Russia, the unconquerable land. While I yearn to don an ushanka and retreat to a dacha, I’m not going anywhere for now. So if Rasputin can’t come to the mountain, the mountain must come to Rasputin! Confused? Us too! Let’s regroup.
Lomography cameras hail from St. Petersburg and can do cool things with light leaks, saturated colours and blurry focus. Pigeonhole, home to Perth’s widest range of these Russian beauties, are hosting their annual Lomovember exhibition this weekend in conjunction with the charity phenomenon Movember happening nationwide this month. (Lomography + Movember = Lomovember!).
Which means the cream of the lomo crop from local photographers, and plenty of clean shaven men admiring the exhibition. Lomo workshops all weekend by lomo master Yolanda Stapleton. Who may or may not be wearing an ushanka.
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Jeff Wall PhotographsCanadian photographer Jeff Wall is 67-years-old and as close as you’ll get to a rock star in his field.
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Annabel Dixon, ‘Return To Form’ ...Annabel Dixon has pulled a Michael Jordan circa 1995 and returned to play the solo exhibition game.
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Making Wet: The Magazine of Gourmet...One thing I love about Los Angeles is the sheer fruitcake-iness of the place. Religious cults, diet gurus, pet psychologists, auras and fads....
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Nathan Barnett, ‘An Excursion’ ...The garage-come-gallery known as the Museum of Natural Mystery is an apt setting for Barnett’s work: both are charismatic, mystical entities...
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Sky Needle, ‘Rave Cave’ ...Rave Cave, Sky Needle’s new longplayer, is a totally organic music experience. If you like to ingest a fairly steady diet of rock/punk/electrically...
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Lucas Grogan, Anneke de Rooij, Jessie...The latest group show at OK Gallery, fittingly called The Refrain, engages a notion of returning to familiarity before our next departure.