– Zoe Dattner, general manager of Small Press Underground Networking Community featured in desktop. (via kindofiguess)
On behalf of ourselves, Parts & Crafts, Tourisms, and The Thousands Melbourne, we are very pleased and enormously excited to announce the call for submissions for the inaugural IPF Photo Prize 2012.
The Independent Photography Festival (IPF) will utilise the strengths and skills of the photographic community HWC so prides itself in being a part of to further bring to the forefront the multi-faceted, far-reaching, diverse, and prolific nature of what we’re all working hard at.
The Photo Prize is one of a week-long programme of events to be held in Melbourne from Monday 2 - Sunday 8 April 2012, designed - and aiming - to celebrate and highlight the best of what our community of independent and autonomous photographers and creatives has to offer.
We’ll be exhibiting all acceptable submissions after a preliminary review as a part of the IPF 2012 program, with all prints on sale to the public by silent auction, and with all proceeds from work(s) sold returned to the artist(s).
We’ve also asked some of our more local friends to help us create a set of relevant and righteous prizes for our 3 Prize Categories (Judge’s Panel 1st & 2nd Place and a People’s Choice Award) and we’re gunning for a couple more big boy prizes to add to the mix, so until we have all that locked in, we’re holding back on what’s on offer, but rest assured we’ll look after you.
We might try and make a publication of the work after the event, too.
Head over to the temporary IPF site and click on the Submissions Form link, read the T&C’s, pay, and post your prints to us.
Please be aware and keep in mind this is a call out for PRINTED IMAGES and not digital files (JPGs, TIFs, etc).
All entries must be posted, to be received by THURSDAY 1 MARCH 2012 (01/03/12) at 5PM AEST, to:
IPF
13-23 FARADAY ST
CARLTON
MELBOURNE VIC 3053
AUSTRALIAStand by for more info on the Photo Prize and IPF - we’ll be dropping the whole thing over the next couple months.
We’re very much looking forward to receiving all your entries, and if you have any questions whatsoever about it, shoot an email to ipf@hardworkersclub.com and we’ll work it out.
Good luck,
HWC & IPF
| Urs Lehni: | On the one hand I think it’s great to see so many (graphic) designers share the same kind of enthusiasm, energy and will to produce projects under similar circumstances: self-initiated, self-organised, self-financed, etc. It seems to me that this field has a lot of extra energy — or maybe also a lot of frustration — and to run a small press seems to serve as the perfect offset to channel that energy. |
| However, what I’m quite critical about is the fact that Riso printing has became a rather fixed model tied to a certain aesthetic in a very short amount of time. In my view, the outcomes of a lot of these types of presses look very much alike, and in many cases the Riso printer is used more like a Photoshop filter, in order to add a certain chic. Also, every now and then I’m wondering what would happen if we would manage to find a way of combining all these scattered small initiatives instead of everybody working in his own niche? |
The new LANDFILL EDITIONS site is now up and running and with to many great titles, artist and prints to mention! Definitely not to be missed, go here
This weekend, I’ll be exhibiting as part of the (dis-)array exhition at Light Projects in Northcote.
(dis-)array is a series of transdisciplinary workshops that focus on making practices public through the form of the artist’s book. This exhibition presents the outcomes of two workshops, held at the Academy of Visual Arts (HGB), Leipzig, and Monash University, Melbourne, in November 2010 and September 2011 respectively.
Opening drinks are 6–8pm, Friday 30 September 2011 and I’ll be supervising the gallery from 12–5pm on Sunday. If you’re in the area, drop by!
New Public Collectors publication alert! Just finished: UNDERGROUND MUSIC ‘ZINES from the late 1980s - early 1990s. Buy a copy here from Half Letter Press or pick one up for free in Chicago on Saturday or Sunday, August 6 & 7, 2011 at The STOREFRONT on 2606 N. California. From 12-5 PM each day you’ll be able to read around 200 ‘zines from this period, while listening to over 200 cassettes of the music they feature. It would be great to meet some of you. Please spread the word.
