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THE WAY by Mike Read

Join us this Thursday evening for the announcement of this year's POOL GRANT recipient and to debut 2012's recipient Mike Read and his project THE WAY. 

Pool established the Grant in 2009 as a means to give back to the photographic community by way of funding an emerging photographer's project. This year we've been overwhelmed by the high calibre of entrants, making the selection process not an easy task. Make sure to be at Damien Minton Gallery at 7.30pm when Alasdair Foster will be awarding the $10,000 GRANT.  

Meet POOL & MIKE 

Need to know a little more? Join us for afternoon tea as Mike walks us along THE WAY. Mike will be giving a talk on his experiences while shooting his series and the journey as a POOL GRANT recipient. Photographers from Pool will also be there for a Q & A session. Sign up here. 

We'll be putting on some tea and treats for those who'd like to attend at:

Damien Minton Gallery

3-4pm, Friday 24 May 2013

See you then!

Canon's campaign hits the streets

You may have seen Christopher Ireland's work splashed around the city. Canon, Leo Burnett Sydney, Cream Studios and Pool came together on this one to produce this great ad. Keep your eye out for it!   

Photographer: Christopher Ireland

Agency: Leo Burnett

AD: Jim Walsh

CD: Tim Green

Retouching: Cream Studios

Oh My-lanta

 

Fresh off the press with an exclusive preview for our readers, we give you Sean Izzard's Mylanta campaign.  A great brief and creative direction by our mate John Lam and the team at JWT Sydney. This gig was a (slightly smelly) breeze for Sean, with great pre and post production teams on the task.  

PRIVATE VIEW

Last night, POOL photographers Danny Eastwood, Simon Harsent, Christopher Ireland, Sean Izzard, Ingvar Kenne and Juliet Taylor exhibited a collection of their personal works under the banner PRIVATE VIEW, as a part of Head On Photo Festival, at Damien Minton Gallery...

Tonight for a PRIVATE VIEW

(Danny Eastwood - Ahmedabad, India)

Tonight is the first of two exciting exhibitions in POOL’s calendar for this month! – PRIVATE VIEW at Damien Minton Gallery,    6-9pm.   

Simon Harsent, Juliet Taylor, Sean Izzard, Ingvar Kenne, Christopher Ireland and Danny Eastwood's exhibition is a collection of personal works shown as a part of Head On Photo Festival. Showing photographic works along with motion and interactive art, the night has a few twists that are sure to create a stir. 

POOL extends an invitation to Pool’s friends and welcomes all heading down to the exhibition to support our artists. POOL would like to thank Asahi, Leo’s Cider and Damien Minton Gallery and the contributing artists for all their efforts making tonight possible.

We look forward to seeing you all tonight at the Damien Minton Gallery.

Pool Exhibit opens Wednesday

As a part of HeadOn Photo Festival, The Pool Collective will exhibit a selection of their current works. The six photographers will be exhibiting a both photographic, performance and motion art. The exhibition will open Wednesday 6pm with the support of HeadOn, Leo's Cider and Asahi. Hope to see you all there 6-9pm Wednesday, 15 May 2013 at Damien Minton Gallery. 

FIVE & NINE feeling Fresh

Pool Photographer, Christopher Ireland has launched his new and improved site 5&9. Site Art Directed by Cameron Baird, logo mark by Christopher Doyle.  

 Christopher launched his new site just in time for the latest edition to his New Connoisseurs series - Hi Top Fade. 

 For more of Christopher's work, check it out here: fiveandnine.net

 

 

 

Pool Grant DEADLINE EXTENDED

For all those stragglers, The Call for Entries will remain open until midnight 29 April for the $10,000 Pool Grant.

The $10,000 Pool Grant could give you the chance to make your project a reality. Simply submit a proposal of no more than 300 words detailing how you intend to complete your project, along with some examples of your work.
Check out the Pool Grant site and ENTER NOW for your chance to be in the running for $10,000 to complete your personal project!

Brodie Standen, 2011 Pool Grant recipient exhibited his project UNSEEN at District 01 for last year's Pool Grant Exhibition. This year we're excited to show Mike Read's (2012 recipient) project "The Way" at this years exhibition at Damien Minton Gallery, Redfern. 

Stay tuned for more details to come. 

Call for Entries!!!!!!

One for the Fans

This one goes out to all the footy fans. 

Sean Izzard, challenged to create the photography to be used in conjunction with the illustrative talents of Jean Sebastian Rossbach, for this advert for Skins. Sean was also challenged to take Johnathan Thurston, Tom Rockliff and Matt Toomua head on and keep them from charging into the camera! Nice work guys! 

Agency:              M&C Saatchi 

Illustration:          Jean Sebastian Rossbach

Art Director:        Paul Gregson

Creative Morning's out of the Bag

Late last year, as a few of you already know, Sean Izzard and Cameron Gray braved a room full of strangers to share their knowledge on Pool and the Collective.

Flyn Tracy and the crew from Creative Mornings were kind enough to let us up the front of the room to rant on for a bit about our experience of being a collective and about being Pool. Watch Sean and Cameron divulge the honest truths behind Pool and a collective work environment in a creative industry. 

Sit back and enjoy! 

 

CreativeMornings Pool Collective from CreativeMornings/Sydney on Vimeo.

 

 

From SAY Daily: Forget Mobile First, 2013 Is the Year of Tablet First

via everything.typepad.com

We just come across this post by SAYmedia.com, for a while we have been playing with our new iPad toys realising the opportunities they hold as a platform to bring you rich and interactive content. The Australian market has a long way to come before we are on an even keel with the USA and Europe in terms of broadband, interactive design, quality of content available on a large scale. But we have come a long way over the last few years.