Betties Get Vivid

" Off Hume Highway 2008" by Lorna Sim

"Booroowa I 2008" by Lorna Sim

Betties on Show

Canberra gets snap happy from 11 July to 12 October 2008 with Vivid, Australia's inaugural national photographic festival. Lorna Sim has gone into over-drive for the festival, participating in four shows and awards.

First is Space, a group show of landscape photography in its broadest sense, at Canberra Institute of Technology's designspace@CIT Gallery from 14 to 25 July.

Then Lorna has entered the ACT Australian Institute of Professional Photography (AIPP) Print Awards, which will be judged on 22 July at the National Musuem of Australia.

She's in another group show at the Blue Roof Gallery in Tharwa, called "My favourite thing is to go where I have never been", which is a Dianne Arbus quote.

Then it's HIY2008 — Hang It Yourself at Photoaccess. Photography meets street art in this show ... there's no curator and no interference ... anyone can stick up to five images anywhere they want on the walls of what is being called "the ultimate open access exhibition". Look out for a bunch of Betties participating in this one.