Sean Fennessy | Photographer
The Australian
When I was studying photography at school I would religiously scan the pages of The Australian to check out the photos. At the time, the extraordinary Trent Parke was working as a sports photographer on the paper and I used to tear out his photos for my art journal.
10 years later and one of my shots has made the cover. Self-congratulations all round!
The pic was taken in the minutes before a leaders debate during the Tasmanian election campaign and shows a nervous encounter between my old mate David Bartlett and Liberal leader Will Hodgman.
Not the most amazing shot ever taken but a nice surprise nonetheless.
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
Pura campaign shoot
Late last year I was contacted by Sydney super-agency BMF to do a shoot for Pura milk.
It was a slightly controversial topic at the time but it was hard to say no to the opportunity to work for such a great agency (I love their La^mb stuff).
Here’s how it appeared in print:
I did another shoot for BMF a couple of weeks ago, so I’ll post that when I can.
more mofo
It’s been a busy two weeks! Closing night is tomorrow featuring Dirty Three, John Cale and Bridezilla
MOFO ‘10
Just finished working through my images from the first two days of MONA FOMA. Here’s a preview:
Still two weeks to go!