Sally Quin, curator of the Transient States group show at the University of Western Australia’s Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, has kindly sent me PDFs of the exhibition catalog. Here are some images from it. We are awaiting reviews of the exhibition now, and a copy of the opening address by Robert Cook, Associate Curator of Contemporary [...]

Photographs from hither and yon.

The A Poverty of Desire project is my deeply personal way of smashing some of the dominant cliches of Western Australian life, especially the “Australia the Beautiful” myth of rural contentment and its denial of the realities of urban life. Icons need to be broken, in my humble opinion, and this project took a serious tilt [...]

Notes for those who’ve asked: All images above are uncropped, full frame, resized, and have minimal to no Photoshop or DxO PhotoOptics Elite digital correction work done on them. The 2:3 format images are made on a Canon EOS 5D Mark II and 24-105mm lens, and the 4:3 format images are made with a Canon [...]

I have a new digital camera – the Canon G10 compact rangefinder. It is, essentially, just about a professional camera in the guise of a consumer model. Here are two photographs I did the day I picked it up – everything set at Auto. The camera has rather remarkable image quality – and an excellent lack [...]

I’ve just received the following from a friend who works at Canon in Australia. Renowned (Pulitzer Prize-winning) photographer Vincent Laforet got his hands on a pre-production 5D Mk II, and here’s the result: http://www.usa.canon.com/dlc/controller?act=GetArticleAct&articleID=2086 The behind the scenes video is here: http://blog.vincentlaforet.com/2008/09/23/behind-the-scenes-video/ This changes everything in video and stills photography. You’ll see why.

Black+White magazine was an Australian cultural icon for the 1990s and well into the 2000s, until its relatively recent demise. A surprisingly large percentage of the population of Australia loyally bought every highly priced issue of the magazine, up until about number 50. It was even wellknown and subscribed-to at ruinous expense by advertising agencies and [...]

I have uploaded a number of new downloadable magazine article PDFs to the Magazine Articles page. Most of them are articles on famous photographers, many of them in-person interviews. Here is a list of my subjects: Albert Watson Anderson & Low Andrew Douglas Brian Griffin Bruce Weber Daniela Federici David Bailey David Burnett Duane Michals Geof Kern Guzman Jan Saudek Joyce Baronio Joyce Tenneson Mario Testino Olaf Martens More to come later!

Hello everyone! I have added quite a few downloadable PDFs as of today. So… it looks like KarinGottschalk.com is now open for business! The files I have added include brand advertising examples from my portfolio, PDFs about magazines I have been involved in, magazine articles from Black+White magazine, bad poetry, e-books, and a few other assorted things.

Every so often, when I feel the need to, I put on my journalist’s hat and do interviews and write commissioned magazine articles about subjects I am interested in. I have interviewed a number of famous photographers based in Europe and the United States as well as from Australia – these articles have proved to be [...]