Photography Workshop - Historical Photos Project and Rock Art Photography

2:00pm Historical Photos Project Status

Many of the teams are well progressed taking their current photographs and matching them with the rtelevant historical photos. We have also now purchased a high quality scanner and computer with a funding grant from the Town of Claremont to assist us with this project. This session will discuss three key tasks:

1. Getting the relevant high resolution historical images from the Town of Claremont by either downloading them from the Claremont Museum's digital archives or re-scanning the original. Depending on the number required we need to agree a process that meets the Museum's requirements for accessing and the preservation of these images.

2. As a gesture of goodwill we plan to assist the Museum to scan relevant images from the Museum's backlog of currently unscanned negatives, slides and prints for their preservation. We need volunteers for this task please.

3. Preparing a presentation of your team's historical and current photos preferably in a digital presentation.      

3:15pm Mike Donaldson Presentation: Indigenous Rock Art Photography

It gives us great pleasure to introduce our presenter, Mike Donaldson. Mike, is a geologist, avid photographer and bushwalker, who has devoted the past 30 years to systematically photographing and documenting indigenous rock art sights throughout the Kimberley, Burrup and selected areas elsewhere in Australia. The majority of the Kimberley art sites were previously unknown and were only discovered through Mike’s dedication and painstaking exploration on foot and with limited air support.

The fruits of his labours have enabled Mike to create a wonderful series of quality, photographic rock art books, as well as an invaluable scientific legacy, comprising one of Australia’s largest photographic, rock art databases of some 100,000 images. Mike’s contributions are recognised nationally and internationally. He has generously donated his photographic collection for future management by UWA’s Centre for Rock Art Research. No doubt this collection will form the basis for a great deal of future research.

Sundowner

This Workshop will conclude with an informal discussion including the opportunity to chat with Mike over our usual drinks and nibbles.

I hope you can attend this interesting Workshop.

Mike Somerville-Brown