With almost as much fanfare as it opened with; UNSENSORED10 drew to a close on Wednesday night. The de-hanging ceremony involved a few quiet drinks whilst the punters chatted and searched for a suitably sized piece of bubble wrap. An afterparty drinks were held at Lambs Go Bar.

This years show was an even bigger success than the three that proceeded it, as the exhibition goes from strength to strength. Opening night was massive! With an estimated 350+ people scrolling through the Collingwood Gallery. Rhys Allen was awarded “The Hangers Prize” for UNSENSORED10 with his image and awesome prize are depicted below (sorry bout the digi photos!).

If you couldn’t make opening night, but wondered what is was like – this video from Matthew Joesph is as close as you will get to the real thing:

The exhibition finished with a total of twenty sales; with Roberts Birze individually responsible for ten of them. You can check out his image in the previous blog post.

Thank-you to all of the exhibitors, sitters, hangers, booze purchasers/distributors, helpers, designers, prize makers, musicians, everyone who visited/commented/purchased, collingwood gallery and of last but not least the committee. We very much look forward to doing it all again next year!

The Melbourne Silver Mine’s annual exhibition of analogue photography “UNSENSORED” is set to return to Collingwood Gallery on Friday August 13, 2010.

The 75 Tram on Flinders Street, by Roberts Birze.

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The fourth instalment of the Melbourne Silver Mine’s annual exhibition of analogue photography, UNSENSORED is now open for entries. UNSENSORED10 will be following a similar format to prior years, with a few twists.

The full UNSENSORED10 terms and conditions can be read here, but briefly the main features of the exhibition are:

• All images must originate from an analogue or traditional photographic technique. From that point on you are welcome to keep it pure analogue or employ digital post processing & printing.
• Due to the popularity of the event, UNSENSORED10 is open to Melbourne Silver Mine Inc financial members only, but don’t panic, you can sign up as a member and take part this year.
• The entry fee for members is $50, this entitles you to a 70cm wide x 100cm high space. This year we are pleased to be able to offer a reduced rate UNSENSORED10 entry fee for full time students and the unemployed of $30!
• All artwork must be at the gallery in a ready to hang state by midday 12th August 2010

Venue: Collingwood Gallery, 292 Smith Street, Collingwood Victoria
Dates: 13th – 25th August 2010

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER YOUR INTEREST

Scan-090502-0013, by Andrew Cosgriff.

Saturday May 1st is International Commie Camera day, so get out those old Russian, Chinese and such cameras and get shooting!

These two shots are from ICCD 2009, and were taken with my Kiev 60.

emp-t, by Andrew Cosgriff.

Shoot a Miner 2010 is a portraiture event that asked our Melbourne Silver Mine members to get together and shoot one another.

Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the first installment of this idea. A special thanks to those who chose to join the mine to take part in SAM and for those who shot specifically for the event.

Let’s get together for a drink and the opportunity to watch a digital presentation of the images collected this year.

For a preview of the images in the presentation, head to the flickr group http://www.flickr.com/groups/sam2010/

For details on the venue’s panoramic projector craziness head to the Horse Bazaar website – http://www.horsebazaar.com.au

This is a one night only event. So lock it in your diary now.

Everyone is welcome, bring a friend, entry is free, drinks and food available at the bar.

Date: Thursday 6th March 2010

Time: 5:30pm onwards

Location: Horse Bazaar, 397 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne (Map)

The Melbourne Silver Mine would like to thanks Light Leaks Magazine for their generous sponsorship of the Low-Fi prize that is part of SAM2010
Magazine – http://www.lightleaks.org/
Shop – http://shop.lightleaks.org/