Talk:John Ogden (photographer)

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RudolfRed (talk) It has been about 10 years since the Wiki Page relating to me has been updated. I have had significant career changes since then and the current page is therefore misleading in regard to the station now. SonOfCyclops (talk) 01:42, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
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 * John Ogden (photographer)
 * Early life[edit]
 * Ogden, also known as Oggy, was born in South Australia of Anglo-Irish descent, and may also have some Palawa heritage.
 * Although Ogden first picked up a camera in the 1960's, it was not until he began to wander Asia's hippie trails in 1972 that he got his first 35mm SLR. He began to work as a photojournalist, selling his photos to a variety of counter-culture magazines such as Tracks and The Nation Review. While photographing the conflict in Laos during the last days of the Vietnam war, Ogden had a chance meeting with legendary Australian war cameraman Neil Davis. After seeing the frontline footage that Davis shot for the Australian news, Ogden turned his attention to film making. (http://www.oggy.com.au/photography.htm)
 * He has worked all over the world, his projects spanning diverse cultures and nations including SE Asia, Sri Lanka, China, Japan, Europe, South America, the USA, and Indigenous Australia.
 * Fine art photography[edit]
 * John Ogden's early photographs have been exhibited at the Art Gallery of Western Australia and toured the country in Roadshow 'West To East - Exhibition 6'. They have also been collected by the National Gallery of Victoria (https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/work/8972/), the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Artbank, the National Library, the State Library of NSW, Curtin University, Jackson Brown and many other private collections. Ogden was a finalist in City of Sydney Art and About 2005 Photography Prize. His photographs were exhibited with art works by Nelson Mandela at The Touch of Mandela Gallery in 2004. In 2008 he was honoured with a major show at the Kluge-Ruhe gallery in Virginia, USA. (http://www.oggy.com.au/photography.htm)
 * In 2013 the Manly Art Gallery and Museum held a retrospective of Ogden’s work titled ‘Slightly Dangerous’. (https://www.northernbeaches.nsw.gov.au/things-to-do/arts-and-culture/manly-art-gallery-museum-magm/exhibitions/exhibitions-2013)
 * His work with imagery associated with Aboriginal Australians resulted in the books Australienation (1999), and Portraits From A Land Without People, released in 2009 to coincide with the first anniversary of Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's apology to Australia's Indigenous peoples.
 * Writing and Publishing [edit]
 * Following a surfing accident in 1998 when he lost his right eye, Ogden started his publishing company, Cyclops Press, in 1999 with Australienation, compiled while he was in recovery (https://www.northernbeaches.nsw.gov.au/things-to-do/arts-and-culture/local-creatives/john-ogden. Partly inspired by a conversation in which Ogden was upbraided whilst in England in his youth, criticising the near genocide of the Aboriginal populations by the colonial immigrants, and subsequent culture clash, Ogden's 2008/9 work Portraits From A Land Without People is considered to be the most comprehensive pictorial history of the Aboriginal people of Australia produced, honouring fully the Aboriginal cultural code which requires permission to be granted by each individual in every picture. To compile the book, and gain the appropriate permissions, Ogden travelled extensively over a four-year period, examining over 300,000 images, and visiting public libraries, galleries, museums and private collections in every state and territory in Australia. Ogden has described the dedication necessary to complete this task as a "beautiful obsession". Portraits From A Land Without People was released in 2009 to coincide with the first anniversary of Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's apology to Australia's Indigenous peoples.
 * In November 2011 Ogden released Saltwater People of the Broken Bays: Sydney's Northern Beaches, and in November 2012 released the companion book Saltwater People of the Fatal Shore: Sydney's Southern Beaches. Slightly Dangerous: The Cyclops' Cypher, published in May 2013, provides an insight into the inspirations and influences behind Ogden's work. In his foreword to Slightly Dangerous, photographer Tim Page writes: "This is a life well travelled, of a baby boomer who surfs an existential path across six decades, waxing the best of nostalgia against the odds that are self mitigated by the excesses of those times. It is a heritage of the hippest, most gonzo ‘down-under’ attitudes, rendered by images we all wish we had snapped. As if Hunter S. Thompson and Richard Neville shuffled photo cards with Robert Frankian images throughout the deck".
 * Ogden is the author of nine books, ranging in subject from photography, history and biography, through to novels.
 * TITLES AUTHORED BY JOHN OGDEN
 * PHOTOGRAPHY:
 * Australienation: Portrait of a Bi-cultural Country.
 * Foreword by Michael Leunig.
 * Portraits from a Land Without People:
 * A Pictorial Anthology of Indigenous Australia 1847-2008.
 * Introduction by Senator Patrick Dodson. Foreword by Larissa Behrendt AO
 * HISTORY:
 * Saltwater People of the Broken Bays – Sydney’s Northern Beaches.
 * Foreword by Jeff McMullen AM
 * Saltwater People of the Fatal Shore – Sydney’s South-side Beaches.
 * Foreword by the Hon. Linda Burney MP.
 * The Saltwater People companion books were awarded the biennial
 * Frank Broeze Maritime History Prize 2013.
 * In 2012 Cyclops Press was recognised with a Pauline McLeod Reconciliation Award for its work promoting meaningful reconciliation.
 * SEMI-BIOGRAPHICAL:
 * Slightly Dangerous – The Cyclops Cypher.
 * Foreword by Tim Page.
 * NOVELS:
 * Woke – The Shibboleth Trilogy Volume 1.
 * Will – The Shibboleth Trilogy Volume 2.
 * NON-FICTION:
 * Whitewash –The Lost Story of an African Australian
 * Foreword by Tom Carroll
 * Waterproof – Australian Surf Photography Since 1858
 * Foreword by Tom Carroll
 * (reference: https://www.cyclopsproductions.com.au/ ) SonOfCyclops (talk) 06:12, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Was the information I sent any help? SonOfCyclops (talk) 04:07, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Foreword by the Hon. Linda Burney MP.
 * The Saltwater People companion books were awarded the biennial
 * Frank Broeze Maritime History Prize 2013.
 * In 2012 Cyclops Press was recognised with a Pauline McLeod Reconciliation Award for its work promoting meaningful reconciliation.
 * SEMI-BIOGRAPHICAL:
 * Slightly Dangerous – The Cyclops Cypher.
 * Foreword by Tim Page.
 * NOVELS:
 * Woke – The Shibboleth Trilogy Volume 1.
 * Will – The Shibboleth Trilogy Volume 2.
 * NON-FICTION:
 * Whitewash –The Lost Story of an African Australian
 * Foreword by Tom Carroll
 * Waterproof – Australian Surf Photography Since 1858
 * Foreword by Tom Carroll
 * (reference: https://www.cyclopsproductions.com.au/ ) SonOfCyclops (talk) 06:12, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Was the information I sent any help? SonOfCyclops (talk) 04:07, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
 * NON-FICTION:
 * Whitewash –The Lost Story of an African Australian
 * Foreword by Tom Carroll
 * Waterproof – Australian Surf Photography Since 1858
 * Foreword by Tom Carroll
 * (reference: https://www.cyclopsproductions.com.au/ ) SonOfCyclops (talk) 06:12, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Was the information I sent any help? SonOfCyclops (talk) 04:07, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Foreword by Tom Carroll
 * (reference: https://www.cyclopsproductions.com.au/ ) SonOfCyclops (talk) 06:12, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Was the information I sent any help? SonOfCyclops (talk) 04:07, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
 * (reference: https://www.cyclopsproductions.com.au/ ) SonOfCyclops (talk) 06:12, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Was the information I sent any help? SonOfCyclops (talk) 04:07, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

Edits to John Ogden - photographer
Early Life:

Please change "Ogden, also known as Oggy, was born in South Australia of Anglo-Irish descent, and may also have some Palawa heritage." to "Ogden was born in South Australia of Anglo-Irish descent."

Please change: "He has worked all over the world, his projects spanning diverse cultures and nations including SE Asia, Sri Lanka, China, Japan, Europe, South America, the USA, and Indigenous Australia.His work with imagery associated with Aboriginal Australians resulted in the books Australienation (1999), and Portraits From A Land Without People, released in 2009 to coincide with the first anniversary of Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's apology to Australia's Indigenous peoples." to "Although Ogden first picked up a camera in the 1960's, it was not until he began to wander Asia's hippie trails in 1972 that he got his first 35mm SLR. He began to work as a photojournalist, selling his photos to a variety of counter-culture magazines such as Tracks and The Nation Review. While photographing the conflict in Laos during the last days of the Vietnam war, Ogden had a chance meeting with legendary Australian war cameraman Neil Davis. After seeing the frontline footage that Davis shot for the Australian news, Ogden turned his attention to film making." (see Ogden's book Australienation)

Fine Art Photography: Please change "Since 2006 Ogden's work has focused on series of fine art photography, and extensive work with Aboriginal Australian imagery." to "John Ogden's early photographs have been exhibited at the Art Gallery of Western Australia and toured the country in Roadshow 'West To East - Exhibition 6'. They have also been collected by the National Gallery of Victoria (https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/work/8972/), the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Artbank, the National Library, the State Library of NSW, Curtin University, Jackson Brown and many other private collections. Ogden was a finalist in City of Sydney Art and About 2005 Photography Prize. His photographs were exhibited with art works by Nelson Mandela at The Touch of Mandela Gallery in 2004. In 2008 he was honoured with a major show at the Kluge-Ruhe gallery in Virginia, USA." (see book Slightly Dangerous by John Ogden) In 2013 the Manly Art Gallery and Museum held a retrospective of Ogden’s work titled ‘Slightly Dangerous’. (https://www.northernbeaches.nsw.gov.au/things-to-do/arts-and-culture/manly-art-gallery-museum-magm/exhibitions/exhibitions-2013) His work with imagery associated with Aboriginal Australians resulted in the books Australienation (1999), and Portraits From A Land Without People, released in 2009 to coincide with the first anniversary of Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's apology to Australia's Indigenous peoples.

After this create new section that covers my later career as an author/publisher: Writing and Publishing: "Following a surfing accident in 1998 when he lost his right eye, Ogden started his publishing company, Cyclops Press, in 1999 with Australienation, compiled while he was in recovery (https://www.northernbeaches.nsw.gov.au/things-to-do/arts-and-culture/local-creatives/john-ogden. Partly inspired by a conversation in which Ogden was upbraided whilst in England in his youth, criticising the near genocide of the Aboriginal populations by the colonial immigrants, and subsequent culture clash, Ogden's 2008/9 work Portraits From A Land Without People is considered to be the most comprehensive pictorial history of the Aboriginal people of Australia produced, honouring fully the Aboriginal cultural code which requires permission to be granted by each individual in every picture. To compile the book, and gain the appropriate permissions, Ogden travelled extensively over a four-year period, examining over 300,000 images, and visiting public libraries, galleries, museums and private collections in every state and territory in Australia. Ogden has described the dedication necessary to complete this task as a "beautiful obsession". Portraits From A Land Without People was released in 2009 to coincide with the first anniversary of Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's apology to Australia's Indigenous peoples.

In November 2011 Ogden released Saltwater People of the Broken Bays: Sydney's Northern Beaches, and in November 2012 released the companion book Saltwater People of the Fatal Shore: Sydney's Southern Beaches. Slightly Dangerous: The Cyclops' Cypher, published in May 2013, provides an insight into the inspirations and influences behind Ogden's work. In his foreword to Slightly Dangerous, photographer Tim Page writes: "This is a life well travelled, of a baby boomer who surfs an existential path across six decades, waxing the best of nostalgia against the odds that are self mitigated by the excesses of those times. It is a heritage of the hippest, most gonzo ‘down-under’ attitudes, rendered by images we all wish we had snapped. As if Hunter S. Thompson and Richard Neville shuffled photo cards with Robert Frankian images throughout the deck".

Ogden is the author of nine books, ranging in subject from photography, history and biography, through to novels.

TITLES AUTHORED BY JOHN OGDEN

PHOTOGRAPHY:

Australienation: Portrait of a Bi-cultural Country. Foreword by Michael Leunig.

Portraits from a Land Without People: A Pictorial Anthology of Indigenous Australia 1847-2008. Introduction by Senator Patrick Dodson. Foreword by Larissa Behrendt AO

HISTORY:

Saltwater People of the Broken Bays – Sydney’s Northern Beaches. Foreword by Jeff McMullen AM

Saltwater People of the Fatal Shore – Sydney’s South-side Beaches. Foreword by the Hon. Linda Burney MP.

The Saltwater People companion books were awarded the biennial Frank Broeze Maritime History Prize 2013. In 2012 Cyclops Press was recognised with a Pauline McLeod Reconciliation Award for its work promoting meaningful reconciliation.

SEMI-BIOGRAPHICAL:

Slightly Dangerous – The Cyclops Cypher. Foreword by Tim Page.

NOVELS:

Woke – The Shibboleth Trilogy Volume 1.

Will – The Shibboleth Trilogy Volume 2.

NON-FICTION:

Whitewash –The Lost Story of an African Australian Foreword by Tom Carroll

Waterproof – Australian Surf Photography Since 1858 Foreword by Tom Carroll

(reference: https://www.cyclopsproductions.com.au/ )

SonOfCyclops (talk) 04:38, 13 September 2023 (UTC)

Edits to John Ogden - Photographer
Apologies to the Wiki editors. It has been explained to me that I have been too lengthy and confusing in my requests to update the page on me & my work. Perhaps I should just break it down to one request to acknowledge that my publishing company, Cyclops Press, has been actively making books promoting Australian authors, and that I am the author of nine books. Perhaps the simplest way to do this would be to change the heading "Fine Art Photography" to just "Books" or "Publishing". Then, if wanted, I can supply some details of some of the books published since 2013. https://www.cyclopsproductions.com.au/ SonOfCyclops (talk) 22:04, 23 September 2023 (UTC)