Exhibition dates: 17th August – 15th September 2013
“… in my memory John was a teacher determined to seek out the aptitudes and endowments of each student who came before him; his teaching and mentorship involved a deep empathy with each student’s approach. He was almost clairvoyant in being able to very quickly identify one’s strengths and it was on those he would concentrate, unafraid to express criticism; but only in terms of how a certain fault might detract from a strength. Such was his positive and affirming approach to teaching, and consequently we have each been left a different and very personal perception of what he valued in photography.”
Dr James McArdle
Read my opening speech
Read my chapter “… and his forms were without number,” in the book John Cato: A Retrospective of the Photographic Work 1971-1991
Photographers David Callow and Andrew Chapman’s video tribute to John Cato (18 mins 39 secs) can be viewed on Vimeo (Password is Cato)
Please click on the photographs to see a larger version of the image and to view other photographs from the opening.
Ballarat International Foto Biennale
12 Lydiard St North, Ballarat 3350
Ballarat International Foto Biennale website
Art Blart _ art and cultural memory archive 