Sean Fennessy | Photographer

tomorrow night

Portraits of Invisible People opens tomorrow night. We’ve spent the last two days hanging and the room is looking good.

The exhibition features lots of artists and includes video work, sculpture and a bunch of installations. The aim is to raise awareness of the issues and challenges associated with Acquired Brain Injury.

This is probably my favourite image from the show: “Andrew”

Opening drinks are tomorrow night at 6pm at the Long Gallery, Salamanca. Hopefully see you there.

portraits of invisible people

This week sees the culmination of a long term project that I have been working on with Kickstart Arts.

Portraits of Invisible People is a multi art form exhibition that tells the stories of a group of people with Acquired Brain Injury.

Most Acquired Brain Injuries are caused by stroke, accident or trauma and result in a range of cognitive and physical disabilities including memory loss and communication difficulties.

It’s been a fantastic experience meeting and photographing everyone involved in this project. Here’s a few examples of the hundreds of images that I’ve shot over the past few months.

Nick

Andrew

Carolyn

There will be many more on display at the Long Gallery, Salamanca starting on Friday. The opening is at 6pm - come along if you’re in Hobart.

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!

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.