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26/10/2004

Public Image

Gryphon Gallery, Melbourne

2004 Lecture Series
Presented by Centre for Contemporary Photography
and the Australian Centre, University of Melbourne

This is the fifth session of the Public Image lecture series, presented by the CCP in partnership with the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne.

October 27 @ 6.30pm
War and Photography Forum
Peter Davis, Matthew Sleeth and Jason South. Chaired by Daniel Palmer

Photographs have been used to tell graphic stories about war since the middle of the nineteenth century. And war photography has long been subject to military censors, of which ‘embedded reporters’ are the latest version. However, aside from all else, recent image-wars in Iraq – the photographs of abused Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib and Internet footage of the beheading of Nick Berg – reveal a new importance for unofficial images of war. What does it mean when the most memorable images of the Iraq war may well be photographs of the torture of Iraqi prisoners by Americans wielding digital snapshot cameras? This forum will explore the line between official and unofficial reportage in the public image of war. It will ask how certain images of war, rather than others, become publicly available; the available scope for photographers in contemporary warfare; and how the Internet is dramatically intensifying the public role of ‘witnessing’.

Peter Davis is a writer/photographer and a senior lecturer in professional writing at Deakin University where he also coordinates N:ITT Network, Image, Text & Technology, a research area dedicated to the examination of images, texts and their combinations. He is the co-author of Aliya: Stories of the Elephants of Sri Lanka (1996) and a media consultant to AusAID development projects in the Asia/Pacific. Matthew Sleeth is a Melbourne-based photographer, widely exhibited and collected, whose books include Roaring Days (1998), The Bank Book (2001), Tour Of Duty (2002), home+away (2003) and Opfikon (2004). Tour of Duty involved a critique of Australia’s self-congratulatory representation of its recent role in East Timor. Jason South is an award-winning New Zealand born photographer for The Age newspaper. In 2003, he won the Nikon-Walkley award for Press Photographer of the Year for his pictures of the Iraq conflict. He has also covered conflict zones in Rwanda, Zaire, East Timor and Aceh.

All lectures in 2004 are FREE. Donations are welcome. Donations over $2 are tax deductible.
Inquires: Tel +61 3 8344 9045

Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP)
The Australian Centre
University of Melbourne,
149 Barry Street Carlton
Tel +61 3 8344 9045
Postal address: 404 George Street Fitzroy VIC 3065 AUSTRALIA

CCP is supported by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of The Australian, State and Territory Governments. CCP is supported by the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria and the Community Support Fund, and by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. CCP is a member of CAOS, Contemporary Arts Organisations of Australia.

Venue: Gryphon Gallery, 1888 Building, at the University of Melbourne (near the corner of Grattan and Swanston Streets)

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