Dream Home Floortalk1pm Saturday 4 September

Artists from Dream Home discuss their experiences documenting the homes of people from different communities and cultures, rich and poor, and the emphasis people place on the dream, despite the reality.

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Walkleys Floortalk 1pm Saturday 16 October

Experience the stories behind the images, as a selection of Australia’s most talented press photographers discuss the biggest moments in the year’s news.

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FACeliFtIMAGE © Garry Trinh Welcome Home 14 2007

IMAGE © Tamara Voninski, from her Photographic Essay “Coming of Age in Samoa”

Reportage Floortalk1pm Saturday 6 November

Celebrate Reportage’s decade anniversary, with this opportunity to view images previously unseen. Reportage artists share information on their images and aim to inspire with visual narratives in an ‘essay format’.

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IMAGE © Edmund Clark Home

IMAGE © Stephen Dupont Massoud inside his jeep talking on a two way radio, Faizabad

Ab Blaster 40,000 Bindi Cole

Transforming Aborigines into Fab-origines, the Ab Blaster 40,000 is the secret reason Indigenous people are so good at sport. In this mock infomercial, Bindi Cole playfully turns indigenous stereotypes on their heads.

Axe Me BiggieAfghanistan - A survivor’s tale Stephen Dupont

Axe Me Biggie documents the series of anonymous Polaroid portraits shot on the streets of Kabul in 2006. Afghanistan – A survivor’s tale is an extract from the ABC’s Foreign Correspondent that records Dupont’s harrowing escape from a suicide bomber near Jalalabad in 2008.

IMAGE © Stephen Dupont Axe Me Biggie 2006

IMAGE © Bindi Cole Ab Blaster 40,000 (video still) 2010

Stephen Dupont - Generation AKDocumentary screening and artist talk 6pm Thursday 21 October

Generation AK documents the ever-changing face of Afghan society: from the battlefields, to the graves, refugees, child labour and the rise of the Taliban. Join us for the Sydney premiere of this remarkable film followed by a discussion with Stephen Dupont.

Doors open at 5.45pm

Limited seats. ACP cannot guarantee entry to latecomers.

Premium members free; ACP members $5; Non-members $10

australian centre for photographySpring 2010

About ACPLocated in the heart of Paddington, Sydney’s gallery district, the Australian Centre for Photography is the nation’s longest running contemporary art space. Combining exhibition spaces and a photomedia art magazine with public-access educational facilities, the ACP’s program is a dynamic mix of exhibition, education and publication. In its breadth of activity and range of photographic media the centre is unique in Australia.

COVER IMAGE © Stephen Dupont Amputee Northern Alliance soldier on frontline at Bagram Airbase, Afghanistan 1998

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15 October – 20 November Gallery 1 + 2

5 November – 20 November Gallery 3

5 November – 20 November Flickr. Reportage without a cause - Gallery 4

For eight years the American naval base at Guantanamo Bay on the island of Cuba has been home to hundreds of Muslim men, labeled ‘the worst of the worst’.

In this exhibition Edmund Clark documents three notions of home; the naval base at Guantanamo which is home to the American community; the camps where their detainees were held, and the homes where former detainees, never charged with any crime, now find themselves trying to rebuild their lives.

Millions of people on Flickr upload 5000 images per minute. Reportage has invited photographer and creative director, Billy Plummer, to curate an exhibition of real, uncommercial work, from the undiscovered talent emerging on Flickr everyday.

Reportage 2010, from 5 - 21 November, celebrates a decade of documentary photography and photojournalism, including talks, seminars, projections, a masterclass and exhibitions at the ACP and National Art School, East Sydney. See www.reportage.com.au for further information

IMAGE © Alex Coppel, Black Saturday, 2009

IMAGE © Dean Sewell Accommodation buildings at Woomera Detention Centre 2005 IMAGE © Kaoru Alfonso A35 from 212, 2009 IMAGE © Bindi Cole Ajay (from the series Sistagirls) 2009.

IMAGE © Edmund Clark CampsIMAGE © Stephen Dupont An Afghan refugee inside Shamsatoo refugee camp near Peshawar, Pakistan, 1998.

This prestigious exhibition of outstanding Australian press photography returns to ACP in October. The Walkley Awards recognise excellence in Australian journalism, including press photography from sport and portraiture, to daily-life and photographic essays.

Each year more than 1000 images are judged for selection, and this exhibition showcases more than 100 photographs from the finalists, from blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moments, to studied documentary of people and places over time. Passion and pain, triumph and tragedy; these are the big moments in the year’s news, as seen through the lens of Australia’s most talented press photographers.

“Over the past 15 years I have been documenting the human condition of war and the ever-changing face of Afghan society: from the battlefields, to the graves, refugees, child labour and the rise of the Taliban. The life of Afghanistan’s national hero Ahmed Shah Massoud; to the current US-led War on Terror and a spiralling narcotic’s disaster.

I wanted to be the eyes and voice of the Afghan people, to capture the horrors and beauty of this sad and alien land.

This is their story”.

DREAM HOME

Afghanistan: The Perils of Freedom 1993 - 2009Stephen Dupont

212Kaoru Alfonso (as part of Dream Home)

Sistagirls Bindi Cole

3 September - 9 October 2010 Gallery 1 + 2

Kaoru Alfonso (ACT), Peter Alwast (QLD), Bianca Barling (SA), Perran Costi (NSW), Paul Dunn (VIC), Paul Mumme (QLD), Renee Nowytarger (NSW), Dean Sewell (NSW), Samantha Small (ACT), Nicole Robson (TAS), Garry Trinh (NSW)

For some Australians it’s a water feature and a double car garage; for others it’s freedom from persecution. Dream Home examines Australian values through the metaphor of the home, asking us to reflect on what we dream about, the price we’d pay to make those dreams come true, and the disparity that often exists between the dream and the reality.

From mortgages and McMansions to Indigenous housing and refugees, the homes of our dreams are a potent reflection of our sense of entitlement, our values and our aspirations. In this exhibition eleven Australian photomedia artists take a critical look at the conflicted and contradictory nature of our Dream Homes.

3 September - 26 September 2010 Gallery 4

The planning and design of the 212 unit Currong project in Braddon ACT commenced in 1957. At eight stories it was the tallest building in Canberra and at the time was considered an innovative approach to meet the city’s changing housing needs.

In this exhibition, all 212 windows of the Currong flats have been photographed on an overcast Canberra day. Mounted on the gallery wall in grids, the arrangement of these images suggests the cold detachment of typology as much as they reflect the block’s original design. In doing so, Kaoru Alfonso makes a gently critical commentary on the well-intentioned social programs of previous generations.

3 September - 26 September Gallery 3

“I have met some inspirational women in my life, but never before have I met women like the Sistagirls. I felt both grounded by their presence and swept away by their romanticism.” Jirra Lulla Harvey

The Sistagirls are a small community of Indigenous transgender women living on the tiny and remote Tiwi Islands in the far north of Australia. While many of the Sistagirls have dreams of running away to a far off land where their sexuality will be embraced rather than judged, they all have an unwavering loyalty to their homelands.

Bindi Cole’s portraits of the Sistagirls and Jirra Lulla Harvey’s accompanying texts tell a moving story about the need to be loved and to belong. Sistagirls speaks to universal human values in a way that transcends cultural differences and offers us a unique insight into a world that on the surface seems so foreign, yet at its heart is so familiar.

15 October – 30 October Gallery 3 + 4

2010 Nikon-Walkley Press Photo Exhibition

Guantanamo: If the light goes outPresented as part of Reportage 2010 Edmund Clark