Geelong Camera Market 26 June 22

[Joachim_I]

This may be of interest to some of you (I am not affiliated, just interested):

The Geelong Camera Market will be held at Focal Point Gallery, 46 Douro St North Geelong, on Sunday 26 June, 9:30am - 2:30pm ($5 entry).

 

[Mick Fagan]

Bother, we are heading to Geelong tomorrow to see the "Ponch Hawkes - 500 Strong" photographic exhibition at the Geelong Art Gallery, staying overnight in our camper, maybe two nights, but home by the weekend.

Ponch Hawkes—500 Strong | Geelong Gallery

www.geelonggallery.org.au

Thanks Joachim.

 

[munz6869]

Missed it!! Rats. (I was at work, screening 'Casablanca' on the big screen as a fundraiser to re-install our 1924 Wurlitzer)...

Marc!

 

[Joachim_I]

You did not miss much, Mick and Marc. It was a very small market. Annoyingly, the gallery itself was closed for this occasion. I was very interested to see the Wolfgang Sievers prints they currently have on sale.

 

[Mick Fagan]

Interesting, I would have gone there if we hadn't just been in Geelong four days prior. My main objective would have been to see Sievers prints, with the flea market being quite a secondary reason for going.

I met him once at my local library, Sandringham. His most famous photograph was taken in Richmond, Melbourne and there were two brothers, both good friends of mine, working at Vickers Ruwolt one a welder the other a machinist. They remember the time he took that picture with most of the staff wondering just what would emerge.

Once the picture became well known, no one thought he wasted their time.

Mick.

 

[Joachim_I]

Great story, Mick. Same with me, I mostly went there for the Sievers prints. I know his work from books, but I only once saw a few of his prints in person during an auction in Armadale, including the famous Gears for Mining taken at Vickers Ruwolt. I think Sievers left many prints to Julian Burnside with the instruction to sell them for charity.

 

[munz6869]

My godfather worked as an engineer at Vickers Ruwolt postwar, and, being a keen photographer himself, was delighted to meet Sievers there and I believe they stayed in touch for a while at least! And now that site is an IKEA!

Marc!

 

[Mick Fagan]

And so the story of photography at that site continues....

Marc, didn't you purchase your 4x5" film drying clips there from Ikea?

 

[munz6869]

Mick - for many years I was using a nifty IKEA dish rack attached to a wall for drying prints and film... so, yes!

Marc!

 

[Alexander K]

I'm really sorry, I didn't know about this. Hope to visit something like this next time.