It can be hard to connect with a story happening a world away — until you see a photograph that makes it feel like it's taking place next door. That's what the Reportage festival aims to do and it is back for it's 10th year.
In Sydney it is being shown in a few venues including the ACP gallery, where there is a new element to the festival being shown - Reportage Without a Cause: The Rise of Flickr. Millions of people on Flickr upload 5000 images per minute. Reportage has invited photographer and creative director, Billy Plummer, to curate an exhibition of real, uncommercial work, from the undiscovered talent emerging on Flickr everyday.
Another highlight is taking place at the MCA with a collection of the iconic Annie Leibovitz.
"Not just a survey of Annie’s infamous celebrity pics, this globe-trotting touring exhibition, Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life, 1990–2005, serves us with lashings of the artist's private life on the side. Facebook not voyeuristic enough for you? We've got your poison. Personal photographs of Leibovitz's sprawling tribe of family and friends as well as chronicles of major family peaks and troughs like the birth of her three daughters and the deaths of her father and longtime lover, Susan Sontag."
http://reportage.com.au/
