Tabla de contenidos para September-October 2019 en Capture

I’m thrilled to share the results of our very latest competition, The Mono Awards. Held in conjunction with our sister publication, Australian Photography, the single-image black-and-white photography competition seeks to uncover the very best imagery by Australian and New Zealand photographers across two categories: People and Places. The response to the competition was nothing short of overwhelming, and the standard of the work submitted was very high. Thank you to all who entered. You’ve helped make this first year a most successful one. We relied on a judging panel of nine renowned photographers – all masters in the art of black-and-white photography. Their experience and wisdom traverses the genres of landscape, portrait, fashion, advertising, and architectural photography. I am grateful for their time, input, and insights. The winner of the…

See Civilization: The Way We Live Now, NGV Australia, Melbourne, VIC, 13 September 2019 – 2 February 2020. This international exhibition features 200-plus original photographs by over 100 contemporary photographers from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe. Presented in collaboration with the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography, Minneapolis/New York/Paris/Lausanne, and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, the exhibition explores photographic representations of life in cities and journeys through the shared experiences of life in the urban environment. It also reflects on the ways in which photographers have documented, and held a mirror up to, the increasingly globalised world around us. The selected works create a picture of collective life around the world and document patterns of mass behaviour. www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/civilization Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Various locations,…

2019 marks the inaugural year of The Mono Awards, a celebration of the best black-and-white photography from Australia and New Zealand. Focusing on two categories, People and Places, the single-image competition was judged by a panel of nine renowned photographers – all masters of the medium – with specialisations covering a wide breadth of genres from landscapes to portrait to advertising and fashion. A huge congratulations to our winners, runners-up, and Top 20 placegetters. Their names and a selection of the best work appears on the following pages. Notification of Highly Commended and Commended entries will be sent by email in the coming weeks. Winner and runner-up in the Places category are Sharron Leppien and Jannick Clausen, respectively. In the People category, first place was taken out by Gaanesh Prasad,…

In May this year, Bill Henson held his first exhibition at the Roslyn Oxley Gallery, in Sydney, for a very long time. The media liked to make out that it had been eight years. Perhaps they wanted to get it closer to the drama his work caused in 2008. There had been an uproar then about Henson’s use of under-age models and the photographer received the kind of fifteen minutes of fame that no artist really wants. In fact, Henson had simply wound down his showings. After the 2010 show at Roslyn Oxley, there had been another in 2012, one in Tolarno Galleries in Melbourne in 2011, and institutional shows through until 2014. “But – probably pure selfishness – I just got to a point where I felt I just…

At a time when much of the globe is being increasingly affected by dramatic and violent acts such as those witnessed in Christchurch, New Zealand, in March of this year, an appropriately larger discourse is being waged around the possible need for censorship en masse in an attempt at mitigating harm. Following the tragedies that unfolded in her country, New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, is now spearheading the Christchurch Call – a joint effort by nations and corporations to examine the possibility of a “safer Internet”. Surely, no such bigger example exists at this time in illustrating the precarious nature of censorship. Especially for photographers. While we often associate the term ‘censorship’ with barred out breasts and blurred nether regions, the practice is much more pervasive and often exists…

WINNER GAANESH PRASAD A project manager by profession and an ardent photographer who loves travel, street, and sports photography, Gaanesh Prasad relishes visiting various places to satisfy his passion for capturing people in different phases, beautiful places, and various cultures. Sports photography allows Prasad to capture unique and creative shots, while extreme sports test his speed and quick reflexes to situations in capturing decisive moments. Street photography allows him to rely on creative thinking while always looking for something new and different. A firm believer of continuous learning, every time Prasad steps out, he learns something new, then tests out what he’s learnt. For him, photography reflects a love of life, and he enjoys every moment that he spends with his camera. www.instagram.com/gp_canon RUNNER-UP TODD HENRY Todd Henry is a…

The first black and white image was taken by French inventor, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, in 1825. The image was destroyed as he attempted to make copies of it, but when he tried again, he managed to produce a black-and-white image of a window. It was an inauspicious beginning for a form of media that has fascinated people ever since. Even after Kodachrome was launched in 1935, black-and-white photography did not become obsolete. As colour photography improved, black and white was used less, but it has persisted for its ability to convey sophistication, timelessness, mood, and emotion, as well as its aesthetic appeal. Some of the world’s most famous photographers have chosen black and white. Ansel Adams, an environmentalist ahead of his time, documented the Wild West of old America in…