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Gallery.Photographer.Ru: Trent Parke
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September 21- November 04
WinZavod 
 New gallery in WinZavod - Gallery.Photographer.Ru and the first exhibition Dream/Life by Trent Parke. Gallery.Photographer.Ru is a new stage of the significant project “Photographer.ru” which aims to popularize and develop modern creative photography art. Except the gallery, the project includes Internet portal Photographer.Ru being in use since 1999, and a photography agency Agency.Photographer.Ru founded in 2005. The gallery starts its activity with the outstanding artists Trent Parke and thereby sets the tone set the tone of the further actions: forming of the principally new system of photo perception and assessment, propaganda of the modern photography, Russian photographers’ support, new names and trends.
Trent Parke, the first Australian to become an Associate Member of the renowned photographers' cooperative Magnum Photo Agency, is considered one of the most innovative and challenging young photographers of his generation. Whilst working as a press photojournalist during the first years of his career, he received numerous national and international awards, including five Gold Lenses from the International Olympic Committee, World Press Photo Awards in 1999, 2000 and in 2005.
 In 2003 Parke was awarded the prestigious international W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his series Minutes to Midnight. Parke documented his journey around Australia over a two-year period, examining 'the changing state of the Australian nation'. Capturing the mood of a still young, emerging nation, Parke examined the disjuncture between the perception of the Australian 'way of life', with its nostalgia and romanticism, and the more complex reality.
Minutes to Midnight was exhibited for the first time at the Australian Centre for Photography as part of the Sydney Arts Festival in 2005. Works from the series were also included in the 2005 Noorderlicht Traces and Omens Photo Festival in the Netherlands and were featured by Magnum at Paris Photo in November 2005. In 2006 The National Gallery acquired Parke's thirty-piece suite of Minutes to Midnight. The suite is on exhibition in the Australian Art Gallery as part of Shoot: Five Australian photographers in focus.
 His November 2005 exhibition at Stills Gallery marked a move into territory. Best known for his powerful black and white imagery, this series of work was an exciting opportunity to see how Parke responded to the world in colour. Shot on medium format film, these images maintain their fine detail even when printed large-scale. His most recent works (2006) continue his exploration of urban spaces in colour. In these works he has focused on the line of urban development that snakes its way along the coast of Australia. Parke's subjects negotiate a proliferation of high-rises, take-away shops, faded signs and electricity wires.
Parke's Dream/Life & Beyond, exhibited in 2001 at Stills Gallery, presented a city seemingly peopled with spirits and shrouded in the mythical. The play of light and shade, individuals and crowds, reality and dream, elevates his works beyond the documentary. His book, Dream/Life, was awarded second place in the 2000 American Picture of the Year awards for photography books.
During 2000, Parke collaborated with Narelle Autio to exhibit The Seventh Wave at Stills Gallery. Their powerful and lyrical images of bathers captured the drama and otherworldliness that lies beneath the surface of the water.
Images from The Seventh Wave and Dream/Life have been exhibited in 2004 at Ariel Meyerowitz Gallery in New York, and at Foto Freo in Western Australia. The previous year, works from The Seventh Wave were selected to be part of the Summer Life exhibition at Alice Austin House Museum in Long Island, New York.
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