Stereo portraiture is what happens when you take two photographs of someone from slightly different angles and then view them together with a pair of 3D glasses. The result is a series of intriguing photographic portraits with enhanced perspective and detail, and a room full of 3D-goggle-wearing-gallery-goers.

To get us in the mood for Alex Fry and Jamie Nimmo’s Stereo Portrait Project opening at Oh Really Gallery this Thursday, we approached this article in a stereoscopic kind of way. Lucy, the “right eye” interviewed Alex and Jamie about the art and form of 3D portraiture. Roslyn “left eye” [Lopez] asked Alex and Jamie about what would happen if we had three eyes instead of two.

Alex Fry has spent the last decade working in motion picture visual effects. His current obsession with photography has grown out of his love for both the aesthetic and the technical. Jamie Nimmo has worked in visual effects and advertising for 7 years. He is also curator and photographer of Oh Really Gallery in Newtown.

Alex and Jamie have worked together on films such as Lord of the Rings, Batman Begins, Harry Potter, 300 and the upcoming Legends of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole, set for 2D and 3D release later this year.

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+ So how do you take a 3D photograph?
> Jamie: Two cameras spaced roughly the same distance apart as the human eyes, that’s it…

Well, sort of, there are a bunch of issues beyond that, [such as] how do you trigger them? How do you maintain focus with two cameras? How do you ensure flash equipment syncs with both cameras reliably? How do you sort the photos using software not designed with 3D in mind? What sort of display technologies do you use and when? But the short of it is two cameras with two matched lenses, or one camera with 2 lenses built in. Read more for the full interview…

Posted by Roslyn Helper and Lucy Fokkema in Art, Features

Tags: 300, 3d, alex fry, batman begins, Creative Sydney, harry potter, Jamie Nimmo, legends of the guardians: the owls of ga'hoole, lord of the rings, MCA, michael grace, morris gleitzman, oh really gallery, Oh Really magazine, richard avedon, richard neville, stereo booth, stereo portrait project

“Oh Really would like to thank everyone that’s made art, bought art, or looked at the art on the walls. Without you we’ll just be three guys sitting/drawing/laughing on a couch in an empty shopfront.”

This Friday, everybody’s favourite art-zine-turned-magazine-that-also-now-has-it’s-own-artspace, Oh Really on King Street, is celebrating the first birthday of its gallery and the fifth issue of its publication. Featuring work by Ben Frost, Beastman, Ape7, Claire Nakazawa, Creepy, Max Berry, Mini Graf, Phibs, Syke, Teazer, Yok and about fourteen hundred other local and international artists, the group show is an exhibition of handpainted book covers. A few are in the pictures above.

Hard Cover No Jacket is a double whammy too; it also celebrates the launch of Issue Five of Oh Really Magazine – 1000 limited edition magazines that themselves have hand-screened covers. We asked Jamie Nimmo, one third of Oh Really, about being one years old again…

Posted by steph in Art, Features

Tags: Ape7, Artist Run Initiatives, Beastman, Ben Frost, Claire Nakazawa, Creepy, Jamie Nimmo, King Street, Max Berry, Mini Graf, newtown, Oh Really, Oh Really magazine, Phibs, SYKE, Teazer, Yok

At 11am this morning, four artists were locked inside Oh Really gallery, without food, water, clothes or air except for that we made up the last part because its Friday and we do what we want. But the locked-up part is true, and they’re not allowed to leave until 5pm tomorrow.

The idea of the Lock-In is to take artists out of their usual habits, processes and environments and see what comes of it. They might work together, they might work separately, they might feed off each other creatively, they might just eat each other. Jamie Nimmo is one of the trio behind the Oh Really collective, who are always trying new things to widen the walls of the creative minds they work with. He just called me up to tell me a bit about the Lock-In and accidentally found himself being interviewed while he was supposed to be at work (sorry Jamie Nimmo.)…

Posted by steph in Art, Events

Tags: Artist Run Initiatives, Chris Bennett, Claire Wieland, culture jam, Jamie Nimmo, Joe Purtle, Joe Wilson, newtown, Oh Really