Ballarat Foto Walks

Ballarat Foto Walks will take place on Saturday and Sunday afternoons throughout October and into early November. With support from Fujifilm and led by local photographers Peter Kervarec and Dylan Leak, the walks offer participants the opportunity to explore the streetscapes and architecture of the historic city of Ballarat.

Kervarec and Leak will provide pro tips and insights into photography while the walks take in some of the best gold rush architecture and heritage sites Ballarat has to offer. The walks last approximately 90 minutes. Follow this link to purchase tickets.

Peter Kervarec: 10 October, 24 October, 7 November
Dylan Leak: 2 October, 16 October

Angela Hayward will lead a Cemetery Foto Walk on 9 October. Tickets can be purchased at this link.

The Biennale is now open to regional audiences. If you are in regional Victoria, please click here to book your tickets.

Check out the core program here: ballaratfoto.org/event-category/core-program.

For those unable to attend in person, the Digital program can be accessed here.

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November

Sydney: The exhibition delves into the State Library of NSW's vast collection of two million images, showcasing 400 photos – many displayed for the first time.

February

Melbourne: Jill Orr’s The Promised Land Refigured is an exhibition that reworks the original project created in 2012 with new insights that have emerged in the past eleven years.

March

Melbourne: Environmental Futures features five artists whose work addresses how the natural world is affected by climate change and encompasses photography, sculpture and installation both within the gallery spaces and around the museum grounds.

Ballarat: Nan Goldin is an American artist whose work explores subcultures, moments of intimacy, the impacts of the HIV/AIDS and opioid epidemics on her communities, and photography as a tool for social activism.

Sydney: The Ocean Photographer of the Year Award, run by London based Oceanographic Magazine is in its 4th year and has quickly achieved recognition amongst photographers around the world.

Albury: The National Photography Prize offers a $30,000 acquisitive prize, the $5000 John and Margaret Baker Fellowship for an emerging practitioner, and further supports a number of artists through focused acquisitions.

April

Sydney: Photographers Harold David, Lyndal Irons, Ladstreet, Selina Ou, David Porter, Greg Semu, and Craig Walsh exhibit a diverse and varied snapshot of Penrith and western Sydney as it has changed and grown over the last sixty years.

The City Surveyor’s ‘Condemnation and Demolition Books’ is a key photographic collection held in the City Archives comprising almost 5000 photographs and associated glass plate negatives.

May

Ballarat: Art Gallery of Ballarat presents Lost in Palm Springs, a multidisciplinary exhibition that brings together fourteen creative minds who respond to, capture, or re-imagine the magical qualities of the landscape and the celebrated mid-century modern architecture of Palm Springs, California and across Australia.