Author: charles

Christopher is a second year student (part-time) at the Photography Studies College in Melbourne. He took up photography as a creative outlet three years ago and spends most of his spare time engaged in study, exploring ideas and shooting.

He is hoping to spend some time in the near future expanding his work past with people, particularly portraiture: “I find people endlessly fascinating. Everyone has a story to tell and it’s finding out what the story is and expressing it visually in some way is what makes photography so interesting.”

Additionally, he is developing a number of conceptual projects alongside his school folio work.

Chistopher is exhibiting and selling his work at one hundredth gallery until 2 October 2011.  Please click on the image below for further examples of Christopher’s work.

Keith Melder is an international award winning photographer. He is the recipient of the international 2011 CannesLions / CannesAlso photography award judged by celebrated photographer Rankin.

Keith has been working as a freelance creative in the advertising industry for over ten years. Highly motivated and driven by the need to constantly create, he has produced illustrations, animation, graphic design, photography and television commercials for a variety of retail brands.

Keith has been passionately pursuing photography as a personal art form for the past two years. A journey that began with walking the streets of Melbourne with his camera, where he fell in love with candid portraiture, has evolved into concept based studio portraits.

Subconsciously influenced by his career in advertising, his personal work tends to take on a slight pop art / commercial edge. However, his portraits eschew the cliches of traditional beauty to seek out the beauty in unconventional constructs – an item caught mid-air or the frozen moment of subjects colliding. As a result, Keith’s images invite you into a hidden surreal world usually lost to the human eye.

Keith maintains a sense of fun and spontaneity with his art but his dedication and high degree of discipline results in a well crafted image. He is developing a career as a fine artist and knows photography will play a large part.

Keith is exhibiting and selling his work at one hundredth gallery until 2 October 2011.  Please click on the image below for further examples of Keith’s work.

Jeff Paine briefly entered photography over 15 years ago, when film was expensive and buildings made great models because they didn’t move!  Costs and other interests delayed a serious return to photography until around 4 years ago, when professional digital equipment was proving a worthy alternative to the traditional.  A Circa Nocturna photographer for 2 years, Jeff has worked alongside many amazing photographers and now spends most of his time helping new photographers, models, designers and other industry contributors with building their portfolios and businesses.

Regularly shooting freelance projects in areas such as fashion and beauty, portraiture, fine art and alternative, you can also find Jeff instructing lighting workshops at ShutterClass Studios or building props and gadgets for high speed photography and light painting.

Jeff is exhibiting and selling his work at one hundredth gallery until 2 October 2011.  Please click on the image below for further examples of Jeff’s work.

Natalie’s work encompasses simplicity and curiosity. Having the opportunity to travel to Poland, she enjoyed capturing its growth and raw splendor, in particular Gdansk. The images exhibited explore this city, which was once blessed with wealth; now resurging as a hauntingly beautiful shipping port, after years of struggle.

Natalie’s strong dedication to commercial/fine art is the driving source of her photography. Natalie has been awarded Silver and Silver distinction in both the 2011 AIPP Victorian Epson Professional Photography Awards (VPPY) and the 2011 Australian Professional Photography Awards (APPA).

Natalie is exhibiting and selling her work at one hundredth gallery until 2 October 2011.  Please click on the image below for further examples of Natalie’s work.

 

by Alana Aphoy

At 17, straight after attending an all girls’ Catholic school, I was accepted to study Fine Arts Photography at the Victorian College of the Arts. Needless to say the transition from “high school” to “art school” was an interesting experience. One I may not have been ready for at the time.

At 20, I became distracted from my studies and started photographing local bands. I soon found myself photographing for a Melbourne street press magazine.

Every weekend saw me at a different venue photographing a different band learning the art of adaptation along with improving and gaining technical skill. Looking back, this “on-the-job-training” would be an incredibly valuable experience, one that would see me photograph graduate from the local music scene to  photographing international acts like the Stereophonics, Snow Patrol, Groove Armada and Ms Suzanne Vega at some of Australia’s top entertainment venues.

This period in time was awesome fun. Sometimes stressful, but fun! Did I mention I was shooting on film during this time?

A digital SLR was soon invested for cost and practical reasons. Between gigs I eventually started photographing various music festivals and then Film and TV events such as the TV Week Logie Awards.

In 2009 I was also invited to photograph the 12th Rendez-Vous in French Cinema conference in Paris.

After nearly 7 years of photographing bands and all things entertainment, I found great pleasure in travelling and photographing, applying what I learned when photographing bands to a more relaxed stage. In 2010, I decided to move away (for the moment) from the entertainment world to now focus on my more creative pursuits. In June 2010 I was selected to exhibit in a group show at New North Gallery, my first exhibition in 5 years.  I also had artwork exhibited in group shows such as the CCP “Kodak Salon” and the Brunswick St Gallery’s “Picture This”.

In July 2010, I was invited to showcase a series titled “Constructure” at New North Gallery.

In November 2010, I was also successful in winning the “People’s Choice Award” at the New North Prize Salon at New North Gallery for my photograph “Paris” a digital B&W photograph .

2011 has now seen an invitation to exhibit at New North Gallery (March) as part of an exhibition showcasing established and emerging female artists to commemorate the centenary of International Women’s Day, at Art Melbourne the Affordable Art Fair as an emerging artist for the start program and now at one hundredth gallery (Sept-Oct).

I have also been producing work for private collectors both in Australia and in France.

I continue to look forward to taking photographs and hope I get to share them soon with you all.

Exhibitions

2011

• Affordable Art Fair (May) @ Royal Exhibition Buildings
• Alison’s Daughters @ New North Gallery

2010

• New North Prize @ New North Gallery
• Kodak Salon @ the Contemporary Centre of Photography (CCP)
• Picture This @ Brunswick Street Gallery (BSG)
• Constructure @ New North Gallery
• 4 Artists @ New North Gallery

2005

• Fragments of a Distorted Mind @ Bar Open

Awards

• People’s Choice Award Winner for the New North Prize (2010)

 

Alana is exhibiting and selling her work at one hundredth gallery until 2 October 2011.  Please click on the image below for further examples of Alana’s work.