CCP Salon 2017

The CCP Salon 2017 celebrates 25 years as Australia’s largest open-entry photomedia exhibition and competition. Presented by the Centre for Contemporary Photography, CCP Salon attracts talented artists working with a diverse range of media and techniques. In 2016, almost 600 entries from 400 practitioners presented a summation of the breadth of photographic arts in Australia today.

© Fabrice Bigot. "Flores Venereae #3." Inkjet print, 97x66cm, $1,900.
© Fabrice Bigot. "Flores Venereae #3." Inkjet print, 97x66cm, $1,900.

Supported by 28 national leaders in the photographic industry, CCP Salon 2017 will award over $20,000 across 32 prize categories. The major prize is awarded by Leica and Ilford for Excellence in Photomedia. Other prize categories include the Pat Corrigan Acquisitive Award, Best Composition, Best Architectural Work, Best Portrait, Best Film Image, Best Landscape, Excellence in Colour, Most Experimental Image, Best Fashion Work and more. Visitors are also invited to vote for their favourite image in the Marion Boyce Costume Design People's Choice Award.

Opening night: Thursday, 23 November, 6–8pm

CCP Salon 2017 judges:
Phillip Virgo, Director, Colour Factory 
Hoda Afshar, Artist
Pippa Milne, CCP Curator
Linsey Gosper, CCP Gallery Manager, Non-voting Chair

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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.

Sydney: The images in Bill Henson’s cinematic new body of work, The Liquid Night, derive from work the highly acclaimed artist shot on 35mm colour negative film in New York City in 1989.

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.