March 17 2010
FotoFreo is starting to crank up here in Western Australia. The festival proper runs from 20th March to 18th April with a lot happening from next weekend to the following weekend. Trent Parke who is here with two other magnum photographers running workshops gave a terrific talk/slide show last night. He is one of my very favourite photographers and turns out to be a terrific person as well. This image is from the COMING SOON series. Trent told us he returned at 3.15 pm every sunny day for three months to get this image. The talk was great in teasing out his creative process, where  a series of images produces a new imaginary narrative using the ‘real’ images. His commitment to his own process is illustrated by the 3 months taken to get this one image. Certainly a challenge to the notion of ‘snapping’. In terms of the 10,000 hours to mastery concept, Parke, who has been committed to photography from 12 years of age, illustrates where many times that number of hours combined with determination and deep reflection can lead. Here is a link to more of his images. The FotoFreo website is here. More on FotoFreo as I get to further talks and exhibitions. Twenty five core exhibitions and close to 100 fringe exhibitions plus projections, talks, workshops should keep me busy over the next little while!

FotoFreo is starting to crank up here in Western Australia. The festival proper runs from 20th March to 18th April with a lot happening from next weekend to the following weekend.

Trent Parke who is here with two other magnum photographers running workshops gave a terrific talk/slide show last night. He is one of my very favourite photographers and turns out to be a terrific person as well.

This image is from the COMING SOON series. Trent told us he returned at 3.15 pm every sunny day for three months to get this image. The talk was great in teasing out his creative process, where  a series of images produces a new imaginary narrative using the ‘real’ images. His commitment to his own process is illustrated by the 3 months taken to get this one image. Certainly a challenge to the notion of ‘snapping’. In terms of the 10,000 hours to mastery concept, Parke, who has been committed to photography from 12 years of age, illustrates where many times that number of hours combined with determination and deep reflection can lead. Here is a link to more of his images.

The FotoFreo website is here. More on FotoFreo as I get to further talks and exhibitions. Twenty five core exhibitions and close to 100 fringe exhibitions plus projections, talks, workshops should keep me busy over the next little while!



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