As part of the Centenary of Canberra celebrations, Photoaccess put together a project '100 views of Canberra' (ended up being 111 contributions) from Canberra photographers. There was a wide variety of images, and the book and exhibition (just finished) were put together really well. I was very excited to receive an email yesterday informing me that my humble little image had been 1 of 28 of the 100 views of Canberra images that were being taken to Photoville, a photographic festival in Brooklyn, New York.

An extract from my letter "Photoville is a new Brooklyn-based photography festival organised by New York photography collective United Photo Industries; it’s a pop-up village of shipping containers transformed into temporary exhibition spaces. It first took place in the (American) summer of 2012 and this year coincides with three other major Brooklyn festivals, including the Dumbo Arts Festival. About 40,000 people are expected to go through Photoville this year"

and "For Photoville 2013, Canberra architecture and design collective Canberra Lab will be taking two shipping containers and reprogramming them as an experience of Canberra. It’s intended that through the exhibition we will increase recognition of Canberra as the national capital of Australia and create an awareness of its active visual arts, and particularly photographic community. One shipping container will be used as a coffee house (operated by associates of Lonsdale Street Roasters), and the other will host an exhibition of the work of Canberra photographers, which is being drawn from PhotoAccess’s recent publication 100 Views of Canberra. The arrangement of the containers will draw on the axis-based design of Canberra by Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahoney Griffin and incorporate the spaces surrounding them as designed areas of recreation, to present live DJ sessions.
All of the Centenary of Canberra, Canberra Lab and United Photo Industries are keen that the photographic exhibition reveals unknown dimensions of Canberra, being new takes on its icons or portraits of its unknown cityscapes, landscapes and social life. Your image Backstage is one we would love to use for this reason".