Eve Lamb
The talents of four accomplished photographers are on show in a new exhibition that opened over the weekend at Newstead’s Railway Arts Hub.
Nature in time: Images from central Victoria features the photographic work of four photographers, namely locally-based Patrick Kavanagh, Bronwyn Silver and Bernard Slattery and Melbourne’s David Tatnall.
Notably, Tatnall has worked professionally as a fine art photographer since the mid-1980s. His passion is photographing the land using a large-format film camera and his images have been collected by the National Gallery of Victoria, the State Library of Victoria and the Australian Embassy in Washington USA.
“We’re all passionate about nature photography and about inspiring people to be interested in appreciating and caring for the natural world,” Kavanagh said.
“Nature is this eternal thing and yet there are these small, fleeting moments that we are trying to capture.”
Many such transient magic minutes have been beautifully captured in this exhibition that celebrates naturally occurring subject matter ranging from moss to the milky way.
“I camped out overnight at Leanganook to capture the light on that rock,” Bronwyn told the Express late last week as the works were being hung.
“One of the most interesting aspects in capturing that image (a beautiful nocturnal exploration of the night sky with the galaxy reflecting in a pool atop Mount Tarrengower) was finding my way back to the car,” laughed Patrick.
Besides the natural beauty of the subject matter, there’s plenty here too to interest photographic technophiles including image stacking and stitching, artful shutter-speed manipulation, large-format film shooting along with canvas and acrylic mounted display technique.
Nature in time: Images from central Victoria is now open to check out 10am-5pm weekends and Labour Day from March 5-27, and coincides with the Newstead Open Studios art trail happening over the Labour Day long weekend and the following weekend March 19-20.
