Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP)
The Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) is one of Australia’s premier venues for the exhibition of contemporary photo-based arts, providing a context for the enjoyment, education, understanding and appraisal of contemporary practice.
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404 George Street
Fitzroy Precinct
Victoria
Australia
Postal Address
404 George Street, Fitzroy Vic 3065 AUSTRALIA
Australia
404 George Street
Fitzroy Precinct
Victoria
Australia
Postal Address
404 George Street, Fitzroy Vic 3065 AUSTRALIA
Australia
Opening Hours
Wed to Sat 11am-6pm. Sun 1pm–5pm.
Price
Always Free
Wheelchair Access
Wed to Sat 11am-6pm. Sun 1pm–5pm.
Price
Always Free
Wheelchair Access
Yes
_Simryn Gill: Inland_ is a survey of photography and takes place in a photography gallery. It is important to declare at the outset, that while photography forms a significant and wondrous part of her practice, Simryn Gill does not consider herself a photographer.
CANAL depicts the Bowback Rivers in East London, an urban industrial area, which was already on the verge of disappearance when I was recording it.
MATTHEW ABBOTT , PAUL BATT , JAMES BRICKWOOD , DARREN CLAYTON , GEORGIA METAXAS , SIMON O’DWYER, ANDREW QUILTY , LEAH ROBERTSON , DEAN SEWELL , LAKI SIDERIS , TOM WILLIAMS , KRYSTLE WRIGHT
Climbing the Walls and Other Actions is primarily concerned with visually representing my experience of femininity, whilst also exploring aspects of representation that relate to feminism.
Tracey Moffatt’s series First Jobs is a nostalgic portrayal of the jobs she worked as a teenager and student to obtain the kind of freedom that could only be achieved through a regular salary.
This video attempts to locate the absurdity of masculinity. By absurdity, I mean the way the notion of the male is perceived in society and how illogical the idea of manliness can appear.
The CCP Shop Space showcases Side-effected Industries, Emil Toonen’s latest range of optical technologies—a series of deranged devices exploiting consumer electronics.
In this short, looped video crowd footage has been selected from an early 80s The Jam concert and slowed down to a rhythmic pace focussing on the pulsatory motion of the amorous crowd juxtaposed with the intent, almost shocking stillness of a photographer amongst them.
The photographs in Cheap Flights would not make it into many holiday albums, but they are still travel photographs. Taken on various trips between 2005-2008 they examine the more disappointing aspects of travel.
For the project CU, SMS messages were collected from users worldwide along with a description about how the user felt about their message. Hjorth made an image to correspond with these emotional states and feelings. The SMSs and images are presented together—fleeting moments of sadness, love and friendship.
Assembling the forces of brick, air and image, fashioning discontinuities stages a sequence of architectural appropriations which engage with materiality in relation to movement, space and embodiment.
Simon Zoric’s work explores the messiness of relationships and the dichotomies inherent in power, passivity and blame.
Comprising of a three-channel, digital animation and a four-channel, sound mix, The Folly is the re-interpretation of three paintings by sixteenth-century Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Projected alongside one another, the paintings Hunters in the Snow, The Corn Harvest and The Fall of Icarus are redrawn and animated, turning the static works into moving images.
Australia’s largest open-entry, photo-based exhibition and competition, the 2009 Kodak Salon is an annual event celebrating the latest developments in photo-media practice around the country.
I Want To Swing On An Invisible Swing takes place in a very adult setting: an office. Wearing a pair of size 16, cross-dresser, red-patent leather shoes, my legs are captured dangling from an oversized office chair, recreating the childhood sensation of swinging one’s legs from a normal sized chair.
The images in Illuminated Books are re-photographed pages of a book titled Roman Portraits depicting black and white photographs of Roman portrait busts. Onto each portrait I have projected another portrait, overlaying one face with another to create a superimposed image. I was searching for similarities, matches, discontinuity and unlikely connections.
Mac presents photography and photographic records as things we inhabit, as implicitly mental spaces like memory.
In the on-going series Overhead Project, I create illusory spaces. These works derive from the tradition of decorative ceilings that use perspectival techniques to achieve architectural effects. Entering those spaces, you are surrounded by the combined effects of the real architecture and its illusory embellishments.
Curated by Anne Wilson On the line brings together national and international artists whose process involves risk or who use their immediate environment to explore universal themes.
As a child, Alan Constable constructed intricate models of cameras from scraps of cardboard and glue. In his recent work he re-visits and re-invents the camera using images from 1960s and more recent National Geographic magazines.
This silent video work is a one-woman-show for renowned German actress Sandra Hüller who won numerous awards at international film festivals for her role as a possessed girl in the movie Requiem.
This series was produced during a five month residence program at the Meet Factory in Prague, Czech Republic from November 2007 to April 2008. I was living in the outer suburb known as Smíchov, a once thriving industrial area that now consists of abandoned factory buildings, crumbling flats and a major transport hub.
Cub separated from spooked polar bear is Sanja Pahoki’s latest investigation into mother-child relationships, mental illness and language. The exhibition is based on media reportage of two polar bear cubs that were hand-reared by German zookeepers after being rejected by their mothers.
In Really Really, a series of words float through animated star constellations. While apparently drifting aimlessly, the words can be rearranged in numerous ways to recount roughly the same sappy avowal of long-distance love.
