Word: absently
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Behind every great photography show is the most merciless of picture editors. Such is the abundance of arresting images these days that the trick is knowing when to stop. And strikingly absent from the latest survey of contemporary Australian photography, at the National Gallery of Victoria until February 18, are the loudest, most conspicuous names: Tracey Moffatt, Bill Henson and Rosemary Laing. The image fatigue some critics have complained about in recent times has been as much to do with the overexposure of some of these aptly acclaimed artists' work as with the explosive growth of the medium...
...left to trace subtle signs of life-whether it be in a ray of sunlight retreating from Annie Hogan's Brisbane rental house, or the silvery spray of Scott Redford's Gold Coast urinal. Such images remind us that reality is sometimes best expressed by what is absent or left behind. The exhibition is not called light sensitive for nothing (this also happens to be the nickname given to the NGV's departments of photography and works-on-paper). And astute viewers might also note the number of mirror images that appear throughout the show-from Andrew's currawongs...
...freezing night - at the camp to feel what the poor experience. Brothers Jean-Baptiste and August Legrand founded Children of Don Quixote, and laid out nearly $4,000 in personal savings to dramatize the situation of the homeless during a French pre-electoral season in which poverty seems conspicuously absent from the political debate. Since then, additional homeless people have flocked to the site to take up residence in tents provided by other nonprofit organizations. The canal-side site was chosen, explains Jean-Baptiste Legrand, because "it's one of the few places where authorities couldn't send the police...
Airport shuttles have been popular since they were first offered in 1991. But the UC has never been exceptionally good at organizing them. Complaints of late, absent, and overbooked shuttles have been accumulating for 10 years. Last winter, in a particularly bad case of mismanagement, the UC had to deny spots to ticket-holding students because there was not enough space on the buses, leaving many students rushing to make their flights...
...response to her no-show at her Crimson interview, Gillis responded that Wimberley had a “non-negotiable academic conflict.” However, Wimberley, who is the only female candidate, was also the only candidate absent from the Nov. 30 debate and has not attended any student group endorsement meetings...