Tom Blachford’s exhibition Aotearoa is comprised of carefully selected photos taken across three trips to New Zealand, where he explored the rich and surreal landscapes. The environment is represented in an abstract way to allow the viewer to define their own interpretation of these pristine areas.

Blachford first discovered his passion for photography whilst studying business at RMIT. He then deferred his degree to pursue photography whole heartedly. He has since worked on major campaigns for MTV New York and United Colours of Benetton, traveled with one of the world’s greatest street artists and been published in Magazines around the world.

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Reef is a Sydney-based photographer specialising in creative portrait imagery. Finding inspiration at the point where fashion, music and emerging culture meet, Reef’s work reveals a fleeting hidden world of rock angels, punk devils, disco sartyrs and street nymphs, otherwise populated by everyday people. These themes inform his work. Blending documentary and editorial styles, Reef has photographed for Fox Interactive, Fasterlouder, The Vine, Lifelounge’s Everguide, Broadsheet, Time Out and 2threads. His website was established in 2006. Having previously been active across several disciplines including music and film, it is photography which most allows Reef to explore the events, people and moments that capture the contemporary imagination.

RAFW 2011, Bowie, Backstage, Reef Gaha © innerstyle.com.au 2006-2011

RAFW 2011, Bowie, Reef Gaha © innerstyle.com.au 2006-2011

Nameless Rose, Sydney Musician Elizabeth Rose, Stylist: Millie Hall, Makeup: Linda Moore, Reef Gaha © innerstyle.com.au 2006-2011

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3 February – 31 March 2011
No Vacancy, Melbourne

Two months of Diana Madness is about to land in Australia and New Zealand.

Hosted once every few years, the Lomography World Congress is responsible for uniting Lomographers from all over the world that share one common interest an immense love for analogue photography.

Lomography is not just about crazy fun cameras and beautiful photos, but is also about bringing people together to share their life and experience through this medium, exploring new possibilities both in life and through photography. These completely unique experiences and memories seem to be the best souvenirs for Lomographers who participated in the Lomography World Congress but unfortunately, very few Lomographers from around the world are able to participate due to distance, cost and busy Lomographic lives! Since the last LWC, Lomography has made it a new mission to bring unique Lomographic events and happenings to the community worldwide…Bring on The Diana World Tour!

The Diana World Tour was kick started in Hong Kong, and has since travelled to Tokyo, Seoul, Porto, Lisbon, Madrid, Barcelona, Berlin, Paris, Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, New York City, LA, Riga, London and is now making it’s way to Australia and New Zealand.

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No Vacancy Gallery
34 – 40 Jane Bell Lane, QV
Melbourne.
Exhibition Running: 24th February – 12th March 2011

Trading Hours:
Monday: Gallery Closed
Tuesday – Friday: 11:00am – 5:00pm
Saturday: 11:00am – 5:00pm
Sunday: 12:00am – 5:00pm

The Melbourne Design Market is a one of its kind event that continues to be the place to be and be seen. For stallholders it provides the opportunity to get your new products and ideas out to over 10,000 stylehunters in just one day. Since 2005 the Melbourne Design Market has been popping up twice a year and transforming the Federation Square Car Park into a design show presenting some of this country’s greatest creative enterprises.

For shoppers the Melbourne Design Market is the place to see a fantastic array of merchandise, acquire the latest must-have pieces and enjoy the party-like atmosphere. For successful stallholders it’s a day of sales, orders, and most of all, meeting new clients and receiving valuable feedback on your business.

Do you have a new product or idea that you want to get to the people who’ll appreciate it? Then go to www.melbournedesignmarket.com.au now to look through the FAQs and make your application.

Distinguishing the Melbourne Design Market from all others is a rigorous selection procedure for prospective stallholders to ensure the quality and diversity of the products on offer. Given that it’s such a successful forum to launch new products, the market receives many more applications than can possibly be accepted.

APPLICATIONS CLOSE 5PM FRIDAY October 15, 2010

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Modern Motor Cycle Company, Poster Series 01, © Copyright Modern Motor Cycle Company 2010

To commemorate their new workshop, Modern Motor Cycle Company commissioned a series of three limited edition screen printed posters. These posters are now available through their eBay store and at their new home: The Compound Interest, Centre for the Applied Arts – 15-25 Keele Street Collingwood 3066, Victoria, Australia.

The posters were designed by Chase & Galley, and screen printed in two colours by New Blank Document, both residents of the Compound. The posters are numbered and limited to 100 copies each.

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Alex Prager, Desiree

MoMA’s annual photography series highlights four contemporary artists with new photography in 2010
U.S. Debut of Alex Prager’s Despair (2010) and Elad Lassry’s Untitled (2009) Marks the First Time Film Has Been Included in a New Photography Installation
New Photography 2010: Roe Ethridge, Elad Lassry, Alex Prager, Amanda Ross-Ho
September 29, 2010—January 10, 2011
The Robert and Joyce Menschel Gallery, third floor

NEW YORK, August 23, 2010—For New Photography 2010, The Museum of Modern Art highlights four artists in its annual showcase of significant recent work in contemporary photography. The exhibition is on view from September 29, 2010, through January 10, 2011, and features the work of Roe Ethridge, Elad Lassry, Alex Prager, and Amanda Ross-Ho, all of whom engage photography as a medium with fluid borders between editorial work, film, and art. Their pictures—shot in the real world, posed in the studio, or culled from pop culture and the movie industry—constantly shift contexts, often circulating from the magazine page to the wall. New Photography 2010 is organized by Roxana Marcoci, Curator, Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art.

Since its inception in 1985, the New Photography series has introduced the work of over 70 artists from 16 countries. The Museum continues this tradition of highlighting significant accomplishments in contemporary photography with this year’s edition featuring four artists and 36 works of photography and film.

“These artists engage in a kind of post-appropriative practice,” explains Ms. Marcoci. “If in the 1970s Richard Prince questioned notions of originality by rephotographing advertising images and presenting them as his own, this younger group of artists reinvest in photographic authorship, creating pictures that often exist simultaneously as commercial assignment and artwork. They recognize photography to be a fluid medium.”

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Semi‐Permanent a celebration of all things art and design is back in 2010 to inspire Melbourne’s thriving creative community yet again. While some may think it’s the forum where design nerds gather to fight against the evils of Comic Sans, Semi‐Permanent offers an eye‐opening insight into the broad streams of design, and where those varying crafts can take you.
Designed to inspire and educate, renowned artists and specialists in their field will come together at the Melbourne Convention Centre on Friday 17 September and Saturday 18 September to share their knowledge and passion for their work. Semi‐Permanent Melbourne 2010 boasts a line‐up of 12 speakers including newly announced Simon Allen from Academy Award winning animators Pixar, photographer Claire Martin, Art Director for Girl Skateboards Andy Jenkins, UK post production house Framestore, Melbourne based visual artist Leif Podhajsky and creative agency and artists representatives Big Active.

Buck, Semi-Permanent 2010

Brought to life by Sydney’s Design is Kinky, Semi‐Permanent is a conference which unites exceptionally talented artists and designers to speak at a conference which sits within a broader program of side events including exhibitions, workshops and parties. “It’s not only our speakers that make the event special. It’s the atmosphere and spirit that the audience brings with them,” said Design is Kinky’s Andrew Johnstone. “It’s a casual atmosphere where new friends are made and new colleagues discovered. It’s this that sets Semi‐Permanent apart from other conferences, a shared feeling that you belong to a community.”

Now in its eighth year and with 22 conferences under it’s designer belt, Semi‐Permanent is the internationally acclaimed conference of its kind, year on year, proving an exciting line‐up of talented speakers spanning the art, film, motion graphics, illustration, photography, and visual effects disciplines.

Framestore, Semi-Permanent 2010

Semi‐Permanent is on at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre on Friday 17 September and Saturday 18 September 2010. The official program is yet to be released but for regular updates and tickets check here

“Karel Teige (1900-1951) was the brightest star in the brilliant constellation of Czech avant-garde artist-writers of the 1920s and ‘30s. A constructivist and a surrealist, a poet, collagist, photographer, typographer and architectural theorist, his 1926 photomontage designs for the alphabet are a uniquely elegant and witty invention, and one of the enduring masterpieces of Czech modernism. They enact the letter-titles of the twentyfive experimental poem sequence, ABECEDA, by his friend Víteˇslav Nezval, and feature the third collaborator on the project, the dancer Milc˘a Mayerová. It was Mayerová’s idea to choreograph the poems, creating a pose for each letter, and then to publish it as a book of twenty-five images with Teige’s title designs. Karel Paspa’s photographs of Mayerová are at once sexy and chastely gymnastic: they present a young woman assertively modern and wittily self-possessed.

Teige’s designs effectively transform the letters of ABECEDA into what he claimed was a new constructivist typography: ‘a system of signs capable of embodying words in graphic figures.’ Since the letter as such is nothing more than a simple familiar sign, its graphic components – vertical, horizontal, diagonal, circle, semi-circle – can be ceaselessly re-invented as abstract designs, according to function. Teige’s reductions, dislocations and re-arrangements are startlingly original yet immediately recognisable. Starkly black and white, they work by simplification and contrast, absolute visual economy and jazzy counter-change: the letter made free to perform in its own time and space.

ABECEDA is an exciting realisation of what László Moholy-Nagy, the most influential of the Bauhaus teachers, called for in his 1925 modernist manifesto PAINTING, PHOTOGR APH Y, FILM : a dynamic combination of photographic image and lettering which he called ‘typofoto’. Teige and co. managed to add dance, pose and poetry to the mix. Teige succeeds in finding a perfect and distinctive solution for every letter: Mayerová’s brilliant pose alphabet is animated into a visual dance, which Nezval called ‘a living poem’. ”
- MEL GOODING

D from ABECEDA by Karel Teige, Prague, 1926

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Born in Madrid, Spain in 1968, Salvador Pozo moved to the Netherlands in 1996, building his career as an international fashion photographer. His name represents a passion for perfection. Stylish, charming, feminine, dramatic describe his work, both in the commercial and editorial arenas. Specialities: Bridal & evening fashion, jewelry & watches, make-up and beauty, editorial & commercial. Studio or location photography for major and minor Dutch & international brands and labels. Publications in the European Community, Australia, North-America, South-America and South-Africa.

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Illustrated with striking, candid photography, EVERFRESH: BLACKBOOK provides a rare and exclusive insight into the life of the studio, the artists behind the work and the culture of the elusive underground art world—a world usually cloaked in anonymity.

The group known as Everfresh—artists Sync, Phibs, Reka, Rone, Wonderlust, Prizm, Meggs, Makatron and The Tooth—create works which fuse intense colour, intricate line work, iconic characters and visual narratives, using the most diverse street art and graffiti techniques. The Everfresh crew are the key players that continue to shape Melbourne’s dynamic and prolific street-art scene.
Everfresh Studio is an explosive hub of creation and activity, inconspicuously located in Melbourne’s inner-city suburb of Collingwood. Behind an unmarked factory door, Everfresh artists conceive, develop and collaborate to produce their now internationally renowned work for the streets, as well as fine art for exhibition in galleries and to furnish the art market’s growing appetite for street art.

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