Atkins Labcast

SALA is here, the South Australian Living Artists' Festival runs through the month of August and features around 10,000 artists' work. A stellar effort by our little State.

In this episode, I've travelled to Ervin and Belinda's cottage in the Adelaide Hills to record this episode. Ervin's SALA show is entitled "Last Dash to the Finishing Line", suggesting this may be his last solo exhibition at 85 years old.

Ervin is a refugee from Hungary, this exhibition is a reflection on his life, on his psychological growth after experiencing more difficulties than any one of us should. Ervin is a beautiful optimist, a true humanist.

Belinda, his partner, has written a book of poetry on his life called "Sparrow", I'd encourage anyone to read it, it is remarkable : https://www.ginninderrapress.com.au/store.php?product/page/366/Belinda+Broughton+%2F+Sparrow+%3A+poems+of+a+Refugee

Please visit Ervin's exhibition, and spend some time looking at his photography, it is remarkable: https://www.instagram.com/ervinjanek/

More about the exhibition, including Paul's notes from the opening speech can be found here: https://www.atkins.com.au/paul-atkins-the-captains-blog/ervin-belinda-and-sala

Paul sit's down with Craig to discuss his life as a  photographer. This is particularly interesting for those who struggle to promote themselves, as Craig has wrestled with introversion his whole life.
Craig's website: https://www.shecreative.com.au
Craig's instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ishuttertothink/
Craig's knife making: https://www.instagram.com/p/C6ncU61ysO-/?igsh=MTdwcDEyNzQ4MHg1Zg%3D%3D
One of Craig's favourite photographic subjects: https://www.instagram.com/p/C7nvPvMSxVm/?igsh=Y3FpZGVobXR3Y2R6
And the jewler's website: https://www.kathinglis.com
Craig's networking group: https://bnisas.com.au

Paul interviews Chloe Ireland of Catguts Universe. Chloe is a portrait and wedding photographer working from Brisbane, Australia. Chloe's style is truly unique and her work seems to stop the lab every time. With influences from Japanese culture, Ridley Scott, and her time in the Funeral industry,  she produces some stunningly memorable and arresting work.

http://www.catgutsuniverse.com
https://www.instagram.com/catgutsphoto/

In episode 45, Paul interviews Mark Kimber, an Australian based photographic artist.
Mark has been exhibiting his photographic art for over 40 years and is internationally collected.
Mark has also been head of photography at the University of SA, and a teacher there for most of his working life.
He is uniquely positioned to reflect on creativity and art as Mark lives a life driven by making work. His latest series was made using AI, he previous using Wet Plate Collodion, quite the contrast of medium.
https://www.markkimber.net/
https://www.instagram.com/mark.kimber

Show notes:
Birth of surrealism
The first photographer:  Nicéphore Niépce
Eadweard Muybridge
Ed Douglas
Peter Fisher
Blow Up the movie
Saudade, Mark's recent Tin Type exhibition
James Tylor
Craig Tuffin's Daguerrotype series
The Little Machine Gallery
Mornington Penninsular Gallery
Albrecht Dürer

This week Paul chats with Morgane of Petite Visuals. Morgane is a Fashion/Documentary/Wedding photographer who has a keen interest in art direction.
Recently Morgane has been looking closely at her process in preparation for a series of presentations. At any one time she can be seen with four camera’s being operated almost simultaneously. She delivers highly personalised services to her clients, this is a a real story teller talking about their process.

Enjoy!

Morgane’s wedding related work
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/petite_visuals/
Website: https://www.petitevisuals.com.au
Commercial / fashion work
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/petite_visuals_studio/
Website: https://www.petitevisuals.studio

David Hume is the inaugural winner of the SALA SOLO Photographic Opportunity.
This art ‘prize’ was devised by Paul Atkins, Gavin Blake and Patty Chehade as a collaborative opportunity to develop and show a new body of work with the guidance of all three prize givers. The prize directly includes mentoring from Gavin Blake of the Centre for Creative Photography (CCP)  the printing and framing of the artwork buy Atkins Lab, and the staging of the exhibition at Praxis Art Space.

David lept on the opportunity, and we are only days away from the exhibition opening as part of the 2023 South Australian Living Artists Festival (SALA).

This interview with David tells the story of him tackling the opportunity, it’s loaded with helpful guidance for any artist chasing success in their field.

Details on this opportunity can be found on the SALA website at this link: https://www.salafestival.com/opportunities/

This week Rowena joins Paul for a bunch of pointy questions aiming to find out how she has developed her family documentary photography work.

Rowena works from Melbourne, but is regularly invited to shoot around Australia and overseas. Her unique style engages in the righteous struggle to bring a warm reality to the photography of family life.

You are going to love listening to this, make sure visit Rowena’s website, those pictures will stay in your mind forever.

https://www.rowenameadows.com.au

Paul interviews Rick Liston, a wedding photographer who has made it his mission to not only give his clients the best experience, but to make the business of wedding photography run as smoothly as possible. Rick has spent years systematising every background process that can be, allowing him to focus on his clients and have a full life outside the demanding world of a wedding photographer.

Rick’s Wedding Workflow business is the culmination of his efforts, where he helps others set up their systems and optimise their web store.

Like we all should, Rick is keenly aware of the ticking clock of life. He is inspirational in his drive to regain his time from wherever he can. He’s had an amazing life including being a contestant on The Amazing Race… 

You’ll enjoy this!

https://rickliston.com
https://weddingworkflows.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Amazing_Race:_China_Rush_contestants
https://www.pic-time.com/

Another stroll in the park with Frank draws out conversation about Succession the TV show and making art.
Enjoy!

In the first interview recorded in a year or more, Paul talks with Kym Vulling from the Refocus Retreat.

Refocus Retreat was first run in 2014, it is a female focussed conference that has survived the ons and offs of COVID and the challenges that our representative industry bodies have been through.

Paul attended the event in April 2022 and had a blast, and he cannot recommend it enough. With speakers presenting their work, discussing business, and sharing techniques, and a small trade show (where Atkins will have a table!) it is a feast of information on photography. This year it is being run concurrently with the Ballarat International Photo Bienale, a month long festival, both of which, should not be missed.
Kym has a discount code for listeners who book in the next week, it is ATKINS23. So get in there and book now.

Kym also discusses her amazing personal work. Kym works with the sex positive community and embraces and celebrates this important slice of the human condition. You can find out more at https://wilderminds.com.au
Enjoy this fresh episode!

Refocus Retreat
https://refocusretreat.com.au