Monika’s Unlimited Dance Studio 2014

by DancePerformance

We had the most fun photographing the students from Monika’s Unlimited Dance Studio a few weeks ago. As well as more traditional dance school images of the students and of classes, we challenged ourselves to shoot some fine art style images of some of the older dancers, using light to really accentuate the amazing contours and shapes the dancers created.

I think this is my favourite image from the day.

The dancers produced not just amazing poses and held positions, but great jumping shots.

These are partners for a piece entitled “Say Something” – the stories they’re telling in their poses are fantastic.

This is Wanda’s absolute favourite from the shoot. Her power, her face, her pose and the angles, right down to her hair. Fantastic stuff.

The crew for the day. Professional dancers all.* Huge thanks to Stefan for shooting with us, for Fi for helping wrangle students, and to Monika for everything!

 

* Not all of us are professional dancers. Hard to believe.

And Then There Was Agatha Holmes

by PerformanceTheatre

I’m fortunate to have the chance to photograph talented actors in costume, in character, and on-set. A few weeks ago ImproMafia‘s wrapped their final season of Agatha Holmes, at the Brisbane Arts Theatre. Aside from the great detective Agatha Holmes and his faithful partner Alfred Wastings, every other character was a conniving murderer, and each night one of those murderers fell victim to another, as chosen by the audience.

I made an interesting and maybe slightly disturbing discovery while editing up the murderous photos below. I was catching up on my editing on the bus, and after a little while I realised that I was subconsciously mirroring the facial expressions of the faces in the image I was editing. And I asked each of these fine actors to put on a bloodthirsty evil murderface. So… my apologies to my fellow passengers.

On the plus side, I got a double seat to myself.