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Conor O'Brien, There Stands the Glass
Conor O'Brien's photography is of the ‘snapshot' variety, in that he captures spontaneous moments using a small camera he carries in his pocket at all times. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Conor's photos always feel calm and considered, never poking fun at his subjects but always celebrating their beauty.
80/137 Faces
When you’re an acne-prone, angst ridden 15-year-old, the idea of having your portrait taken, let alone sitting still for longer than five minutes, is equivalent to having teeth pulled with a monkey wrench.
In his exhibition ‘80/137 Faces’, Photographer Simon Obarzanek somehow manages to both capture teens on camera, and keep them in the one spot long enough to reveal hidden spirit under a tough outer shell.
New exhibitions at the CCP
Last Thursday night nearly 500 people packed into the CCP to celebrate the first shows of 2006, an impressive turn-out for some equally impressive exhibitions.
In Gallery 1 Juha Tolonen’s Entropia combines the ubiquity of entropy with the implausibility of utopia. Grand sounding but visually clear, pictures of turnstiles leading to nowhere or a television reflecting its own environment skilfully contrast ideas of progress and degeneration.
Immo Klink, Pret-a-Porter – Infrastructure Spectaculaire
For all the flawless glamour that appears on a Paris catwalk, there’s a world of sharpened nails, frizzy hair and, of course, model rivalry behind it. In March 2005, Photographer Immo Klink (former assistant and studio manager to Wolfgang Tillmans) was given the heady task of capturing this parallel world at Paris Fashion Week.
Lyndal Walker Stay Young
Lyndal Walker's Stay Young is one of the current shows in the still freshly renovated CCP. It sees the Melbourne-scenester photographer continue her exploration into male youth. The series explores issues of beauty, attraction and voyeurism, with photographs that abound in innuendo.
Her portraits are of the boys you see lurking around the galleries, cafés and clubs of the city.
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