Trent Parke's acclaimed Minutes to Midnight, an ACP touring exhibition currently in India, has just completed a very successful presentation at Bose Pacia gallery, Kolkata (13-28 June 2008). The exhibition was officially opened by Gopalkrishna Gandhi, the Governor of West Bengal. Response to the exhibition by both public and media has been very positive, with media coverage reaching over three quarters of a million people.

Minutes to Midnight is touring in South Asia through the DRIK photo agency, Dhaka. The presentation in Kolkata was made possible through the support of the Australian High Commission. The exhibition moves to Delhi with an inaugural presentation at the Australian High Commission on 9 July followed by a showing at the All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society (AIFACS), Delhi (12 - 27 July, 2008).

Minutes to Midnight premiered at ACP in January 2005, since when ACP has been touring the exhibition in Australasia, with a second edition of the exhibition touring South Asia. Trent Parke is a member of the Magnum photo agency.

Workflow not Workslow

Tusedays x 4 weeks starting 26 August
6.30pm - 9.30pm
$320 full/$290 concession

Can you find files when want them - quickly?
Are your work practices making you less productive?
As digital photographers it is very easy to become overwhelmed by images.

This 4 week course will help you master efficient industry standard practices to manage your digital files.

Your tutor, commercial photographer Tim Wheeler, will guide you through capturing, downloading and processing your images with emphasis on Camera Raw, cataloguing, archiving and backing up your files.

You will learn how to streamline the process of managing your digital photography library and create a logical system for the storage and retrieval of images.

Students must have Camera Craft 1, Digital Camera Basics or equivalent knowledge.

Places strictly limited.

WildLife

Marian Drew and James Brickwood
1pm Saturday 26 July
Free Admission

Marian Drew and James Brickwood discuss the ideas and the processes used in the production of Every Living Thing and Schoolies. Both bodies of work provide subtle commentaries on the perils of overindulgence.

Friday 13 June to Saturday 19 July 2008
Tue - Fri: 12.00 - 7.00pm, Sat & Sun 10.00am - 6.00pm

Curated by Mark McPherson

"The most important book of photographs to come out of Australia in the past five years ... Hijacked defines the shape of things to come." Alasdair Foster, Director, Australian Centre for Photography

Providing a voice for some of the most exciting and provocative new photography from Australia and America, Hijacked takes a road less travelled. The exhibition erases traditional boundaries between art, document and snapshot to point towards the future of contemporary photomedia.

Shunning repetitive and predictable curatorial structures, Hijacked's aesthetic is driven by the mindset and energy of young and emerging practitioners. Embracing the prevailing wanderlust of their generation, their work exhibits a fascination with international subcultures, fragmented trends, alternate life styles and urban landscapes. The exploration of suburban pleasures is placed on par with 'high' artistic experimentation.

Just as remarkable as the exhibition itself is the story of how it came about. Mark McPherson, an emerging WA photographer, initially conceived of the project as a zine. Five years on, working from suburban Fremantle, Hijacked had grown through informal online networks to bring the work of 44 Australian and US artists into a substantial casebound book. Having realised the publication without leaving Perth for the past four years, Mark McPherson is circling the globe to launch the book in Fremantle, Berlin, New York and Sydney.

Relentless in its ambition, much like the photographers, writers and contemporaries whose work it presents, Hijacked is a hybrid of real time photography and life in real time.

US artists:

Brian Cross, Jonathan Gitelson, Shen Wei, Amy Stein, Angela Boatwright, Todd Fisher, Timothy Archibald, Nick Chatfield-Taylor, Bill Sullivan, Dean Karr, Lisa Kereszi, Alana Celii, Ed Zipco, Tod Seelie, Robin Schwartz, Grant Willing, Suzy Poling, Sarah Small, Jennifer Juniper Stratford, Jason Lazarus

Australian artists:

Brad Rimmer, Caitlin Harrison, Sean Cordeiro and Claire Healy, David Griggs, Duncan Barnes, Emily Portmann, Fiona Morris, Flavia Schuster, Gareth Willis, Graham Miller, Greta Anderson, Jack Pam, James Mellon, Janelle Ryan, Joshua Webb, Juha Tolonen, Mark McPherson, Martin Mischkulnig, Michael Gray, Nathalie Latham, Toni Wilkinson, Tony Nathan and Karron Bridges

Book edited by Mark McPherson and Max Pam

See Also: Exhibition Catalogue

A practical guide to running a photography business

6 x Wednesdays 13 August - 17 September
6.30-8.30pm
$490 full price / $450 concession

Being successful as a commercial photographer is a lot more about running a business than simply making pictures every day. This course will explore the business considerations of starting and sustaining a career in photography, providing students with ideas and a practical approach to the marketplace. This course will cover a broad range of issues, topics covered include self-promotion, contracts and negotiating, digital workflow, as well as the logistics of setting up a business including some basic accounting and tax issues. Coordinated by commercial photographer and industry advocate Chris Shain, with several specialist guest lecturers from the business and legal communities.

Please note: ACMP and AIPP members eligible for concession rate for this course.

Places strictly limited.