sundayreading #linkinbio #curatorialpractice #contemporaryart See more

11.01.2022 Polly Borland: 'Wonky, exhibited 28 March 25 May 2014 at #ccp. From the archive, CCP's 2014 presentation of Polly Borland's series 'Wonky' presented an idiosyncratic and touching meditation on love. Borland's initial inspiration for the series began when she relocated from London to Hollywood, with its promise of glamour and prevailing artificiality. Although the exhibition included many of Borland's various styles and genres of photography (from documentary to the highl...y staged), we wanted to share this example of what makes her work so fun, freaky, bodily, and abstract. Image: Polly Borland, 'Wonky X' 2013, courtesy the artist and Murray White Room, Melbourne. #fromthearchive #ccpconnects #pollyborland See more

09.01.2022 "There is always a committed group for whom photography offers a way to connect to their inner worlds" Isobel Crombie For this week's #sundayreading, we're keeping it in-house! To get to know our newest Board Members, CCP Curator Jack Willet spoke with Neil Hugh Office's founder Neil Hugh Kenna and former National Gallery of Victoria Assistant Director Isobel Crombie about their respective impressive professional backgrounds, as well as their relationships to the medium o...f photography, and CCP as an institution. The interviews can be found at: https://ccp.org.au/about/news/ccp-welcomes-neil-hugh-kenna https://ccp.org.au/about/news/ccp-welcomes-isobel-crombie See more

09.01.2022 Online Exhibition: https://ccp.org.au/exhi//miriam-charlie-my-country-no-home When Garrwa/Yanyuwa artist Miriam Charlie created 'My Country No Home', housing had long been an urgent issue in Borroloola. Houses in camps surrounding the town centre were disintegrating, with some occupants left exposed to the elements and having to walk hundreds of metres for access to shared water and bathroom facilities. The online presentation of this exhibition for 'Moving Images' pres...ents Charlie's striking portraits alongside her audio recordings with the residents of Borroloola, making for an essential document of these events from the perspectives of the people who have lived it. Link is listed above. Image: Miriam Charlie, 'Jack Green and his family, Two Dollar Creek outstation' 2015. Courtesy the artist. #movingimages #ccpconnects #onlineexhibition #miriamcharlie #mycountrynohome See more

09.01.2022 Quick reminder! CCP is currently seeking a Curator to join our team. The CCP Curator role is a key artistic position in the organisation. The incumbent will work closely with the CCP Director and the CCP Team to further the depth, breadth, and quality of CCPs exhibition and artist led engagement programs. ... Applications are still open, & close 5pm, Thursday 16 July. Read more & apply at https://ccp.org.au/about/join-the-team. Image: '23 and Rising', 2019, installation view featuring works by Matthew Stanton, Centre for Contemporary Photography. Photograph: J Forsyth. See more

08.01.2022 David Griggs and Poklong Anading: 'The Sta. Mesa Diaries, exhibited 4 February 3 April 2011 at #ccp. Plucked #fromthearchive, the 2011 CCP exhibition 'The Sta. Mesa Diaries' is comprised of two bodies of work photographed in Santa Mesa, a region that snakes along the tracks of the metro Manila train line in the Philippines. Within the show, Poklong Anading enlisted the participation of friends, acquaintances, and strangers for his series 'Anonymity'. Individuals posed ...holding a circular mirror in front of their faces, reflecting the blinding glare of the sun directly into the camera lens. The heads of these subjects explode in a corona of light so that their locale, clothes, and the objects that surround them become the only legible signs of identity. Anading directs the viewer's attention to the background or 'field of forces' that configure the encountered 'other' and transforms the face from a place of recognition into a vanishing point. Image: Poklong Anading, Anonymity' 2008. Image courtesy the artist. #fromthearchive #ccpconnects #contemporaryart #poklonganading See more

08.01.2022 David Griggs and Poklong Anading: 'The Sta. Mesa Diaries’, exhibited 4 February 3 April 2011 at #ccp. Plucked #fromthearchive, the 2011 CCP exhibition 'The Sta. Mesa Diaries' is comprised of two bodies of work photographed in Santa Mesa, a region that snakes along the tracks of the metro Manila train line in the Philippines. Within the show, Poklong Anading enlisted the participation of friends, acquaintances, and strangers for his series 'Anonymity'. Individuals posed ...holding a circular mirror in front of their faces, reflecting the blinding glare of the sun directly into the camera lens. The heads of these subjects explode in a corona of light so that their locale, clothes, and the objects that surround them become the only legible signs of identity. Anading directs the viewer's attention to the background or 'field of forces' that configure the encountered 'other' and transforms the face from a place of recognition into a vanishing point. Image: Poklong Anading, ‘Anonymity' 2008. Image courtesy the artist. #fromthearchive #ccpconnects #contemporaryart #poklonganading See more

08.01.2022 Catherine Bell, Semâ Bekirovic, Olga Chernysheva, Domenico De Clario, Miranda July, Sarah Lewis, Jan Nelson, Kate Swinson: 'On The Line, exhibited 23 January 21 March 2009 at #ccp. The 2009 group show 'On The Line', curated by Anne Wilson, brought together national and international artists whose process involves risk. Eleven years on, #fromthearchive, we revisit. Included in the show was Moscow-based artist Olga Chernysheva, whose artwork 'The Overhead March' was an e...xercise in guerrilla-style filmmaking narrating an ardent response to social and political conditions in the streets and parks of contemporary Moscow. Her videos highlight the political through to the personal, by way of carefully selected and edited scenes, such as the affecting close-up pictured. Images: Olga Chernysheva, 'The Overhead March' 2005, single channel digital video (video still), courtesy the artist. #fromthearchive #ccpconnects #contemporaryart See more

08.01.2022 Jack Mannix: 'Precious Metals, exhibited 28 March 25 May 2014 at #ccp. As well as being a member of Circle Pit and the self-described 'MOGUL' behind Dero Arcade, Jack Mannix was also the artist behind the #fromthearchive exhibition 'Precious Metals'. Six years on, the images remain a fascinating insight into the life of both the artist and subjects. Known for a distinctive photographic style, shooting only on film and without the use of extra light sources, Mannix crea...tes an intimacy and energy that remains present in the image. These documentary-style images explore themes of isolation, addiction, sex and death, crossing the boundaries of both lo-fi and high-fashion photography. Images: Jack Mannix, Still Life #3, Siberian Desert, Redfern 2013. Courtesy of the artist. #fromthearchive #ccpconnects #contemporaryart #documentary See more

07.01.2022 Kiron Robinson: 'We told ourselves we needed separate beds to sleep, exhibited 24 April 28 June 2015 at #ccp. #fromthearchive, this 2015 Kiron Robinson exhibition revealed that "through a process of flattening, via scanning, re-photographing or both, images are made together. New relationships are forced." The sense of playfulness in this act of montage is offset by an inherent tension. Image: Kiron Robinson, 'Young woman kissing old man while he turns his head away' 2...014 (detail), archival pigment inkjet print on Baryta paper, 42 x 31.5cm. Courtesy the artist and Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne. #fromthearchive #ccpconnects #contemporaryart See more

07.01.2022 NEW ONLINE EXHIBITION = https://ccp.org.au//ophelia-bakowski-embrace-a-river-runs- 'Moving Images' presents 'Embrace; A River Runs Through', a recent video work from Birraranga (Melbourne)-based artist Ophelia Bakowski. Through their work, Ophelia explores the intersection of queering and spiritual praxis, with an interest in the inherent fluidity and inter-connectivity of nature and identity. The union with nature explored in 'Embrace; A River Runs Through' offers opport...unities to see in new ways; to understand our relationships to our own bodies and to reconsider the significance of the natural environment. CCP is passionate about connecting with our communities despite physical distance, and amplifying the work of lens-based practices in Australia. Although our physical gallery is closed for the time being, we have been presenting a series of video works online via our website and social media platforms. The series, 'Moving Images', highlights new and existing artworks, from emerging and established artists. We're excited to welcome Ophelia as the third in this series. GIF Image: Ophelia Bakowski, 'Embrace; A River Runs Through' 2019 (video stills), HD video: 5 min 32 sec, dimensions variable. Still images courtesy the artist. #ccpconnects #movingimages #onlinexhibition #ophelia See more

07.01.2022 Angelica Mesiti: 'Rapture (silent anthem), exhibited 15 October 12 December 2010 at #ccp. The silent soundtrack accompanying 'Rapture (silent anthem)', this week's #fromthearchive CCP exhibition, serves only to further intensify its already high definition visual content and the senses of those watching it. Shot from a concealed location beneath the stage, Angelica Mesiti's closely cropped and semi-suspended frame delivery rate exposes a mighty emotional fervour building... and releasing through the crowd. Even in this captured still image, one can feel the ways in which 'Rapture' exposes the audience's complex states of longing, belonging and personal spirituality. Image: Angelica Mesiti, Rapture (silent anthem), video still. 2010. Courtesy of the artist. #fromthearchive #ccpconnects #contemporaryart #angelicamesiti See more

06.01.2022 Ophelia Bakowski, Embrace; A River Runs Through 2019 (video still) HD video: 5min 32 sec, colour, stereo sound, dimensions variable, courtesy the artist.

06.01.2022 Jim Allen Abel, Wimo Ambala Bayang, Akiq Aw, Agan Harahap and Angki Purbandono: 'Ruang MES 56: Contemporary Photography from Indonesia, exhibited 28 October 11 December 2011 at #ccp. In 2011, Kristi Monfries and Georgie Sedgwick curated a presentation of photographic work from the then-ten-year-old Ruang MES 56 artist collective, who had been spending that decade responding to the cultural forces at play in contemporary Indonesia. Wimo Ambala Bayang was one of the fiv...e artists curated into the show. His photographs, such as the one pictured, critique contemporary political and cultural realities through the prism of Javanese mythology. From the series 'Sleeping Elephant in the Axis of Yogyakarta', this photograph shows an uncanny elephant figure, which is laden with spiritual significance and complicated by its obvious fabrication & precarious posture. The elephant is superimposed in front of Mount Merapi, a site with its own mythological significance in Javanese culture. The spectacle of this image is impactful not just in its symbology, but also its contemporary materiality. Image: Wimo Ambala Bayang, Sleeping Elephant in the Axis of Yogyakarta Series: Mt. Merapi' 2011. Image courtesy the artist. #fromthearchive #ccpconnects #contemporaryart #southeastasianart #indonesianart See more

05.01.2022 ONLINE EXHIBITION This month, 'Moving Images' has cast our eyes, ears and minds back to a critical and compelling series from the CCP archive: Garrwa, Yanyuwa artist Miriam Charlies 'My Country No Home'. While we gear up to present the next work in the 'Moving Images' series, visit https://ccp.org.au/exhi//miriam-charlie-my-country-no-home to take in this moving and important document of images and audio interviews, presented online for the first time. CCP extends our ...thanks to Miriam Charlie, those photographed and interviewed for the series, the family of Kathy Jupiter, and Waralungku Arts Centre for their support in this presentation. Image: Miriam Charlie, 'Jemima Miller, Yanyuwa Camp' 2015. Courtesy the artist. #movingimages #ccpconnects #linkinbio #onlineexhibition #miriamcharlie #mycountrynohome See more

04.01.2022 Upcoming Webinar! As well as being one of the stars of 2019's CCP Photo Fair, Isamu Sawa is one of Australia's leading commercial photographers, with a career spanning more than 25 years. This professional success has run alongside an equally impressive artistic practice, which we were able to see on CCP's walls at our Photo Fair. On Monday 17 August, from 67pm AEST, Isamu will join PhaseOne to discuss his journey as a photographer, method, approach, and his personal pro...ject 'Without Water'. Register to watch at phaseone.com Image: Isamu Sawa, 'Peony' 2017. Image courtesy the artist. See more

04.01.2022 "I took hundreds of images that day [but] that one image is the one that everybody remembers." This week's #sundayreading post touches on some of the significant & recognisable high-profile photojournalistic images of our times, in the photographers own words. We've paired this article with one of the most "how-did-they-get-that-shot?" images recently shown at CCP, Guy Grabowsky's 'The Image'. Follow the links in our bio to access this #sundayreading.... Image: Guy Grabowsky, 'The Image', 2018. Image courtesy the artist. #ccpconnects #photojournalism #linkinbio See more

02.01.2022 Phuong Ngo: 'Domino Theory, exhibited 13 April 27 May 2012 at #ccp. 'Domino Theory' is the theory that a political event in one country will cause events in neighbouring countries, like a falling domino causing an entire row of upended dominoes to fall. In this #fromthearchive post, we revisit a 2012 CCP exhibition that saw Melbourne artist Phuong Ngo reinterpret 'Domino Theory' through the key players involved with Communism and the Vietnam War. The series of self por...traits using the faces of political figures and Ngo's own family serves as a consideration of relational dynamics between those who determine war, and those who live with its consequences. Image: Phuong Ngo, 'Grandma (Mum)' from the series 'Domino Theory' 2012. Courtesy the artist. #fromthearchive #ccpconnects #contemporaryart #phuongngo See more

02.01.2022 "Gruyaert says he has a desire to discover these "miracle" moments of beauty. To hear him tell it, he thinks about his photography as being in the right place at the right time." This light and easy #sundayreading turns its attention to Harry Gruyaert's striking images of the where the land meet s the sea, and the people and places that spring up in these iconic spots. The text walks you through a series of cinematic, sensual photographs that put colour front and centre. Ha...ve a read, or a quick browse! https://www.npr.org//4-decades-of-seascapes-from-a-color-p #sundayreading #ccpconnects See more