Photography Workshops Start 5th March

Comments from the CDP workshop open day:
“Open Day was fun! Tracy and Michael spoke about the values and outcomes of the workshop, and how their approach will be underpinned by Henri Cartier-Bresson’s great quote:
‘Heart, mind and eye need to be aligned’

A location shoot provided opportunities for us as  students to be thoroughly engaged in the possibilities of light and composition”

Milkshake Maker-Clare Bryant CDP student

Fan by Clare Bryant CDP student from the Photography Open Workshop Day

We’re very excited about the Workshop starting 5 March.
Contact Michael & Tracy to sign up!!

Cambodian Journey

On the move, Tracy was concentrating on interracting and documenting with the people and environment of Cambodia…snapping a precious moment…Tracy brought home a sense of poignancy & timelessness in her images.
See some of her Cambodian photography on the Curious Travels page

Limited Places

We're excited

Tracy has landed

Yellow bodied butterfly

Borderless Photography : Festivals for the rest of us…

It seems there are photography Festivals/exhibitions popping up everywhere.

Here’s a short list of Festival/Exhibition links from February through to April 2012.

• The Thessaloniki International Festival of Photography (Photosynkyria) started in 1988 and was the idea of photographer Aris Georgiou. Now, it is organized by the Museum of Photography of Thessaloniki and artists from all over Greece and abraod take place. Events and exhibitions are held in various places all around the town, like museums, galleries, bookshops or cafeterias.
• Aperture Value lists several International Photography Festivals, including Europe, Asia, Australia,USA and Canada.
• Queensland Festival Of  Photography has Exhibitions showing in participating Galleries from Cairns to the Gold Coast.
  (and just a stone’s throw across the Border at Chinderah.)
• The Dodge and Burn site pretty much has the whole globe listed

Curious Photography Open Day Workshop

Tracy Jay and Michael Bryant from Curious Digital Photography will hold a no cost one off open day for prospective students. The purpose of this open day is to provide a preview of how the workshops will be structured. It is an ideal opportunity to “taste and try before you buy.”
(*The full 8 week course commences Monday 5th March 10.30am. D.S.T.)
They are especially structured for beginners to intermediate digital photographers, aimed at cultivating photographic skills through an enjoyable creative process.

They will be held in a studio environment at the Curious Art Gallery, situated in an ever changing riverside setting with expansive panoramic views across the Tweed River to Wollumbin/Mt.Warning.
(Ideal for location shoots included in the course)

Participants are expected to bring a camera (any variety i.e. Digital SLR, 35mm film SLR, compact point and shoot etc.)

The open workshop day will be held Monday 20th February. Workshop starts 10.30am e.d.s.t.
94a Chinderah Bay Dr. Chinderah 2487

Limited spaces available.

*Sign up for the full 8 week course commencing 5th March 2012 can be completed on the day.

To register your interest please contact:
Tracy or Michael at curiousphotography1@gmail.com
Tracy : 0406 525246 || Michael : 0488 073756

*The full 8 week course is a weekly 2 hour session at a total cost of $240 per person.
Course includes:
Camera technical aspects || location shoots || creative briefs
Exhibiton opportunity || Aligned to industry standards
The photography workshops are assignment driven with a  hands on focus. Structured for beginners to intermediate.

Siegfried Manietta ‘Survey Exhibition: 40 Years of Photography’

The QCP is currently showing:

‘Siegfried Manietta: A Survey 40 Years of Photography Years ‘

with the accompanying publication ‘The Australian Environment: Landscape as Art and Inspiration’, retailing for $66.

During this exhibition period we will also be presenting a slideshow of images on the QCP plasma screen, commemorating the 2011 floods in Queensland.

‘FLOOD: Anniversary Project’

Location
Corner of Cordelia and Russell Streets
South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Diagonally opposite Musgrave Park

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Postal Address
PO Box 5848, West End QLD 4101
Australia

Phone +61 7 3844 1101

Opening Hours
Wednesday – Saturday 10am-5pm
Sunday 11am-3pm
Closed Mondays and Tuesday

Photography Art Exhibition

Tracy Jay from Curious Digital Photography has her own ‘mini’ exhibition showing now another one coming up in March.

The venue is at the Miami , Gold Coast aart space/Re-Invented Treasures

New Dates for the solo exhibition: (previously in February)
Starts Friday 9th  March to 23rd March 2012.
Opening Night 9th March 6pm to 10pm E.S.T.

Her body of work features Photography, graphic design, collage and painting.

A selection of first edition, aesthetically unusual peices.

Tracy Jay on Facebook
located at:
23 Hillcrest Parade
Miami. Qld.

Photography Exhibition:The Hungry Ocean

During the Queensland Festival of Photography Curious Art Gallery as one of the participating venues will feature the photography of Michael Bryant in an exhibition titled the “The Hungry Ocean.”

Guest  photography artist,  Tracy Jay will also be showing selected pieces.

The body of photographic work chronicles the massive coastal erosion events affecting the tourist town of Kingscliff Beach from 2009-2011. Kingscliff is situated along the far north coast of NSW.  Coastal erosion however is not a geographically isolated event.

“Backwash” by Michael Bryant captured at Kingscliff Beach during the coastal erosion during 2011.

“When the road fell into the ocean” by Tracy Jay captured at Kingscliff Beach during the coastal erosion events.

Entire communities on islands are being displaced such as the Pacific Island of Kiribati.
The future for Kiribati, one of the many low-lying Pacific nations threatened by rising seas, is so urgent that the government is considering relocating the entire population to man-made islands.

Photographer Tracy Jay was close by on Sunday 25th to capture this dramatic shot as the waves broke near the already endangered Cudgen Surfclub. Ex Tropical Cyclone Fina delivered a huge swell along the NSW east coast. Coastal erosion has been relentless at Kingscliff since 2009.

The exhibition aims to promote awareness of the local issue as a microcosm of global events. It will be exhibited in the main Gallery space of Curious Art Gallery
Opens 21/03/2012 to 06/05/2012

Promoting Photography: Queensland Festival of Photography

Curious Digital Photography

is all about the passion and promotion of photography. The Queensland Festival of Photography 4, is coming up in April 2012 and will be celebrating photomedia in all its forms during the month of April next year. In its fourth edition the festival has already expanded to include 46 participating venues, from Cairns to the Gold Coast.

Curious Art Gallery will be involved in the festival by featuring a photographic exhibition during March/April 2012 featuring the work of Michael Bryant with guest exhibitor Tracy Jay.

For more information on the Festival and all participating venues see: The Queensland Festival of Photography 4

This project received financial assistance from the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland. Commencing in February Curious Digital Photography will be holding innovative photography workshops at Curious Art Gallery Studio. The students will the have the opportunity to exhibit selected works in during a special purpose built Curious Art exhibition titled “The Brief”  during October/November 2012. Curious Art Gallery – Studio location of Curious Digital Photography workshops.