Sean Fennessy | Photographer
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?
warm magazine covershoot
I shot this a few months ago on Tassie’s east coast, at a very nice shack designed by Maria Gigney
A peek behind the scenes:
I exposed for the sky and pumped a fair bit of light into the frame - in the room on the left I had a Bowens head with a wide angle reflector shooting into the ceiling. This worked to light the room and cast a small highlight down the left side of the model. The main light for the model was a softbox in the room on the left. The foreground was lit using a silver reflector.
Even though there’s a lot of introduced light, my aim was to make it look as natural as possible.
Rabbit shootin’
I had a bit of fun doing this shoot with some good friends for the very excellent Cat Rabbit. She makes these amazing little creatures by hand!
Cat had the great idea of enlisting some Hobart creative types and dressing them up like the toys. Or was it the other way around?
Tim from New Saxons
Graphic designer / Masterchef guru Jo
Illustrator extraordinaire Beth
There’s a few other shots but they’re staying under wraps till the launch of Cat’s new website.
The other models were Tom from Floating World, Meg from Apply Creative, and Jess from Futago.
Go and buy a Cat Rabbit original before it’s too late!
shooting architects
A couple of recent tearsheets.
A few shots of a cool warehouse conversion by terrior appeared in new eco-design magazine Green.
And I was also commissioned by Architectural Review to shoot a portrait of the fellas from Room 11. I’m a big fan of their work.
An alternative from the shoot - we we’re hoping they’d print this one.
I’m very busy at the moment with a couple of interesting contracts and projects. Looking forward to posting the results when I can.
shooting beer
I wouldn’t normally post product shots here but this one was a bit of fun. The combination of two of my great loves - beer and photography.
Will from Van Dieman Brewing asked me to shoot his new range and I was more than happy to oblige - the stuff tastes amazing and the ace labels were designed by the always-awesome Southsouthwest.