Performance photography

Photographing live performance art is fascinating. It’s spontaneous, and unscripted. You create artworks or document the movement created by the artist or other participants, with a great freedom of interpretation. Photography transforms the immaterial nature of art performance into something tangible. Picture Her theatre show In late 2019 I documented the first Picture Her theatre…

Country Airbnb case study

Country Airbnb Photography Professional photography is a must for any Airbnb property listing. Professional images help your future guests visualise your Airbnb property’s unique space and help you to showcase your listing in the most attractive way. Read the Country Airbnb case study below. Nature Lovers If you’re a Nungurner, Metung, Art Lover and Horse…

2020 ILFORD CCP Salon

You’re cordially invited to visit a group exhibition 2020 ILFORD CCP Salon supported by Milieu at CCP Centre for Contemporary Photography in Fitzroy, Melbourne where I have my work on show. The exhibition of over 800 works (!) is a survey of photographic community’s work through 2020, and is exhibited both online ccp.org.au and in…

Castlemaine house

Castlemaine Architecture Photo shoot Creative Brief: Architecture project done in Castlemaine many years ago. The main agenda was to capture a very large north facing window with an extraordinary garden view, a bathroom shot. Client: sertorilau.net  

Eureka Art Award 2020

Ballarat Arts Foundation is celebrating 20th Year Celebrations this year. As part of the celebrations, there will be a launch of The Eureka Art Award 2020. Ballarat Arts Foundation will be announcing the winning work during the function, with the 2020 judge being Fiona Sweet, Director of the Ballarat International Foto Biennale. Launch – 6pm,…

Polish Art Foundation Exhibition

Polish Art Exhibition “Vibes” or “Klimaty” (in Polish language) is an art exhibition featuring 27 artists interpreting a broad theme from ecological musings to personal feelings surrounding our very existence. “When we (Polish Art Foundation or PAF) sat around our usual meeting table late last year, we could not have imagined how poignant our theme…

Documentary Photography Gippsland – Call Out for Participants

Post bushfire and COVID-19, Rural and Regional Gippsland Documentary Photography Gippsland This is a call out to anyone residing in Gippsland and interested in taking part in the documentary photography project I have been commissioned for by the State Library Victoria. The key aim is to create a social archive of photographs and stories documenting…

Pro Photography on Airbnb

Let a local photographer capture your space in the best light. Airbnb operators, especially when starting out, are always looking to save on things they can potentially do themselves. But, unless you know what you’re doing with photography, the chances are you might end up sacrificing the early potential and popularity of your listing. So,…

What Is Creative Photography?

What Is Creative Photography? Creative photography is hard to explain. Why? Because creativity is very subjective and everyone’s imagination is different. I always know when I “feel” creative. Creativity is explained as the act of turning imaginative ideas into reality and characterised by the ability to perceive the world around you in a new way,…

Artist Profile – Aldona Kmieć

Why did you become an artist? I didn’t exactly choose to become an artist—it’s just who I am. Creativity has always been a part of me, something I had to express. Art wasn’t central in my family; I grew up on a dairy farm in Poland during the communism in late 1980s, where working on…

Leadership Team headshots for Damascus College

Photography for Damascus College I was recently commissioned to provide a full set of Leadership Team headshots for Ballarat’s catholic school Damascus College. Photos were used for both online and printed publications and used throughout the website. Please view a few examples below and for more, visit their website at https://www.damascus.vic.edu.au   Professional headshots and lifestyle…

Mass Isolation Australia – Ballarat Foto Biennale 2020

Visual Photo Diary & reflections on isolation I’m currently taking part in the Ballarat Intl Foto Biennale curated project called Mass Isolation Australia. This online project is a visual record of the COVID-19 crisis on Instagram, inspired by the 1937 Mass Observation project in Britain. Curators Shaohui Kwok and Amelia Saward invite Australians to share…

The Big Picture

The big picture, 2020 Take a step back and zoom out and then in again. Why is ~Looking at the big picture~ important? Well, to see things from a different angle, to challenge your thinking from someone else’s point of view, to allow yourself to see wider possibilities, to admit your own limitations, to think…

Brand Photography for Startup Program

Startup Brand Photography I’ve recently worked on brand photography and production of all creative digital content for Startup Gippsland program. My tasks included producing all marketing collateral, main website and dedicated landing pages, as well as the 6-weeks social media video and ad campaign launched on a Christmas Day 2018. Professional photography was used for:…

Photography Magazines

As a way to remind myself of Photography Open Calls and Submissions and some great Photography Magazines from all over the world, here are some links you might find useful. Aperture A quarterly photography magazine and a book publisher based in New York. The magazine is published by the Aperture Foundation, a non-profit organisation devoted…

Photographs and Isolation

It’s been more than 6 weeks of living in isolation. How do you deal with it and what are your strategies? For someone like me who experiences an intense internal pressure of achieving, this time of living and working in isolation is surprisingly good for me, at the moment. I found that I have much…