Capture Australia – September-October 2019

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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.
http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/civilization

Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Various
locations, Ballarat, VIC, until 20 October.
The Biennale showcases the work of some of the
biggest names in photography from around
Australia and across the globe. Spanning 60 days, it
features more than 100 exhibitions and an outdoor
program that turns the city into a gallery, headlined
this year by internationally celebrated Chinese
photographer, Liu Bolin and his show, Camouflage.
ballaratfoto.org

Under Twenty-Seven by Ella Dreyfus, Bondi Pavilion

Gallery, Bondi, NSW, 22 October – 3 November.

A series of portraits depicting the same group of

men as they evolve from childhood to adulthood –

from boyhood in 2005, through adolescence in

2012, and into the young men they are today in

2019. There are 42 artworks depicting 14 subjects,
      each with three portraits.
      bit.ly/BondiPavilionGallery

The light fades but the gods remain by Bill Henson,

Monash Gallery of Art, Wheelers Hill, VIC, until

29 September.

Showcasing two key series by Bill Henson, this

exhibition explores the suburb of Glen Waverley

where he grew up. In celebration of MGA’s 25th

anniversary, Henson was commissioned to revisit the

suburb of his childhood and to produce a new body of

work that reflects upon his earlier series, Untitled

1985-86.

http://www.mga.org.au

Urbanscape by Jason Smith, Illuminate Gallery, South

Melbourne, VIC, 5 – 15 September.

Jason Smith’s first solo exhibition is an abstract

photographic series exploring colour and geometry

found in Melbourne’s urban industrial landscape.

The work is bold and vibrant, yet simple and

minimal, where Smith discovers beauty and

harmony in the most unlikely of locations.

illuminategallery.com.au

Bleached Gothic by Petrina Hicks, NGV Australia,

Melbourne, VIC, 27 September 2019 – 29 March 2020.

The first major survey exhibition of celebrated Australian

photographer Petrina Hicks, it includes more than forty

photograph and video works spanning the period 2003

to 2019. Seen together for the first time, Hicks’s

shimmering and often surreal compositions convey the

inherent ambiguity and complexity of the female

experience. Included in the exhibition are five video

works that play with the concept of slow time.

http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/petrina-hicks

Read

Nordic: A Photographic Essay of Landscapes, Food

and People by Magnus Nilsson. Published by Phaidon.

A personally curated selection of Magnus Nilsson’s

photographs from The Nordic Cookbook, also

including previously unpublished images taken

during his research. Given his first camera at the

age of six, celebrated Swedish chef Magnus Nilsson

has been taking photographs for over 25 years. As

part of his research for The Nordic Cookbook, he

travelled extensively throughout the Nordic

countries, not only collecting recipes, but also

photographing the landscape, food, and people.

au.phaidon.com

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LEFT: 1,215 American soldiers, airmen, Marines, and

sailors pray before a pledge of enlistment on July 4,

2008, at a massive re-enlistment ceremony at one of

Saddam Hussein’s former palaces in Baghdad, Iraq

2008, from the series, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. From

Civilization: The Way We Live Now.