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July 13, 2008
Vivid, the National Photography Festival, is being held for the first time in Canberra from 11 July to 12 October 2008., and it celebrates the vital role of photography in Australian life and history. There is a lot to explore by way of exhibitions. It builds upon the earlier Fotofreo in Perth, the Queensland Festival of Photography.
I stumbled upon Degree South a new collective of Australian photographers based throughout the Asia Pacific region mostly working as freelance photojournalists. The emphasis is on ‘gathering evidence’, truth, and making a difference. An exception is to this ethos of photojournalism Joyce Evans, who was the founder and owner of the vibrant Church Street Photographic Centre, Richmond, Victoria between 1976 and 1982.
Joyce Evans, untitled, circa unknown
Evans' latest work is Only One Kilometre, (1991) about the Balcombe Estuary Reserve in Mount Martha, a picturesque location along the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria.The phtotographs are accompanied by with literary texts from Australian writers, poets and conservationists.
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