Neville Petersen Photography
The art of fine photography.
Industrial photographer - for all your industrial and commercial photography, as well as all commissioned and fine art work.
The run down
I'm just a regular guy that likes to take photos. I have done it for most of my life and it is basically second nature. Most of the time I do very little with the images, but sometimes we enter a competition or exhibit a selection and through sheer hard work two books have come into existence. What follows below are a list of achievements and stuff, which sounds an awful lot like bragging, but galleries tell me I need to put it up. So here they are in order of appearance and not importance.
In 2013 I self-published "On Assignment in the old SA". A book with photos that I took while working as a press photographer during the 80s. Interested in the book, contact me via mobile or email. Paperback, 256 pages, more than 700 images. Black and white photos with little text for easy reading.
In 2014 we completed the first installment of "The Golden Harvest", another self-publishing endeavour. I have enough material to fill 5 volumes, although time, money and other factors are big hurdles to overcome if we are to complete the series, maybe one day...
Mentionables:
- Members group exhibit January 2011, Association of Arts Pretoria.
- Exhibition 'What we leave behind' February 2011 Centurion Gallery.
- Exhibition 'The Jimmy Tunnel' April 2011, Association of Arts Pretoria.
- Winner of The Lovell Gallery Artist Competition 2011.
- Group exhibit July 2011, The Lovell Gallery.
- Finalist Photographer's Forum magazine, 31st Annual Spring Photography Contest, August 2011, Santa Barbara, CA Published in Best of Photography 2011.
- Honorable Mentions, 2 images in the 2011 Photography Art Contest. Published in Artist Portfolio Magazine Issue 5, November 2011.
- Finalist in the OPEN contest, image title 'Stairway', Exhibitions Without Walls for Photographers and Digital Artists, Gresham, Oregon, USA December 2011.
- The Built Environment entry: 'Seemingly Upward' exhibited at the Dark Room Gallery, Essex Jct, Vermont, USA December 2011.
- Honorable Mentions, 3 images in The Artistic Circle, "Mandala" contest January 2012.
- Selected for the 2012 Environmental Photography Exhibition, Golden, Colorado January 2012.
- Finalist "Junk or Genius" contest, Gallore Gallery, 68 Washington Street in Middletown, Connecticut, January 2012.
- Solo Exhibition "The Golden Harvest", The Lovell Gallery, Woodstock, Cape Town February 2012.
- Included in online collection Digital Arts California, True Colors contest, February 2012.
- 2 Images selected for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Work has many faces photo contest, May 2012.
- Entry included in online display of the Creative Divergents Summer 2012 Showcase, July 2012.
- Entries highly commended in the annual Snowden Photo Competition July 2012.
- Honorable Mention in the Photographer's Forum magazine, 32st Annual Spring Photography Contest, Santa Barbara, CA. Published in Best of Photography 2012, August 2012.
- Aerial photograph won silver award in Photograph of the Year 2012: Classic Landscapes category. Hosted by Better Photography Magazine August 2012.
- Joburg Fringe in partnership with the Goethe-Institut SA - inclusion in group exhibition held in Braamfontein, September 2012.
- Included in the Thami Mnyele Fine Arts exhibition, September 2012.
- 2012 International Photography Awards: Honorable Mention in Architecture - Industrial category for the winning entry "Search for Gold."
- Inclusion in the group exhibition during the Month of Photography, Cape Town at the Iziko South African Museum, October 2012.
- Included in the Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation for Documentary Photography & Film online display, October 2012.
- Image 'Greener Crops' won 2nd place award in Art Competition Landscapes, Leading Artists, November 2012.
- Collection of chosen works included in International Masters of Photography publication, January 2013.
- Accepted for the CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year Exhibition at the Royal Geographical Society, London, January 2013.
- FEP European Professional Photographer of the Year Awards 2012, Bronze award in the International Section.
- Book published, "On Assignment in the old SA", March 2013.
- Group exhibition No Place Like Now, The Lovell Gallery, Woodstock, Cape Town, May 2013.
- MANIFEST International Photography Annual 1, single African finalist, selected for inclusion in publication, June 2013.
- Honorable Mention for image titled 'Space for Dying', in Urban Landscape contest. New York Centre for Photographic Art.
- Book signing and exhibition at The Old Provost, Grahamstown - National Arts Festival, July 2013.
- Group exhibition at 'turbineartfair', The Turbine Hall, Newtown, Johannesburg inaugural Art Fair, July 2013.
- Image titled: "Sunny Lab" was selected in the Hahnemühle FineArt Photo Competition: Fascination Laboratory, prize valued at €500, August 2013.
- Image entitled “2 Levels Below” received a Juror Award of Merit in the International Fine Art Photography Competition in the CITYSCAPE/ARCHITECTURE, August 2013.
- Participation in the FNB Johannesburg Art Fair, Sandton, Gauteng, September 2013.
- Bronze Award in The 2013 International Loupe Awards, November 2013.
- Reach the 10 shortlist for the 2013 Terry O'Neill Photography Awards, January 2014.
- Participation in group exhibit: Redefinition of the status quo - launch of Galerié Noko, Port Elizabeth, June 2014.
- Participation in Turbine Art Fair, Turbine Hall, Newtown, Johannesburg, July 2014.
- Included in Manifest International Photography Annual INPHA2, September 2014.
- Breaking Surface group exhibition, Galerie Noko, Port Elizabeth, February 2015.
- Solo exhibition, Celebrating 35 Years in Photography, Centurion Art Gallery, February 2015.
- Morning Live TV interview with Sam Marshall, February 2015.
- Three images selected for the permanent winners gallery URBAN 2015, July.
CORPORATE COLLECTIONS:
- Embassy of Australia, Pretoria, South Africa.
- LIBFIN, Braamfontein, Johannesburg.
Article about my photographs of the gold mines compared with David Goldblatt's work, written by MaryCorrigall, published in the Sunday Independent, December 2012.
Don't believe what you have heard, there really is beauty in industry - Appreciate It!
