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Photo-marathon captivates Canberra

By BOHDANA SZYDLIK
Australia’s first Photo-marathon has sold out a month in advance with more than 100 people signed up.

A popular event throughout the world, the photo-marathon will take place in Canberra on March 27. More than 20 people of those signed up come from interstate.

Photo-marathon participants must take a series of photographs using a digital camera of specific themes in a set time, in this case 12 themes in 12 hours.

According to organizer Chris Oosthuizen, the themes can be emotions, visual, or Canberra-based and are published on the morning of the event.

“My first encounter was at the Pretoria, South Africa in 2005,” he said. “Several photographers were running the streets of Pretoria trying to interpret vague themes like “6th Sense” and “Snow White”.

Oosthuizen thought Canberra would be the perfect city to launch the event in Australia as it “has easy access to get around and has a lot of keen photographers”.

Canberra photographer Kate Walton thinks it’s a great idea.

“There are a lot of photographers in Canberra but there’s not much of a ‘scene’, per se, due to a lack of interaction so events like a photo-marathon really help in bringing everyone together and that, in turn, leads to such increased creativity.”

The oldest and longest running photo-marathon is in Copenhagen and has been running for over 30 years. The event has now spread throughout the world with events taking place throughout Europe, North America, Asia and Africa.

There will be prizes for the best three portfolios of 12 photos, and prizes for the best three photos of each theme.

Oosthuizen has considered expanding the photo-marathon to other cities but “it’s still early days yet”.

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