Encounter Studio: experiments + journeys

brief notes on experimental photographic journeys

preparing for Ballarat International Photo Biennale (BIFB13)

A  loose group of Adelaide art photographers are having a group exhibition at  the  2013 Ballarat International Photo Biennale.   It will be in the  Mechanics Institute Building in Sturt St,  which  is in the central part of the city. 

The exhibition is designed to be  a platform  that showcases SA art photography, and,  as such, it will  also include  an A4 horizontal softcover book that extends the exhibition and a website that extends the exhibition and book.  I'm part of the group and I've started  to select the  images from the Tasmanian trips:

These trips were made over the last couple of years and the exhibition will centre around Queenstown and the Mt Lyell open cut mine. It will concentrate on the mine as a manufactured landscape,  the industrial ruins, and  tailings from the mine at  the mouth of the King River. This body of work is in opposition to the wilderness photography that is popular in Tasmania.