Murder Village

One of the great joys of photographing theatre companies is working with ImproMafia on promotional images. It helps that there’s a super high level of trust there – we can start with the basics of an idea, and quickly branch out and try things, and everyone is on board no matter where the idea takes us.

This shoot is a good example of shooting for multiple formats. ImproMafia makes extensive use of Facebook events for promotion, and the timeline-crop is a really important consideration for them. Designing an image that works well in that crop, has impact, and makes the viewer stop what they’re doing to pay attention, is a pretty key part of the job.

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My favourite image from the shoot? This moody one. It feels like the cover of a kids’ mystery book that I might have read when I was 10. We shoot loose to allow room for show information, which makes it pretty right for a novel actually 🙂
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Queensland Awards – Travel

At the 2016 Queensland Professional Photography Awards, aside from the Landscape category, the other big try was entering four images in the Travel category. Each of these four came from our trip last year through Denmark, Sweden and France.

Very happy to see that they all scored in the professional practice range, with one of them (which I call “Mona Liselfie”) being awarded a Silver with Distinction.

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Are You Being Served?

It’s always a pleasure to work with the Brisbane Arts Theatre, and getting some promotional photos of Mrs Slocum from their production of Are You Being Served? was no exception. We ducked in to the slightly cramped, particularly cool BAT costume department to shoot, and it was the perfect setting for her character.

Are You Being Served? kicks off in May for a limited season. Tickets and other information at the Brisbane Arts Theatre website.

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