Ilona Schneider
Professional Photographer and Artist with a passion for Experimental Film (8/16mm), and founder of the School of Photography and Moving Image.
I learned photography as an apprentice in a traditional studio in Salzburg, focussing on portraiture, press photography, architecture, theatre and concerts, and everything else that Salzburg had to offer to the photographic lens at the time. This was followed by independent work as a commercial photographer for the next 20 years — mostly on analogue film. Later, I also worked in digital photography, but I never gave up analogue photography. I saw the rise of digital as an opportunity for the art of photography, separate from commercial applications and constraints. In 2009, I went to the University of Tasmania and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art in 2013. My main project over the last few years was the intersection of industry, dwelling, and landscape here in Tasmania. From this work resulted a major solo show in 2018 at the Queen Victorian Museum in Launceston, Tasmania.
I studied 16mm film during a three-month stint in Europe, greatly inspired by a workshop at the International Summer Academy in Salzburg (Film as sensitive body with 16mm) in August 2016.
That year, after coming back to Tasmania, I rented a NY style studio on the top floor of a monumental building in the CBD of Hobart, Tasmania, to create an art project space for independent photography and experimental film. My aim is to develop a space in which photography (both digital and analogue) and analogue film making is taught, practised, and critically discussed.
Lara van Raay
Professional Filmmaker
https://vimeo.com/showcase/lara-van-raay
Lara is an award-winning filmmaker and the founder of the production company Small World Documentaries. She has extensive industry experience working for broadcasters such as ABC, Foxtel and National Geographic. She has worked across Australia, the UK and the Middle East where she has produced a portfolio of over 50 films. She is just as happy producing and directing as she is production managing and editing. Lara loves good hazy pales, adorable fluff balls and hairdressers that come to your house.