The International Journal of Contemporary Photography

Volume 8 Edition 1

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The Judges
Clive Waring-Flood
Editor
Silvershotz
Clive was born in Australia but grew up in the cathedral city of Salisbury, England and went to Millfield School in Somerset. Whilst at school he was actively involved in theatre and passed external exams three years in a row with the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Instead of entering the Royal Academy of Drama at 18 he decided on a career in photography; and has stayed in that industry for 33 years.
Apprenticed to various photographers in Sydney, Australia he specialized in portraiture and went on to take over 70,000 portraits of children, families, executives and models in Australia, England and the British forces in Germany. During the 1990s he was a technical consultant with Polaroid Australia and trained staff how to use camera systems in various departments such as police forensic, hospital pathology units, scientists researching DNA through to Warner Bros Movie theme parks.

Since 2004 as the editor of Silvershotz magazine he has been responsible for sifting through hundreds of folios, selecting emerging artists to feature in the magazine and writing articles. During this time he has presented over 50 lectures on fine art printing in the darkroom and more recently has lectured on the 7 steps for creating a successful body of work. Clive continues as folio reviewer and writer for the magazine in addition to writing a book.

He divides his time between the office in England and Australia, traveling and lecturing around the world; and most importantly developing fruit trees in his sustainable eco garden with his wife, Elizabeth, north of Brisbane in Australia.
www.silvershotz.com
Laura Noble
Diemar/Noble Photography gallery
Laura is a Director of Diemar/Noble Photography gallery in the heart of London's West End. Diemar/Noble Photography exhibits and stocks contemporary, 19th Century and vintage photography. She conducts portfolio reviews at the gallery giving professional advice to emerging talent and established photographers' alike in both their work and the publishing of it in books and editorial features.
She is also an artist who lectures on photography worldwide and is the author of 'The Art of Collecting Photography' published by AVA (2006). Her writing credits include primary essays in 'Crazy God' by Yvonne De Rosa (2007), 'Chrysalis' (2007) & 'Circus' (2008) by Anderson & Low and 'The End of London' (2009) by David Straight.

Dedicated to collecting photography and furthering its inclusion as an important art form and her commitment to encouraging emerging artists is at the forefront of her interests in the market as a commentator and collector.

She regularly contributes to photography magazines and journals such as Eyemazing, Snoeks, LIP, Photoicon, GUP, Image, Next Level, Foam & Leisure Center, including a book review column in London Independent Photography.
www.diemarnoblephotography.com
Joyce Evans
Photographer and Historian
Joyce Evans is well known in Australian photography. In 1976 Joyce opened Church Street Photographic Centre which was Australia's first commercial gallery devoted to Photography.
The gallery showcased the best of Australian and International photographers. Joyce exhibited works by Frank Hurley, Bill Henson, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Max Dupain and other renowned photographers, not only did she exhibit their works but many of them mentored her own photography and provided inspiration and guidance.
Passionately dedicated to photography, she has had many solo exhibitions of both her landscapes and her portraits throughout Australia and Europe.
Joyce has spent 10 years documenting Australia for the National Library, which holds nearly 400 of her images. Joyce has been published extensively; her last book was 'Only One Kilometre' which was published in 2003 by Lothian Press.
It detailed her many years of studying the unique qualities of the Balcombe Estuary Reserve, together with poems and articles by distinguished writers.
She is a member of Degree South, a cooperative of Photo Journalists, which was launched by an exhibition of 72 photographs, at the Brisbane Powerhouse Museum in 2007. She is also included in 'Who's Who of Australian Women', 'World's Who's Who of Women', and McCullock's 'Encyclopaedia of Australian Art' 2006.

Joyce continues to exhibit work and recently featured in the Daylesford Photo Fest in June 2007, the Vivid festival 2008 in Canberra, and in July 2007 the Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne had a major retrospective of her work.
She continues to be actively involved in the Australian photography scene and is a guest speaker on the art of collecting photography.
Tamara Voninski
Oculi Picture Agency
Tamara is a photographer and photo editor based in Sydney, Australia. Her career was initiated in the United States where she discovered photography with her heart and soul. "Since the very first day I picked up a camera, I have been travelling on a journey of discovery between my own psyche and the world around me."
She is a founding member of Oculi, the Australian based photographic collective dedicated to capturing the beauty, wonder and struggle of daily life.
Oculi offers a poetic visual narrative through its growing body of work from 2000 to the present, and is now seen as the leading contemporary influence on Australian photographic documentary and art practices, capturing the history and essence of our times in Australia and its region.
Her work is represented throughout the Americas by Redux Photo Agency and throughout Europe by L'Agence VU based in Paris. Her photographs have been exhibited widely in Australia and internationally. In addition to her personal work, she has worked as a Photo Editor for the newspaper The Virginian Pilot in the U.S. and Fairfax Media magazines in Australia.
Her work has won several international awards including the inaugural Alexia Foundation Photography for World Peace Award (1991), William Randolph Hearst Photojournalism (1991), International Pictures of the Year Awards (2003, 2001, 1996, 1993), Best of Photojournalism (2005) and an artist residency at Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris from the Art Gallery of New South Wales (2005-06).
Tamara was recently a finalist for a number of Australian awards such as Sydney Life, Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Foundation Photography Award, Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture and the biennial Leica/ccp Documentary Photography Award.
www.oculi.com.au
Stephen Perloff
The Photo Review
Stephen is the founder and editor of The Photo Review, a critical journal of international scope published since 1976.
He is also the editor of The Photograph Collector, the leading source of information on the photography art market, and editor of Focus Magazine. He has taught photography and the history of photography at numerous Philadelphia-area colleges and universities and has been the recipient of two grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts for arts criticism.
He was the recipient of the Sol Mednick Award for 2000 from the Mid-Atlantic region of the Society for Photographic Education. He has curated more than a score of exhibitions, including "Philadelphia Past and Present" at the Philadelphia Art Alliance for the city's tricentennial in 1982.
His photographs have appeared in numerous exhibitions and reside in many museum and private collections. His work was recently included in the exhibitions "The Silver Garden" at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; "Continuum: Photography in Philadelphia: Past, Present, and Future" at the Free Library of Philadelphia (March-July 2007); "Filling the Frame" at Photo West Gallery, Philadelphia (April 2007), and "Hot Topic," a show about global warming, at The Germantown Academy (fall 2007).

He has been widely praised for his writing about the photography art market, including his detailed auction reports. His articles have been reproduced in dozens of other journals such as, American Photo, The Art Newspaper, Town & Country, Photo News, Silvershotz. His expert comments on the state of the photography market have been quoted in The New York Times, The Toronto Globe & Mail, and The Wall Street Journal.
www.photoreview.org
Artists List
Tania Amochaev USA www.TaniaAmochaev.com
John G. Anderson USA www.imagesaccordingtojohn.com
Sherman Bloom MD USA www.phototov.com
David Bowman Netherlands www.davebowmanphotography.com
Mel Brackstone Australia www.nee-hai.com
Michael J. Carl USA www.michaeljcarlphotography.com
Polly Chandler USA www.pollychandler.com
Boris Gaberscik Slovenia www.galerijafotografija.si
Fabio Ghidini Italy www.fabioghidini.it
Barry Steven Greff USA www.barrystevengreff.com
Gillian Hayes UK www.dapplephotography.co.uk
Elizabeth J. Holmes USA www.elizabethjholmes.com
Gerard Horsman Australia www.gerardhorsman.com
Dale Johnson USA www.holgaphotos.com
Robb Johnson USA www.robb-johnson.com
Leni Johnston Canada www.lenijohnston.com
Diane Kaye USA www.dianekaye.com
James Knight-Smith Australia www.jknightsmith.com
Karl P. Koenig USA www.gumoil.com
Linda Koopman Netherlands
Alex Leme USA www.lemephotography.com
Larry Louie Canada www.larrylouie.com
Michael J. Marchant UK
Christopher McLeod Canada www.christophermcleod.ca
Linda Reineman Olsen USA www.LindaOlsenArt.com
Alessandro Puccinelli Italy www.alessandropuccinelli.com
Marius Rustad Norway www.marius-rustad.com
Nenad Saljic Croatia www.nenadsaljic.com
Julia Sent USA www.juliasentphotography.com
Lauren E. Simonutti USA www.edelmangallery.com
John Stadnicki UK www.johnstadnicki.co.uk
James Alan Steele Australia www.jasartphoto.com
Duschan Tomic Italy www.autoartphotos.com
Marydorsey Wanless USA www.marydorseywanless.com
Vanessa Wiggins Australia www.halophotography.com.au


 
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