Sean Fennessy | Photographer
Amplified
The Amplified festival is on at the moment celebrating all things Tasmanian and musical.
There’s a bunch of cool events over the next few days.
I did a shoot with Futago a little while ago for the program, posters etc:
The mid-air fellow is up-and-coming photographer/model Jason Morey.
Festival of Voices
The Festival of Voices is held every winter in Hobart and provides some much needed colour and activity in the dark months.
I was commissioned by Tourism Tasmania to shoot the festival:
The whole thing culminates with a bonfire and concert at Salamanca. Not quite sure of the significance of scary men in robes with fire sticks, but it makes for some interesting photos.
This year the festival forms part of Lumina, a four month program “celebrating arts, food and wine, culture and sport.”
Lumina has been promoted nationally through a beautiful advertising campaign featuring some cool photography by Melbourne photographer Stuart Crossett (scroll through his portfolio to see the Lumina images).
While there’s no arguing that Stuart’s work is quite remarkable, Tourism Tasmania are generally very supportive of Tassie photographers, and it would have been nice to see their ad agency choosing a local for the job. Alex Wise, perhaps?
The Native Cats
The Native Cats have been getting some well-placed media attention - first NME, then The Monthly and now Vice
Luckily my pics have been taken along for the ride.
Check out the Vice article here and listen to the band here.
The Monthly + music stuff
I’ve posted before about Go Betweens co-founder turned music critic Robert Forster so it’s was a pleasant surprise to get a call from The Monthly asking for some of my pics to go with an article Forster penned on the Tassie music scene (specifically the “Community” compilation recently released by Rough Skies Records)
Sadly the article is not available online yet, but see the tearsheets here: page 1, page 2
They published two photos:
In related news, it was also cool to see my pic of Paint Your Golden Face used to promote their new album.
This pic is also the cover of the album. Woot
more mofo
It’s been a busy two weeks! Closing night is tomorrow featuring Dirty Three, John Cale and Bridezilla