Posts in category: Performance

Brisbane-based BangNation (aka Taylor Edwards and Christopher Martin) take their show on the road to the Adelaide Fringe Festival this weekend. We met for some fun and somewhat explosive promo photos a little while back. Mess! Good mess.

If you’re in Adelaide, BangNation’s show runs from Monday 15 February through Sunday 21 February. Tickets and more information available from the Adelaide Fringe Festival.

ImproMafia bring their show Martini Time to the Brisbane Powerhouse in March as part of the Brisbane Comedy Festival. Have I mentioned before how much I love photographing actors? I have? Well let me say it again – I love photographing actors! Mike, Leanne and Jim were particularly excellent for our early morning alleyway shoot. For show details, head to the Martini Time Brisbane Comedy Festival page. Short version: Free comedy, Friday and Saturday nights for the first three weeks in March. Free? How good is that?

I love that these portraits were shot in an alley.I have a love of sneaking easter eggs in to work when I can, and Martini Time served up a golden opportunity. For the original production of It’s Martini Time, photographer Al Caeiro and designer Sean Dowling put a great promo poster together featuring five of the show’s characters. A few of these posters are still around, and one of them may have happened in to the shoot 😀

Not 4 Kidz hits the Brisbane Comedy Festival in March – a fully improvised show in the style of 1980’s after-school TV, with shows sort of like you remember… The concept for this one involved a perky peppy kids’ show host and a “I can’t believe I’m still doing this job” puppeteer, in the dankest of makeshift studios. Amy and Chris both nailed their respective parts, but it was Wade the Puppet that was the real star of the shoot. Until his untimely demise.

For tickets and all the details you could want, head to the Brisbane Powerhouse website.

I get a kick out of comparing the design sketches with the finished product. Sketches like these are fantastic for aligning expectations with a client, and for visualising how the components of the shoot will go together. I’m particularly happy that I appear to have developed my skills in the very demanding sketching-coils-of-cable discipline.