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Editor: Alasdair Foster
Regulars:
- The Third Degree: CCP's Naomi Cass confesses all
- Previews: a critical look at some of this season's shows at home and abroad
- Profile: Perth Centre for Photography celebrates 15 years
- Debut: the spotlight falls on Canberra's Charlie Sofo
- Interview: Australia's leading photo surrealist Pat Brassington talks about desire, uncertainty and recycling her body parts
- Points of View: four takes on Miao Xiaochun?s cyber remake of Michelangelo?s Last Judgement
- Rant: Mexico's new media master Pedro Meyer finds democracy online
Features:
- Venice 52 / Documenta 12 Reuben Keehan checks the score as Europe scrums down for a summer of art
- Shoot Collective Samara Mitchell discovers art on the streets of Adelaide
- The DNA of DIY: Self-portraiture and the Digital Age Gerald Keaney and Magda Keaney work out what MySpace is good for
Portfolios:
- Her Own Woman Joanna Mendelssohn assesses the feisty feminism of artist Julie Rrap
- Construction Sites Tony Stephens cracks a tinny with Ray Cook's blokes behaving badly
- Wasteland Juha Tolonen finds beauty in recycled and abandoned spaces
- Imaginary Objects Daniel Crooks conjures form from the space-time continuum
- Childhood Fears Maggie Finch introduces Samantha Everton's haunting evocations of youthful anxiety
- Body of Work Robert Cook cuts to the heart of Shaun Gladwell's athletic art
Exhibition Reviews:
- Hall of Mirrors: Anne Zahalka Portraits 1987-2007 at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
- Leigh Hobba: Space of Presence at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
- Ishiuchi Miyako: Mother's at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
- Bill Henson at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
- Lynne Roberts-Goodwin: Random Acts at Sherman Galleries. Sydney
- Pete Volich: Tales from the Rear View Mirror Series ... Here We Go Again at 24Hr Art – Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin
- Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award at the Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise
- Reveries: Photography and Mortality at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
Books Reviews:
- Out of Time: Essays Between Photography and Art by Blair French
- David Stephenson: Sublime Symmetries
- Yvonne Todd: Dead Starlets Assoc.
- Ian Dodd ('Contemporary Photographers Australia' series)
The construction of identity and the sense of place are themes that duck and weave their way through this issue of Photofile. The gender gap is addressed variously by Julie Rrap, Samantha Everton, Pat Brassington, Shaun Gladwell and Ray Cook. Meanwhile top of the arts league table this year are the Venice Biennale and Kassel's Documenta; Reuben Keehan reports back on both. Further east, Juha Tolonen finds beauty in the dereliction of wastelands in central Europe and, nearer home, Adelaide's Shoot Collective take to the streets.
Magda Keaney and Gerald Keaney weigh up the benefits of MySpace, YouTube, Facebook and similar sites when they consider do-it-yourself culture. And Pedro Meyer finds democracy on line - at least when viewed from outside the western metropolises. Pursuing new media further Miao Xiaochun has remade Michelangelo's Last Judgement as a 3D virtual space and Daniel Crooks creates elegant imaginary objects as he renders time as a spatial form.
IMAGE © Samantha Everton Don't Let Go 2007 Courtesy of Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne and Byron McMahon, Sydney
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